UPSC GK Questions 2026

The Ministry of Rural Development is holding the fair at Punnami Ghat in that city, working with the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty of Andhra Pradesh, and this is the first time the National SARAS Mela has been staged outside Delhi and the National Capital Region.

Pushkar Singh Dhami, who holds that office, flagged in the seventeen-member team at a ceremony in Dehradun, praising the exceptional grit and endurance of the climbers and describing the achievement as an example of courage and a matter of national pride.

The correct answer is that the Everest attempt is planned during the force's Swarnim Jayanti, the golden jubilee, in the year given in option A. The Mount Mukut climb was the fifth and concluding phase of an eighteen-month preparatory programme built around that goal, and the operational experience and lessons…

The seventeen-member Coast Guard team climbed Mount Mukut under the expert guidance of that institute, and the climb formed the fifth and final phase of a preparatory programme that ran for eighteen months.

A team of seventeen climbers of the Indian Coast Guard reached the summit of Mount Mukut at that height on 7 October 2026, working through extreme weather on the way up.

Cooperation under the Council rests on three instruments: the India-UK Research and Innovation Memorandum of Understanding in option A, the Technology Security Initiative in option B, and India-UK Vision 2035 in option C. These provide the foundation on which research institutions, universities, industry and innovators work together, with attention to…

This collaboration supports joint industrial research and development aimed at creating new intellectual property, technologies, processes and prototypes, and eight projects have been agreed for support in areas including advanced manufacturing, power electronics and net-zero technologies.

The centre is named BRIC-CDFD-ONT India Genomics Centre of Excellence, and the letters ONT stand for that company, whose Chief Financial Officer attended the opening.

The Council met in New Delhi with Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State with Independent Charge for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, on the Indian side and Jonathan Reynolds, the British Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Trade, on the other.

Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, who holds that appointment, presided over the ceremony at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai, which falls within the area of the Western Naval Command.

Mangrol is a coastal town and a well known fishing harbour in the Junagadh district of Gujarat, and the warship carries its name.

INS Mangrol, with pennant number P82, is the third Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft of that class to enter service with the Indian Navy.

The ship was designed in India and constructed by that yard, and it carries more than 80 per cent indigenous content, which the Navy cites as evidence of India's own strength in warship design, construction and systems integration.

The equation v = u + at has the form y = c + mx, so the graph is a straight line that cuts the velocity axis at u and has slope a. On a velocity-time graph, time is on the x-axis and velocity on the y-axis.

The apical meristem at the tip of the stem and root makes new cells that increase the plant's length, so damage to it stops growth in length.

Marsilea is a water fern, a pteridophyte, and pteridophytes are the first land plants with true vascular tissues, xylem and phloem.

The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin launched the world's first Five Year Plan in 1928. The first Soviet plan, for 1928 to 1932, set targets for rapid industrial growth and collectivised agriculture, with the state deciding what to produce.

An LED is a p-n junction diode that gives out light when current flows through it in the forward direction.

Groundwater is fed by rain that soaks into the ground, so how far a place lies from the coast does not by itself decide how much groundwater it has.

By Coulomb's law the force F = kq₁q₂/r² comes out positive, meaning repulsive, whenever the two charges have the same sign.