UPSC GK Questions 2026

The Kothari Commission, which worked from 1964 to 1966, recommended the three language formula for schools, and the policy of 1968 later adopted it.

Insolation is the incoming solar radiation actually received by a unit area of the earth's surface, and how much of it a place receives decides how warm that place becomes.

The Shivir was conducted in hybrid mode, anchored from the national capital and held physically at participating locations, and more than 3,800 urban local bodies, rural local bodies and line departments took part in it.

A senior official of this ministry gave out the attendance and service figures for the Shivir and named the states whose municipal corporations organised health camps, namely Meghalaya, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala and Bihar.

Every other option is a real figure from the same Shivir attached to the wrong service, which is exactly how such a question is set.

SAMAR-SETU runs from the Central Agniveer Pay and Accounts Office and handles the pay accounts of more than 2.3 lakh Agniveers through fully automated processes, which is why work on it figured in the Raksha Mantri Awards for Excellence 2026.

The Treasury Single Account system, inaugurated for just-in-time release of funds to autonomous bodies under the Ministry of Defence, is fully integrated with RBI eKUBER.

The Raksha Mantri launched the department’s publications and digital initiatives at this celebration held at DRDO Bhawan in New Delhi, and he congratulated the department on nearly three centuries of service to the nation, which fits an edition in the high two hundreds.

The name of the event itself gives it away: in a 4x400m relay, four runners each cover one lap of 400 metres and pass the baton on to the next.

The relay bronze was won by a team of four: Dharmveer Chaudhary, Manu TS, Jay Kumar and Vishal TK.

The Indian quartet of Dharmveer Chaudhary, Manu TS, Jay Kumar and Vishal TK finished on the podium in third place in the men’s 4x400m relay, and the Prime Minister congratulated them on the bronze, praising the timing they clocked.

The Indian minister referred to the G20 Agricultural Market Information System, set up in that year, as one of the mechanisms already available to handle concerns about food and trade.

The ministers reached consensus on this document and expressed their intent to carry the cooperation forward.

The correct answer is Milwaukee, in the state of Wisconsin, and the meeting is hosted under the United States G20 Presidency.

The fund was created under the Indian Telegraph (Amendment) Act, 2003, and the Telecommunications Act, 2023 renamed it Digital Bharat Nidhi.

The project in Maharashtra will be implemented through MDIL, which is why it is one of the five parties to the agreement.

That is the financial support the Government of India has approved for running the Amended BharatNet Programme in Maharashtra under the state-led model, and the agreement signed at Sanchar Bhawan puts it into effect through MahaNet Digital Infrastructure Limited.

The scheme sets this administered price so that producers can see their revenue in advance, which was one of the sector’s long-standing complaints along with fragmented support and poor access to finance.

One of the main changes GOBARdhan brings is that a single ministry now anchors compressed biogas instead of the fragmented support the sector had before, and that ministry is Petroleum and Natural Gas.

The Union Cabinet cleared GOBARdhan on 6 August 2026 with this outlay, and the scheme gives the compressed biogas sector a ten-year framework running from FY 2026-27 to FY 2035-36.