UPSC GK Questions 2026

Article 56(1)(a) provides that the President may, by writing under his hand addressed to the Vice-President, resign his office, and the Vice-President must communicate the resignation forthwith to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha.

Article 156 deals with the term of office of the Governor: clause (1) says that the Governor holds office during the pleasure of the President, clause (2) allows him to resign by writing addressed to the President, and clause (3) fixes his normal term at five years from the date…

It ended the patronage of the Court of Directors over appointments and laid down that recruitment to the covenanted civil service would be by open competition, which was thrown open to Indians as well; the committee under Macaulay that framed the scheme reported in 1854.

The Act directed that a sum of not less than one lakh rupees be set apart every year for the revival and improvement of literature, the encouragement of the learned natives of India and the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences.

The Act provided for the establishment of a Supreme Court at Calcutta, and the court was set up in 1774 with a Chief Justice and three other judges, Sir Elijah Impey being its first Chief Justice.

It added six new members to the Governor-General's Council for legislative purposes, so that law-making was carried on by a separate body which began to behave like a small parliament, with its own rules of business, and which is therefore regarded as the beginning of the Indian Legislative Council.

The Charter Act of 1833 added a fourth, law member to the Governor-General's Council for legislative work, and Thomas Babington Macaulay took up the post in 1834.

This Act was the final step in centralising British administration in India: it vested all civil and military powers in the Governor-General of India, took away the legislative powers of the Bombay and Madras governments, and made the East India Company a purely administrative agency holding its territories in trust…

Pressed by British manufacturers who wanted a free market in India, Parliament threw Indian trade open to all British subjects and allowed the Company to keep only the tea trade and the trade with China.

The Act separated the commercial and the political functions of the East India Company, leaving trade to the Court of Directors and placing civil, military and revenue administration under a newly created Board of Control answerable to Parliament.

It was the first attempt by the British Parliament to regulate the affairs of the East India Company: it redesignated the Governor of Bengal as the Governor-General of Bengal, gave him a Council of four, made Bombay and Madras subordinate to him and provided for a Supreme Court at Calcutta.

The Regulating Act of 1773 changed the designation of the Governor of Bengal to Governor-General of Bengal and created an Executive Council of four members to assist him, and Warren Hastings, who had been Governor of Bengal since 1772, became the first holder of the new office.

The logo of Make in India is a lion in mid-stride, drawn out of cogwheels or gears, the gears standing for manufacturing and industry and the lion for courage and strength; it is derived from the Ashoka emblem in spirit and was unveiled with the programme in September 2014.

It allows an eligible startup, recognised for the purpose and incorporated within the prescribed window, a deduction of one hundred per cent of the profits and gains from its business for three consecutive assessment years out of its first ten years, subject to conditions, and it must be claimed with…

The first PLI scheme was notified in 2020 for large-scale electronics manufacturing, with mobile phones and specified electronic components as its targets, and it was followed by schemes for pharmaceutical ingredients and medical devices in the same year.

This output-linked design is what distinguishes the PLI scheme from older industrial subsidies: a selected manufacturer receives an incentive, usually a percentage of the additional sales of eligible goods made in India, for a fixed number of years, so the payment follows production and sales actually achieved.

The Fund of Funds for Startups was created in 2016 with a corpus of ten thousand crore rupees and is operated by SIDBI, which does not invest directly in startups but puts money into alternative investment funds registered with the Securities and Exchange Board of India, and those funds in…

Under the definition notified for recognition by DPIIT, an entity qualifies as a startup for up to ten years from the date of its incorporation or registration, provided its turnover has not exceeded one hundred crore rupees in any financial year, it works towards innovation, development or improvement of products…

The government declared that 16 January, the day on which the Startup India Action Plan was released in 2016, would be celebrated as National Startup Day, and the National Startup Awards are associated with the same programme.

The target declared for Make in India was to raise the share of manufacturing in gross domestic product to twenty-five per cent along with the creation of a large number of jobs; the deadline, first set for 2022, was later extended.