UPSC GK Questions 2026

After the response to the first phase, the second and final phase was rescheduled to that date, with bidding open from 11 in the morning until 5 in the evening, and it offers the land parcels left unsold from the first round.

Its premium land parcels in Visakhapatnam were put up for sale by the National Land Monetization Corporation, and 150 plots were sold on day one for 366.33 crore rupees.

On the first day of the auction, 150 plots belonging to Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited were sold and the winning bids together came to 366.33 crore rupees.

Indian Railways raised its domestic coal supply to power stations during September 2026, moving an average of 443 coal rakes every day.

The correct answer is food grain, whose loading grew 25 per cent during September 2026, the steepest rise among the commodity groups listed by the Ministry of Railways.

The Ministry of Railways reported that loading in September 2026 reached 135.35 million tonnes, which was 6.14 per cent higher than the same month a year earlier.

The 50th CPGRAMS report on States and Union Territories states that 1,312 training courses were completed under the Sevottam Scheme over the last five financial years, training roughly 43,738 officers in grievance handling and service delivery.

The 50th CPGRAMS report on States and Union Territories records that Uttar Pradesh closed the largest number of cases in September 2026 at 45,970, far ahead of every other State.

The 53rd monthly CPGRAMS report brought out by DARPG for September 2026 puts the number of grievances closed by Central Ministries and Departments at 2,38,579 for the month.

In 1967 the Supreme Court held that Parliament could not amend Part III to take away or abridge any Fundamental Right.

Lipases split fats into fatty acids and glycerol. Fat digestion happens mainly in the small intestine.

He got the title Vidyasagar from the Sanskrit College, Calcutta, and he argued for widow remarriage precisely on the basis of the scriptures.

Bauxite is a mixture of hydrated aluminium oxides and hydroxides, not a silicate, and it is the main ore of aluminium.

A single-celled organism has no organs at all; the one cell takes in food through its surface or by forming temporary structures.

A lower CRR means banks must park less money with the RBI, so they have more to lend, and lending creates more money.

A healthy young human ear can hear sounds with frequencies from about 20 hertz to about 20,000 hertz. Frequency is the number of vibrations per second, measured in hertz, and our ears sense it as pitch.

The G20 was formed in 1999, not 2001, as a forum of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors. The Group of Twenty was set up in 1999 after the Asian financial crisis, so that finance ministers and central bank governors of major developed and emerging economies could meet regularly.

A muscle contracts when calcium ions are released from the sarcoplasmic reticulum, and it relaxes when they are pumped back into it.

The bombs thrown in the Central Legislative Assembly were meant to make a noise and be heard, not to kill anyone.

Tropolone is aromatic, but its seven-membered ring is made only of carbon atoms, so it is not heterocyclic. A heterocyclic compound has at least one atom other than carbon, such as oxygen, sulphur or nitrogen, inside its ring.