UPSC GK Questions 2026

The Fund of Funds for Startups is a DPIIT initiative under the Startup India Action Plan, is managed by SIDBI, and carries a corpus of 10,000 crore rupees that is routed through SEBI-registered Alternative Investment Funds rather than invested directly in startups.

Startups recognised by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade numbered fewer than 500 in 2014 and now stand at 2.62 lakh, making India the third largest startup ecosystem in the world.

The day is tied to the creation of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, which was established on 9 November 2014, and so the anniversary of that ministry is observed each year as National Entrepreneurship Day.

The rhinoceros was an apt choice of subject for an Assam institute, since the one-horned rhinoceros is the state's best known wildlife emblem, and the model was assembled entirely from discarded circuit boards.

The department exceeded the figure fixed for it, covering comfortably more than the target of 999 sites that had been identified for cleanliness work across its offices, attached and subordinate units and field formations.

The money came from selling off scrap and electronic waste collected while offices were cleared, with trucks flagged off to authorised recyclers rather than the material being dumped.

Freeing up space locked by old files, scrap and unused furniture is one of the measured goals of the drive, and the department reported this much floor area released across its own offices and its attached, subordinate and field units.

Over the first eight days of November 2026 the stalls of the four participating corporations, NSFDC, NBCFDC, NSKFDC and NDFDC, together took approximately Rs 55.46 lakh, a figure the ministry read as a strong public response and as proof that a wider market exists for goods made by these communities.

The fair is arranged in seven themed zones, named कला आँगन, प्रकाश चौक, पूजा पथ, सजावट बाज़ार, घराना, स्वाद चौक and मंच, which between them cover crafts, lamps and lighting, articles of worship, decoration, textiles, food and stage performance.

It has been organising Shilp Samagam Melas since 2022 so that artisans from Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes, Safai Karamchari families and persons with disabilities can reach buyers directly.

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is holding the fifteen-day Shilp Samagam Mela 2026 at Dilli Haat in the INA complex of the national capital, and the fair runs until 15 November 2026.

The regulator listed the parameters it measures on such a route as coverage gap, that is the share of samples with signal strength below the level prescribed for the technology, and for voice the call setup success rate, the drop call rate and the call setup time, and for data…

The regulator stated that the drive test in the Assam Licensed Service Area covered that length of railway along with 2 hotspot locations, and that it was conducted on 11 September 2026 under the supervision of its regional office at Kolkata.

On this railway stretch in the Assam Licensed Service Area the regulator measured an average download speed of 110.82 Mbps for RJIL, the highest of the four operators tested.

The Department said this much space was reclaimed by the systematic removal of obsolete records, scrap, redundant furniture and other unserviceable material, and that it can now be used more effectively for official work.

By identifying and disposing of obsolete material, including electronic waste and other unserviceable items, the Department earned that amount, putting redundant assets to productive use.

The Department of Legal Affairs reported that it had reviewed 27,289 physical files under the campaign and had removed 15,679 of them from its records.

The Telecommunication Interconnection (Port Charges) Regulation of that year laid down what an interconnection seeker pays an interconnection provider for terminating interconnection links at its point of interconnection, and it was framed around legacy E1 or TDM port technology.

The amendment prescribes annual ceilings on IP port charges of Rs 5.6 lakh for a 1 Gbps port and Rs 42.3 lakh for a 10 Gbps port, and allows an interconnection provider and seeker to agree on lower charges or on other capacities computed by the same transparent method.

TRAI released the amendment regulations and stated that they would come into force from that date. The amendment introduces a framework of port charges for interconnection based on internet protocol, adding to the provisions that already applied to ports used for E1 or TDM based interconnection.