UPSC GK Questions 2026

The projection of about 23 crore senior citizens by that year is the reason given for strengthening institutional machinery and community participation under Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana.

Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana was launched in 2021 and it took in that earlier plan, widened its scope and brought a number of separate measures for older persons under a single umbrella scheme of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

This amount has been released as grant-in-aid to 755 projects running under the Integrated Programme for Senior Citizens, which is a component of the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana, and it covers the quarter that ended on 30 September 2026 in the financial year 2026-27.

The Buildathon was conducted by the Department of School Education and Literacy of the Union Ministry of Education along with these two partners, with the aim of pushing creative problem solving, entrepreneurship and scientific curiosity among school students.

This is the number of project submissions recorded across the Idea Track and the Prototype Track, and it is the figure on which the Guinness World Records certification as the largest innovation solution competition rests.

The Guinness World Records certification for Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025 was given under exactly this title, and it rests on the 2,87,967 project submissions that school students sent in under the Idea and Prototype tracks.

NPPA works under the Department of Pharmaceuticals, which is one of the departments of that ministry, and it is the body that fixed the revised maximum retail prices for anti-cancer medicine brands effective from 9 November 2026.

The correct answer is 9 November 2026, the date from which the revised maximum retail prices become effective for the 543 brands on the published list.

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority has published a list of 543 brands of anti-cancer medicines with their revised maximum retail prices, and those rates have to be charged from 9 November 2026.

NITI Aayog was created by an executive resolution of the Union Cabinet, not by the Constitution or an Act of Parliament, so it is neither constitutional nor statutory.

What looks like a single flower in a sunflower or marigold is really a head made of many tiny flowers, called florets, packed together.

Vitamin K is needed by the liver to make prothrombin and other clotting factors, without which blood does not clot properly.

The four Agnikula clans are the Pratiharas, the Chaulukyas (Solankis), the Paramaras and the Chahamanas (Chauhans). According to the Agnikula legend, told in Chand Bardai's Prithviraj Raso, the sage Vashishtha performed a great fire sacrifice on Mount Abu, and four warrior clans sprang from the fire to protect the land.

Since 2018 the Union Home Minister has been the ex officio Chairman of the North Eastern Council (NEC). The NEC was set up under the North Eastern Council Act, 1971 and began work in 1972 at Shillong as an advisory body for the balanced development of the region.

She won The Hindu Prize 2018 for fiction for her novel "Requiem in Raga Janki".

At sunrise and sunset sunlight passes through a much thicker layer of air, which scatters away most of the blue light and leaves mainly red and orange to reach our eyes.

This statement is not correct: the Preamble is non-justiciable, so its provisions cannot be enforced in a court. The Preamble is an introduction that sets out the source of authority ("We, the people of India"), the nature of the state and the objectives of justice, liberty, equality and fraternity.

Using v² = u² − 2gh with final velocity zero at the top, u = √(2gh) = √(2 × 10 × 20) = √400 = 20 m/s. A ball thrown straight up slows down under gravity until its velocity becomes zero at the highest point.

Statements 1 and 3 are correct; statement 2 is wrong because the Brahmani is formed by the South Koel and the Sankh, not the Kosi.

The Singpho people of upper Assam and Arunachal Pradesh were brewing tea from the wild Assam tea plant long before the British began tea gardens.