UPSC GK Questions 2026

The Sultan of Gujarat let the Portuguese take Diu in return for their help against the Mughal emperor Humayun. By the Treaty of Bassein (1534) Bahadur Shah handed Bassein to the Portuguese, and in 1535, with Humayun invading Gujarat, he allowed them to build a fort at Diu.

This Act turned the Governor-General of Bengal into the Governor-General of India, with full civil and military powers over all British territory in India.

Article 85 lets the President summon each House 'at such time and place as he thinks fit', and no article fixes a minimum number of sitting days.

It was passed in 1951 to undo court rulings that had used Fundamental Rights to strike down land reform and other laws.

Prohibition is issued by a higher court to a lower court or tribunal to stop it from acting beyond its jurisdiction.

As the oldest member, he chaired the Constituent Assembly as its temporary President at its first sitting. The Assembly first met on 9 December 1946 in the Constitution Hall, now the Central Hall of Parliament, and Sinha took the chair following the French practice of letting the senior-most member preside.

Since 1978 property is a constitutional right under Article 300A, and it protects every person, not only citizens.

The Supreme Court has read privacy into the right to life and personal liberty. In Justice K.S.

The motto of the National Cadet Corps is Unity and Discipline, in Hindi Ekta aur Anushasan. The NCC was set up in 1948 under the National Cadet Corps Act, 1948, and works under the Ministry of Defence with its headquarters in New Delhi.

It is the only such force whose administrative control lies with the Ministry of Home Affairs while its operational control lies with the Indian Army.

The Kyoto Protocol, adopted at Kyoto, Japan on 11 December 1997 under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, was the first treaty to set binding targets for cutting emissions.

Statement 1 is true and statement 2 is false. Race to Zero is a global campaign backed by the United Nations and launched in 2020, ahead of the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow.

Roasting means heating a sulphide ore strongly in plenty of air, so that the sulphide turns into an oxide and the sulphur escapes as sulphur dioxide gas.

Kwashiorkor is caused by a severe lack of protein in the diet, even when the child gets some calories from starchy food.

Mature red blood cells, or erythrocytes, lose their nucleus before they enter the blood. Losing the nucleus, and the mitochondria too, leaves more room for haemoglobin, the iron-rich protein that carries oxygen, and gives the cell its flexible biconcave disc shape, which lets it squeeze through narrow capillaries.

It is the main growth inhibitor among plant hormones and works against the growth promoters.

For a lens, magnification m is the image height divided by the object height, which also equals v divided by u. A plus sign means the image is erect and virtual, and a value of 2 means it is twice as tall as the object.

It is the advance grant the Lok Sabha makes so that the government can keep spending from 1 April until the full budget is passed.

A unicorn is a startup that is not listed on the stock market and is valued at more than one billion US dollars.

The expert group headed by Suresh Tendulkar, which reported in 2009, recommended measuring poverty through MPCE on the Mixed Reference Period.