CDS GK Questions 2026

As the senior most Minister he was sworn in to hold charge after the death of Nehru in May 1964 and again after the death of Shastri in January 1966, each time for thirteen days, until the ruling party elected a new leader; the Constitution itself makes no provision for…

After the general election of 1977, held at the end of the Emergency, the Janata Party formed the government and Morarji Desai became the first Prime Minister from outside the Congress, taking office on 24 March 1977 at the age of eighty one, which also makes him the oldest to…

It makes it the duty of the Prime Minister to communicate to the President all decisions of the Council of Ministers relating to the administration of the Union and proposals for legislation, to furnish such information as the President may call for, and to submit for the consideration of the…

Article 75(1) states that the Prime Minister shall be appointed by the President and the other Ministers shall be appointed by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister; the same Article carries the fifteen per cent ceiling on the size of the Council, collective responsibility to the Lok…

He was sworn in on 28 July 1979 with outside support that was withdrawn before the Lok Sabha assembled, and he resigned rather than seek a vote, so he remained Prime Minister until January 1980 without ever facing the House.

He was sworn in on 31 October 1984, the day his mother Indira Gandhi was assassinated, at the age of forty, which makes him the youngest person to hold the office; the oldest was Morarji Desai, who took office at eighty one.

He became Prime Minister on 9 June 1964, led the country through the Indo-Pak war of 1965, gave the slogan Jai Jawan Jai Kisan, and died at Tashkent on 11 January 1966, a day after signing the Tashkent Declaration, which makes him the only Indian Prime Minister to have died…

He was sworn in as Prime Minister on 15 August 1947 and held the office until his death on 27 May 1964, which makes him both the first and the longest serving Prime Minister of India; he also kept the External Affairs portfolio with him.

Muizzuddin Muhammad bin Sam, called Muhammad Ghori, came from Ghur in central Afghanistan, and the Ghurids displaced the house of Ghazni before turning on northern India.

Ghori returned to Ghazni after Tarain and Chandawar and left his trusted slave officer Qutbuddin Aibak in charge of the Indian territories; on the death of Ghori in 1206 Aibak made himself the ruler at Lahore and founded the dynasty that became the Delhi Sultanate.

The Hindu Shahi ruler Jaipal met Mahmud of Ghazni near Waihind, close to Peshawar, in 1001 CE, was defeated and taken prisoner, and the humiliation is said to have led him to end his own life, after which his son Anandpal continued the struggle.

After the second battle of Tarain, Muhammad Ghori turned east and defeated Jaichand, the Gahadavala ruler of Kanauj and Banaras, at Chandawar on the Yamuna in 1194, a victory that gave the Turks the upper Ganga valley.

One year after his defeat, Muhammad Ghori came back to Tarain, drew the Rajput cavalry out with a feigned retreat, surrounded it with mounted archers and destroyed it; Prithviraj Chauhan was captured and the road to Delhi lay open.

In the first battle of Tarain in 1191 the Rajput army of Prithviraj Chauhan III of Ajmer and Delhi broke the Ghurid centre, Ghori himself was wounded and carried away by a follower, and he withdrew to Ghazni.

The Central Asian scholar Abu Rayhan Alberuni came to India with Mahmud of Ghazni, learnt Sanskrit, and wrote Tahqiq i Hind, known as Kitab ul Hind, which describes Indian religion, society, astronomy and mathematics and is the most valuable account of eleventh century India.

The raid on the Somnath temple on the coast of Saurashtra was the richest of all the expeditions of Mahmud of Ghazni and the one for which he is most remembered in Indian history.

The Chach Nama, a Persian translation of an older Arabic account, narrates the rule of the Chach family of Sindh, the attack on the Arab ships at Debal and the campaign of Muhammad bin Qasim, and remains the main source for 712 CE.

He was the Brahman ruler of Sindh who refused to compensate the Arabs for the ships plundered by the pirates of Debal, and he fell fighting Muhammad bin Qasim at Raor in 712 CE, after which Sindh passed under Umayyad rule.

He was the young Arab commander sent into Sindh in 712 CE, who captured Debal, crossed the Indus and defeated and killed Dahir at the battle of Raor, and then took Brahmanabad, Alor and Multan.

Article 54 confines the electoral college to elected members, so the twelve members nominated to the Rajya Sabha and any nominated members of an Assembly take no part in the presidential election; they do, however, vote in the election of the Vice-President under Article 66, which is the point the…