UPSC GK Questions 2026

The drive assessed visible road dust and the effectiveness of road cleaning and sweeping along the Ring Road.

Four flying squad teams set up by the Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas inspected twenty five road stretches of the Inner and Outer Ring Road, together covering about thirty five kilometres, all of them under the Public Works Department of Delhi.

The correct answer is the Governor of Punjab, Gulab Chand Kataria, who attended the ceremony at Vigyan Bhawan.

The correct answer is K. C. Jain, who was given the Jain Samaj Ratna Award by the Vice-President at the ceremony in New Delhi.

The ceremony, organised by the Bhagwan Mahavir Memorial Committee along with Jain Mahasabha Delhi, was held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, and the Vice-President described the occasion as a celebration of the universal values of forgiveness, friendship, non-violence and inner purification.

The correct answer is C. S. Pawan Chandak, who is the President of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and was present at the Foundation Day celebrations at Bharat Mandapam.

The Vice-President released this calendar at the Foundation Day function and welcomed the institute's work for micro, small and medium enterprises and for start-ups, including the ICSI MSME and Start-up Catalyst.

Its 58th Foundation Day was celebrated at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, and the Vice-President addressed the gathering, praising the institute for nearly six decades of work in strengthening transparent, ethical and inclusive corporate governance.

The Union Rural Development Minister announced at Burripalem that the national Saras Mela, a fair of self help group products, will be held in Andhra Pradesh on 15 October, and that this is the first time in the country's history that the fair moves out of Delhi.

The Centre pays Rs 6,000 a year to eligible farmers under the PM-KISAN Samman Nidhi, and the Andhra Pradesh government adds Rs 14,000 a year under its own Annadata Sukhibhava scheme, so a farmer in the state gets twenty thousand rupees in a year.

The foundation stone of the country's first housing project built with 3D concrete printing was laid at Burripalem and Obulnaidupalem in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh.

Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan handed Andhra Pradesh a sanction of three lakh permanent houses, costing Rs 3,600 crore, at Burripalem village in Guntur district, with Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu present.

Across the sixteen Pension Adalats held before the present one, 20,676 of 28,797 grievances were closed on the spot, which works out to a success rate of 71.79 per cent.

The Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare introduced Pension Adalats in 2017 as an alternative way of settling complicated and long-pending pension complaints of central government pensioners.

The 17th Pension Adalat is thematic and lists 897 long-pending grievances belonging only to super-senior pensioners and family pensioners. These complaints relate to 24 ministries and departments and were lodged on the CPENGRAMS portal, the online grievance system for central government pensioners.

The 17th Pension Adalat is being held under the chairmanship of the Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Dr. Jitendra Singh, at the T. N. Chaturvedi Memorial Hall of the Indian Institute of Public Administration in New Delhi on 5 October 2026.

Pit houses dug into the ground with steps leading down into them were found at Burzahom, a neolithic site near Srinagar in Kashmir.

Panchsheel is the name given to the five principles that guide India's conduct towards other countries. The five are mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence.

Chola inscriptions use the word shalabhoga for land set apart to maintain a school. The Cholas, who ruled from Thanjavur between the ninth and the thirteenth centuries, left hundreds of inscriptions on temple walls recording grants of land, and each kind of grant carried its own name.

The Supreme Court set up in 1774 sat at Fort William in Calcutta, the city now called Kolkata. It was created by the Regulating Act of 1773, the first British law to take direct notice of the Company's rule in India.