UPSC GK Questions 2026

An alloy is made by melting and mixing its components, which keep their own properties and are not joined in a fixed ratio by chemical bonds.

Statements 1 and 2 are correct, but NOTA does not apply to the presidential election. The Election Commission conducts the election under Article 324 and the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act, 1952.

Air masses form under calm, stable, anticyclonic (high-pressure) conditions, not in cyclones. An air mass is a huge body of air with nearly uniform temperature and humidity across it.

The Constitution makes itself supreme, not any one organ; it balances parliamentary sovereignty with judicial review. India took a middle path between the British idea of parliamentary sovereignty and the American idea of judicial supremacy.

Naseem-Al-Bahr, Arabic for "sea breeze", is the bilateral naval exercise between the Indian Navy and the Royal Navy of Oman.

The date just east of the line is one day behind the date just west of it, but the line runs through the Pacific Ocean, not the Atlantic.

In Sufism a murid is the disciple who follows a spiritual master, called the pir or shaikh. Sufi orders, or silsilas, such as the Chishti and Suhrawardi, grew around a master and his disciples living in a khanqah (hospice).

These low-pressure systems travel east from the Mediterranean region and bring winter rain and snow to Kashmir and north-west India.

The lithosphere is the rigid outer shell of the Earth, made of the crust and the uppermost, solid part of the mantle.

As Viceroy, he issued the Resolution on Local Self-Government of 18 May 1882, remembered as its Magna Carta. Ripon, Viceroy from 1880 to 1884, wanted local boards and municipalities with a majority of elected, non-official members and an elected chairman where possible.

The summit was held there over two days, and the Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Shri Chanchal Kumar, addressed its inaugural session before also opening the WAVES Global Investor and Investee Meet in the same city.

The white paper released by the Confederation of Indian Industry outlines a roadmap for India's media and entertainment sector to reach that size by the early 2030s, and it argues that faster reforms, stronger regional markets and measurable implementation are what would get the sector there.

The white paper was released at the CII Big Picture Summit held in Mumbai, and it lays out a roadmap for the Indian media and entertainment sector along with calls for quicker reform, stronger regional markets and implementation that can be measured.

In her statement the Finance Minister encouraged stronger collaboration among these three arms and pressed for the World Bank Group Guarantee Platform to be operationalised faster, pointing out that developing economies are constrained by a shortage of risk capital and that guarantees and risk mitigation instruments are among the most…

That was the stated agenda of the plenary, and India's intervention was delivered on precisely this topic, arguing that productive and better paid employment is the most effective pathway to cutting poverty and spreading prosperity.

The meeting of the Development Committee Plenary was held in Bangkok in Thailand, and the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, took part in it there as India's Governor of the World Bank.

When the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change announced that India's Ramsar tally had reached 103, he identified Sauj Jheel as a wetland of Uttar Pradesh and Sukhna Wetland as a site in Chandigarh, offering his congratulations to both.

Announcing the new designations, Union Environment Minister Shri Bhupender Yadav named Sukhna Wetland, better known as Sukhna Lake, as a site in Chandigarh, and he congratulated Chandigarh along with Uttar Pradesh on the recognition.

The Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Bhupender Yadav, announced on 15 October 2026 that the national tally of Ramsar sites had reached 103 once Sukhna Wetland in Chandigarh and Sauj Jheel in Uttar Pradesh were taken into the list.

CBLO was a short-term borrowing and lending instrument backed by government securities, which places it in the money market. The money market deals in funds lent for short periods, from overnight up to one year, through instruments such as call money, treasury bills, commercial paper, certificates of deposit and repos.