CDS GK Questions 2026

The inscription is cut in a cave of the Udayagiri hills near Bhubaneswar in Odisha, is written in Prakrit in the Brahmi script, and records year by year the campaigns, irrigation works and patronage of Jainism of this ruler of the Mahameghavahana line.

The words were adopted as the national motto and are inscribed in Devanagari below the lion capital on the state emblem of India.

He was an officer of the East India Company mint and secretary of the Asiatic Society, and in 1837 he worked out the values of the Brahmi letters, which made the edicts of the king who called himself Devanampiya Piyadassi legible for the first time.

Its name comes from saman, a melody, and it arranges hymns, most of them taken from the Rigveda, in the form in which the priest was to sing them at a sacrifice, so the earliest Indian system of musical notes is traced to it.

Habeas corpus is refused where the detention is lawful, where the proceeding is for the contempt of a legislature or a court, where the detention has been ordered by a competent court, and where the detention is outside the territorial jurisdiction of the court approached.

Article 32 appears in Part III and is a Fundamental Right in its own right, which is why a petition under it cannot be refused once a breach of another Fundamental Right is established.

Judicial review, together with the independence of the judiciary, the removal of judges by impeachment, the written preamble and Fundamental Rights, is among the features the makers of the Indian Constitution took from the American system, where the Supreme Court asserted the power in Marbury v. Madison in 1803.

In Minerva Mills v. Union of India the Supreme Court struck down the provisions inserted by the 42nd Amendment Act of 1976 which had declared that no constitutional amendment could be called in question in any court and had given Parliament unlimited amending power, holding that both judicial review and…

Article 226 empowers every High Court to issue directions, orders or writs, including the five writs, for the enforcement of Fundamental Rights and for any other purpose, and that last phrase is what makes the High Court's writ jurisdiction wider than the Supreme Court's. Option A is wrong because Article…

Quo warranto, meaning by what authority, asks a person occupying a public office to show the legal basis of the claim to it, and because an unlawful occupation of public office is a public wrong, the courts allow any interested person to apply, not merely one who has suffered a…

Mandamus means we command, and it is issued to a public body or official to perform a public duty that it has refused to perform.

Prohibition means to forbid. It is issued by a superior court to a lower court or a tribunal to stop it from continuing with a proceeding that lies beyond its jurisdiction, so by its nature it can be directed only at bodies exercising judicial or quasi-judicial functions, never at an…

Article 32 guarantees the right to move the Supreme Court for the enforcement of Fundamental Rights and empowers the Court to issue directions, orders and writs for that purpose, which is why it is titled the right to constitutional remedies and why Dr B. R. Ambedkar described it as the…

Habeas corpus can be issued by the Supreme Court under Article 32, where it is a remedy for the breach of the Fundamental Right to personal liberty, and by every High Court under Article 226, which covers Fundamental Rights and any other purpose as well.

Certiorari is Latin for to be certified or to be informed, and the writ does exactly that: a higher court calls up the record of a case from a lower court or tribunal, either to transfer the matter to itself or to quash an order already passed because of excess…

The first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement was held in September 1961 at Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, and twenty-five countries took part in it.

The second line at Koraput, set up with an investment of Rs 218 crore, exists to meet their rising requirement.

That is the investment behind the second Shakti engine production line being highlighted at the Koraput event, and the added capacity is intended for indigenous helicopter platforms, named in the announcement as the Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter and the Prachand Light Combat Helicopter.

The two-thousandth engine from this plant is being handed over on 6 October 2026, with the Raksha Mantri inaugurating the event and the Chief Minister of Odisha among those attending.

At the Visakhapatnam ceremony the Raksha Mantri will launch the first ship of the class and, on the same day, lay the keel of the fifth and last ship, which marks the programme's move towards series production rather than one-off construction.