Static GK carries most of the 100 marks of the CDS General Knowledge paper. Of the 120 questions in the CDS (II) 2026 paper, about 20 were on Indian Polity, about 20 on the History of India, about 15 on Geography and the environment, about 10 on the Indian Economy and about 37 on Physics, Chemistry and Biology, which makes CDS the most science-heavy General Knowledge paper among the major recruitment exams. Polity questions test writs, the NHRC, electoral systems, disqualification of legislators, GST and delimitation. History runs from the Upanishads and the Shunga dynasty to Vijayanagara, temple architecture, the Sylhet referendum and the SNDP Yogam. Geography asks about the atmosphere, earthquakes and tsunamis, Ramsar sites, mangroves and World Heritage sites. Science stays at school level but expects reasoning: a lens problem, a magnetic field direction, molarity versus molality, what cooking soda is, how enzymes act. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for CDS, written as short facts and tables so that a topic can be revised in one sitting. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what stayed with you.
By which year does India aim to reach defence exports of ₹50,000 crore?
While giving away the SIDM Champion Awards, the Defence Minister repeated the target of lifting India’s defence exports to ₹50,000 crore by that year.
Read the full explanation →India’s defence exports in the financial year 2025-26 stood at a record figure of about:
Speaking at the eighth annual session of the Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers in New Delhi, the Defence Minister said exports of defence goods had touched this figure in the financial year 2025-26, the highest India has ever reached, and that the rise over the preceding year was more than…
Read the full explanation →Which green building rating is Project Seabird expected to receive on completion?
The project is being built to the norms of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and of the Indian Green Building Council, and on completion it is to be rated IGBC Gold.
Read the full explanation →About how many uniformed personnel and defence civilians, with their families, will the Karwar naval base support once Project Seabird is complete?
The base at Karwar, when the work is finished, will house roughly 10,000 uniformed and civilian personnel together with their families, and the Ministry expects this to strengthen the local economy, industry and tourism and to generate direct and indirect jobs across the Uttara Kannada region.
Read the full explanation →Who inaugurated the Project Seabird Phase IIA residential infrastructure at Naval Base, Karwar?
He is also Secretary of the Department of Military Affairs, and he opened the new housing for senior sailors and naval defence civilians, along with trunk utility and amenity infrastructure, at the Karwar base.
Read the full explanation →At the COP26 conference in Glasgow, India announced a target of reaching net zero emissions by which year?
At the twenty-sixth Conference of the Parties, held at Glasgow in 2021, the Prime Minister announced five pledges that came to be called Panchamrit, the last of which was net zero emissions by 2070, together with targets on non-fossil energy capacity, the share of renewable energy, the cut in projected…
Read the full explanation →In its updated Nationally Determined Contribution of 2022, India promised to reduce the emissions intensity of its GDP by 2030, from the 2005 level, by:
The updated first Nationally Determined Contribution submitted in August 2022 raised the promise on emissions intensity, the greenhouse gas emitted per unit of gross domestic product, to a 45 per cent reduction by 2030 against the 2005 level.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT one of the eight missions of the National Action Plan on Climate Change?
That body is the implementing arm of the Namami Gange programme for cleaning the river Ganga, created under the river conservation effort and not under the climate plan; its concern is pollution in one river basin rather than greenhouse gases.
Read the full explanation →The National Mission for a Green India plans fresh afforestation on how much land, besides improving the quality of forest on an equal area?
The Green India Mission is written around two halves of 5 million hectares each: new forest and tree cover on 5 million hectares of land that does not carry forest, and an improvement in the quality of the forest already standing on another 5 million hectares, so the mission's total…
Read the full explanation →Which ministry is the nodal ministry for the National Action Plan on Climate Change as a whole?
That ministry is the nodal ministry for climate change in the Government of India, coordinates the plan and its reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and itself runs the National Mission for a Green India.
Read the full explanation →The National Water Mission aims at an improvement in water use efficiency of about:
One of the five goals of the National Water Mission is a 20 per cent improvement in water use efficiency, alongside comprehensive water data, attention to areas most vulnerable to shortage, more recycling and better basin-level planning; the mission is handled by the Ministry of Jal Shakti.
Read the full explanation →The Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme is an initiative under which of the following missions?
PAT is the best known of that mission's four initiatives: large energy-using factories in notified sectors are set a target to reduce their specific energy consumption, and a unit that saves more than its target earns tradable energy saving certificates, which a unit that falls short must buy.
Read the full explanation →The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission was launched in which year?
The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission was launched in January 2010 under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, with an initial target of 20,000 MW of grid-connected solar power by 2022; the target was raised to 100 GW in 2015.
Read the full explanation →How many National Missions does the National Action Plan on Climate Change contain?
The plan of 2008 works through eight National Missions: Solar, Enhanced Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Habitat, Water, Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem, Green India, Sustainable Agriculture, and Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change.
Read the full explanation →The National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) was released in which year?
The National Action Plan on Climate Change was released on 30 June 2008 by the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change, and it set out the eight National Missions through which India would act on climate change at home.
Read the full explanation →Which pair of parliamentary committees is popularly described as the twin sisters of financial control?
The Public Accounts Committee and the Estimates Committee are called the twin sisters of financial control because together they cover both ends of the spending cycle.
Read the full explanation →The salaries and allowances of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha are
Article 97 provides that the salaries and allowances of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the House of the People and of the Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Council of States shall be such as Parliament may by law determine, and these are charged on the Consolidated…
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha, often called the Father of the Lok Sabha?
Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar was the Speaker of the Constituent Assembly when it sat as a legislature and then became the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha in 1952, which is why he is remembered as the Father of the Lok Sabha; many of the conventions of the chair were laid…
Read the full explanation →Under which Schedule of the Constitution does the Speaker decide questions of disqualification of members on the ground of defection?
The Tenth Schedule, inserted by the Fifty-second Amendment Act of 1985, carries the anti-defection provisions, and Paragraph 6 of that Schedule says that a question of disqualification on the ground of defection shall be decided by the Chairman or the Speaker of the House concerned, whose decision is final.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements about the chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee is correct?
The chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee is appointed by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha from among the Lok Sabha members of the committee, and since 1967 the settled convention has been to appoint a member belonging to the Opposition, which strengthens the committee as an instrument of accountability.
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