UPSC GK Questions 2026

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, adopted in January 2000, is named after Cartagena in Colombia, where the negotiations were held in 1999.

Gandhi set up the All India Harijan Sevak Sangh in 1932 to fight untouchability, and he argued that untouchability had no sanction in the Hindu shastras.

Under the Mughal mansabdari system, every officer held a numerical rank called zat, which fixed his position in the hierarchy and his personal salary.

Almost all water vapour and dust of the atmosphere lie in the troposphere, so clouds, rain, storms and other weather events happen there.

A playa is the flat, shallow lake bed at the bottom of a desert basin, so it belongs to the landforms of arid regions.

E. V. Ramasamy, known as Periyar, started the Self-Respect Movement in Tamil Nadu in 1925. Periyar left the Congress in 1925, unhappy with its attitude to caste, and began the movement to give non-Brahmins and the depressed castes a sense of dignity.

The Scottish painter Joseph Noel Paton painted "In Memoriam" in 1858 in response to the revolt of 1857. The painting shows British women and children huddled together, clutching the Bible and waiting helplessly for an attack, an image meant to recall the killings at Kanpur (Cawnpore).

Deendayal Port is the new name of Kandla Port, which lies on the Gulf of Kachchh in the Kachchh district of Gujarat.

The Indian Factories Act of 1881, passed under Viceroy Lord Ripon, was mainly about child labour and capped the working day of children aged 7 to 12 at nine hours.

Kanaklata Barua was shot dead by the police on 20 September 1942 while leading a procession to hoist the tricolour at the Gohpur police station in Assam.

The geographical grid is the network of parallels of latitude, running east to west, and meridians of longitude, running from the North Pole to the South Pole.

The Benguela current flows along the west coast of southern Africa, off Namibia and South Africa, not North Africa, so this statement is the incorrect one.

Swami Sahajanand Saraswati was elected president of the All India Kisan Sabha when it was founded at Lucknow in April 1936.

DigiPost is a phygital mail service of the Department of Posts under which traffic e-challans issued by the Gujarat Police are transmitted digitally and then delivered in physical form to the citizen concerned.

Since 2 October 2026 the Department of Posts disposed of 3,06,026 kg of scrap and that fetched revenue of Rs 67.56 lakh.

Under Special Campaign 6.0 the Department of Posts set three targets: resolution of 1,50,000 public grievances, disposal of 1,500 appeals and cleanliness drives at 1,35,000 sites across the country.

Special Campaign 6.0 is being carried out at postal establishments throughout the country over that month by the Department of Posts, which comes under the Ministry of Communications.

The port of call was Salalah in Oman, so the host service was Oman's own navy.

This is the expansion given for MAHASAGAR, the vision that Lokayan-2026 is said to advance as INS Sudarshini sails through international waters as an ambassador of India, winning goodwill and building maritime partnerships.

The sail training ship called at Salalah from 14 to 17 October 2026 and sailed from there to continue Lokayan-2026, the transoceanic deployment that has now reached its tenth month.