UPSC GK Questions 2026

The authority told the conference that it had already put together a team of that many artificial intelligence enthusiasts, who would also act as brand ambassadors and take the agenda forward across every area of the power sector.

Alongside the portal, the authority released the CEA Manual on Transmission Planning Criteria, 2026, and distributed the CEA Employee Awards for outstanding performance and exceptional contribution by its staff.

This was the declared theme under which the Central Electricity Authority held its international conference cum exhibition at the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi, the first of its two days falling on 14 October 2026.

The meeting was convened with the Vice Chancellors of nineteen National Law Universities spread across sixteen states, and all of them assured the ministry of active participation in the pendency mission.

The Chief Justice of India is wrong because this was an executive initiative of the Ministry of Law and Justice and not a judicial conference.

The ministry stated that this many matters are awaiting decision in courts across the country and that the majority of them lie in the district and subordinate judiciary rather than in the constitutional courts.

The ministry decided against a uniform nationwide drive and instead identified the judicial districts where the number of pending cases is largest, settling on one hundred of them.

The pairing was deliberate: one laboratory showcased sustainable infrastructure and the other healthcare and genomics, the two themes the programme wished to place before Global South partners.

Ecofix is a steel slag-based mix developed for quick repair of road surfaces and was shown working at the CSIR-Central Road Research Institute, where the delegation also saw a driving simulator, a cyclic load test facility, a steel slag laboratory, a three-dimensional model of bio-binder technology and drone models.

The first edition brought together thirty-three Ambassadors and senior embassy officials who between them represented twenty-nine nations, most of them in the Global South.

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research worked with the New, Emerging and Strategic Technologies Division of the MEA to run the first edition of the programme, which was held on 14 October 2026 and designed to deepen India's scientific links with countries of the Global South.

The correct answer is 8 October 2026, the date from which the new technology area becomes eligible for funding under the RDI Scheme.

The RDI Scheme was launched in November 2025 with a corpus of that size, meant to catalyse private-sector investment in research, development and innovation rather than to fund government laboratories alone.

The Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals is wrong in this context because DCPC was the proposer, not the approving authority: it had sought that chemicals and petrochemicals be treated as a priority area and DST accepted that request.

The Government of India added Advanced Chemicals, Petrochemicals and Material Technologies as an extra technology area that can draw funding under this scheme, the change applying from 8 October 2026.

The Gulf of Khambhat has no coral reefs, because its water is muddy with silt and its tides are among the highest on India's coast.

An anemometer measures how fast the wind is blowing; its name comes from the Greek word anemos, meaning wind.

All three features describe farming done mainly to feed the farmer's own family, with only a small surplus for sale or barter.

Malhar is the raga of the monsoon, sung to welcome and call the rains. Hindustani music links many ragas with a season or a time of day.

It records that Kharavela of Kalinga broke up a confederacy of Tamil states that had been a threat to his kingdom for 113 years.