UPSC GK Questions 2026

The two sailed together in the women's skiff event at the Asian Games and finished third for the bronze medal, and the Prime Minister congratulated both by name while noting that they had bettered India's previous performance in the event.

That is precisely what the word mixed means in the name of the event: a country is represented by a male and a female archer who shoot as one unit, their scores being added together, which is why the Indian silver in this event is credited to Dhiraj Bommadevara and…

Dhiraj Bommadevara and Kumkum Anil Mohod finished second in the recurve mixed team event, and the Prime Minister noted that the pair had given the country its first ever silver in this event at the Asian Games.

The two shot together in the recurve mixed team event at the Asian Games and finished with the silver medal, which is India's first in that event at these Games, and the Prime Minister congratulated both by name.

Recurve is one of the two bow types used in competitive archery, the other being the compound bow, and the recurve bow is the one used in Olympic archery, so a recurve team event is always an archery event.

India had never taken the gold in this archery event at the Asian Games before, and Ankita Bhakat, Kumkum Anil Mohod and Kirti ended that wait, which is why the Prime Minister described the win as historic and as a landmark for the sport.

The three of them shot together in the women's recurve team event at the Asian Games and brought India the gold medal, the country's first ever in that event, and the Prime Minister congratulated all three by name.

Article 165 of the Constitution provides for an Advocate General for each state as the first law officer of that state.

Nagabhata I founded the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty in the middle of the eighth century, with his power centred on Avanti and Ujjain in western India.

The municipal council there collects 300 to 350 kg of sanitary waste a day from hospitals, clinics, households and other premises, placed red bins inside public toilets, and worked with women residents to form awareness groups that carried the message through residential areas.

The structure built by the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation at Sector 14, Koparkhairane, uses 426 square metres of recycled plastic sheeting, which includes 5.3 metric tonnes of single-use plastic, and the builders also reused 85 repurposed computer keyboards and 284 kg of scrap metal.

It holds three Indian-style and two Western-style commodes, a sanitary napkin vending machine and an incinerator for menstrual hygiene, and a dedicated space where mothers can feed babies and change nappies, while its sensor lights run on solar power the facility itself generates.

The correct answer is 2 October 2014, the date from which the mission counts the twelve years it now completes.

The host state added a specific claim worth remembering: its Additional Chief Secretary for Finance said West Bengal has for the first time mapped its budget to the goal level of the Goals and has built the exercise into its Integrated Financial Management System.

The guide was taken up at the workshop as a working framework for aligning state budgets with the Goals, and the presence of the national auditor among its authors is the detail that gives the question its edge: tagging expenditure is not only a planning exercise but also one that…

Alongside these participants, the workshop drew senior officials from NITI Aayog, the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, the Controller General of Accounts, the Department of Public Enterprises and the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, as well as the United…

The correct answer is the State Support Mission, the initiative under which NITI Aayog works with states on planning and budgeting, and under which this workshop was held with the Government of West Bengal and technical support from the United Nations Development Programme.

The correct answer is more than 7000 MT worth about USD 22 million, shipped to more than twenty international destinations during that financial year.

The correct answer is Mundra Port, from which the shipment moves to the Piraeus Port in Greece.

Cultivation in the state is spread across more than thirty-five thousand hectares in ten districts.