UPSC GK Questions 2026

Piyush Goyal is the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, and in that capacity he began a visit to the Netherlands aimed at strengthening economic ties, exploring fresh avenues for trade and investment, and deepening engagement with the Indian community.

The Union Minister of Commerce and Industry toured it with its Chief Executive Officer, Boudewijn Siemons, on the first day of his visit to the Netherlands, and the port is described as the largest in Europe, a gateway for Indian goods entering the European market and a key hub for…

BHARAT-TULIP is a key focus of the Guwahati fair and is meant to help market the products of artisans from the ministry's target groups through physical outlets as well as e-commerce platforms.

The Guwahati edition of the fair has drawn these artisans from across the country, including the North-Eastern States, and together they are displaying roughly 40 varieties of handloom and handicraft products.

The Shilp Samagam Mela is its initiative to give marketing support to artisans and beneficiaries associated with its three national corporations, the National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation, the National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation and the National Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation.

Hack the Fork is a France-based non-profit initiative, and it organised the hackathon in collaboration with NIFTEM-Kundli, with its Director, Ms. Alice Pjie, inaugurating the twenty-four hour contest on 24 October.

The challenge was built around harnessing Artificial Intelligence to advance that industry, and the areas opened to the teams included plant-based food innovation, fermentation technologies and food systems more broadly, along with nutritional optimisation, food safety, sustainable food production and the reduction of food waste.

The National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management at Kundli, which works under the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, hosted Hack the Fork on its campus, and the event has been described as India's first hackathon to bring Artificial Intelligence and food technology together.

Sarbananda Sonowal opened his four-day South Korea visit in Busan, which he called the hub of the Korean maritime industry, with an interaction with Indian professionals working in Korean shipbuilding, and the same city is to host the ministerial roundtable for World Maritime Day in which he will take part…

India has set itself the goal of ranking among the world's top five shipbuilding nations by that year, and the four-day South Korea visit of Sarbananda Sonowal was pitched as a step towards it.

This is the cooperation framework that India and South Korea adopted in April, when South Korean President Lee Jae Myung paid a state visit to India, and it covers shipbuilding, shipping and maritime logistics.

Bhagwati Charan Vohra, a leading thinker of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, wrote The Philosophy of the Bomb in 1930.

The Kherwar or Sapha Har movement of the Santhals in the 1870s called on the tribe to worship one supreme god and to purify its own social life.

The Latin maxim means 'hear the other side', and it says no person should be condemned or punished without a fair chance to present their case.

Article 55(3) says the President is elected by proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote, and voting is by secret ballot.

Under paragraph 4 of the Fifth Schedule, a Tribes Advisory Council must be set up in every state that has Scheduled Areas, and the President may direct that one be set up in a state that has Scheduled Tribes but no Scheduled Areas.

Singapore is both a port of call and an entrepot, and Karwar is a naval port, but Dover is a ferry port, not an outport.

Core inflation leaves out food and fuel, whose prices swing sharply with monsoons, harvests and world oil prices, so that it shows the steady, underlying trend of prices.

Cochin Port lies at the head of the Vembanad Kayal and Mormugao Port at the entrance of the Zuari estuary, while statements 1 and 4 place Deendayal and Paradip wrongly.

Mediterranean agriculture is a highly specialised commercial type of farming, and growing grapes, called viticulture, is its best-known feature.