UPSC GK Questions 2026

Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in The Social Contract (1762) that the English people are free only during the election of members of Parliament, and are slaves once the election is over.

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) is the oldest arm of the World Bank Group and the body people mean when they say 'World Bank'.

The workshop highlighted the integration of spatial information with the Gram Panchayat Development Plan process, with the eGramSwaraj platform and with this index as a means of making planning evidence-based and oriented towards convergence between departments and schemes.

He attended the inaugural session as the Guest of Honour and used his remarks to call for a move away from sector-wise planning towards a spatial approach, with greater weight given to human and social capital and to the building of local economic clusters.

Participants at the workshop discussed the constitutional foundation of panchayati raj under this amendment and under Part IX of the Constitution, which together give village level bodies their status, and the deliberations moved on from there to activity mapping, financial resources, staffing, decision-making powers, Gram Sabha participation and institutional accountability.

The workshop on connecting people, places, resources and opportunities through stronger panchayats was an initiative under this mission, and it was conducted in collaboration with the state institute of panchayat and rural development of the Government of Assam.

Gyroplanes are small aircraft whose operational capabilities suit short flights and specialised tasks, and carrying passengers over intercontinental distances is well outside what they are described as being fit for.

This is the defining characteristic of the gyroplane: the rotor above the aircraft is not driven by the engine but turns freely in the airflow, and that rotation produces the lift, while the forward thrust is supplied separately by a propeller.

It has issued the Civil Aviation Requirement prescribing the ground and flying training syllabus that a candidate must complete before a pilot licence in the gyroplane category is granted.

The five initiatives were face authentication for the electronic Public Distribution System, the SWIK Portal in its second version, the framework allowing smaller entities to use the authentication infrastructure of an existing agency, a token management system for visitors to state and regional offices, and the redesigned website of the…

The redesigned website of the authority supports that many languages at present, English and Hindi among them, using the BHASHINI language platform, and the stated plan is to extend the coverage to twenty three languages in the near future.

The three bodies together launched a consent-based and contactless face authentication option for the electronic Public Distribution System, giving beneficiaries an additional way to authenticate themselves in situations where fingerprint authentication may be difficult, and allowing States and Union Territories to fold the facility into their own ration distribution systems.

The day-long stakeholders conference named Aadhaar Samvaad was held there, it coincided with the seventeenth Aadhaar Day, and more than six hundred policy makers, industry leaders, technocrats and professionals took part in it.

That is the number of forest officers honoured at the fourth edition of the Eco Warrior Awards for exemplary contribution to environmental conservation, in addition to the Lifetime Achievement Award presented separately to a senior officer of the service.

The Special Projects Recognition at the fourth edition of the awards went to these two efforts for their contribution to the conservation of species and of habitat, the bustard project being the one running in Rajasthan.

It organises the Eco Warrior Awards and the Eco Warrior Conclave jointly with Indian Masterminds, and the fourth edition was held in New Delhi under the chairmanship of the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

He is an Indian Forest Service officer of the 1976 batch from the Karnataka cadre, and the Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to him by the Union Environment Minister in recognition of decades of work in forest and wildlife conservation, including efforts against sandalwood smuggling and against the activities of…

That is the exact combination of qualities the Prime Minister singled out in his congratulatory message on the women's Trap team silver, and it suits the event well, because a team score in Trap is the sum of the members' individual efforts and therefore depends on all three shooters holding…

Trap is one of the shotgun events in competitive shooting: the athlete fires at clay targets that are flung away from the firing stand at speed, and the discipline rewards quick reaction, steady aim and concentration held over a long series of shots.

These three shooters made up the Indian side that finished second in the women's Trap team competition at the Asian Games, and the Prime Minister congratulated them by name on the silver, praising their precision, focus and teamwork.