UPSC GK Questions 2026

Implementation has deliberately been made phased, and the first phase covers larger societies that cross this threshold in the relevant financial parameters, so that smaller institutions have extra time to strengthen their internal systems and processes before the enhanced reporting reaches them.

That amendment gave the Central Government the power to prescribe auditing and accounting standards for these societies, and the new audit reporting order has been formulated in pursuance of the provision.

MSCARO stands for the Multi-State Co-operative Societies (Auditor’s Report) Order, and the version mandated now creates a uniform, structured and risk-based framework in which auditors report on financial, administrative, governance and statutory compliance parameters through a standard format with clear Yes or No answers and remarks.

The portal is fully operational and open for public access, stakeholder submissions and data interaction, which is why options A, B and D, each of which narrows the list, are wrong.

The portal address itself carries the clue, since it sits on the ministry’s own domain.

As Chairman of the committee he launched its dedicated digital web portal in New Delhi, a portal that is now fully operational for public access, stakeholder submissions and data interaction.

The committee has been asked to examine the demand for revising this price in the light of the cost of producing sugar, what mills actually realise in the market, and the financial viability of the mills themselves.

The committee was constituted following the decisions taken during a meeting in which representatives of sugarcane farmers from these two States met the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare together with the Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.

The Government of India constituted the committee under his chairmanship to examine the issues raised by sugarcane farmers and to recommend suitable measures.

It has been adopted under the agreement and is to be put in place, and active involvement in it is expected to advance India’s strategic regional priorities while strengthening national coastal security.

The high seas themselves account for roughly 65 per cent of the global ocean and five countries or regions dominate fishing in that space.

The Central Government has approved India moving from the position of a cooperating non-contracting party, which it has held since 2022, to that of a full contracting party, which brings voting rights in the bodies that run the agreement.

Two independent professional agencies valued the bank, one comparing it against the closing accounts of all public sector banks as on 31 March 2026 under relative valuation, the other weighing tangible and intangible assets, land and property included, against liabilities in the audited accounts of the same date.

This is the aggregate equity block going to the Strategic Buyer, and it is made up of two parts: the Government of India contributes 30.48 per cent and LIC contributes 30.24 per cent, with the sale proceeds divided in that same ratio.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs picked this company as the Strategic Buyer when it approved the strategic restructuring of the bank, and its parent is M/s Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.

The atmosphere is heated mainly from below, by the long-wave heat the Earth's surface gives off, not directly by sunlight.

Statements 1, 3 and 4 describe Shankardeva correctly; statement 2 is wrong because Gaudiya Vaishnavism was founded by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu of Bengal.

The Taklamakan lies in the Tarim Basin of Xinjiang in north-western China, in the heart of Central Asia. The Taklamakan is a cold, sandy desert ringed by high mountains: the Kunlun to the south, the Tian Shan to the north and the Pamirs to the west.

This is the incorrect statement: the world has 36 recognised biodiversity hotspots, far fewer than 100. The hotspot idea came from the British ecologist Norman Myers, who in 1988 named ten tropical forest regions that were very rich in species and under heavy threat.

Statements 2 and 3 are correct; statement 1 is wrong because the earliest inscriptions are in Prakrit, not Sanskrit.