UPSC GK Questions 2026

A direction in space needs two angles, one in the horizontal plane and one in the vertical plane, and declination and inclination supply exactly these.

The American historian William Hardy McNeill wrote Plagues and Peoples, published in 1976. The book was one of the first to treat infectious disease as a force in world history.

Demographic dividend is the growth bonus a country gets when its working age group grows larger than its dependent population.

Satavahana kings prefixed their mother's name to their own, as in Gautamiputra Satakarni, "son of Gautami", and Vasishthiputra Pulumavi, "son of Vasishthi".

The Punchhi Commission recommended that the President should decide on a State bill reserved by the Governor within six months.

In this case the Delhi High Court held in 2009 that Section 377, in so far as it criminalised consensual sex between adults in private, violated Articles 21, 14 and 15.

This is the fluid mosaic model of the cell membrane given by Singer and Nicolson in 1972. Each phospholipid has a water-loving (hydrophilic) phosphate head and two water-fearing (hydrophobic) fatty acid tails.

Banks can create credit only from money deposited with them, so when people keep more cash at home, less is lent and re-lent, and the multiplier falls.

Avantivarman founded the Utpala dynasty around 855 CE and is remembered for peaceful rule focused on the welfare of his people, and his minister Suyya carried out famous drainage and irrigation works.

Dalton held that the atom is the smallest, indivisible particle of matter, so his theory cannot explain particles inside the atom.

The Richter scale measures the magnitude of an earthquake, which reflects the energy released at its source, not its intensity.

NSS units organised local tournaments in these four games, and more than 21,500 participants took part in them, the aim being healthy recreation, teamwork and positive engagement for rural youth.

They carried out the week across more than 160 institutions and the villages those institutions have adopted, mobilising over 80,000 participants that included young people, Gram Panchayat members, village elders and local residents.

That is the theme set for the campaign’s second month, and the week’s activities were arranged under it, bringing together physical fitness, community participation and social responsibility as the route to a substance-free society.

Gram Seva evam Parampragat Khel Diwas, meaning village service and traditional sports day, was held as the sixth week of this campaign by MY Bharat NSS under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, and it deliberately took the campaign out of educational institutions and into rural communities.

She addressed the course at the Delhi Lawn Tennis Association tennis stadium and said that becoming a leading sporting nation depends on identifying talent early and giving women and girls qualified coaches, suitable infrastructure, regular competition and sustained support.

The ASMITA leagues are women’s leagues run under the Khelo India framework, and since their launch in that year they have reached more than three lakh women, opening up organised participation and competition across regions and communities.

The initiative is meant to connect coach education with talent identification and the development of elite players, and it is supported by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and the Sports Authority of India.

The India Chem Youth Innovation Challenge was introduced in the 14th edition to connect young innovators with the chemicals and petrochemicals sector, and students worked on problem statements set by the industry while a jury drawn from the industry judged their solutions.

Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers Jagat Prakash Nadda said the sector must grow from its present market size of roughly USD 220 billion to about USD 1 trillion by 2040, and then to around USD 1.6 trillion by 2047.