UPSC GK Questions 2026

The ghat had fallen into a dilapidated state through long neglect, and the plan is to turn it into an inclusive, clean and lasting public space, an example of the campaign reaching beyond office premises to shared civic spaces.

The undertakings cleaned 1,696 sites against the 1,565 sites first identified, and the area covered came to 130.16 lakh square feet, comfortably past the 101.80 lakh square feet they had set as the target.

Coal ministry undertakings disposed of 16,158 metric tonnes of scrap, well above the 10,909 tonnes they had projected, and the sale of that material brought the exchequer roughly Rs 53.94 crore, the largest such figure reported by any ministry that day.

The sixth edition of the Centre’s special campaign on cleanliness in government offices and the clearing of pending matters began on 2 October 2026 and ends on 31 October 2026, with the targets fixed earlier in a preparatory phase.

The Mela is an initiative of the Ministry of Rural Development in collaboration with the Government of Andhra Pradesh, with these three lending support.

The test is household income that lasts, not a single windfall, and the Prime Minister's stated goal is six crore such women by 2029, reached through the skills, credit and market access that the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission provides.

The Ministry of Rural Development is holding the Mela there with the State government and with support from NABARD, NIRDPR and Kudumbashree, and this is the first National SARAS Mela to move out of Delhi-NCR.

The storefront was built around products associated with the ODOP initiative and goods carrying a GI tag, so that a government buyer looking for a gift also ends up supporting a recognised craft cluster.

Among the ten emporiums whose catalogues make up the collection, Mrignayani is the emporium of Madhya Pradesh and Poompuhar that of Tamil Nadu.

The storefront draws its catalogue from ten State and Central handloom and handicraft emporiums, among them COTTAGE of the Central Cottage Industries Emporium, KHADI INDIA of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission, Garvi Gurjari of Gujarat, Himcrafts of Himachal Pradesh, Jharcraft of Jharkhand, Cauvery of Karnataka, Mrignayani of Madhya Pradesh…

Along with this the regulator proposes an application processing fee of Rs 10,000, a national service area, and no authorisation fee, bank guarantee or security deposit, which together make the regime a light-touch one suited to a service that needs little physical infrastructure.

TRAI recommends that ALTD Service be introduced as a distinct sub-category under Television Channel Distribution Services within the broadcasting authorisation framework created under Section 3(1)(a) of that Act, with the detailed terms notified as Rules under Section 56.

TRAI adopted this label because the services it examined aggregate scheduled linear television channels and deliver them to viewers over the public internet or other IP-based networks through apps, websites or similar interfaces, whether the app comes pre-loaded on a television set, is downloaded by the viewer, or runs in…

The category has 50 projects, most of them already in the advanced band of physical and financial progress, which explains the high ratio.

It carries 974 of the monitored projects, which is a little over half of the total count, with a revised cost of Rs 9.46 lakh crore, or about a quarter of the overall cost.

That is the headline figure of the Monthly Flash Report for September 2026, covering projects of Rs 150 crore and above spread over 17 central Ministries and Departments and tracked on the PAIMANA platform.

That is the intensity the India Meteorological Department expected when the system crossed the Andhra Pradesh and Yanam coasts by the forenoon of 28 October 2026.

The India Meteorological Department told the Committee that the storm would travel west-north-westwards and then turn north-westwards, crossing the Andhra Pradesh and Yanam coasts between these two points as a very severe cyclonic storm by the forenoon of 28 October 2026.

Cabinet Secretary Dr. T. V. Somanathan chaired its meeting to review how prepared the Centre and the coastal States were for the approaching cyclone, with Chief Secretaries of the affected States, the Union Home Secretary and the heads of the NDRF, the IMD and the Coast Guard taking part.

Of the total Acceptances of Necessity accorded in this meeting, roughly 82 per cent of the procurement is to be made from Indian industry, which places the clearance squarely within the drive for self-reliance in defence production.