UPSC GK Questions 2026

This statement is false because primary waves pass through solids, liquids and gases alike. Primary or P-waves are longitudinal waves: they push and pull the rock in the same direction in which the wave travels, compressing and stretching the material just as sound waves compress air.

Swami Dayanand Saraswati held the Vedas to be the only true and infallible source of knowledge, and his call was "Go back to the Vedas".

Raiyat, muzarian and asami were all used for the peasant in Mughal-period sources, while majur means a labourer. The Indo-Persian sources of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries most often called the peasant raiyat (plural riaya) or muzarian; the words kisan and asami also appear.

Liquid nitrogen boils at about −196 °C, cold enough to stop almost all biological activity, and it is cheap, inert and safe to handle.

Chhattisgarh is a long, narrow state that stretches from about 17.8° N in Sukma district to about 24.1° N in Balrampur district, a north-south length of roughly 700 km.

All three features listed, excess salts of sodium, potassium and magnesium, a sandy to loamy texture and their spread in western Gujarat, the eastern deltas and the Sundarbans, describe saline soils.

The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) is an array of 30 fully steerable parabolic dish antennas, each 45 metres across.

Statements 1 and 3 describe real parts of the Sarnath pillar, while the abacus is neither elliptical nor plain. The Mauryan pillar at Sarnath, set up by Ashoka, had a tall, smooth, tapering shaft of polished Chunar sandstone.

Rutherford's model could not explain why the orbiting electrons do not fall into the nucleus. According to classical physics, a charged particle moving in a circular path is accelerating and must keep radiating energy.

Division is an arithmetic operator that works on numbers, while logical operators work on true and false values. Logical (Boolean) operators take one or more conditions that are either true (1) or false (0) and return a true or false result.

Utnur in present-day Andhra Pradesh is a Neolithic site of the southern Deccan, known for its ash mounds. These ash mounds formed where Neolithic cattle-keepers burnt the dung collected inside large cattle pens, and they belong to the same culture as Kupgal, Kodekal and Piklihal.

The branch office of the Cotton Corporation of India there identified 511 items of electronic waste for disposal through an e-auction on the Government e-Marketplace, with the bids to be opened in the fourth week of the month.

The drive is conducted through that month under the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, and it is meant both to speed up the disposal of pending matters and to improve cleanliness in government offices.

It is the nodal department for Special Campaign 6, fixing targets activity by activity and collecting what each ministry achieves, and the photographs taken before and after each cleanliness drive are uploaded to its portal.

Swami Chinmayananda launched it so that the Upanishads, Vedanta and the scriptures would reach people in ordinary life rather than remain with a few scholars, and the Prime Minister described this effort as an important chapter in India's cultural and spiritual revival.

He began the Gita Gyana Yagna to carry the Upanishads, Vedanta and the scriptures to ordinary people, and his radio talks on the art of man making reached a wide audience.

The Prime Minister inaugurated the Chinmaya Amrit Mahotsav Global Sammelan there on 23 October 2026, the global gathering of the Chinmaya Mission founded by Swami Chinmayananda.

This is the named focus of the partnership, meant to prepare banking systems both for the opportunities that quantum technology brings and for the security problems it creates, which is why the two sides will study quantum-inspired and quantum-safe methods.

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing is an autonomous scientific society under that ministry, and its Secretary, S. Krishnan, was present when the memorandum with Bank of India was exchanged.

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing signed the memorandum with Bank of India on 22 October 2026 to work on quantum financial innovation and the adoption of emerging technologies in banking.