UPSC GK Questions 2026

This is the rule laid down in Article 233 of the Constitution. Appointment, posting and promotion of district judges in a state are made by the Governor, who must consult the High Court that exercises jurisdiction over that state.

The Ninth Schedule was inserted by the Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1951, to shield land reform laws from being struck down by the courts.

It is trained for a single defined task and cannot transfer that skill to another; every system working today, from spam filters and voice assistants to chess engines and face recognition, is narrow AI.

Each word carries meaning: generative, because the model produces new text rather than only sorting what it is shown; pre-trained, because it first learns general language from a very large body of text before being adapted to particular tasks; and transformer, the neural network architecture, built on an attention mechanism…

The correct answer is B, NITI Aayog, which published the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in June 2018 under the slogan AI for All, and identified five priority sectors: healthcare, agriculture, education, smart cities and infrastructure, and smart mobility and transportation.

The correct answer is C, AlphaGo, built by DeepMind, which beat the South Korean Go champion Lee Sedol in a five-game match in 2016; the victory mattered because Go has far more possible positions than chess, so brute-force search alone cannot win and the program relied on deep neural networks…

The Cabinet decision of 7 March 2024 named this division as the implementing agency for all seven components of the mission.

The approved mission has seven components: IndiaAI Compute Capacity, the IndiaAI Innovation Centre, the IndiaAI Datasets Platform, the IndiaAI Application Development Initiative, IndiaAI FutureSkills, IndiaAI Startup Financing, and Safe and Trusted AI.

The Union Cabinet approved the IndiaAI Mission on 7 March 2024 with an outlay of 10,371.92 crore rupees, to be spent across its seven components, and the mission is run by the IndiaAI Independent Business Division under the Digital India Corporation in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

Here every training example carries the right answer, its label, and the model learns the mapping from input to label, which is how spam filters, handwriting readers and credit-scoring models are built.

Alan Turing set out the imitation game in his paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, published in 1950 in the journal Mind; a machine passes if a human judge, exchanging only typed messages, cannot tell it from a human being.

He coined the phrase artificial intelligence in the proposal for a summer research workshop held at Dartmouth College in 1956, and that conference is treated as the moment the subject was founded; McCarthy also created the LISP programming language and is commonly called the father of artificial intelligence.

The Bastar belt carries cassiterite, the primary ore of tin, and Chhattisgarh is the only state in the country from which primary tin ore is mined, which makes it a favourite one-line fact for objective papers.

The zamindar of Sonakhan opened grain stores for a famine stricken countryside during the revolt of 1857, was arrested for it, and was hanged at Raipur, which is why he is honoured as the first martyr of Chhattisgarh.

The Bhilai Steel Plant in Durg district was built with Soviet collaboration and began production in 1959; it is run today by the Steel Authority of India and is known above all for the long rails it supplies to Indian Railways.

She is the best known performer of Pandwani, the sung narration of the Mahabharata, which has two styles, Kapalik and Vedamati, and she carried the form from village gatherings to stages abroad; she has received the Padma Shri, the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Vibhushan.

The park is unusual because it protects limestone caves as well as forest: Kutumsar and Kailash are its best known caves, and it also holds the Tirathgarh waterfall on the Kanger river and the hill myna, the state bird.

The Bailadila range in Dantewada district holds some of the finest haematite iron ore in the world, mined by the National Mineral Development Corporation, and the name is said to come from the hump of an ox, which the range resembles.

Chitrakote Falls is in the Bastar region on the Indravati, a tributary of the Godavari, and its broad horseshoe curve, the widest fall in India, earns it the name Niagara of India.

When the state was formed in 2000 the High Court was established at Bilaspur, so the capital and the seat of the High Court are in different cities, a split the examiner likes.