CDS GK Questions 2026

The Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare is not under the Ministry of Finance; it is part of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.

The budget is presented first, examined by the departmental committees, voted through the Appropriation Bill and finally completed with the Finance Bill.

Quartz is a crystalline solid, and crystals show different physical properties in different directions, which is called anisotropy. In a crystalline solid the particles are arranged in a regular, repeating pattern, so the arrangement looks different along different directions.

Weber's ideal type describes bureaucracy through its structure and the conduct of its officials, not through class domination. Max Weber, the German sociologist, described the ideal type of bureaucracy as the most rational form of administration under legal-rational authority.

The Public Accounts Committee is constituted afresh every year, so each member's term is one year. The PAC was first set up in 1921 under the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms.

An alloy is made by melting and mixing its components, which keep their own properties and are not joined in a fixed ratio by chemical bonds.

Statements 1 and 2 are correct, but NOTA does not apply to the presidential election. The Election Commission conducts the election under Article 324 and the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act, 1952.

Brine is a concentrated solution of sodium chloride, common salt, in water. Brine is the starting point of the chlor-alkali process: passing electricity through it gives sodium hydroxide, chlorine gas and hydrogen gas, which is why the process is named after chlorine and alkali.

Air masses form under calm, stable, anticyclonic (high-pressure) conditions, not in cyclones. An air mass is a huge body of air with nearly uniform temperature and humidity across it.

Koneru Humpy, from Andhra Pradesh, is one of India's greatest chess players and among the strongest women players in the world.

The Constitution makes itself supreme, not any one organ; it balances parliamentary sovereignty with judicial review. India took a middle path between the British idea of parliamentary sovereignty and the American idea of judicial supremacy.

Sugar dissolves in water as whole, neutral molecules and releases no ions, so its solution does not conduct electricity. A solution conducts only when it contains free ions that can carry charge between the electrodes.

Prokaryotic cells, such as bacteria, have no true nucleus; their DNA lies free in the cytoplasm in a region called the nucleoid.

Naseem-Al-Bahr, Arabic for "sea breeze", is the bilateral naval exercise between the Indian Navy and the Royal Navy of Oman.

While collecting nectar, a honey-bee carries pollen from one flower to the stigma of another, which lets the plant form seeds.

The date just east of the line is one day behind the date just west of it, but the line runs through the Pacific Ocean, not the Atlantic.

In Sufism a murid is the disciple who follows a spiritual master, called the pir or shaikh. Sufi orders, or silsilas, such as the Chishti and Suhrawardi, grew around a master and his disciples living in a khanqah (hospice).

The stinging hairs of the nettle plant inject methanoic acid, also called formic acid, into the skin. Each nettle hair is a fine, brittle tube that breaks on touch and pushes its contents into the skin like a tiny needle.

These low-pressure systems travel east from the Mediterranean region and bring winter rain and snow to Kashmir and north-west India.

It contains hydrochloric acid and has a pH of about 1.5 to 2, the lowest of the four, so it has the most hydrogen ions.