UPSC GK Questions 2026

While explaining how mobile-based governance plugged leakages, the Prime Minister said that money sent to beneficiaries now reaches the right person, and he singled out the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi as having placed more than four lakh crore rupees with small and marginal farmers who earlier saw little of such…

The Prime Minister took up the theme directly and told delegates that India's own experience shows what scaling without limits means in practice, citing 5G reaching every district from over 5.5 lakh base stations and the spread of affordable data and devices.

The tenth edition of the India Mobile Congress was inaugurated there by the Prime Minister, before an audience of telecom operators, industry leaders, academics and startups from India and abroad.

The India Mobile Congress completed ten years with this edition, which the Prime Minister opened at Yashobhoomi in New Delhi on 8 October 2026, and he described the tenth anniversary of the platform as running in parallel with the hosting of a GSMA Board meeting in the country.

The subsidy applies to new and existing SC/ST-owned micro and small enterprises investing in plant, machinery and equipment through institutional credit, and it covers both manufacturing and service units without restriction by product or sector.

Central Ministries, Departments and Central Public Sector Enterprises are required to procure 25 per cent of their annual purchases from micro and small enterprises, and within that requirement 4 per cent of total procurement is earmarked for enterprises owned by Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe entrepreneurs.

The figure matters because it marks a rise of nearly 39 times over the Rs 99.37 crore recorded in 2015-16, which is option A and therefore the starting point rather than the latest number.

The National SC-ST Hub was launched on 18 October 2016 and is implemented through NSIC, which also runs the Single Point Registration Scheme that gives registered micro and small enterprises free tender sets and exemption from Earnest Money Deposit.

Speaking at the Plenary Discussion on Political Landing Zones and Outcomes, he said the intensifying impacts of climate change demand a move beyond rhetoric towards implementation and convergence, and that the ground shared among Parties was far greater than their divisions.

India welcomed the inclusion of Article 9.1 on the provisional agenda, describing it as a vital formal opportunity to address the matching of finance to what countries actually need.

The annual UN Climate Change Conference, COP31, is to be held in Antalya in November, and the Pre-COP held weeks earlier was the preparatory meeting leading up to it.

The Pre-COP31 meeting was convened in Nadi, Fiji, and it was there that Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav addressed the Plenary Discussion on Political Landing Zones and Outcomes and asked the Parties for greater flexibility, pragmatism and mutual respect.

That is the estimated size of the Ayush services economy in FY2024-25, after growth at a 16.91 per cent compound annual rate since FY2022-23, and it is the base from which the sector is projected to reach US$216-318 billion by 2047.

The Ayush Service Sector Report is a study by RIS and was brought out on Ayurveda Day 2026.

They remain the biggest revenue-generating segment of the Ayush services sector, bringing in an estimated US$16.21 billion, which works out to 43.9 per cent of the sector's revenue.

The assessment of the Ayush services sector puts the share of women in the sector's total workforce at 43 per cent, and notes that the share rises past half in several organised segments.

The Ministry of Communications said the telecom licences for Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite services were granted for satellite communications based on non-geosynchronous satellite orbit.

The Ministry of Communications explained that every satellite communication licensee is required under the terms and conditions of its licence to show that it meets the security conditions, the purpose being to ensure that the services provided satisfy security requirements and keep all users and their data safe.

The Ministry of Communications stated that telecom licences have been granted to three Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite operators whose services rest on non-geosynchronous satellite orbits, and that all three are at broadly the same regulatory stage because the security assessment of each is still in progress.

UNEP was created by the General Assembly in 1972 following the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, and its headquarters at Nairobi made it the first United Nations body to be seated in a developing country, a point examiners like.