UPSC GK Questions 2026

The meeting is hosted by the Institute of Nano Medical Sciences of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Delhi, which is why the capital is the venue.

The Home Minister said the railways burnt 293 crore litres of diesel in 2015-16 and that the quantity had come down to 108 crore litres by 2024-25, a fall he linked to the spread of electric traction and one he felt received little notice.

The engine put into service at Sabarmati is a twin-section machine of that rating, and it can pull on its own a load that would otherwise need roughly 600 trucks.

The correct answer is Rs 1,472 crore, the combined worth of the works opened and the foundation stones laid at Sabarmati on the day the first LNG-powered train was flagged off.

The first train in India to run on liquefied natural gas was sent on its way from Sabarmati Railway Station in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, by the Union Home and Cooperation Minister, who described the step as useful for protecting the environment.

He founded the Suryavamsi Gajapati dynasty of Odisha in 1435. Kapilendra Deva was a minister who took the throne when the Eastern Ganga line ended, and he built the largest empire Odisha ever had, stretching from the lower Ganga in the north to the Kaveri in the south.

Ranmale is a folk theatre of Goa, performed mainly in the Sattari and Sanguem areas. It is staged at night in the open during the Shigmo festival and around Holi, in front of a village temple.

The Bahmani buildings at Gulbarga belong to the Deccan or Provincial style of Indo-Islamic architecture. When the Bahmani sultanate broke away from Delhi in 1347 it developed its own manner, blending Persian and Turkish ideas brought by architects from Iran with local craft and stone.

The Representation of the People Act was passed in 1951, before the first general election. Parliament made two laws under Articles 327 and 328.

Tholu Bommalata is the leather shadow puppet theatre of Andhra Pradesh. The name means the dance of leather dolls.

The Narmada Bachao Andolan grew up against the Sardar Sarovar dam on the Narmada. The movement began in 1985 under Medha Patkar, with Baba Amte and others joining later.

It lays down the composition of a state's Legislative Council. Under Article 171 the Council cannot have more than one third of the strength of the Legislative Assembly and never fewer than forty members.

It was started in Calcutta in 1780 and was the first printed newspaper in India. James Augustus Hicky brought it out as a weekly and called it the Bengal Gazette or Calcutta General Advertiser.

Gulbarga was renamed Ahsanabad and made the first capital of the Bahmani kingdom. The Bahmani sultanate was founded in 1347 by Alauddin Hasan Bahman Shah, also called Hasan Gangu, after Deccan nobles revolted against Muhammad bin Tughlaq.

The Janata Party government led by Morarji Desai set up the Second Backward Classes Commission in 1978.

Expanding exports, drawing in investment and gaining easier access to markets abroad were all described as contributions towards that goal for Uttar Pradesh.

Greater Noida also figures in the speech for another reason worth remembering, the expansion of a large robotics manufacturing facility there, which the Minister offered as an illustration of modern industrial growth in the state.

The state's annual exports stand at roughly Rs 2 lakh crore at present, and the stated goal is to take that figure to Rs 5 lakh crore by 2030, which means more than doubling the value of goods sold abroad.

The purpose is twofold: the armed forces get their missiles delivered on time, and DRDO is freed to concentrate on research and development while industry takes up the production load.

The comparison the Minister drew is the part worth memorising: the same allocation stood at around Rs 2.53 lakh crore in 2013-14, which makes option A a real figure but from the wrong year, and therefore the most attractive distractor in the set.