UPSC GK Questions 2026

The SETU NSP App brings scholarship services onto a single platform, and lending has nothing to do with the Pre-Matric and Post-Matric Scholarships it serves.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, through its Department of Social Justice and Empowerment, which launched the app in April 2026.

The app carries this name together with the National Scholarship Portal and belongs to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, serving beneficiaries of the Pre-Matric and Post-Matric Scholarships for Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes.

Phase-II follows the two-year Phase-I pilot and is designed to test the methods in varied conditions so that region-specific Standard Operating Procedures can be established.

For decades these two have been the mainstay of post-harvest pest control in the country’s grain reserves, and their widespread, repeated use is what pushed pest resistance to 72 to 100 per cent in key states while raising fumigation cycles and costs.

The correct answer is ICAR-CIPHET, Ludhiana, the Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology, which will carry out the two-year Phase-I of the project on alternatives to chemical fumigation in wheat and rice.

Trishakti Manthan was the event organised as part of the Silver Jubilee, featuring addresses by the Chief of Defence Staff and by the Chief of Integrated Defence Staff, and it is not described as a standing institutional mechanism of the kind listed in the other options.

Under this theme HQ IDS organised Trishakti Manthan, released a Silver Jubilee Book and a film on its milestones, and conferred CDS Unit Citations on personnel.

HQ IDS was established in New Delhi on that date, and the day is observed every year as Tri-Service Day; the organisation therefore completed 25 years and celebrated its Silver Jubilee under the theme of future readiness through jointness and integration.

The correct answer is Keshav Chandra, Secretary, Ministry of Mines, who launched the auction virtually for the grant of a Composite Licence.

Both blocks are described as holding deposits of this kind, and they host cobalt, nickel, manganese, copper and rare earth elements, which are needed for advanced manufacturing, clean energy technology, electric mobility and electronics.

The Ministry of Mines offered Sewell Rise-01, in the southern part of Sewell Rise, and West Sewell Ridge-01, which lies off Great Nicobar Island, and both blocks sit in the Andaman Sea.

Earlier guidelines made annual renewal compulsory; the new framework sets validity by the recorded percentage of disability so that beneficiaries are spared repeated formalities.

The ministry announced the revision and stated that the new guidelines would come into force from that date, covering both the issuance and the renewal of exempted FASTags for eligible Divyangjan and persons with disabilities.

The revised framework of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways ties the validity of an exempted FASTag to the percentage of disability on record, and the higher slab of 70 to 100 per cent carries a validity of five years.

Prince Noble and Manu Francis stood second in the Men’s Skiff for the silver, while Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru won the Men’s Compound Individual bronze medal match.

Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru came through the Men’s Compound Individual bronze medal match at the Asian Games, and the Prime Minister praised him for accuracy under pressure, for his composure and for an unyielding spirit, saying he had brought the country great credit.

The two of them finished second in the Men’s Skiff event at the Asian Games 2026 and took the silver medal, and the Prime Minister congratulated them on a result he said was built on skill and determination, adding that they had bettered their previous performances to reach the podium…

The Traditional Knowledge Digital Library was created by the Government of India through a collaboration between CSIR and that ministry, which is the natural partner because the database records the formulations and practices of the Indian systems of medicine, that is Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Sowa Rigpa, along with Yoga.

The Traditional Knowledge Digital Library is at present open to that many international patent offices, and each of them gets access through a non-disclosure agreement, so the knowledge is used for examining patent claims without being published.