CDS GK Questions 2026

It added the words socialist, secular and integrity to the Preamble, inserted the Fundamental Duties as Part IVA and Article 51A, added subjects such as education, forests and weights and measures to the Concurrent List, extended the normal life of the Lok Sabha and the assemblies to six years, and…

The proclamation of 25 June 1975 was issued under Article 352 on the ground of internal disturbance, an expression so wide that it became the main criticism of the Emergency, which lasted until 21 March 1977.

India carried out its first underground nuclear explosion at Pokhran in the Thar desert of Rajasthan on 18 May 1974, which happened to be Buddha Purnima, and the government described it as a peaceful nuclear explosion.

After the war of December 1971 and the creation of Bangladesh, the two countries met at Shimla and agreed on 2 July 1972 to settle their differences bilaterally and by peaceful means, to respect the line of control in Jammu and Kashmir resulting from the ceasefire, and to work towards…

In July 1969 the government of Indira Gandhi nationalised the fourteen largest commercial banks, each with deposits above fifty crore rupees, in order to take banking to the villages and to direct credit towards agriculture, small industry and the weaker sections, which were together termed the priority sectors.

The agreement was signed at Tashkent, then in Soviet Uzbekistan, on 10 January 1966 by Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and President Ayub Khan of Pakistan, with the Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin acting as host and mediator.

The slogan Jai Jawan Jai Kisan, the start of the Green Revolution and the war of 1965 belong to his short term.

A quasi-federal constitution has the basic features of a federation but also a strong unitary bias, and the Indian Constitution is the best known example.

The bora is a cold, dry and often violent north-easterly wind that rushes down from the Dinaric Alps onto the eastern Adriatic coast of Croatia, Slovenia and Montenegro, and it also reaches Trieste in Italy.

The English jurist John Austin developed legal positivism, the view that law is the command of the sovereign backed by a sanction, kept separate from questions of morality.

J is from Assam, which had a population density of 398 persons per square kilometre in Census 2011, far higher than the other three States.

Keynes argued that in a depression the government should spend more than it earns, even by borrowing, to revive demand and employment.

Mahishmati, an important city of ancient central India, stood on the Narmada and is usually identified with Maheshwar in present-day Madhya Pradesh, though some scholars place it at Mandhata (Omkareshwar).

The sour taste of tamarind comes from tartaric acid, not oxalic acid, so this statement is not correct. Many natural acids give foods their sour taste.

The lion is not found among the animals carved on Harappan seals, although the tiger appears on several of them.

Ellora has Buddhist, Hindu and Jain caves, and the Kailasa temple was carved out of a single rock, not built of stone blocks and bricks.

River terraces mark old valley floors and may be of bedrock or alluvium, but they are products of erosion, not deposition, so statement 3 is wrong.

The molar mass of sodium-23 is 23 g, so 46 g is exactly 2 moles, and 2 moles contain twice the Avogadro number of atoms.

In this reaction water accepts a proton (H⁺) from the hydrogen sulphate ion and becomes the hydronium ion, H₃O⁺, and a proton acceptor is a base.

The flying fish is a bony fish with a backbone, gills, scales and fins, so it belongs to the class of fishes; it only glides over the water on its large, wing-like pectoral fins.