UPSC GK Questions 2026

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released the sub-sectoral trial Index of Services Production for the month in respect of nineteen broad sub-sectors, computed on the base year 2024-25.

Representatives of Gram Panchayat Sakaria said that villagers once depended on wells and tube wells, that every household now has a piped connection and Har Ghar Jal status has been achieved, that Jal Arpan was organised on 16 March 2026, and that drinking water service is supported by a user…

The Samvad is its platform for speaking directly to Gram Panchayat representatives, Village Water and Sanitation Committee members and villagers about keeping rural water supply schemes working.

The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, which works under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, organised the eleventh Sujal Gram Samvad as a virtual multilingual dialogue with Gram Panchayat representatives and village communities on operating and maintaining rural drinking water systems.

Operation Southern Readiness was conducted at Kochi while the Indian Navy held command of Combined Task Force-154 under the Combined Maritime Forces, and it brought together 276 personnel drawn from twenty-seven countries, along with 76 facilitators and subject-matter experts and four international organisations.

The Raksha Mantri called it an outstanding achievement that Indian-flagged merchant vessels, LPG tankers in particular, were given safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz under this operation during the crisis in West Asia.

Addressing the Naval Commanders' Conference, the Defence Minister described 2026 as a historic year for the Navy because the induction or commissioning of eighteen warships is planned, which would be the largest addition of ships in a single year in the force's history.

Water erosion of soil moves through a fixed sequence: raindrops first loosen the soil, that is splash erosion; the water then takes off a thin even layer of topsoil, which is sheet erosion; the flow soon gathers into small finger-like channels called rills; and when those rills are cut deeper…

The hepatitis B vaccine was the first vaccine made by recombinant DNA technology.

The ministry made this point while announcing the action against the two officials, because the pair had allegedly offered an association that it could get a pending registration cleared for a payment.

The correct answer is the Special Cell of the Delhi Police, which acted in coordination with central agencies after receiving specific information from the Ministry of Home Affairs and apprehended the two officials in New Delhi.

One of the two officials apprehended is presently posted there, and the other, now working in a Pay and Accounts Office, had served in the same division at an earlier point.

The VGPP framework identifies that many types of permissible works, spread over the four thematic areas of the mission. A Viksit Gram Panchayat Plan is prepared with the participation of the Gram Sabha, which also recommends and approves it.

The Act was passed in 2025 and was brought into force on that date, after which it was rolled out in every rural area of the country.

The law provides a statutory guarantee of wage employment for 125 days in every financial year, and the guarantee is available to every rural household whose adult members volunteer for unskilled manual work.

The campaign was announced to protect soil health and the environment, and scientists together with other stakeholders are to take part in it.

Punjab in option A stands at the other end of the list with Rs 43 crore, the smallest of the ten sanctions announced.

At the conference the Union Agriculture Minister handed financial sanction letters under PM-RKVY to the agriculture ministers of ten states, and the total came to more than Rs 1200 crore.

In the SDG India Index 2023-24, the fourth edition brought out by NITI Aayog in July 2024, the states' composite scores ran from 57 at the bottom to 79 at the top, with Uttarakhand and Kerala sharing the highest score of 79 and Bihar the lowest at 57.

A Lok Adalat works by bringing the two sides to a settlement, so it can only handle matters the parties are free to compromise.