UPSC GK Questions 2026

The Used Water Marketplace opened on the concluding day of the conclave is a digital platform set up under AMRUT 2.0, and it connects urban local bodies with users and investors in the treated used water ecosystem.

Under the rules of 2018 on the use of low power and very low power short range radio frequency devices, personal mobile radios working within this narrow band are exempt from the requirement of a licence, subject to the conditions laid down.

The order against M/s Hogar Technologies and Innovations LLP, which carried a penalty of one lakh rupees, was passed under this Act, as were the earlier orders in the same matter against e-commerce platforms and sellers.

It is the body set up under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 to act against misleading advertisements and unfair trade practices, and it is headed by a Chief Commissioner, at present Nidhi Khare, sitting with Commissioner Anupam Mishra.

The forum will facilitate consensus-based dialogue through four high-level sessions, themed on Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability. Candidates should hold on to all four words, because a question may give three of them and ask for the missing one.

He led the delegation in a bilateral meeting with Speaker Om Birla before the forum, where the two sides discussed cooperation at global fora, joint efforts against terrorism, and closer links between the two legislatures.

That is the theme under which the forum, hosted by the Parliament of India at the Parliament House Complex in New Delhi, will deliberate on 26 and 27 October 2026.

The operation was presented as proof of India's resolve to wipe out every drug network by that date, the horizon fixed in the Vision Document on Narcotics Control, whose period runs from 2026 to 2029.

The teams moved on city hubs and border stretches in these three States: Aizawl and Champhai in Mizoram, the Indo-Myanmar border trading town of Zokhawthar, operative bases at Churachandpur in Manipur, and the Cachar transit corridor in Assam.

The bureau planned the operation and led it in the early hours of 23 October 2026, working under a single command with Mizoram Police and the Enforcement Directorate.

Made on 8 August 1940, it was the first time the British government accepted that framing India's new constitution should be mainly the responsibility of Indians.

The Antarctic Plate, carrying Antarctica and the ocean around it, is one of the seven major lithospheric plates. Plate tectonics divides the lithosphere into seven major plates and several minor ones.

Panchayati Raj Institutions are bodies of rural local self-government, through which villagers manage their own local affairs. Article 40, a Directive Principle, asks the State to organise village panchayats and give them the powers needed to function as units of self-government.

Mrichchhakatika, meaning 'The Little Clay Cart', is a ten-act Sanskrit play attributed to King Shudraka. The play tells the love story of Charudatta, a generous Brahmin merchant of Ujjayini who has lost his wealth, and Vasantasena, a rich and noble courtesan.

All three statements correctly describe the spinning and weaving machines that drove the British cotton industry in the late eighteenth century.

Mild to cold seasons, good rainfall, broad-leaved deciduous trees like maple and oak, and animals like raccoons and squirrels mark the temperate deciduous forest.

The band between 105° and 145° from the epicentre receives neither P-waves nor S-waves, but it is the S-wave shadow zone that is much larger, so statement 2 is wrong.

Neodymium and dysprosium are rare earth elements used mainly in strong permanent magnets, not in solar cells, while tellurium and gallium are used in photovoltaic cells.

The Ring of Fire around the Pacific is a belt of convergent plate boundaries, full of active volcanoes and earthquakes and lined by deep ocean trenches.

The Munda languages form the Indian branch of the Austro-Asiatic group, which belongs to the larger Austric family. Indian languages fall into four main families.