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What is the base year of India's updated series of annual and quarterly GDP estimates?
The backgrounder states that the updated series of annual and quarterly GDP estimates, released on 31 August 2026, takes 2022-23 as its base year.
Read the full explanation →At which technology readiness level does the RDI Fund extend support, as stated by the Minister?
Speaking about what lies ahead, the Minister noted that the RDI Fund is offering support at a later stage, at the TRL4 level, and that the Technology Development Board was the first to roll out its proposals under the fund.
Read the full explanation →According to the Minister, what share of India's start-ups comes from smaller towns?
The Minister said start-ups are not confined to Bengaluru or Hyderabad and that more than 50 per cent of them come from smaller towns, a figure he used while asking for prevailing myths about entrepreneurship to be dispelled.
Read the full explanation →Dr Jitendra Singh spoke about the RDI Fund at the Foundation Day of which body?
The board was created so that technologies would not remain confined to laboratories but would be translated into products, solutions and enterprises that bring ease of living, provide livelihoods and add to the economy of the country.
Read the full explanation →What is the corpus of the Research, Development and Innovation Fund?
The release refers throughout to the ₹1 lakh crore Research, Development and Innovation Fund, and it is the size of that corpus that makes the Minister's appeal for outreach necessary: thousands of applications are arriving, some from applicants who do not appear to understand what the fund is for.
Read the full explanation →What is the length of India's coastline as quoted by the Minister at the launch?
In his video message the Minister said India has one of the longest stretches of coastal area in the world, spanning more than that distance and extending from the eastern to the western parts of the country, and he used the figure to explain why a week-long national drive is…
Read the full explanation →What is the new national event introduced in this edition of the campaign?
It is aimed at students and young people and is meant to build awareness of the environment; citizens can register for it and test their knowledge of the seas.
Read the full explanation →Which ministry runs the Swachh Sagar, Surakshit Sagar campaign?
The campaign is spearheaded by that ministry, and the minister who launched it, Dr Jitendra Singh, holds Earth Sciences as Minister of State with Independent Charge.
Read the full explanation →Which edition of Swachh Sagar, Surakshit Sagar was launched on 1 September 2026?
The release says the campaign builds on its success over the last four years, which is the internal check an aspirant can apply: four earlier editions plus the one being launched makes this the fifth.
Read the full explanation →When was PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana launched by the Prime Minister?
The correct answer is 11 October 2025, the day the Prime Minister formally launched the scheme.
Read the full explanation →PM-DDKY is implemented through the convergence of how many central schemes?
The correct answer is 36 schemes of 11 ministries and departments, working along with state schemes and participation from the private sector.
Read the full explanation →To what level did the average score of the PM-DDKY districts rise by July 2026?
The average score of the 100 districts across the six objectives of the scheme stood at 22.54 in April 2026 and reached 38.85 in July 2026.
Read the full explanation →How many districts are covered under PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana?
The scheme was designed to speed up agricultural development in districts identified on three counts: low agricultural productivity, low cropping intensity and low disbursement of agricultural credit.
Read the full explanation →Under which ministry is India Post Payments Bank set up?
India Post Payments Bank has been established under the Department of Posts, which sits in that ministry, and the entire equity of the bank is owned by the Government of India.
Read the full explanation →What was IPPB's customer base as on 31 March 2026?
The release gives this as the pan-India customer base as on 31 March 2026, and adds two shares worth remembering: 77 per cent of these customers are in rural areas and 49 per cent are women.
Read the full explanation →Which of these was launched by IPPB on its 9th Foundation Day for merchants?
The release describes it as a launch for merchants, designed to simplify and strengthen the acceptance of everyday digital payments at their end.
Read the full explanation →Which Foundation Day did India Post Payments Bank celebrate on 1 September 2026?
The arithmetic is easy to hold if the launch date is remembered: India Post Payments Bank was launched on 1 September 2018, so the same date in 2026 completes nine years of working.
Read the full explanation →At which institutions did she lead the setting up of Indian Air Force Chairs of Excellence?
Among the institutional initiatives she led during her career, the release singles out the establishment of Indian Air Force Chairs of Excellence at these two places, created to carry forward academic work and strategic collaboration in the field of defence.
Read the full explanation →Which appointment did Air Vice Marshal Shakti Sharma assume on 1 September 2026?
She took it over on 1 September 2026, and it is with this appointment that she became the first woman officer outside the medical stream to hold a two-star rank in the Indian defence forces.
Read the full explanation →Who became the first woman officer (non-medical) to attain a two-star rank in the Indian defence forces?
The Ministry of Defence release says that she became the first woman officer outside the medical stream in the Indian defence forces to attain the rank of Air Vice Marshal or an equivalent rank, and that on 1 September 2026 she assumed the appointment of Assistant Chief of the Air…
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