MCQs - 2026-08

Landholding farmer families where any member has paid income tax in the last financial year, or has received an income tax refund, or has received ₹10,000 or more as pension during the last financial year, are excluded from the scheme.

The PM-KISAN scheme provides an annual financial assistance of ₹6,000 to eligible farmer families, disbursed in three equal installments of ₹2,000 each.

The day serves to educate the public about the effects of nuclear weapon test explosions and the necessity of ending them for a safer world.

August 29 marks the anniversary of the closure of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan in 1991.

The United Nations General Assembly declared August 29 as the International Day Against Nuclear Tests in 2009.

The day aims to raise awareness about the importance of sports and physical fitness in daily life.

The National Sports Awards, including the Khel Ratna and Arjuna Awards, are conferred on National Sports Day at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

National Sports Day is celebrated on August 29 every year to mark the birth anniversary of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand.

Ancient manuscripts are often extremely fragile and require specialized handling to prevent damage during the scanning and digitization process. Additionally, ensuring accurate transcription, translation, and metadata creation for diverse scripts and languages presents significant technical and linguistic challenges.

The primary objective of digitizing ancient manuscripts is to protect these fragile cultural artifacts from decay and damage, while simultaneously making them widely available to scholars and the public worldwide, thus ensuring their long-term preservation and global accessibility.