UPSC GK Questions 2026

The Bureau is usually associated in the public mind with enforcement against narcotics, so option A looks tempting, but the home ministry is not the parent of this particular organisation.

The sessions promoted prevention of drug use, a healthy way of living and the wider goal of a drug free country.

The correct answer is 975 artisans, who have taken part across the thirteen fairs organised since the Ministry began the series.

The correct answer is the Mysuru Dasara Exhibition Grounds in Karnataka, where the nine day fair began on the eleventh of October and will close on the nineteenth.

The fair at the Mysuru Dasara Exhibition Grounds has eighty three stalls in all, and of these eighty have been allotted to artisans, with thirty seven women among those artisans.

The review covered their deployment for technology based monitoring and for analysing trends in farm fires, in addition to field level surveillance by officials and a close watch over the hotspot areas.

These are the machines that handle paddy straw left in the field after the harvest, and the Commission reviewed both their availability and their actual deployment in the two districts.

He headed the high level team that went to the two districts of Punjab to examine how the measures against paddy stubble burning are being carried out during the harvesting season.

The Authority has stated that the funds given to the State Biodiversity Boards and to the Union Territory Biodiversity Council are to be used only for the activities listed in that provision.

Rajasthan came second and Madhya Pradesh third, so options A and B describe the next two ranks rather than the top one.

The exact figure of the distribution works out to one crore eighteen lakh sixty one thousand six hundred and fifty five rupees.

The Ministry of Defence used this expansion while describing the purpose behind the training deployment, under which the Indian Navy builds capacity in partner countries and strengthens regional partnerships in the Indian Ocean.

These three were the ships named by the Ministry of Defence as the vessels of the First Training Squadron that stayed at Port Victoria and then sailed out on completion of the visit.

Port Victoria is the port where the ships of the First Training Squadron stayed during their training deployment, arriving on the twelfth of October and sailing out on the fifteenth.

This is the enabling provision cited by the regulator while capping the trade margin at thirty per cent of the Maximum Retail Price for the identified non-scheduled anti-cancer medicines.

Retailers, chemists, hospitals and medical institutions have to charge the reduced prices from that day and must display the revised rates at their counters, while hospitals must also show them on their websites.

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority has rationalised the trade margin on the identified non-scheduled anti-cancer medicines and held it to thirty per cent of the Maximum Retail Price, using the power given by Paragraph 19 of the Drugs (Prices Control) Order of 2013.

In 2017 Kanha in Madhya Pradesh became the first tiger reserve in India to adopt an official mascot, a cartoon barasingha named Bhoorsingh.

The 1985 amendment made the presiding officer of each House the authority who decides whether a member is disqualified for defection.

Its heavy rainfall, warm humid foothills and low population give it the largest stretch of dense evergreen forest among these states.