CDS GK Questions 2026

In a centripetal pattern streams flow inward from all sides into a central lake or basin, like spokes pointing to a hub.

Petrol is one of the petroleum products kept out of GST for now, so it still bears central excise duty and state VAT.

All three statements describe India's two coasts correctly: the west is high, rocky and erosional, the east is low and depositional.

For resistors in parallel the reciprocals add: 1/11 + 1/22 + 1/33 = 11/66 = 1/6, so the equivalent resistance is 6 Ω. Taking 66 as the common denominator, 1/11 becomes 6/66, 1/22 becomes 3/66 and 1/33 becomes 2/66.

Rhizopus, the bread mould, feeds on dead and decaying organic matter, which is exactly what a saprophyte does. A saprophyte gets its food by releasing digestive enzymes onto dead matter such as stale bread, fruit or leaf litter and then absorbing the simple nutrients that result.

Jordan lies north of the peninsula in the Levant, while Kuwait, Oman and Yemen are all on the Arabian Peninsula.

The FATF sets the international standards that countries follow to fight dirty money and terror funding. The FATF is an inter-governmental body set up in 1989 at the G7 summit in Paris, and its secretariat is housed at the OECD in Paris.

The manjaniq was a siege engine that hurled heavy stones at fort walls and defenders. The word comes from Arabic and is related to the Greek and Latin words that also gave English the term mangonel.

The Kalaram temple stands at Panchavati in Nashik, Maharashtra, where Dr B. R. Ambedkar led the famous temple entry satyagraha.

India, Nepal and the Maldives signed the SAARC Charter in 1985, while Afghanistan joined only in 2007. SAARC was set up at the Dhaka summit on 8 December 1985 by seven South Asian countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

He was honoured at the Dushanbe event for his contribution to Hindi literature and education, including a detailed study of philology, and he is described as the first recipient of the Padma Shri from Tajikistan, which is the detail most likely to be asked.

The Defence Minister used this comparison in Dushanbe to show how far India has moved towards a less-paper and less-cash economy, and he described the country as a global hub for real-time digital payments.

Rajnath Singh said India has signed free trade agreements with that many countries, and he singled out the agreements with the United Kingdom and the European Union, which are expected to remove tariffs on 99 per cent of Indian exports to those two markets.

Speaking to the Indian diaspora in Dushanbe on 20 October 2026, the Defence Minister said defence exports had touched that record level, and in the same breath he put defence production at Rs 1.80 lakh crore, so the two figures are best learnt as a pair because an examiner can…

New Delhi lies at about 28.6° N, a little north of both Kathmandu and Thimphu, even though Nepal and Bhutan lie to the north of most of India.

Mechanical (physical) weathering breaks rocks without changing their chemistry, and all three forces drive it. Gravitational forces act as overburden pressure, load and shearing stress on rocks.

Census 2011 recorded about 52 persons per sq km in Mizoram, the lowest of the four states given. Mizoram is a hilly, heavily forested state with a small population of about 11 lakh, which keeps its density low.

The Stockton and Darlington Railway in north-east England opened on 27 September 1825 and was the first public railway to use steam locomotives and carry passengers.

The order is Kheda (1918), Bardoli (1928), the Gandhi–Irwin Pact (March 1931) and the Second Round Table Conference (September–December 1931).

It created a Board of Control in Britain to supervise the civil, military and revenue affairs of the East India Company, while the Court of Directors kept its commercial work.