UPSC GK Questions 2026

Under Article 103 the President decides a question of disqualification of an MP, but must obtain the opinion of the Election Commission and act according to it, so there is no discretion.

Article 226(4) says expressly that the High Court's writ power shall not be in derogation of the power conferred on the Supreme Court by Article 32(2).

Xylem is made of more than one type of cell working together, which is what makes a tissue complex. Plant permanent tissues are of two kinds.

In April 2018 King Mswati III renamed Swaziland as the Kingdom of eSwatini, meaning land of the Swazis. eSwatini is a small landlocked kingdom in southern Africa, bordered by South Africa and Mozambique.

The Prarthana Samaj was a monotheistic Hindu reform body of Maharashtra, but it was influenced by the Brahmo Samaj, not the other way round.

An ecotone is the zone of transition where two different communities or ecosystems meet and blend. Examples of ecotones are the belt between forest and grassland, the mangrove zone between land and sea, an estuary where river water meets the ocean, and the margin between a lake and its shore.

He spoke these words in his final speech to the Constituent Assembly on 25 November 1949. Dr B. R. Ambedkar, chairman of the Drafting Committee, closed the debates on the draft Constitution with a speech warning about the gap between political and social democracy.

This is the famous habeas corpus case decided during the Emergency. During the Emergency of 1975 to 1977, the President suspended the right to move courts for the enforcement of Article 21.

The islands number 836 by the Union Territory's own count, and the Ten Degree Channel separates the Andaman group from the Nicobar group.

Jainism holds that all of nature has life, and it teaches that a soul escapes karma only through strict self-discipline.

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety deals with the safe handling of living modified organisms. The protocol was adopted in 2000 as a supplementary agreement to the Convention on Biological Diversity and came into force in 2003; India is a party to it.

Article 243Q names only three kinds of municipalities, and an urban panchayat is not one of them. The 74th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992 added Part IXA (Articles 243P to 243ZG) to the Constitution.

In the sodium-calcium exchanger, Na+ ions enter the cell while Ca2+ ions are pushed out, so the two ions cross the membrane in opposite directions.

Statement 1 defines the urban heat island correctly, but statement 2 is wrong because loss of green cover and more hard surfaces are not the only cause.

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is the driest non-polar desert on Earth; some of its weather stations have recorded almost no rain for years.

Tripura shares an international border with only one country, Bangladesh, which surrounds it on three sides. Tripura's border with Bangladesh is about 856 km long, and on its remaining side it touches only the Indian states of Assam and Mizoram.

The rebel proclamations (ishtahars) recalled Mughal rule as a time when Hindus and Muslims lived together in harmony. During the Revolt of 1857, rebel leaders issued many proclamations and notices.

The Danish East India Company set up its first settlement at Tranquebar, now Tharangambadi, on the Tamil Nadu coast in 1620.

The doldrums are the calm equatorial low-pressure belt, and the chinook is a warm, dry winter wind that raises temperatures quickly.

The Krishna Raja Sagara (KRS) dam is built across the Kaveri near Mandya, close to Mysuru in Karnataka. The dam was built between 1911 and 1932 under the Maharaja of Mysore, Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV, after whom it is named.