UPSC GK Questions 2026

He wrote under the pen name 'Lokhitwadi', meaning one who speaks for the welfare of the people. Gopal Hari Deshmukh (1823–1892) was a Maharashtrian social reformer and writer.

All three come from the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. Katapayadi is a way of writing numbers with letters, each consonant standing for a digit, so long astronomical tables could be memorised as verses.

The tomb in Mehrauli, Delhi, built in the late 13th century, has the earliest surviving true arch in India. A true arch is built from wedge-shaped stones (voussoirs) held in place by a keystone at the top, so it spreads weight sideways.

Both are cnidarians, simple aquatic animals with stinging cells. Members of phylum Coelenterata (Cnidaria) have radial symmetry, two body layers, a single opening that works as both mouth and anus, and stinging cells called cnidoblasts on their tentacles, used to catch prey and for defence.

The Satavahanas ruled the Deccan and parts of western India, but the Sudarshana Lake was repaired by others.

It dealt with university education, not with the public services. The University Education Commission was set up in 1948 under Dr S. Radhakrishnan, who later became the second President of India.

Only the statement about where residuary powers lie is correct. The American federation was formed by an agreement among states that already existed, so its Constitution guards 'State rights'.

Officials were made aware that obsolete electronic and electrical equipment needs to be segregated, handled safely and disposed of only through authorised channels, in keeping with the e-waste management rules that apply.

The awareness session dealt with phishing attacks, malware, fraudulent messages sent through messaging applications and digital arrest scams, in which a caller pretends to be an investigating or police officer in order to frighten the victim into paying money.

The two workshops, one on cyber security and secure digital disposal and the other on e-waste management awareness, were organised by the Ministry of Textiles under this campaign on 15 October 2026, and more than 85 officials attended, among them all the Nodal Officers of the ministry.

The corpus is listed there as the SPICOR TTS 3.0 Sourashtra Corpus and offers more than 28 hours of gender-balanced Sourashtra speech data developed at IISc Bengaluru, with content in both the Sourashtra and the Tamil script.

The models built by BHASHINI and IISc Bengaluru use this architecture and generate Sourashtra speech directly from written text.

The release describes Sourashtra as a minority Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by the Sourashtra community in Tamil Nadu, which makes it unusual: it is an Indo-Aryan tongue surviving inside a state whose major language, Tamil, is Dravidian.

The Digital India BHASHINI Division, which works under the Digital India Corporation in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, built the models jointly with IISc Bengaluru, and the speech corpus used for training was developed at the institute SPIRE Lab.

Fresh kharif arrivals gathered pace and wholesale rates eased, bringing the all-India average mandi price down from its September peak to the October level.

Two Kanda Express rail rakes carried 840 MT and 452 MT of onions, and 44 truck consignments carried 1,513.46 MT, which adds up to more than 2,800 MT supplied across the North-East.

The onions carried by the Kanda Express come out of the onion buffer built under this fund, and the Department of Consumer Affairs releases that stock in a calibrated way when market prices rise or supplies tighten.

The Department of Consumer Affairs has dispatched the first-ever Kanda Express movement to Agartala with about 440 MT of buffer onions, expected to arrive by 18 October 2026.

The report was published by that office, which functions under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and it was released during the celebrations of the 11th Ayurveda Day.

Yearly filings went up from 63 applications in 2014-15 to 590 in 2025-26, and the report puts that increase at roughly 836.5 per cent.