UPSC GK Questions 2026

Every greenfield project under the transmission component of GEC-III goes through this route, with Transmission Service Providers taking part on a Build-Own-Operate-Maintain model, abbreviated BOOM.

The correct answer is Rs 1,86,405 crore, the full outlay approved for the scheme.

GEC-III strengthens the Intra-State Transmission System precisely so that renewable power of this scale can be moved from where it is generated into the grid inside states and union territories.

Wheat bought at the floor price over the years from 2014-15 to 2025-26 added up to that quantity.

The rabi price revision for marketing season 2027-28 was described as being in line with the announcement made in that Budget, which set the benchmark of fixing a floor price at no less than one and a half times the all-India weighted average cost of production.

The expected return over the all-India weighted average cost of production works out to 106 per cent for wheat, the highest among the six mandated rabi crops of the season.

For marketing season 2027-28 the floor price of safflower was raised by Rs 675 a quintal, the biggest rupee increase among the six mandated rabi crops.

The boat was tracked on intelligence, intercepted and boarded on the high seas, and then escorted under armed security to Mumbai along with its crew and the seized drugs.

The consignment included heroin and methamphetamine, which is why the value per kilogram is so high.

The Coast Guard put its ships and aircraft on the suspected boat, tracked it and boarded it on the high seas, while the state unit carried the case into arrest and investigation.

That pairing is also reflected in who hosted the outreach: Satish Chandra Dubey holds charge as Minister of State for Coal and Mines, and Rupinder Brar is Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Coal.

Representatives of diplomatic missions from nineteen countries joined the outreach interaction, among them Malawi, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, Algeria, the United States of America, Chile, Bhutan, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Russia, Iraq, Morocco, Venezuela, Spain, Poland, Mongolia, Zambia, France and Ghana, and the US Chamber of Commerce attended alongside them.

The venue and the three dates were both stated at the India Mining: Global Connect outreach meeting, where the Minister of State invited dignitaries to the opening on 15 November.

That equipment is why compound scores run so high and so close together, and why a single arrow off the centre normally decides a match.

The Prime Minister specifically noted that their performance matched the world mark, and said this was what made the gold even more special.

The correct answer is Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Prithika Pradeep and Chikitha Taniparthi, the trio whose shooting won the women’s compound team gold at the Asian Games 2026 and equalled the World Record in the process.

Trap is one of the shotgun events, in which clay targets are flung away from the shooter at speed and at shifting angles, leaving very little time to swing the gun on and fire.

Both firsts belong to the same result, which is why the Prime Minister described it as a memorable achievement for Indian shooting.

The correct answer is Neeru and Kynan Chenai, who took the top place in the Trap Mixed Team event at the Asian Games 2026 and set an Asian Record in the final while doing it.

The correct answer is 1.76 million livelihoods, which the study says the Ayush services sector directly supports, with more than a million of those jobs concentrated in local and standalone clinics.