UPSC GK Questions 2026

Its Secretary, Smt Debashree Mukherjee, presented the Certificate of Recognition at a ceremony in Kaushal Bhawan at New Delhi, and the recognition is valid for three years.

The National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management sits in that city and is an autonomous organisation working under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, set up to strengthen the agricultural extension system of the country.

The release notes that the camp was conducted at the place the President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu, belongs to, in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, which added to the significance of the medical effort there.

Operation DRISHTI is its initiative to take specialised eye care and advanced medical treatment to parts of the country that are poorly served, and the camp at Rairangpur in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha was the twelfth such effort.

The camp run by the Armed Forces Medical Services at Rairangpur treated more than four thousand patients in all and carried out this many eye surgeries that restored sight, with every service given free of charge.

Kotak Mahindra Bank is described as a scheduled commercial bank licensed by the central bank to carry on banking business, with its equity share capital listed on both these exchanges.

The target business is precisely the retail banking and private banking segment together with the wealth management arm that the seller runs through its branches in India, and it is moving as a going concern on a slump sale basis.

The competition regulator cleared the proposed combination, which covers both the purchase of the target business and the related referral arrangements between affiliates of the two sides.

The Minister said that the number of people aged sixty and above in the country is projected to grow from roughly ten crore at the time of the last census year he cited to this figure by the middle of the next decade, and he used the projection to explain…

The campaign is built on five words beginning with the letter C, namely Connect, Converse, Co-create, Contribute and Continue, so options A, B and D are all genuine parts of it and cannot be the answer.

The campaign for intergenerational bonding was launched under this umbrella scheme of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, and the Union Minister described it as a meeting of the experience of elders and the energy of the young.

The Minister offered this as the principle that should steer cooperation across the Indo-Pacific, arguing that oceans ignore political boundaries and that marine pollution or a change in ocean temperature has effects far beyond the country where it begins.

The submersible of the Samudrayaan Mission is built to take three aquanauts down to depths between five and six thousand metres, and it is the vehicle behind the plan for a crewed Indian dive later this decade.

The Minister said India is progressing towards sending its first crewed deep-sea mission to a depth of as much as six thousand metres by that year, which he called an important milestone in an exploration programme built on indigenous capability.

The Raksha Mantri described the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in that year, as a workable framework that advances cooperation at sea across seven interconnected areas, and he urged participants to turn the ideas raised at the dialogue into partnerships, projects and results that can be…

The Raksha Mantri invoked this vision while reaffirming that India wants a maritime order that is open, inclusive and based on rules, and while stressing that the maritime future of the Indo-Pacific cannot be settled by any one country acting alone.

Rajnath Singh, as Defence Minister, gave the commemorative address at the dialogue in New Delhi and used it to argue that dependence among nations at sea should be made safer rather than abandoned, through diversified supply chains, dependable maritime infrastructure, better awareness of activity at sea and wider regional cooperation.

Under it, NITI Aayog and GIZ signed an Implementation Agreement on 3 November 2026 to accelerate the decarbonisation of road freight in India.

The agreement formalises collaboration among the project partners so that cutting emissions from the movement of goods by road moves faster, which is treated as an important part of India's transition to a transport system that is sustainable, energy-efficient and low in carbon.

The agreement was signed on 3 November 2026 under the Nationally Determined Contribution-Transport Initiative for Asia, Phase II, to speed up the decarbonisation of road freight in India, and the initiative itself is supported by the International Climate Initiative of the German Government.