UPSC GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is 25 October 2026, the day before the forum opens, when the Secretaries of the delegations will meet to finalise the Joint Statement.

The four high-level sessions announced for the forum are Resilience, on the role of parliaments in strengthening institutions for a better future; Innovation, on promoting human-centred innovation in artificial intelligence and digital technologies through parliaments; Cooperation, on ensuring a more representative system of global governance through parliamentary cooperation; and Sustainability…

The forum opens there on 26 October 2026 and closes on 27 October.

The correct answer is Strengthening Parliaments for People-Centric Development, the overarching theme announced by the Lok Sabha Speaker for the forum in the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan.

The correct answer is Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, Union Minister of Communications and Development of North Eastern Region, who chaired the review and asked the department to sustain its growth through customer acquisition, service excellence, business diversification and faster digitalisation of services.

The correct answer is Bihar, which reached 97.15 per cent of its proportionate target for the quarter and was recognised for that performance.

The parcels vertical earned Rs 318.9 crore in the quarter, and Kerala, the North East, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar went past their quarterly targets in it.

It marks a year-on-year growth of 24 per cent.

The joint statement names these four as the members of the Visegrad Group, often written as V4, and both leaders welcomed the first foreign ministers' meeting held between India and the group.

In the section on multilateral cooperation, the Polish side supported India's membership of a reformed and expanded Security Council and reiterated its support for India's candidature for a non-permanent seat for the term 2028-29.

India welcomed Poland's announcement of joining it, and the outcome is listed under the area of disaster management.

The list of outcomes of the Polish Prime Minister's official visit places the target of doubling bilateral trade by 2030 first, under the area of trade, and the joint statement repeats that the leaders set this target while inviting Polish companies to expand investment in India.

The Gulf of Cambay, or Khambhat, has no coral reefs because its water is muddy and its tides are among the strongest on India's coast.

The Basel Convention controls the movement of hazardous wastes across borders and their disposal, to protect human health and the environment.

Under Article 231, Parliament may by law establish a common High Court for two or more States, or for two or more States and a Union Territory.

Of the four States listed, Bihar has the most seats in the Rajya Sabha, with 16 members. Seats in the Rajya Sabha are allotted to States and Union Territories by the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution, broadly in proportion to population.

In 1800 Colin Mackenzie, an engineer and surveyor of the East India Company, prepared the first survey map of the ruins of Hampi.

In the Chola Nataraja it is the raised left leg, in the bhujangatrasita pose, that stands for tirobhava, kicking away the veil of illusion from the devotee's mind.

The Junagadh rock inscription of the Shaka ruler Rudradaman I records how he restored the Sudarshana lake after a storm burst its dam.

Collision-coalescence is the way rain forms in warm clouds, whose tops stay below the level where water freezes. In such clouds all droplets are liquid.