UPSC GK Questions 2026

The 42nd Amendment had frozen the allocation on the 1971 census only until the census after 2000; as that date approached, the 84th Amendment pushed the freeze forward to the first census taken after 2026, so that states which had controlled population growth would not lose seats.

The amendment inserted Article 330A for the Lok Sabha and Article 332A for the state assemblies, and amended Article 239AA so that the reservation also covers the Delhi assembly.

Article 82 says that upon the completion of each census the allocation of seats in the Lok Sabha to the states and the division of each state into territorial constituencies shall be readjusted by such authority and in such manner as Parliament may by law determine.

The Mandal Commission, formally the Second Backward Classes Commission, had been appointed in 1979 under B. P. Mandal and submitted its report in 1980, recommending twenty-seven per cent reservation of central government posts for the Other Backward Classes.

It inserted the Tenth Schedule and amended Articles 101, 102, 190 and 191 so that a member of Parliament or of a state legislature who voluntarily gives up the membership of the party on whose ticket the member was elected, or votes against the party whip, may be disqualified, the…

The army action of June 1984 was ordered to remove armed militants who had fortified the Harmandir Sahib complex during the militant phase of the Punjab movement.

His government passed the 44th Amendment of 1978, which undid much of the 42nd Amendment, and appointed the Mandal Commission in 1979.

It added the words socialist, secular and integrity to the Preamble, inserted the Fundamental Duties as Part IVA and Article 51A, added subjects such as education, forests and weights and measures to the Concurrent List, extended the normal life of the Lok Sabha and the assemblies to six years, and…

The proclamation of 25 June 1975 was issued under Article 352 on the ground of internal disturbance, an expression so wide that it became the main criticism of the Emergency, which lasted until 21 March 1977.

India carried out its first underground nuclear explosion at Pokhran in the Thar desert of Rajasthan on 18 May 1974, which happened to be Buddha Purnima, and the government described it as a peaceful nuclear explosion.

After the war of December 1971 and the creation of Bangladesh, the two countries met at Shimla and agreed on 2 July 1972 to settle their differences bilaterally and by peaceful means, to respect the line of control in Jammu and Kashmir resulting from the ceasefire, and to work towards…

In July 1969 the government of Indira Gandhi nationalised the fourteen largest commercial banks, each with deposits above fifty crore rupees, in order to take banking to the villages and to direct credit towards agriculture, small industry and the weaker sections, which were together termed the priority sectors.

The agreement was signed at Tashkent, then in Soviet Uzbekistan, on 10 January 1966 by Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and President Ayub Khan of Pakistan, with the Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin acting as host and mediator.

The slogan Jai Jawan Jai Kisan, the start of the Green Revolution and the war of 1965 belong to his short term.

The Consumer Protection Act requires a complaint to be filed within two years from the date on which the cause of action arose, that is from the date of the defect, the deficiency in service or the unfair trade practice complained of.

The Act of 2019 devotes a separate chapter to it, making a manufacturer, a product seller or a product service provider liable to pay compensation for harm caused by a defective product or a deficient service, whether the defect lies in manufacture, design, the deviation from specifications, a warranty or…

A cartel is a horizontal agreement, that is one between enterprises at the same level of the production or supply chain, to fix prices, limit or control output, share markets or territories, or rig bids in a tender.

Appeals from the Commission were earlier heard by the Competition Appellate Tribunal, and that work was transferred to the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, from whose order a further appeal lies to the Supreme Court.

The MRTP Act treated size itself as a danger and required large undertakings to obtain approval for expansion, which suited a controlled economy.

National Consumer Day marks the day on which the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 received the assent of the President of India, and it is observed every year with campaigns on consumer rights and on the machinery available for redressal.