CDS GK Questions 2026

ISEER measures the total cooling an air conditioner delivers over a cooling season divided by the electricity it consumes in that season, so it reflects part-load working in the Indian climate rather than performance at one fixed temperature; a higher ISEER means a more efficient machine, and the star bands…

The correct answer is B, Energy Efficiency Services Limited, a joint venture of public sector undertakings under the Ministry of Power that procures LED bulbs and street lights in bulk and recovers the cost from consumers or from the savings in a municipality's electricity bill.

The programme began as the Domestic Efficient Lighting Programme and was launched under the UJALA name on 5 January 2015, selling LED bulbs, tubelights and efficient ceiling fans to domestic consumers at a price far below the retail rate.

The star label places an appliance in a band from one star to five stars on the basis of its energy performance, so a five-star model is the most efficient and will show the lowest annual energy consumption in its size class.

BEE is an attached statutory body of the Ministry of Power, and its Governing Council is chaired by the Union Minister of Power.

That Act created the Bureau of Energy Efficiency as a statutory body and gave it the power to prescribe efficiency standards, run the labelling programme and prepare the building code; the Bureau came into existence on 1 March 2002 under the Ministry of Power.

India hosted the seventh summit of the Non-Aligned Movement at New Delhi in 1983, with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi taking over as chairperson of the movement for the following term.

The twenty-year Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation was signed in August 1971 by Foreign Minister Swaran Singh and his Soviet counterpart Andrei Gromyko, months before the war that created Bangladesh.

The Shimla Agreement was signed on 2 July 1972, after the war of 1971 and the creation of Bangladesh. It committed both countries to settle differences bilaterally and by peaceful means, and it turned the ceasefire line in Jammu and Kashmir into the Line of Control.

India, which had been an observer since 2005, was admitted as a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation at the Astana summit in Kazakhstan in 2017, along with Pakistan.

SAGAR was announced in 2015 and sets out India's role in the Indian Ocean: maritime security and surveillance, capacity building and training for neighbouring navies and coast guards, cooperation on the blue economy and sustainable use of ocean resources, and first response during cyclones, tsunamis and other disasters.

BIMSTEC, the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation, was created by the Bangkok Declaration of 6 June 1997, first as BIST-EC and then widened as more members joined; its seven members bridge South Asia and South East Asia, and its permanent secretariat is at Dhaka.

The Gujral Doctrine was set out by Inder Kumar Gujral in 1996, when he was Minister of External Affairs and later Prime Minister.

The Look East Policy was launched in 1991 under Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao, when the collapse of the Soviet Union removed India's closest partner and economic liberalisation created a reason to seek markets in South East Asia.

The Tashkent Declaration was signed on 10 January 1966 by Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and President Ayub Khan of Pakistan to settle the war of 1965, with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin as host and mediator at Tashkent, then in the Soviet Union.

Article 51, among the Directive Principles of State Policy in Part IV, asks the State to promote international peace and security, to maintain just and honourable relations between nations, to foster respect for international law and treaty obligations, and to encourage the settlement of international disputes by arbitration.

The first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement met at Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, in 1961, with Josip Broz Tito as host and Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Sukarno and Kwame Nkrumah among the leading figures.

The five principles of Panchsheel appear in the preamble to the Agreement on Trade and Intercourse between the Tibet region of China and India, signed on 29 April 1954 by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai.

The London Convention of 1972, formally the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, controls the deliberate disposal of waste at sea from ships, aircraft and platforms, prohibiting the most hazardous categories outright and allowing others only under permit; its later Protocol tightened…

A containment boom is a floating barrier with a skirt below the waterline and floats above it, towed or anchored around a slick to hold the oil in a smaller area so that it can be recovered and kept away from beaches, mangroves and water intakes.