CDS GK Questions 2026

These are cirrocumulus clouds: high clouds of ice crystals arranged in small white puffs and ripples. Clouds are grouped by height and shape.

. The National Recruitment Agency was created to hold a Common Eligibility Test to shortlist candidates for Group B and Group C (non-technical) posts of the Central Government.

. Hariti was a child-eating yakshi whom the Buddha converted into a protector of children and a benevolent mother figure.

Gandhiji regarded Gopal Krishna Gokhale as his political guru, his Rajya Guru. Gandhi first met Gokhale in 1896 and they grew close when Gokhale visited South Africa in 1912.

A wider deficit financed by borrowing tends to push up inflation and interest rates, and higher interest rates can slow private investment.

Planck's constant has the same dimensions as angular momentum, [M L² T⁻¹].

. Statement D is the incorrect one: the streams on a dissected volcanic cone do form a radial drainage pattern.

Biogas is mainly methane and carbon dioxide. Biogas is produced when bacteria break down animal dung, crop waste and kitchen waste in the absence of oxygen, a process called anaerobic digestion.

Adiabatic temperature changes in the atmosphere are caused by the expansion and compression of air, with no heat added or removed.

Punjab has the highest share of Scheduled Castes in its population among the States, about 31.9 per cent in Census 2011.

Statements 1 and 2 are correct; statement 3 is wrong because two indifference curves can never cut each other. An indifference curve shows the combinations of two goods that give a consumer the same satisfaction.

Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, was a devoted follower of the Naqshbandi saint Khwaja Ubaydullah Ahrar. The Naqshbandi order was the leading Sufi silsila of Central Asia, and Khwaja Ubaydullah Ahrar (died 1490) of Samarkand was its most powerful leader in the fifteenth century.

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, launched on 25 December 2000, is the oldest of the four schemes. PMGSY was started to give all-weather road connectivity to unconnected rural habitations, and it is fully centrally sponsored.

The Satapatra series (Shatapatre, "a hundred letters") was written by Gopal Hari Deshmukh, known as Lokahitawadi. Gopal Hari Deshmukh (1823-1892) was an early social reformer of Maharashtra.

The Prati Sarkar, a parallel government of the Quit India period, was set up in Satara district of Maharashtra. During the Quit India Movement that began in August 1942, people in some areas threw off British authority and ran their own governments.

The Indian federation was not formed by an agreement among the States, so "the federating units consented to form a union" is not a feature of Indian federalism.

Goa became the first State in India where every rural household had a functional tap water connection.

A soda-acid extinguisher uses sodium hydrogen carbonate (baking soda) solution and sulphuric acid, which react to release carbon dioxide. In this extinguisher the sulphuric acid is kept in a separate container inside a cylinder filled with sodium hydrogen carbonate solution.

Andal was a woman Alvar, a Vaishnava saint devoted to Vishnu, not a Nayanar. The Bhakti movement in Tamil Nadu grew between about the sixth and ninth centuries through two groups of poet-saints: the 63 Nayanars, devotees of Shiva, and the 12 Alvars, devotees of Vishnu.

. In the Rig Veda, Sinivali is a goddess invoked for fertility and the gift of children.