UPSC GK Questions 2026

The Government of India set up the Ganga Flood Control Board on this date so that measures against floods, bank erosion and drainage problems in the Ganga Basin could be planned and implemented in a coordinated way instead of being left to individual states.

The Ganga Flood Control Board is chaired by the Union Minister of Jal Shakti, and its 19th meeting was accordingly presided over by C. R. Patil at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on 27 October 2026.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology reported in February 2026 that the BHASHINI language platform had been moved to an Indian cloud operated by Yotta Data Services, which keeps its language datasets, AI models and citizen interactions within India's own jurisdiction and therefore supports data sovereignty.

The IndiaAI Mission was approved with this outlay and its purpose is to widen access to computing power for artificial intelligence work.

MeghRaj 2.0, the second generation of the Government of India's national cloud computing initiative, had been adopted by that many government departments by September 2026.

Its long-term supply and purchase agreement with Samsung C&T Corporation of South Korea is valued at more than USD 3 billion, making it one of the largest green ammonia offtake contracts in the world, and deliveries under it are expected to begin by 2028.

The Cabinet approved the National Green Hydrogen Mission with this initial outlay, which runs up to the year 2029-30.

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy placed the firm and signed green hydrogen offtake commitments of Indian companies at this level as of October 2026, which is the largest such order book anywhere in the world and works out to roughly 11 per cent of the National Green Hydrogen…

The Legion of Merit is a US military decoration, not the country's highest civilian award. The Legion of Merit was created in 1942 and is given for exceptionally meritorious conduct in outstanding service.

Ethereum, Tether, Solana and Cardano are all cryptocurrencies, digital assets recorded on blockchains rather than issued by a central bank.

Bipin Chandra Pal was one of the leading Extremists, the "Pal" of the famous trio Lal-Bal-Pal. The trio were Lala Lajpat Rai of Punjab, Bal Gangadhar Tilak of Maharashtra and Bipin Chandra Pal of Bengal.

Havelock Island was renamed Swaraj Dweep, but the names given for Ross Island and Neil Island have been swapped. On 30 December 2018 Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced new names for three islands of the Andaman and Nicobar group at Port Blair.

Under Article 279A of the Constitution, the Union Finance Minister is the Chairperson of the GST Council. Article 279A was added by the Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act, 2016, which brought in the Goods and Services Tax.

Vidarbha won the 2024-25 Ranji Trophy, beating Kerala in the final at the VCA Stadium in Nagpur. The final in March 2025 ended in a draw, and Vidarbha took the title on their first-innings lead.

In 2015-16 China was India's largest trading partner by total trade, that is exports plus imports. India's trade with China that year was about US$ 70 billion, but most of it was imports of electronics, machinery and chemicals, so India ran its largest bilateral trade deficit with China.

The provisions on citizenship and elections came into force on 26 November 1949, the day the Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution.

Annie Besant became the international president of the Theosophical Society in 1907 and led it until her death in 1933.

Larsen & Toubro's Armoured Systems Complex at Hazira, near Surat in Gujarat, is India's first private sector unit for making howitzers.

The Gujarati film Hellaro, directed by Abhishek Shah, won the Golden Lotus for Best Feature Film at the 66th National Film Awards for films of 2018.

The India State of Forest Report 2021 placed Madhya Pradesh first in India by total forest cover in area. The report is prepared every two years by the Forest Survey of India, Dehradun, under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, using satellite data.