CDS GK Questions 2026

The Bengaluru-based company signed a contract worth Rs 2,563 crore with the Ministry of Defence on 15 October 2026 for GSAT-7C, a dedicated communication satellite for the Indian Air Force.

Adenosine triphosphate stores energy in its phosphate bonds and releases it wherever the cell needs it, so it is called the energy currency of the cell.

Narayan Malhar Joshi was the main organiser behind the founding of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) in Bombay in October 1920.

It flows south along the west coast of North America, carrying cold water from higher latitudes towards the equator. As a rule, currents moving from the poles towards the equator are cold, and those moving from the equator towards the poles are warm.

This is the order in which these metals stand in the reactivity series, and it matches how vigorously they release hydrogen from dilute hydrochloric acid.

Iron is needed to make haemoglobin, so too little iron means too little haemoglobin and a reduced ability of the blood to carry oxygen.

Loktak is in Manipur, Barapani in Meghalaya, Kolleru in Andhra Pradesh, and Pulicat on the Andhra Pradesh–Tamil Nadu border. Loktak is the largest freshwater lake in north-east India, famous for its floating islands of vegetation called phumdis; Keibul Lamjao, the only floating national park in the world, lies on it.

All three statements are correct descriptions of fog and its two main types. Fog forms when air near the ground cools to its dew point and its water vapour condenses on tiny dust and smoke particles, so it is in effect a cloud at or near ground level.

The Salal hydroelectric project is a run-of-the-river project on the Chenab in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir. Built and run by NHPC, Salal has an installed capacity of 690 MW and was the first project India built under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 on a western river.

All three statements correctly describe how particles move in the two kinds of mechanical waves. In a longitudinal wave, such as sound in air, the particles vibrate back and forth along the direction in which the wave travels.

Both statements repeat paragraph 3 of the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution, which deals with the administration of Scheduled Areas.

In paper making the raw plant material is cooked with caustic soda, which dissolves the gums, resins and lignin that bind the cellulose fibres together.

Aluminium has three valence electrons, one fewer than silicon, so each aluminium atom leaves a hole that acts as a positive charge carrier.

An ecosystem is a community of living things together with the non-living environment they interact with, and it can be as large as an ocean or as small as an aquarium.

Since the 44th Amendment, the President cannot suspend the right to move a court for enforcing Articles 20 and 21, even during a national emergency.

Khuntkatti was the traditional land system of the Munda tribe of the Chota Nagpur plateau, in present-day Jharkhand. Under khuntkatti, land belonged jointly to the lineage (khunt) of the families who first cleared the forest and settled the village.

The air we breathe out carries carbon dioxide, which reacts with limewater to form a white, insoluble solid that makes it look milky.

In 1940 Subhas Chandra Bose joined hands with the Muslim League in Bengal and led the campaign to remove the Holwell Monument from Calcutta.

India's territorial waters, where it has full sovereignty, extend 12 nautical miles (about 22.2 km) from the baseline of its coast.

Acceleration is the change in velocity divided by the time taken, and 10 minutes is one-sixth of an hour.