UPSC GK Questions 2026

The backgrounder records that the Mera Ration mobile application, brought out by the Department of Food and Public Distribution as part of the technology-driven reforms under ONORC, is offered in 13 languages.

The note says ONORC has been put in place across all 36 States and Union Territories, bringing every beneficiary of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana within its reach.

The backgrounder states that the One Nation One Ration Card scheme was begun in 2019 by the Department of Food and Public Distribution as a major reform of the Public Distribution System, giving nationwide portability to ration cards and to the beneficiaries covered under the National Food Security Act.

The correct answer is Bharat TULIP, the platform named for connecting artisans with e-commerce opportunities and so widening their market access beyond the fair ground.

A senior official in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment said the four participating national corporations had together recorded sales of this amount between 1 and 10 November 2026 at the Shilp Samagam Mela at Dilli Haat, INA.

It organises the Shilp Samagam Mela, and the 2026 edition at Dilli Haat, INA, in New Delhi reported cumulative sales of about Rs 73.49 lakh in its first ten days, from 1 to 10 November.

The two-day Mechanised Forces Symposium 2026 was held there, with the Chief of the Army Staff, General Dhiraj Seth, delivering the Cavalry Memorial Address in the inaugural session on 11 November 2026.

The book was unveiled during the inaugural session of the Mechanised Forces Symposium 2026 at the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi, the same session in which the Chief of the Army Staff delivered the Cavalry Memorial Address.

He delivered the Cavalry Memorial Address at the Mechanised Forces Symposium 2026, held at the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi, and spoke on a vision for future warfighting in the Indian subcontinent.

Sarbananda Sonowal laid the foundation stone for raising the capacity of the port's sewage treatment plant from 10 million litres a day to 15 million litres a day, which includes a new 5 million litre plant, at an estimated cost of about Rs 11 crore.

Sarbananda Sonowal told port employees that Visakhapatnam Port had handled this record quantity of cargo in the 2025-26 financial year, roughly 10 per cent more than the year before, and that it was the port's fourth consecutive year of growth.

The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal, dedicated the new waterfront promenade at Visakhapatnam Port in Andhra Pradesh and on the same day laid foundation stones for four fresh works that together come to about Rs 560 crore.

On the margins of the conference Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani held meetings with delegations from these three countries, and the discussions covered cross-border cyber fraud, the security of digital infrastructure and cooperation in quantum technology.

In his address the minister listed 100 use-case labs for 5G among India's efforts, describing them as building talent for the future alongside affordable AI computing, AI models in Indian languages and quantum research hubs.

The minister described these centres, which have won the WSIS Prize, as places where villagers can access healthcare, agricultural advice, banking and government certificates.

The International Telecommunication Union Plenipotentiary Conference, referred to as PP-26, is being held in Doha, and India was represented there by Union Minister of State for Communications and Rural Development Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani.

Over the previous five years the main observance of Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas moved between places: Ranchi in 2021, Khunti in 2022 and again in 2023, Jamui in 2024 and Dediapada in 2025.

On Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas, over 300 projects for tribal communities will be taken up across states, of which 228 are ready for inauguration and 74 are for foundation stone laying.

Developed with ICMR, it is described as India's first platform for tribe-disaggregated health data and it covers 20 States.

The Government of India designated 15 November as Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas in 2021 to mark his birth anniversary and to honour the contribution of tribal heroes to India's freedom struggle.