UPSC GK Questions 2026

Paleogeography is the study of the Earth's geography in the geological past, and its main product is a set of maps showing where continents, oceans, mountains and shorelines lay at different times.

Cowasjee Nanabhoy Davar, a Parsi businessman of Bombay, set up the Bombay Spinning and Weaving Company, which began production in 1856 and is regarded as India's first modern cotton mill.

The Abhijit Sen Committee dealt with agricultural economics, not local self-government. Its best-known reports were on a long-term grain policy in 2002 and on whether futures trading pushed up farm prices in 2008.

Operation Olivia is the Indian Coast Guard's annual mission, begun in the early 1980s, to protect Olive Ridley turtles off the Odisha coast.

All three statements are true: Lachit Borphukan was the Ahom commander who defeated the Mughals at Saraighat, and the NDA's best cadet receives a gold medal in his name.

Watt's improvements turned the steam engine from a device that merely pumped water out of mines into a source of power for factory machines.

Southern Argentina is Patagonia, a cold, dry steppe and desert region lying in the rain shadow of the Andes, so it does not have a humid subtropical climate.

Intercontinental ballistic missiles came first in 1957, communication satellites followed from 1958 onwards, and the World Wide Web arrived only around 1989 to 1991.

PM-DAKSH was an additionality to PMKVY, and every job role used for skill training under it was taken from the Skill India Digital Hub portal, where PMKVY job roles are also listed.

After a course finished, the training institute had to provide wage employment or self-employment to at least that share of the candidates it had trained.

That many candidates were trained under PM-DAKSH in the years from 2020-21 to 2023-24.

PM-DAKSH was a Central Sector Scheme of that ministry, and its Department of Social Justice and Empowerment ran it through three corporations, NSFDC, NBCFDC and NSKFDC, which reimbursed training costs to the institutes.

This is a state policy, and its purpose is to ease investment across the parts of the fisheries value chain: hatcheries, fish seed and feed, reservoir and cage fisheries, aquatic animal health, processing, cold-chain infrastructure, logistics, value addition and market development.

Madhya Pradesh has been notified in that category by the Centre, and the tag fits a state whose fisheries rest on large standing water bodies rather than on the sea.

That is the level India's fish production reached in 2024-25.

The Fisheries Investors and Exporters Conclave 2026 is being organised on 23 October 2026 at Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, by the state's Department of Fisheries together with the Department of Fisheries under the Union Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.

The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was Gandhiji's first satyagraha in India, and its great significance was that it tied the grievances of peasants to the national movement.

Statements 1, 2 and 3 describe the Coal Controller's Organisation, while statement 4 does not. The CCO is a subordinate office of the Ministry of Coal with its headquarters in Kolkata.

Both statements are correct, because Biodiversity Management Committees are the grassroots bodies through which India carries out access and benefit sharing.

All three statements about the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme are correct.