UPSC GK Questions 2026

Article 51A, the only article in Part IV-A, lists the Fundamental Duties of every citizen of India. The Fundamental Duties were added by the 42nd Amendment of 1976 on the recommendation of the Swaran Singh Committee, and the idea was borrowed from the Constitution of the former USSR.

Why Bharat Matters, published in 2024, was written by S. Jaishankar, who wrote it while serving as India's External Affairs Minister.

BrahMos is indeed a joint DRDO-NPOM missile, but the IRRPL factory at Korwa is in Uttar Pradesh, not Madhya Pradesh.

The 52nd Amendment Act of 1985 added the Tenth Schedule, which holds the anti-defection law.

Going by their states, Uttarakhand lies furthest north, then Rajasthan, then Odisha, and Kerala lies furthest south.

Gulbadan Begum, a daughter of Babur, wrote the Humayun Nama, an account of the life of her half-brother Humayun. Gulbadan Begum wrote the book in Persian at the request of her nephew Akbar, who wanted material for the official history of his reign, the Akbarnama of Abul Fazl.

Tavernier was a French gem merchant, not Dutch, so this pair is wrong. Jean Baptiste Tavernier travelled to India six times between about 1640 and 1667, during the reigns of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb.

The Speaker does not vote in the first instance; under Article 100 the Speaker has only a casting vote when there is a tie.

Article 324(5) gives the Chief Election Commissioner the same protection against removal as a Supreme Court judge.

Thungon Committee. This committee of Parliament, set up in 1988, recommended that Panchayati Raj bodies be given constitutional status.

. The Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary, set up in 1973 in the Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, is the last home of the Indian wild ass, or khur, a fast and hardy animal adapted to the salt desert.

The Cassini-Huygens mission was a joint project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. Launched in October 1997, it reached Saturn in 2004 and studied the planet, its rings and its moons for thirteen years.

Kot Diji lies in the Khairpur district of Sindh, Pakistan, on the left (eastern) bank of the Indus, across the river from Mohenjo-daro, the largest Harappan city in Sindh.

. A Fischer projection draws a molecule as a cross: the horizontal bonds point towards the viewer and the vertical bonds point away.

Ammonium chloride sublimes: on heating, it changes directly from a solid into vapour without melting, and the vapour turns back into solid on a cool surface.

Agni-P, or Agni Prime, is a new-generation nuclear-capable ballistic missile of the Agni family developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), with a range capability of 1,000 to 2,000 km.

. According to the Manusmriti and other Dharmashastras, the paternal estate was to be divided equally among the sons after the death of the parents, with a special share for the eldest, while women could not claim a share of it.

The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 is an Indian law, so it can only set up and govern Indian bodies.

The Human Development Index, published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990 and designed with the economist Mahbub ul Haq, measures three dimensions.

Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer who had never been to India before, chaired the two Boundary Commissions, one for Punjab and one for Bengal, set up under the Indian Independence Act of 1947.