UPSC GK Questions 2026

The Vice-President recalled that the institute was set up that year under Professor V. K. R. V. Rao and has stayed close to India’s development journey ever since; it hosts this conclave.

The conclave was organised on that theme by the Institute of Economic Growth, and the Vice-President used it to argue that economic resilience cannot be separated from social resilience, that inclusion is the foundation of resilience, and that no citizen, enterprise or region should be left behind.

BHARATPOL was launched then by the Union Home Minister to improve coordination, connectivity and information sharing between Indian and foreign law enforcement agencies.

That is the count the Ministry of Home Affairs gave for the period from 2019 up to August 2026, during which returning absconders was pursued as a national priority through global outreach, close coordination between agencies and diplomacy.

That was the false name under which the narco-trafficking kingpin secured citizenship of Türkiye, and behind it he continued sending heroin and methamphetamine into India from Afghanistan.

Navpreet Singh, named by the Ministry of Home Affairs as a hardened kingpin of the narcotics trade, had settled in Türkiye and taken Turkish nationality under the invented identity of Navab Virk.

Passed after the Revolt of 1857, this Act ended the rule of the East India Company and transferred the government of India to the Crown.

At Mehrgarh the excavators found the remains of square and rectangular houses built of hand-made mud bricks, each divided into small compartments that appear to have been used to store grain.

The Constitution (100th Amendment) Act was passed in 2015 and received the President's assent on 31 May 2015, when Pranab Mukherjee held the office; he was President from 2012 to 2017.

An aquifer is a body of rock or loose sediment that is both saturated with groundwater and permeable enough to let that water move freely, so a well sunk into it keeps yielding water.

Wood's Dispatch of 1854, sent by Charles Wood, the President of the Board of Control, is called the Magna Carta of English education in India, and both statements describe it correctly.

The Goods and Services Tax was announced for the first time in the Union Budget for 2006-07, presented by the then Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, who proposed 1 April 2010 as the date for rolling it out.

Most renewable sources depend on the weather, so the power they give is intermittent rather than steady. Solar panels make nothing at night and little under thick cloud, wind turbines stop when the wind drops, and hydropower falls away in a weak monsoon.

Two laws of 2011 did the work together: the Orissa (Alteration of Name) Act changed the name of the state to Odisha, and the Constitution (113th Amendment) Act changed Oriya to Odia in the Eighth Schedule, which lists the languages of India.

Odissi grew out of the temple dance of Odisha, from the Mahari tradition of women dancers in the Jagannath temple and the Gotipua tradition of boys dressed as girls dancing outside it, and its sculptural poses echo the carvings of Konark and Bhubaneswar.

The Sukinda valley in the Jajpur district holds the bulk of India chromite, the ore of chromium used in stainless steel and in chrome plating, and the belt is the reason India figures at all in world chromite output.

The Gahirmatha coast of the Kendrapara district, a marine sanctuary adjoining Bhitarkanika, holds the largest known nesting ground of the Olive Ridley sea turtle, where lakhs of females come ashore together in the mass nesting called arribada.

Rourkela, in the Sundargarh district, was built with West German collaboration under the Second Five Year Plan and was the first integrated steel plant set up in the public sector in India.

Deomali, in the Koraput district of southern Odisha, rises to about one thousand six hundred and seventy two metres and is the highest point in the state.

Hirakud was built across the Mahanadi above Sambalpur, work beginning in 1947 and the project being dedicated in 1957, and it stands as independent India first major multipurpose river valley project.