UPSC GK Questions 2026

Rohit Kumar swam the men's 100m breaststroke SB4 with an impressive timing and finished third, and the fact that a medal arrived on a debut is what was singled out in the congratulations sent to him.

Shailesh Kumar reached that distance in the final and finished third, and the event name carries three class codes because athletes from three classification groups were ranked together in one competition.

He finished second in the men's 100m backstroke S13 and his was the only silver among the Indian results announced in the evening hours of that day, the rest of the group being bronze medals.

The Sub-Committee met on 21 October 2026, reviewed the air quality of Delhi and the region along with the forecasts placed before it, and decided to bring Stage-I of the plan into force with immediate effect.

The Sub-Committee on GRAP decided to invoke all the action points listed under Stage-I of the plan then in force, and that list runs to twenty-five items, applying across the whole National Capital Region with immediate effect.

Stage-I of the Graded Response Action Plan is the stage meant for poor air, and it was invoked across the National Capital Region after Delhi's daily average index was recorded at 244 at 2 PM and then at 245 by 4 PM, both of which sit inside that band.

The ship took part in the ninth edition of the India-Brazil-South Africa Maritime Exercise, and its Commanding Officer spoke at the closing ceremony at Simon's Town, where he described such exercises as a platform that turns long-standing diplomatic ties into usable naval cooperation.

The closing ceremony of IBSAMAR IX was held there on 20 October 2026, rounding off ten days of joint activity in a harbour phase and a sea phase.

IBSAMAR stands for the India-Brazil-South Africa Maritime Exercise, and the ninth edition brought the navies of these three countries together before concluding at Simon's Town in South Africa.

Three knowledge resources were formally brought out at the opening of the conference: a Decision-Making Tool developed by the India Agrivoltaics Alliance, a Book of Abstracts prepared by the International Water Management Institute, and the AgriPV Policy Handbook of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.

The conference was hosted by that ministry with support from Germany's Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, known by its initials BMUV, and was organised in partnership with Conexio-PSE.

The seventh edition of the AgriVoltaics World Conference, which opened at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, was organised under that theme by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in partnership with Conexio-PSE.

The silver medallists were Manjeet in the men's javelin throw F12/F13, Bhagyashree Jadhav in the women's shot put F34, Mohd Yasser in the men's shot put F46, Banti in the men's high jump T64, Mohammad Basil M in the men's 100m T47, Preeti Pal in the women's 100m T35 and…

He broke the Games Record in the heats of the men's 100m T47, improved on his own mark in the final, and finished with the silver medal in that race.

Kasthuri Rajamani took the silver medal there with an impressive lift, and that silver was the first medal India had ever won in the class, a result described as a historic milestone for Indian para powerlifting.

Para athletics places competitors in classes so that athletes with a comparable degree of impairment face one another, and an event is then named by the distance along with the class, which is why Dilip Gavit's gold is recorded as the Men's 100m T47 and not merely as the 100…

The result on record is a gold medal for Dilip Gavit in the Men's 100m T47 at the Asian Para Games 2026, won with a timing that was called brilliant and a performance described as exceptional.

Dilip Gavit won the gold medal in the men's 100 metres run in the T47 classification at the Asian Para Games 2026, and the timing he produced in that final was described as brilliant.

Simran's gold in the Women's 100m T12, together with the new Games Record, came at that meet, and the Prime Minister's congratulations on 21 October 2026 named it specifically.

The achievement recorded for Simran is a gold medal in the Women's 100m T12 won with an outstanding timing that bettered the existing Games Record, which is the best mark set in that event across the editions of the Asian Para Games staged so far.