29 October 2026 Current Affairs: Rabi MSP for 2027-28, Cyclone Arnab

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

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

Resistivity is a property of the material itself, so changing the length of a copper wire does not change it.

This follows from Newton's third law and his law of gravitation. Newton's law of gravitation gives the force between two bodies as F = Gm₁m₂/r².

SONAR sends out ultrasonic pulses and times their echo from underwater objects. SONAR stands for Sound Navigation and Ranging.

Using kinetic energy = ½mv² with the mass in kilograms gives a speed of exactly 10 m/s. First convert the mass to SI units: 2000 g = 2 kg.

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

A positive power means a converging (convex) lens, and f = 1/P = 1/2 = 0.5 m. The power of a lens is the reciprocal of its focal length in metres: P = 1/f. Its SI unit is the dioptre (D), and 1 D is the power of a lens…

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.

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.

Probiotics are live, helpful microbes taken in food or supplements to improve the balance of bacteria in the gut. The word means "for life", the opposite of antibiotic, "against life".

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

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

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

Strain is a ratio of two lengths (or two volumes), so its units cancel and it has no dimensions. When a force deforms a body, strain measures the fractional change in its shape or size.

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

The bulb's resistance stays the same, and since power varies as the square of voltage, halving the voltage cuts the power to one-fourth.

The speed of sound in air increases, not decreases, as temperature rises, so statement B is the incorrect one. Sound in a gas travels faster when the gas is warmer, because its molecules move faster and pass the vibration on more quickly.

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.

On heating, sodium bicarbonate releases carbon dioxide gas, whose bubbles make dough rise and turn cakes and bread soft and spongy.

The lander of Chandrayaan-2 was named Vikram after Vikram Sarabhai, the father of India's space programme. Chandrayaan-2 was launched by ISRO on 22 July 2019 on a GSLV Mk III rocket from Sriharikota.

Lactobacillus turns the lactose sugar of milk into lactic acid, which sours the milk and makes it set into curd.

Indian monsoon rain is shaped by relief, varies widely by region and season, and falls in heavy bursts, but its onset and withdrawal are not regular.

This department belongs to the Ministry of Jal Shakti, not to the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Ministry of Jal Shakti was formed in 2019 by merging the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation with the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation.

Nitrogen gas is the element itself in a very stable form, and plants cannot take it up directly from the soil or the air, so it is not used as a fertilizer.

This statement is wrong: in 1956 Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy received the Padma Bhushan, not the Bharat Ratna. Muthulakshmi Reddy (1886–1968) of the Madras Presidency broke several barriers.

By the law of demand, a normal good is bought less when its own price rises, while the effect on the other good depends on two forces pulling in opposite directions.

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar called Article 32 the very soul and heart of the Constitution because it makes the Fundamental Rights enforceable.

India signed a contract worth about 5.4 billion US dollars with Russia in October 2018 for five squadrons of the S-400 Triumf long-range surface-to-air missile system.

Article 51 says nothing about UN peacekeeping forces; it is a Directive Principle on the promotion of international peace and security.

A soda-acid extinguisher holds a solution of sodium hydrogen carbonate (baking soda) and a small bottle of sulphuric acid; when the two mix, carbon dioxide is released.

The Swedish chemist Berzelius proposed around 1813–1814 that each element be written with one or two letters taken from its name, the system still used today.

This Act provided for a Federal Court, which was set up at Delhi in October 1937 to settle disputes between the Centre and the provinces.

Nylon 6 is made from a single monomer, caprolactam, whose ring opens on heating and joins up into long polyamide chains.

The Gandatindu Jataka is one of the Jataka tales, the stories of the Buddha's earlier births, which were composed in Pali and preserved in the Buddhist canon.

This statement is wrong: Shola forests grow in the high hills of South India, in the Western Ghats, not in the Himalaya.

H₂S is a colourless gas with the familiar smell of rotten eggs, and the human nose can detect it even in very small amounts.

The famous line opens the Preamble to the Constitution of UNESCO, adopted in London in November 1945.

Retired Karnataka High Court judge K. S. Puttaswamy challenged the Aadhaar scheme in 2012, and his petition led to the 2017 ruling that privacy is a Fundamental Right.

Abhinav Bindra won the men's 10 m air rifle event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics on 11 August 2008, India's first individual Olympic gold.

Castro came to power in Cuba only in 1959 and was not among the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement; he became prominent in it later and chaired the 1979 Havana summit.

The Social Market Economy, Soziale Marktwirtschaft, was the model on which West Germany rebuilt its economy after the Second World War.

Sodium carbonate, called washing soda in its hydrated form Na₂CO₃·10H₂O, removes both temporary and permanent hardness of water. Hard water contains dissolved calcium and magnesium salts, which stop soap from lathering.

These are the only two elements that are liquid at standard room temperature and pressure: mercury is a metal and bromine is a non-metal.

Kunzru, a member of the Servants of India Society, organised the Seva Samiti at Allahabad in 1914 to carry out social service and relief work.

Apart from the Sun, Proxima Centauri is the star nearest to the Earth, about 4.24 light years away. Proxima Centauri is a small, dim red dwarf in the constellation Centaurus and cannot be seen with the naked eye.

Sangam literature describes the vellalar as the large landowners of the Tamil region, while the people who actually worked the land are named separately.

At the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, India won two medals, both by women: a silver in badminton and a bronze in wrestling.

The Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) was set up by NITI Aayog in 2016 as the Government of India's flagship programme to promote innovation and entrepreneurship.

A system whose walls let no heat pass in or out is called adiabatic, so any change in its state happens with zero heat exchange (Q = 0).