UPSC GK Questions 2026

Surge pricing is a form of dynamic pricing in which the price moves up when demand rises faster than the available supply.

Dryland farming is practised where annual rainfall is below about 75 cm. Indian agriculture is grouped by the source of moisture into irrigated and rainfed farming, and rainfed farming is further divided into dryland and wetland farming.

Relative humidity compares the moisture in the air with what the air could hold, and that capacity rises with temperature.

Thawing is the melting of ice, a physical change that works on rocks only mechanically.

Tuff is the rock formed when volcanic ash settles in layers and hardens.

Temperature inversion needs rapid cooling of the ground, which happens under clear skies, not cloudy ones. Statement I is correct: normally temperature falls with height, but during an inversion a layer of warmer air lies above cooler air near the ground, so the normal lapse rate is reversed.

The land-use classification kept in India's land revenue records divides the reporting area into nine categories.

The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway joining two seas, and it is the busier and more important of the two great canals.

Both statements describe standard facts about how air temperature is measured and how it changes with height.

Lithification is the name for turning loose sediment into solid rock. Fragments produced by weathering and erosion are carried by rivers, wind, glaciers or waves and laid down in layers.

Pressure of water breaks rock mechanically without changing its minerals, so it is a physical process. Weathering is the breaking down of rocks where they lie.

The correct answer is Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, where the Ministry of Labour and Employment is holding the two-day state-level capacity-building and awareness programme on Labour Codes, labour welfare and social protection in collaboration with the Government of Uttar Pradesh.

The correct answer is the Code on Wages, which belongs to 2019.

Shram Samvad is a 90-day outreach initiative through which the Ministry of Labour and Employment is undertaking district-level engagement across 316 districts in all 36 States and Union Territories, with special attention to industrial clusters.

Mr Holger Peters is the Chief Executive Officer of Skoda Auto and at the same time the Chief Financial Officer of Volkswagen AG, and he met the Commerce Minister in Berlin.

Mr Levin Holle holds that position at the German Federal Chancellery, where the bilateral meeting took place, and the discussion covered economic cooperation and the strengthening of economic and investment ties between India and Germany.

The correct answer is Piyush Goyal, the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, who completed a two-day official visit to Germany with a series of engagements in Berlin on 23 October 2026.

Its Pink Patrol initiative, with the tagline Eyes in the Sky, SHAKTI on the Ground, is a women-led model that combines drone-assisted surveillance with rapid-response teams working under the SHAKTI framework.

The correct answer is Sonali Mishra, Director General of the Railway Protection Force, who presided over the high-level conference and closed it by stressing the need for intelligence-led policing to strengthen railway security.

The 8th All India Conference of Government Railway Police Chiefs, convened by the Railway Protection Force, concluded in New Delhi on 23 October 2026.