UPSC GK Questions 2026

FDI comes in as equity ownership, so India does not have to repay it with interest. Under Indian rules, FDI is investment by a person resident outside India in an unlisted company, or in ten per cent or more of the paid-up equity of a listed company.

The All India Congress Committee passed it at its Bombay session on 8 August 1942. The meeting was held at Gowalia Tank Maidan, now called August Kranti Maidan, in Bombay.

Probiotics include both bacteria and yeasts, and some of them help break down lactose, the sugar in milk. Probiotics are live microorganisms that give a health benefit when eaten in adequate amounts.

Pairs 2 and 4 are right; pairs 1 and 3 name the wrong authors. The Hammira-Mahakavya, a Sanskrit poem on the Chauhan ruler Hammira of Ranthambore, was written by the Jain poet Nayachandra Suri in the fifteenth century.

A syndicate shares the default risk, and a syndicated facility can be either a term loan or a credit line.

GenomeIndia is India's own national programme, paid for by the Department of Biotechnology, and its goal is a reference catalogue of Indian genetic variation.

Indian Railways has marked 1,340 stations across the country for redevelopment under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme, and four of them stand in Jammu and Kashmir: Budgam, Jammu Tawi, Martyr Captain Tushar Mahajan at Udhampur, and Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra.

Tunnel T50 is a rail tunnel of 12.77 km driven under the USBRL project between those two points in Jammu and Kashmir, and it is India’s longest transport tunnel.

That is the length and the cost of the Udhampur–Srinagar–Baramulla Rail Link, which was inaugurated in June 2025 and spreads over the districts of Udhampur, Reasi, Ramban, Srinagar, Anantnag, Pulwama, Budgam and Baramulla.

It carries the USBRL across the Chenab river in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir and is the world’s highest railway arch bridge.

In paragraph 93 of that speech the then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said public sector banks had to be strong and competitive, that the Bank Board Bureau would be made operational in that year, that a roadmap for consolidating public sector banks would be spelt out, that the transformation of…

Those challenging the decision argued that assurances given in Parliament amounted to a promise binding on the Government.

According to the clarification, the association of IDBI officers took the shareholding question to the Delhi High Court, which decided the case on 17 December 2018 and dismissed the writ petition.

The Finance Ministry's clarification records that while the Union Budget of 2003 was being discussed and Parliament was debating this repeal legislation, an amendment was moved that sought to limit any reduction of the Government's holding in IDBI.

On the night of 2-3 December 1984, methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal.

Seasons happen only because the Earth's axis is tilted to the plane of its orbit. The Earth's equatorial plane is inclined at about 23.5 degrees to the plane of its orbit, so its axis makes an angle of about 66.5 degrees with that plane.

PAHAL is the direct benefit transfer scheme for subsidy on cooking gas (LPG). PAHAL stands for Pratyaksh Hanstantrit Labh, meaning direct transferred benefit.

The thunder arrived 6 seconds after the flash, and sound covers 320 m every second, so the distance is 320 × 6 = 1920 m. Lightning and thunder are produced at the same moment.

Mercury in water causes Minamata disease, and excess nitrate causes blue baby syndrome.

In early nineteenth-century Calcutta, lotteries paid for town improvement, and the fear of disease pushed the British towards planning. After Lord Wellesley's Minute of 1803 on the need for town planning in Calcutta, many committees were set up to improve the city.