UPSC GK Questions 2026

Statements 2 and 4 are correct, while statements 1 and 3 name the wrong city. The Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI), set up in 1986, has its headquarters at Noida in Uttar Pradesh and develops and regulates the national waterways.

India does not have the largest railway network in the world; the United States has the longest, followed by China and Russia, with India in fourth place.

Both statements are true, and the rain shadow of the Western Ghats is exactly why interior Maharashtra gets little rain.

The Indian Independence Act did not keep the Crown as the source of authority; it ended British authority over India from 15 August 1947.

A cirque is carved by a glacier, not by a river, so it is not a fluvial landform. Fluvial landforms are those shaped by running water.

All three are social security schemes, launched together by the Government of India on 9 May 2015 to give pension and insurance cover to ordinary people, especially in the unorganised sector.

All three are grounds listed in Article 19(2) on which the State may place reasonable restrictions on freedom of speech and expression.

A population pyramid shows the age and sex structure of a population in a single diagram. The vertical axis is divided into age groups, usually of five years each, with the youngest at the bottom and the oldest at the top.

Ethereum, Solana, Polkadot and Tether are all names from the world of blockchain-based digital currencies. A cryptocurrency is a digital asset recorded on a blockchain, a shared ledger kept by many computers, and secured by cryptography rather than issued by a central bank.

In January 2007 India sent the world's first all-woman Formed Police Unit to the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).

All three statements about Shankardeva are correct. Shankardeva (Sankaradeva) was the leading Vaishnava saint of Assam in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

Both statements misdescribe the GDP deflator. The deflator is the ratio of nominal GDP to real GDP, multiplied by 100.

All three titles were in use in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century India, and each pair is matched correctly. Gajapati means 'lord of elephants' and was the title of a powerful ruling family of Orissa, the Gajapatis who succeeded the Eastern Gangas.

The American chip maker opened India's first such centre in Bengaluru in 1985, the start of what is now called the Global Capability Centre (GCC) model.

Both statements describe the industry correctly. The modern cotton mill industry began in Mumbai in 1854 and grew first in Maharashtra and Gujarat, close to the black cotton soil, the ports and a ready market.

Statements 1 and 3 describe the Kashmir Himalayas correctly, but Pangong Tso and Tso Moriri are salt-water lakes. The Karewas are thick deposits of glacial clay and other materials embedded with moraines, laid down on the floor of the Kashmir Valley; they are famous for the cultivation of saffron (zafran).

The first option names the preparatory phase instead, which ran from 15 to 30 September 2026 and was used to map targets across units, regional offices and joint ventures, so it is a close distractor rather than the answer.

Reporting the position as on 23 October 2026, the company said it had taken up 180 campaign sites for cleanliness against a target of 145, cleared 24,96,193 square feet of space against the 24,15,786 square feet proposed, and disposed of 1,272 metric tonnes of scrap against a target of 1,266.22…

This edition of the campaign places a dedicated emphasis on handling institutional electronic waste in an environment-friendly way, and the work is done in keeping with the E-Waste Management Rules, 2022.

The purpose of the campaign is to settle the habit of cleanliness in government offices and to bring down the stock of pending matters, and offices are scored on space management, scrap disposal, record management, best practices, improvement of premises, environment-friendly working and citizen-centric steps.