UPSC GK Questions 2026

Ligaments are bands of dense connective tissue that join one bone to another at a joint. Ligaments are rich in tough, slightly elastic fibres, so they hold the bones of a joint together while still allowing movement.

The Vajji mahajanapada was a gana-sangha, ruled by an assembly of clan chiefs rather than by a single king. Of the sixteen mahajanapadas named in Buddhist texts such as the Anguttara Nikaya, most were monarchies, but Vajji and Malla were ganas or sanghas.

One parsec equals about 2,06,265 astronomical units, which rounds to 2 × 10⁵ A.U.

At the top of its flight all the kinetic energy of the ball has turned into gravitational potential energy. The mass is 350 g, that is 0·35 kg.

The assembly in Pune runs for five days, from 12 to 16 October 2026, and brings together more than 550 participants from Europe, the Americas, South Asia, South East Asia and Australia, of whom 380 are attending in person and about 180 online.

Atmospheric Processes and their Role in Climate is one of its core projects and works on the atmospheric drivers and processes that govern weather patterns and the dynamics of the global climate.

The inaugural function of the assembly was held there, and the institute's Director delivered the opening keynote on modelling the monsoon and on narrowing the gap between how far the monsoon can be predicted in principle and the skill of actual forecasts.

This is the initial contribution pledged by the Government of India to the Alliance, which is headquartered in this country and works for the conservation of seven big cats.

The Alliance was set up for the conservation of seven big cats, and the list runs lion, tiger, leopard, snow leopard, cheetah, jaguar and puma.

The Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change inaugurated the premises, and the Director General of the Alliance welcomed the guests with an account of its activities and programmes.

Financial services were the fourth of the five priority areas the Commerce and Industry Minister listed, and under it he sought greater collaboration between the City of London and GIFT City, naming fintech, insurance, cross-border payments, transition finance and trade finance as fields of work, so that the two financial…

The joint statement of the 16th meeting records the decision that the next session of the Joint Economic and Trade Committee will be hosted by the British side in that year.

Addressing the business plenary of the 16th India-UK Joint Economic and Trade Committee, the Minister asked businesses in both countries to aim at doubling bilateral trade by the end of this decade, noting that about 1,500 days were left to work with.

Average monthly mobile data use for each wireless data subscriber rose to this level in the quarter ending June 2026 from 26.70 GB in the quarter ending March 2026.

Tele-density measures telephone connections for every hundred people, and the overall figure improved from 93.26 per cent at the end of March 2026 to 94.31 per cent at the end of June 2026.

The report for the quarter ending June 2026 records this as the total of wireless and wireline connections, a rise of 1.31 per cent over the previous quarter and of 10.65 per cent over the same quarter a year earlier.

The Commission paired its foundation day function with this national conference, which was organised around two technical sessions, the first on the protection and restoration of water bodies and the second on protecting sources of drinking water so that access is safe and sustainable for all.

He said the Constitution's promises of dignity, equality, liberty and justice must be honoured in the lock-up, the hospital ward and the remotest village, and described a human rights commission as a lighthouse that cannot stop the waves of injustice but can guide those adrift in the darkness.

The National Human Rights Commission was set up on 12 October of that year, and the Commission therefore observes 12 October as its foundation day; this year it marked the 33rd such occasion at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, where it also held a national conference on the right to…

This is the declared theme of the ninth edition of the India-Brazil-South Africa Maritime Exercise, which aims at collective maritime security and at preparing the three navies to deal with challenges at sea.