UPSC GK Questions 2026

The agreement at Sanchar Bhawan was a three-way one: Digital Bharat Nidhi under the Department of Telecommunications, the Government of Tamil Nadu, and TANFINET, which is the state agency that will carry the work on the ground under the state-led model.

The Union Cabinet approved the Amended BharatNet Programme on that day, with the stated aim of upgrading, consolidating and expanding the BharatNet network already laid, so that every gram panchayat and, on a demand basis, every village gets robust and future-ready broadband.

Digital Bharat Nidhi is that fund under a new name. It was set up under the Indian Telegraph (Amendment) Act of 2003, and the Telecommunications Act of 2023 rechristened it Digital Bharat Nidhi.

The utilisation agreement signed at Sanchar Bhawan in New Delhi carries two separate commitments for Tamil Nadu: subsidy support for more than five lakh fibre connections reaching rural homes, and connectivity on a demand basis for 4,767 villages so that the remaining last-mile gaps in the state are closed.

The correct answer is Reliance Jio, whose average download speed on that route was 209.11 Mbps.

That stretch in Kurnool district, taking in Adoni, Mantralayam and the areas around them, was driven on 17 and 18 September 2026 with six hotspot locations along the way.

Both legs of the drive test, the city drive around Hyderabad and the longer stretch across Adoni, Mantralayam and nearby areas in Kurnool district, were reported under that service area, and the work was supervised by the regional office of the regulator at Hyderabad.

A drive test measures service quality on the ground, not the commercial performance of an operator, so revenue per subscriber has no place in it.

On the Leh city drive route the average download speed was recorded as 267.13 Mbps for Reliance Jio on its 5G network, ahead of 121.65 Mbps for Airtel on 5G and 8 Mbps for BSNL on 4G. Option A is wrong because Airtel came second on this route, and option…

The drive test covered Leh and the routes around it, including the stretches towards Nubra Valley and Pangong and the road from Sakti to Sangam, and these fall in that service area for telecom licensing purposes.

TRAI invited written comments from stakeholders up to that date, preferably in electronic form, addressed to the Advisor for Networks, Spectrum and Licensing, Akhilesh Kumar Trivedi, who is also the officer to be approached for clarification.

The India AI Governance Guidelines, released by the Government of India in February 2026, rest on seven guiding sutras: Trust is the Foundation, People First, Innovation over Restraint, Fairness and Equity, Accountability, Understandable by Design, and Safety, Resilience and Sustainability.

The regulator, which works under the Ministry of Communications, placed the draft on its own website and invited written comments from stakeholders so that artificial intelligence is applied in a consistent and responsible way across telecom networks and services.

The Vice-President released this book at the Golden Jubilee celebrations and also unveiled a Golden Jubilee commemorative postage stamp along with a postal cover, marking the completion of fifty years by the institution as a deemed to be university.

He was one of three people on whom honorary doctorates were conferred at the convocation; the other two were Thavathiru Kundrakudi Ponnambala Adigalar, a spiritual leader and Tamil scholar, and Professor S. S. M. Sundaram, an academician.

The Gandhigram Rural Institute, a deemed to be university, stands at Dindigul in Tamil Nadu, and it was there that the Golden Jubilee celebrations and the thirty-ninth convocation were held with the Vice-President as chief guest.

Two train services were started from the Banaskantha event, this express and the Mehsana-Becharaji-Sabarmati MEMU service, while foundation stones were laid the same day for extensions of the Ahmedabad Metro towards GIFT City and the airport, and the Ahmedabad-Mehsana highway was announced for widening from four lanes to eight lanes.

The research centre at Banaskantha works under the Rashtriya Gokul Mission on the conservation and scientific breeding of indigenous animals, and it is the first facility of its kind in the country for the Kankrej breed.

Foundation stones were laid, inaugurations were made and projects were dedicated to the nation at Banaskantha for that combined value, and the list ran from a dairy research centre and two bio-CNG plants to two train services, metro rail extensions, a highway widening and thousands of Anganwadi centres.

The Union Cabinet approved the continuation of the scheme from 2026-27 to 2030-31 in July 2026 with that outlay, which secures assured income support for landholding farmer families for a further five-year stretch.