CDS GK Questions 2026

Without enough vitamin D the body cannot absorb calcium and phosphorus properly, so a child's growing bones stay soft and bend.

Urea is the body's way of getting rid of the nitrogen that comes from breaking down proteins, and only proteins among these contain nitrogen.

Telangana is a landlocked state bordered by exactly these four states. Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh on 2 June 2014 as India's 29th state, with Hyderabad as its capital.

The resolution that created NITI Aayog names the Prime Minister as Chairperson, a Governing Council of Chief Ministers and Lieutenant Governors, and a Chief Executive Officer appointed by the Prime Minister.

This is the false statement: glass cools into an amorphous solid without any regular crystal structure. When molten glass cools, its viscosity rises so quickly that the atoms have no time to arrange themselves in an ordered crystal lattice.

Saline soils are found in dry regions and in waterlogged or swampy areas, but they are poor in nitrogen, not rich in it.

Plastics are long chains of carbon atoms joined by strong covalent bonds, which water, air and most microbes cannot easily break.

For an object launched horizontally, the time of fall depends only on the height, because its starting vertical speed is zero.

The 2023 delimitation in Assam used the 2001 Census figures, but it raised the number of Assembly seats reserved for Scheduled Tribes.

Describing the reforms in defence procurement, the Raksha Mantri said that this share of the modernisation budget has been set aside for buying from Indian industries, and that domestic firms are given priority through the Defence Acquisition Procedure and the Buy Indian-Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured category.

The Raksha Mantri told the conclave that of the ammunition variants in use with the defence forces, that many are now made within the country, which works out to more than 90 per cent self-reliance in ammunition variants.

At the Defence Conclave the Raksha Mantri said defence production had reached a record of more than that figure, measured against Rs 40,000 crore in 2014, and that the sector is aiming at Rs 2 lakh crore this year and Rs 3 lakh crore by 2029.

Speaking at a Defence Conclave in New Delhi, Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh described the security landscape of the digital age as hybrid, high-tech and hyper warfare, and listed a 5D Security Threat made up of disinformation, destabilisation, disruption, deception and destruction.

The Peninsular Block is an old, stable landmass with worn-down residual hills and a western edge that sank along faults, but its rivers flow in broad, shallow valleys.

As a member of the World Trade Organization, India had to protect geographical indications under the TRIPS Agreement, and the 1999 Act was passed for that purpose.

Both ideas are geoengineering proposals meant to cool the planet by changing how much heat enters or leaves the Earth.

The Levant is the land on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea in West Asia. The word comes from the French 'lever', to rise, meaning the land where the sun rises, as seen from Europe.

The core idea of a constitution is constitutionalism: power is granted to the government, but only within set limits. A constitution sets up the organs of the State and divides power among them, but its chief purpose is to stop that power from becoming arbitrary.

Rafale, MiG-29 and Tejas Mk-1 are all fourth or 4.5 generation fighters; none of them is a fifth-generation aircraft. A fifth-generation fighter is defined by all-aspect stealth, internal weapons bays, supercruise and advanced sensor fusion.

The islands have a warm, humid tropical maritime climate and get rain from both monsoons, but December to May is their drier part of the year.