UPSC GK Questions 2026

The 1971 Census recorded a decadal growth of about 24.8 per cent for 1961–71, the highest of any decade in India's census history.

The amara-nayaka system was the main political innovation of the Vijayanagara Empire, under which military commanders were given territories to govern.

A qubit, short for quantum bit, is the basic unit of information in a quantum computer, just as the bit is in an ordinary computer.

The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve spreads across Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, meeting where the Western and Eastern Ghats join. Set up in 1986, the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve was India's first biosphere reserve and in 2000 became the first in India to join UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves.

He was called Danka Shah, the drum-beating maulvi, because he moved from place to place with drums announcing his preaching against British rule.

The tundra is too cold, with a very short growing season and permanently frozen subsoil, for trees to grow, so it has no timber.

Gokhale moved the Elementary Education Bill in the Imperial Legislative Council in 1911 to make primary education free and compulsory.

Humus is the dark, amorphous organic matter of soil, and its colloidal nature lets it hold nutrients and water for plants.

Hilly terrain, economic backwardness and a sizeable tribal population are criteria; the strategic factor is location along international borders, not a coastal zone.

Vermicompost is a nutrient-rich organic manure and crop rotation helps control pests and weeds, but organic farming does use biofertilizers and bio-pesticides.

The Tenth Schedule covers nominated members too, but its merger exception protects a member who refuses a merger and sits as a separate group.

Dr. Mishra said artificial intelligence, machine learning, geospatial systems, satellite imagery and advanced analytics offer real opportunities to improve the timeliness, accuracy and usefulness of official statistics, yet technological advance must remain guided by statistical quality, transparency, privacy, security and accountability.

In his address, Dr. P. K. Mishra pointed to the introduction of the new National Accounts Series with 2022-23 as the base year, together with updated Consumer Price Index and Index of Industrial Production series, as an important step in keeping statistical methods aligned with an economy that is becoming…

He argued that a strong statistical system is essential for evidence-based policymaking and for reaching the goal of Viksit Bharat 2047, and described statistics as a strategic national asset rather than an administrative requirement.

Karel Havlicek, the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, is in India on a four-day visit during which he is meeting ministries, trade bodies and businesses, and his itinerary includes visits to industrial units in these two cities.

The correct answer is the India-Czech Joint Defence Committee, named in the talks as the mechanism through which the two sides would take their defence industrial engagement further.

Rajnath Singh met Karel Havlicek, who is the First Deputy Prime Minister as well as the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, in New Delhi, and the two reviewed the entire range of defence industrial cooperation between their countries.

The centre acts as a single digital platform bringing together data on air quality, dust control sites, ambient noise, industrial emissions, stubble burning incidents, citizen grievances and enforcement vehicles, and uses cameras and location tracking for round-the-clock watch.

Delhi had forty-seven monitoring stations run by various agencies, among them the Delhi Pollution Control Committee, the Central Pollution Control Board, the India Meteorological Department, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology and the ministry dealing with housing and urban affairs.

The Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, along with Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, flagged off 150 new electric buses at Swami Vivekanand ISBT in Anand Vihar under the Sewa Sankalp Abhiyaan, as part of the capital's push towards cleaner public transport.