UPSC GK Questions 2026

His 150th birth anniversary falls on 4 November. His ideals drew heavily on his close association with the Arya Samaj, for whose work he travelled to South Africa in the opening years of the twentieth century and met Mahatma Gandhi there; he also worked among the Girmitiya community in Guyana…

Narinder Singh Kapany is known across the world as the Father of Fiber Optics, and his 100th birth anniversary falls on 31 October.

The Prime Minister inaugurated the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre there during his visit to Chennai earlier in the month, and he spoke about it in the 139th episode of Mann Ki Baat.

Mann Ki Baat is the monthly radio address of the Prime Minister, and the edition broadcast on 25 October 2026 was its 139th.

India recorded 114 medals at the 2026 edition of this competition, the largest haul the country has ever managed there, and the Games had just concluded when Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the contingent.

The contingent gathered a record 114 medals at the 2026 edition, which no earlier Indian team at the event had matched.

The Indian contingent of para-athletes closed the Asian Para Games 2026 with that number of medals, which is a record for the country at the event and the best-ever performance it has managed there.

The correct answer is Tamil Nadu, which accounts for 20 of the Ramsar Sites in the country, the highest for any State.

The treaty takes its name from Ramsar, the Iranian town where it was adopted on 2 February 1971, and it entered into force in 1975.

Sukhna Wetland lies in Chandigarh and is a rain-fed reservoir created in 1958 at the foot of the Shivalik hills; it shelters threatened species such as the Pallas's fish eagle, the common pochard and the black pond turtle, and migratory birds of the Central Asian Flyway winter there.

India reached this figure on 15 October 2026, when Sukhna Wetland in Chandigarh and Sauj Jheel in Uttar Pradesh were added to the list of Wetlands of International Importance.

In a recumbent fold the rock layers are pushed over so far that the fold lies on its side and its axial plane is almost horizontal.

The rebels wanted Hindus and Muslims to stand together against British rule. Proclamations issued in the name of Bahadur Shah Zafar called on everyone to join the fight, recalling the Mughal past when different communities had lived together.

Wang Xuance, a Tang envoy who came to India several times in the seventh century, wrote an account called Records of the Travels to Middle India, of which only fragments survive.

Sylhet, then a Muslim-majority district of Assam, held a referendum in July 1947, and its people voted to join East Bengal, which became part of Pakistan.

P waves are the fastest earthquake waves and reach a seismograph first, and they are longitudinal, while S waves are transverse.

The patches of evergreen temperate forest in the high valleys of the Nilgiri, Anaimalai and Palani hills of the Western Ghats are called sholas.

The Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2012–17) aimed at 4 per cent growth in agriculture, not 5 per cent. The Twelfth Plan, titled Faster, More Inclusive and Sustainable Growth, was the last five-year plan; after it the Planning Commission was replaced by NITI Aayog in 2015.

Among the gases listed, carbon dioxide is present in by far the largest amount, about 0.04 per cent of the air, which is roughly two hundred times the amount of methane.

Most places have two high tides a day, and because the moon rises about 52 minutes later each day, each high tide comes about 12 hours 26 minutes after the last.