UPSC GK Questions 2026

Its second edition was held on 27 and 28 October 2026 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, organised by ICLEI South Asia along with the National Institute of Urban Affairs and supported by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

That is the worth of the 23.46 lakh hospital admissions authorised under Ayushman Vay Vandana up to 20 October 2026, two years after the cover began on 29 October 2024.

The NHA runs Ayushman Vay Vandana for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and its Chief Executive, Dr. Sunil Kumar Barnwal, spoke on the second anniversary, saying older citizens should be able to reach healthcare with dignity and security and that money should not decide whether they get a…

By number of treatments it tops the list with 4.71 lakh procedures, close to 20.1 per cent of everything sanctioned under the scheme, and that volume points to how much untreated eye disease older people were living with before the cover arrived.

Ayushman Vay Vandana covers every Indian citizen who has completed 70 years of age, and it does so irrespective of income or social standing.

Movement of ions through protein channels is facilitated diffusion, a passive process that needs no energy from ATP. Active transport moves substances against their concentration gradient, from low to high concentration, using carrier proteins and energy, usually from ATP.

These four are the classical Lokapalas, each guarding one of the four main directions of the world. In Hindu tradition, as described in texts such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and in later iconography, Indra guards the east, Yama the south, Varuna the west and Kubera the north.

The Bill proposed only a limited criminal jurisdiction for Indian officials over Europeans, and it met fierce European opposition that forced a diluted version.

An emulsion is a colloid in which tiny droplets of one liquid are spread through another liquid with which it does not mix.

Under the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968, a party recognised as a state party in four or more states qualifies as a national party.

Both particles gain the same kinetic energy, but the electron is far lighter, so it ends up much faster. When a charge q is accelerated through a potential difference V, it gains kinetic energy equal to qV.

The Eleventh Schedule lists 29 subjects on which the state legislature may give powers and responsibilities to the Panchayats. The Eleventh Schedule was added by the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992, along with Part IX on Panchayats.

The object lies between F and 2F of the convex lens (25 cm and 50 cm), and such an object always gives a real, inverted and enlarged image beyond 2F. Using the lens formula 1/v − 1/u = 1/f with u = −40 cm and f = +25 cm gives…

Nanotechnology deals with matter at the scale of roughly 1 to 100 nanometres, where materials begin to show new properties.

The orthodox Calcutta leader founded the Dharma Sabha in 1830 to defend traditional Hindu practices against the reformers. Raja Radhakanta Deb (1784–1867) was a scholar who compiled the Sanskrit encyclopaedia Shabdakalpadruma and was a leading figure of Calcutta society.

Interest on the public debt is the single largest item of the Union Government's revenue expenditure, taking roughly a third of it.

A linker is system software, a programming tool that joins compiled pieces of code into one program that can run; it does not do a task for the end user.

Ribosomes are the only one of these found in prokaryotic cells such as bacteria, because they are not enclosed by a membrane.

Neither statement is correct: only starch is a mixture of amylose and amylopectin, and only glycogen is stored in liver cells.

T-55, T-72 and T-90 are Soviet and Russian-designed main battle tanks, while T-155 is not a tank at all; the name belongs to a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer made in Turkey.