UPSC GK Questions 2026

The 2015 amendment required a working toilet at home, no pending electricity bills and no default on cooperative loans, but its education rule was not the same for every category.

With no net force acting on it, the object keeps moving at the same speed in the same straight line.

Nereis, the clamworm, is an annelid, and annelids are bilaterally symmetrical: only one plane divides the body into identical left and right halves.

This ministry plans, promotes and coordinates India's environmental policy, so it deals with UNEP on India's behalf. UNEP was set up in 1972 after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm and has its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.

Sclerenchyma cells lay down thick walls hardened with lignin, and once the wall is complete the protoplasm dies. Sclerenchyma is the plant tissue that gives strength and rigidity.

She won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the first Olympic medal by an Indian woman.

General K. M. Cariappa took over as the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army on 15 January 1949. He succeeded General Sir Francis Butcher, the last British chief, and the day he took charge is celebrated every year as Army Day on 15 January.

PKVY was started to help farmers shift to chemical-free, organic cultivation. Paramparagat means traditional, and the scheme revives traditional, low-input farming.

A prokaryotic cell has no true nucleus, so its genetic material is not wrapped in a nuclear membrane. Bacteria and cyanobacteria are prokaryotes.

Prabha Atre was trained in and sang in the Kirana style of Hindustani classical music. Prabha Atre (1932-2024) of Pune learned from Sureshbabu Mane and Hirabai Barodekar, both disciples of Abdul Karim Khan, the founder of the Kirana gharana.

The Nirbhaya Fund is a non-lapsable corpus administered by the Department of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance. The fund was announced in the Union Budget of 2013-14 with an initial corpus of 1,000 crore rupees, after the December 2012 Delhi gang-rape case that shocked the country.

When a company quietly cuts the quantity in a pack but keeps the same price, the buyer pays more per unit; this hidden price rise is shrinkflation.

Hallucinations, most often hearing voices that others cannot hear, are a core symptom of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder in which a person loses touch with reality.

At the opening of Banaras Hindu University in February 1916, Gandhi criticised the elite for ignoring the poor and said India's salvation lay with its farmers.

The Surya Sukta (Rigveda X.85) describes the wedding of Surya, daughter of the Sun, and is the source of the Vedic marriage rites.

Tejas is India's indigenous single-engine light combat aircraft built for the Indian Air Force. The Light Combat Aircraft programme was started in the 1980s to replace the ageing MiG-21 fleet.

Agaricus is a mushroom, a fungus that feeds on dead and decaying organic matter, which is the saprophytic mode of nutrition.

Sowa-Rigpa, the traditional Tibetan system of medicine, was the last system to be officially recognised and added to AYUSH. AYUSH stands for Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa and Homoeopathy.

Phloem carries the sugars made in the leaves to every part of the plant that needs food. Phloem is a complex permanent tissue made of four kinds of cells: sieve tubes, companion cells, phloem parenchyma and phloem fibres.

First held in 1888, it is the oldest football tournament in Asia and one of the oldest in the world.