UPSC GK Questions 2026

Dr Jitendra Singh announced a vision of debris-free space by 2030 while inaugurating Base 1, adding that India's growing strength in active debris removal shows its leadership in space technology and its concern for a safe orbital environment for all of humanity.

Base 1, the facility of the startup Cosmoserve Space, stands at VSD Tech Park in Gachibowli, a locality of Hyderabad in Telangana, and it was opened on 5 November 2026.

The National Land Monetization Corporation is a wholly owned company of the Government of India under that department's administrative control, which is also why the Secretary of the same department chairs the Inter-Ministerial Group on asset monetisation.

The National Land Monetization Corporation was established pursuant to an announcement made in that budget, and it has since become the government's specialised institution for monetising surplus land and other non-core assets.

The Inter-Ministerial Group on asset monetisation is chaired by that officer, while the Secretary of the Department of Telecommunications, named in option C, is its co-chair; a candidate who remembers only that both departments are involved can easily swap the two roles.

The awareness workshop on the Self-Reliant India Fund for women-led enterprises was held under it on 4 November 2026 at Kartavya Bhawan 3 in New Delhi, chaired by Secretary (MSME) Shri Bharat Khera, and brought together over sixty women entrepreneurs with officials, industry associations and the Daughter Funds.

The SRI Fund has a two-tier design: the Mother Fund does not put money into an enterprise itself, it invests in Daughter Funds, and those funds then take equity in the enterprises.

The correct answer is Rs 21,330 crore in 824 MSMEs, of which roughly three-quarters are micro enterprises.

The ministry has approved the engagement of essential manpower for making the out-patient department and related services work, and the proposed arrangements cover six hundred and fifty-two positions across various categories.

Procurement approval has been conveyed for 180 medical equipment items of this value, and Notices of Award have already gone out for 140 of those items, which leaves forty still to be awarded.

Awantipora lies in the Kashmir valley, and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences being built there is meant to widen access to tertiary and specialised care in the union territory as well as strengthen medical education in the region.

The award went to the Ministry of Railways for topping the category of Maximum Buildings Solarized by Central Ministries and Departments under PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana.

These are the two capacity figures to carry for this story: the railways has commissioned 351 MW of rooftop solar, while the goal it has set itself is 424 MW, so a little over four-fifths of the target is in place.

It secured the top position in the category of Maximum Buildings Solarized by Central Ministries and Departments under PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana, and Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan handed over the award at the Renewable Energy Summit and Expo 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.

This standard sets out the caratages in which gold jewellery may be hallmarked, with fineness expressed in parts per thousand: 9K at 375, 14K at 585, 18K at 750, 20K at 833, 22K at 916, 23K at 958 and 24KS at 995, which is seven grades in all.

The Hallmark Unique Identification, or HUID, is a six-digit alphanumeric code generated by the Bureau of Indian Standards server for each article once it has been tested at a recognised assaying and hallmarking centre.

On that date gold hallmarking stopped being optional and became compulsory, at first in 256 districts; as more assaying and hallmarking centres came up, the requirement now extends to 392 districts.

The scheme has a three-tier governance structure. At the apex sits the Governing Council, chaired by the Secretary, Ministry of Mines, which gives strategic guidance, reviews progress, makes the final selection of beneficiaries and sanctions the capital support; it may also approve changes to the scheme guidelines with the Union…

The scheme funds four plants in all, two for lithium with a capacity of at least 30 kt each and two for nickel with a capacity of at least 50 kt each.

The Union Cabinet cleared the CAPEX Support Scheme to Promote Critical Mineral Processing on 4 November 2026 with exactly this outlay, spread over five financial years running from FY 2026-27 to FY 2030-31, and funded wholly from budgetary support.