UPSC GK Questions 2026

Upholding and protecting the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India is listed as a duty of every citizen, so the provision sits among the Fundamental Duties and not in any other part.

All four of these countries sit in the G20, so this is the only group in which no name falls outside the forum.

The Tenth Schedule carries the anti-defection provisions, so a legislator who deserts the party on whose ticket he or she was elected can be disqualified under it.

Mehrgarh, on the Bolan river in the Kachi plain of Baluchistan, is the earliest known farming village in the Indian subcontinent, occupied from about 7000 BCE.

When the British left in 1947, India had, besides the provinces under direct British rule, about 565 princely states whose rulers had accepted British paramountcy.

Fly ash is the fine, powdery residue that rises with the flue gases when pulverised coal is burnt to raise steam in a coal-fired power station.

The correct answer is Monika Juma, named as the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, met by the minister to discuss cooperation against narcotics and organised crime and stronger legal and judicial partnerships.

The correct answer is the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, the three laws the minister described as built around technology, faster justice, forensic investigation and digital-first procedures.

The correct answer is Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, where the Congress is being held and where the Indian minister also met the UAE Justice Minister on the sidelines.

The announcement notes that with the valley complete, the drive has now reached the northern, western, eastern and central regions of the country, so the next stop continues a mapped spread rather than a random choice.

Tangdhar lies in a sensitive sector along the Line of Control, and taking cataract, glaucoma and retinal surgery there meant working below ground, where 220 operations were completed over two days.

The correct answer is 364, the total across the two mega camps of the valley.

The correct answer is New Medicines, which took 27 of the 41 approved projects.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, which houses the Department of Pharmaceuticals, and it is that department which announced the approvals under PRIP.

That is the assistance the Department of Pharmaceuticals committed to the 41 projects cleared in the first call of the scheme.

The correct answer is the Commission for Air Quality Management, usually written as CAQM, which the ministry named as the body coordinating work with the agencies concerned.

A daily average below 200 falls in the moderate category, and the nine months of the current year gave 194 such days, the most in the five-year comparison.

The Environment Ministry placed the September average for Delhi at 102, and set it against 105 in 2025, 105 in 2024, 108 in 2023 and 104 in 2022, which makes it the lowest September reading across those five years.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and the guidelines were released by its minister, Bhupender Yadav, in New Delhi.

That is the geography named for the mission, and it matches the shape of the Indian coastline, where the shore runs through nine states and a set of island and coastal Union Territories.