UPSC GK Questions 2026

She and Shri Piyush Goyal held a bilateral meeting in Berlin on industrial collaboration and the potential of the India-European Union Free Trade Agreement, and they jointly inaugurated the India Centre at DGAP, which is meant to promote policy research and dialogue on India-Germany relations.

The President said she was happy to note that initiatives to provide financial support to tribal entrepreneurs and connect them with markets had been accelerated, and expressed confidence that such efforts would prove instrumental in achieving the goal of a developed India by 2047 through equitable and inclusive development.

She then met the local Manjhi and Chalki, the traditional community representatives of Bastar, at the Muriya Darbar, visited the rangoli and Dussehra exhibition, and addressed the public programme.

During the visit she also interacted with the local Manjhi and Chalki at the Muriya Darbar, saw the rangoli and the Dussehra exhibition, and earlier offered darshan and puja at the Maa Danteshwari Temple in the same town.

The simulations showed that as spin increases, the oscillating shock moves inward and its oscillations grow more pronounced, so the predicted frequencies can exceed 100 Hz for a black hole of about ten solar masses, which matches the fast variations observed in black hole X-ray binary systems.

Matter pulled towards a black hole forms an accretion flow that falls inward at high speed and emits non-thermal radiation, and the brightness of that radiation shows nearly regular variations known as quasi-periodic oscillations.

Its Numerical and Theoretical Astrophysics Group built the computer simulation of viscous accretion flows used in the work, which was led by Mr Sanit Debnath and Dr Indranil Chattopadhyay, with scientists from the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center in Poland and MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly.

The scheme promotes the welfare of senior citizens through an integrated framework of care services, institutional support and state-level initiatives, and it addresses the needs of elderly persons, especially indigent senior citizens, by supporting residential care facilities, strengthening geriatric care capacity and encouraging awareness and evidence-based work on ageing.

The scheme guidelines of the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana provide annual financial support of this amount to each Regional Resource and Training Centre, and the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment also assists designated non-governmental organisations and institutions that function as RRTCs, so that outreach, capacity building and service delivery…

Under the Integrated Programme for Senior Citizens (IPSrC) of the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana, run by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, 764 senior citizen homes are being supported at present, along with 13 continuous care homes, 17 mobile medicare units and 3 physiotherapy clinics.

Speaking at the Chintan Shivir, he said the engineering sector was on track to surpass the export numbers of the previous financial year, that the medium and long-term growth outlook remained positive, and that engineering exports were expected to cross US$140 billion in the current financial year.

Commerce Secretary Shri Rajesh Agrawal said in his keynote address that India’s combined exports of goods and services grew by 14 per cent year-on-year to this level during April-September of 2026-27, which he cited as evidence that exports had stayed resilient despite global uncertainty.

The Chintan Shivir for the engineering sector was convened by the Department of Commerce along with EEPC India to chart a strategy for total engineering goods exports of US$250 billion by 2030, together with deeper market access through free trade agreements and the long-term availability of key raw materials.

DARPG organised the 22nd National e-Governance Webinar on 23 October 2026, chaired by its Joint Secretary Shri Avanish Kumar Mishra, and more than 360 officials from Union ministries, state governments, districts, local bodies and temple management bodies took part.

The Panchayat Advancement Index, a framework of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, measures the performance of gram panchayats across nine Localized Sustainable Development Goal themes, and it does so with 150 indicators and 230 data points.

TRINETRA was built for the Mahakal Rudrasagar Integrated Development Area in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, which includes the Mahakaleshwar Temple, and it was implemented with Ujjain Smart City Limited and the Shri Mahakaleshwar Temple Management Committee.

The Central Institute of Buddhist Studies is at Choglamsar near Leh in Ladakh. It is a deemed university funded by the Union Ministry of Culture.

That is false: black soils are among the most clayey soils of India, and their high clay content is what lets them swell when wet and crack when dry.

Bokaro in Jharkhand was set up in 1964 with Soviet (Russian) help, takes its iron ore from the Rourkela region and draws water and hydel power from the Damodar Valley Corporation.

Earthquake waves are of two basic types, body waves and surface waves, and surface waves are produced when body waves reach the surface and interact with the surface rocks.