UPSC GK Questions 2026

As on 8 November 2026, eighty-five pharmaceutical companies had reported revised maximum retail prices for 1,364 anti-cancer formulations, and those prices came into force on 9 November 2026.

The correct answer is the Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas, known by its short form CAQM, which was applying measures under the Graded Response Action Plan across the region to prevent any further decline in air quality, and citizens were urged to support those efforts…

The nationwide Green Diwali Campaign of the year was run under it from the twentieth of October to the eighth of November.

As part of the Green Diwali Pledge, citizens were asked to follow the daily Air Quality Index on the SAMEER app of the Central Pollution Control Board and to cut down the time they spend outdoors on days when the air is poor.

The nationwide Green Diwali Campaign was run from the twentieth of October to the eighth of November under Mission LiFE, which stands for Lifestyle for Environment, and its special focus was the cities covered by the National Clean Air Programme.

Speaking in Sikkim, the Raksha Mantri recalled that the National War Memorial was established in New Delhi to honour the gallant soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice in the service of the nation, and said that approximately twenty six thousand names of the fallen have been inscribed there in golden…

The correct answer is General Dhiraj Seth, who is named as the Chief of the Army Staff accompanying the Raksha Mantri to the forward areas of Sikkim for the Deepawali celebration with the Trishakti Corps.

The Trishakti Corps is the designation of the Army's thirty-third Corps, and its soldiers are deployed in the forward areas of Sikkim, where the Raksha Mantri celebrated Deepawali with them.

The Prime Minister said the fight against Naxalism was fought together with a special campaign for the development of the affected areas, and listed what it delivered: roads of more than fifteen thousand kilometres, over nine thousand five hundred mobile towers, nearly one hundred and seventy five Eklavya schools, around…

Recalling the grim years, the Prime Minister said Left-Wing Extremism had gripped more than two hundred and thirty districts spread across nearly twenty states, among them Bihar, Maharashtra, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

Speaking to the jawans in Bastar, the Prime Minister said that over the past year not a single CRPF soldier had lost their life on duty, and that this had not happened for the previous forty-seven years.

The Prime Minister went there on 8 November 2026 to spend the festival with security personnel, handed out sweets, and said this was the first Diwali with every district of the country free of Naxalism.

In the article and the message marking Advani entering his 100th year, the Prime Minister wrote about these other facets of the veteran leader besides the political milestones, saying he had also covered Advani’s deep appetite for reading, his affection for culture and cinema and his substantial body of writing.

The Prime Minister recalled that Advani strengthened the Jana Sangh and then went on to build the Bharatiya Janata Party, treating the two as successive stages of the same political effort.

While greeting Advani as he entered his 100th year, the Prime Minister listed leading this yatra among the defining chapters of his public life, along with living through Partition and rebuilding his life afterwards, strengthening the Jana Sangh, building the Bharatiya Janata Party, standing up for democracy during the Emergency…

He entered his 100th year on 8 November 2026, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted him on the occasion, describing the day as a landmark one.

Both were developed by the Ministry of Labour and Employment and were given to participants at Dewas so that employers and compliance professionals would find it easier to put the Labour Codes and the rules notified under them into practice.

Datta, Director, Ministry of Labour and Employment. He presided over the Dewas programme and gave the keynote address, in which he set out the main features of the Labour Codes.

At the Dewas programme the DGLW took the session on the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maandhan, the pension scheme for unorganised sector workers known as PM-SYM.

The Ministry of Labour and Employment and the Labour Department of the Madhya Pradesh government held Shram Samvad, a district-level capacity-building and awareness programme on the Labour Codes, labour welfare and social protection, at Dewas on 5 November 2026.