UPSC GK Questions 2026

In 1997 the Supreme Court, hearing this petition, framed the Vishaka guidelines, the first binding statement of an employer's duty to prevent and redress sexual harassment at the workplace.

The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 allows the Juvenile Justice Board to conduct a preliminary assessment of a child who has completed sixteen years and is alleged to have committed a heinous offence, that is one punishable with imprisonment of seven years or more.

The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 is a special, gender-neutral law that protects every person below eighteen years of age from sexual assault, sexual harassment and pornography.

Article 24 states that no child below the age of fourteen years shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or be engaged in any other hazardous employment.

The Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2002 inserted Article 21A, making free and compulsory education for every child of six to fourteen years a fundamental right.

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 provides that a child above six years who has not been admitted to any school, or could not complete elementary education, shall be admitted to a class appropriate to his or her age, with special training to help the…

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 is arranged in seven chapters, and Chapter IV is titled 'Responsibilities of Schools and Teachers'.

The Employees State Insurance (Amendment) Act belongs to 2010, so 1 pairs with (c). The Equal Remuneration Act, which forbids unequal pay for men and women for the same work, was passed in 1976, so 2 pairs with (d).

The National Food Security Act was passed by Parliament and notified in 2013, not 2015, so D is the incorrect statement and therefore the answer the question asks for.

During the First Anglo-Burmese War the 47th Regiment of Native Infantry at Barrackpore was ordered to Burma. The sepoys objected because crossing the sea meant loss of caste, and because no allowance had been granted for the carriage of their baggage as service custom required.

The poligars were military chiefs of the Tirunelveli and Madurai region who held land in return for keeping troops.

The correct answer is A, Syed Ahmad Barelvi of Rae Bareli, who drew on the teachings of Shah Waliullah and organised the movement known in India as the Wahabi or Tariqah-i-Muhammadiya movement, with Patna as its Indian centre.

The movement called on Muslims to give up practices it held un-Islamic, and it soon turned into an organised resistance by Muslim peasants to the illegal cesses of Hindu zamindars and to indigo planters.

The Company wanted a road joining the Brahmaputra valley with Sylhet through Khasi territory, and brought in outside labour and troops to build it.

The subsidiary treaty with the Company had placed a crushing payment on Travancore and given its resident wide powers; Velu Thampi issued the Kundara Proclamation in 1809 asking the people of the state to take up arms.

When the Company refused to recognise her adopted son as heir and moved to annex the state, she took up arms in 1824, defeated the first British force sent against her and was captured in the second attack; her commander Sangolli Rayanna continued the struggle.

The Kol Uprising of 1831-32 spread over Ranchi, Hazaribagh, Palamau, Manbhum and Singhbhum in the Chhotanagpur plateau, and was led by Buddho Bhagat.

The rising spread through the Damin-i-Koh in the Rajmahal hills against zamindars, mahajans and the Company's police, and the Santhals declared Company rule at an end.

The paikas were a hereditary militia who held rent-free jagir land for their military service; the Company took that land, raised the revenue demand and abolished the cowrie currency, forcing payment in silver.

The Vellore Mutiny broke out on 10 July 1806 when sepoys of the Madras army in Vellore fort turned on their officers.