UPSC GK Questions 2026

The Joint Committee has eight sub-committees, and three of them held hybrid meetings on the margins of the 15th round in Jakarta.

ASEAN hosted the 15th Joint Committee of the ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement there from 6 to 9 October 2026, along with meetings of sub-committees, and the round was conducted in hybrid format.

The Ministry of Coal reported that the rate at which coal stocks at power stations were being drawn down slowed sharply, with the daily drawdown dropping by more than half from 0.243 MT a day in September to 0.116 MT a day in October.

Rail loading of coal has averaged more than 465 rakes a day during October, and the ministry noted that the 470-rake target was met on three days running, which it treated as a sign that logistics had strengthened alongside production.

The Ministry of Coal said that daily supplies of coal to the power sector have climbed roughly 36% from the low point reached in September, and that the October average is around 9% higher than the September average.

GIC, the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, and Temasek Holdings are the two Singaporean institutional investors named as having significant investments spread across the Indian economy, and the Union Finance Minister is to hold separate meetings with the chief executives of both.

During her official visit the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs is to call on him as part of a set of high level engagements with the country’s leadership.

That is the cumulative figure for foreign direct investment flowing from Singapore into India over the period from April 2000 to March 2026, and it is the number behind the description of Singapore as India’s single largest source of such investment.

The city state is India’s largest source of foreign direct investment, with cumulative inflows of roughly USD 194.68 billion between April 2000 and March 2026, and its institutional investors, among them GIC and Temasek, hold significant positions across the Indian economy.

Padmini Singla, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Textiles, named these two while explaining how India is working on better yields, better fibre quality and traceability of the crop, and she set them beside investment in textile infrastructure and support for artisans and small firms.

The correct answer is Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, who opened the event, recalled Mahatma Gandhi’s linking of cotton and the spinning wheel with self-reliance and the freedom struggle, and set out four priorities: the livelihoods of growers, value addition and market access, sustainability, and…

It is by this resolution that the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 7 October as World Cotton Day, giving the observance its formal standing in the United Nations calendar and tying it to the role of the crop in trade, in development and in reducing poverty in the poorest cotton-growing…

The United Nations General Assembly set aside this date as World Cotton Day through resolution 75/318, and the observance draws attention to the place of cotton in economic development, in international trade and in the fight against poverty, particularly in developing and least developed countries.

Under the food labelling rules a non-vegetarian article must carry a brown filled triangle within a brown square outline, while a vegetarian article carries a green filled circle within a green square outline.

The Central Agmark Laboratory at Nagpur is the apex laboratory for the Agmark scheme; it analyses samples, settles disputed results and keeps the standard methods, while regional Agmark laboratories do routine testing elsewhere in the country.

World Standards Day is observed on 14 October to mark the day in 1946 on which delegates from twenty-five countries met in London and agreed to create an international standards organisation, which became the International Organization for Standardization, founded in 1947 with its headquarters at Geneva.

The Bureau of Energy Efficiency was set up on 1 March 2002 under that Act and works under the Ministry of Power; its Standards and Labelling programme gives appliances a rating from one star to five stars, where more stars mean less electricity consumed for the same service.

The Silk Mark is issued by the Silk Mark Organisation of India, launched in 2004, which is a society set up by the Central Silk Board under the Ministry of Textiles; the Board itself was constituted in 1949 and has its headquarters at Bengaluru.

The Eco Mark scheme was notified in 1991 for consumer products that cause the least harm to the environment over their life, and the earthen pitcher was chosen as the symbol because it is made from a renewable material, is produced without generating waste, uses little energy and is wholly…

The Authority was created by the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, was established in 2008 and works under that Ministry with its headquarters at New Delhi, because food safety is treated as a public health matter.