CDS GK Questions 2026

The selection committee is chaired by the Prime Minister and has four other members, namely the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, the Chief Justice of India or a judge of the Supreme Court nominated by him, and one eminent jurist recommended…

The Act fixes the tenure of the chairperson and of every member of the Lokpal at five years from the date of entering office, or until the holder turns seventy, whichever comes first, and they are not eligible for reappointment.

The Act provides for a chairperson and not more than eight members, so the full body can have nine persons.

The jurist and parliamentarian Lakshmi Mall Singhvi suggested the Indian name Lokpal in 1963 for the institution that Scandinavian countries call the Ombudsman, and the name stuck.

Parliament passed the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act in December 2013; it received the assent of the President on 1 January 2014 and came into force on 16 January 2014.

The order is the Cornwallis Code (1793), the Vernacular Press Act (1878), the first Indian Factory Act (1881) and the Morley-Minto Reforms (1909).

Of the four, ultraviolet lies furthest towards the short-wavelength, high-energy end of the electromagnetic spectrum. All electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light in vacuum, but they differ in wavelength and frequency.

In Köppen's scheme, 'A' is a tropical climate and 'w' means a dry winter, which together describe the tropical savanna.

The pulmonary veins carry oxygen-rich blood from the lungs into the left atrium. In double circulation, blood passes through the heart twice in each full round.

Metals produce a ringing sound when struck, a property called sonority, which is why bells are made of metal. Sonorous means 'producing a deep, ringing sound'.

Power is the reciprocal of focal length in metres, and 10 cm is 0.1 m, so P = 1 ÷ 0.1 = 10 D. The power of a lens measures how strongly it converges or diverges light.

The Higgs boson found at CERN in 2012 has a mass of about 125 GeV, which among the given options is closest to 100 GeV.

Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, is a Polynesian island in the south-eastern Pacific that has belonged to Chile since 1888.

X-rays are electromagnetic waves made of uncharged photons, so electric and magnetic fields cannot bend them. Electric and magnetic fields exert force only on charged particles: a charge q feels a force qE in an electric field and qvB in a magnetic field.

Fourth-generation computers, from about 1971, were built around the microprocessor, a whole CPU on a single chip. Computer generations are named after the main switching technology of the time.

The State Election Commission directs the preparation of electoral rolls for panchayat elections, but the State Election Commissioner is appointed by the Governor, not on the Chief Election Commissioner's advice.

Carbon monoxide binds with haemoglobin far more strongly than oxygen does, so the blood can no longer carry enough oxygen.

The great majority of plant viruses carry their genes as single-stranded RNA. Viruses contain either DNA or RNA, never both, wrapped in a protein coat.

The British settlement in Awadh treated the talukdars as intruders who had gained land by force and fraud. After Awadh was annexed in 1856, the British introduced the Summary Settlement of land revenue there.

India marks 21 May as Anti-Terrorism Day because former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on that day in 1991.