UPSC GK Questions 2026

The guidelines apply to all future and under-construction National Highway projects, but in two different ways.

NHAI's policy circular standardises the design and infrastructure of toll plazas on four-lane and wider National Highways so that upcoming and ongoing projects are ready for barrier-less MLFF toll collection.

MLFF is a barrier-less toll collection system in which vehicles are tolled while they move through the toll zone under gantries, so they do not have to stop at a booth or a physical barrier.

The Government of India conveyed its concurrence, through a communication dated 6 November 2026, to five southern states: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.

The order directs traders and wholesalers, retailers, big chain retailers and processors or millers in every State and Union Territory to disclose their rice and paddy stocks every Friday on the Food Stock Portal, under six categories: Basmati rice, non-Basmati premium rice, non-Basmati rice, parboiled rice, broken rice and paddy.

The Government of India doubled the target quantity of rice to be sold through e-auctions under OMSS (D) for 2026-27, from 25 LMT to 50 LMT.

Sub-sections (vii) and (viii) of this clause empower TRAI, among other things, to maintain a register of interconnect agreements and make it available for public inspection on payment of the prescribed fee.

The amendment also fixes ₹500 per page as the charge for copies or extracts of the register, and the regulator says the revised fees are broadly aligned with the TRAI (Access to Information) Regulation, 2005.

TRAI released the amendment regulations on 6 November 2026 and fixed 1 January 2027 as the date from which they take effect.

On that date the Union Cabinet approved the Amended BharatNet Program to upgrade, consolidate and expand the existing BharatNet network so that all Gram Panchayats, and villages on demand, get robust and future-ready broadband.

The fund was established under the Indian Telegraph (Amendment) Act, 2003, with effect from 1 April 2002, and under the Telecommunications Act, 2023 it became Digital Bharat Nidhi (DBN).

This is the total scope of the Amended BharatNet Program in Telangana, made up of three parts: 1,946 Phase I Gram Panchayats that will be upgraded from linear to ring topology for a more resilient network, 10,787 Phase II Gram Panchayats that will be covered, and 36 newly created Gram…

The 12 applications cleared by MeitY in this round included first-time ECMS approvals for three products: copper foil, cathode active material and specialty ceramics.

Semicon 2.0 has six pillars. Pillar 2 covers machines and materials, Pillar 3 covers setting up more fabs and Pillar 4 covers further strengthening of the ATMP/OSAT industry, and these three are the ones for which applications went live when Ashwini Vaishnaw launched the portal.

The Union Cabinet approved Semicon 2.0, the second phase of the Semicon India Programme, with this fiscal outlay under the India Semiconductor Mission.

The correct answer is the Defence Secretary, Rajesh Kumar Singh, whose Valedictory Address brought the three-day conference to a close.

This is the expansion of MAHASAGAR, the maritime vision to which the dialogue was said to have given clearer expression.

The Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue is described as the Navy's annual apex-level international strategic dialogue, and the 2026 edition was organised in association with the National Maritime Foundation.

This was the unifying theme of IPRD-2026, the Indian Navy's annual apex-level international strategic dialogue, which was examined through five professional thematic sessions together with senior-level interactions meant to find practical routes to regional maritime cooperation.

The correct answer is quasi-ballistic missile, the class to which Pralay belongs.