CDS GK Questions 2026

Each of the five Fleet Support Ships is a vessel of this size, built to replenish warships while they remain at sea by passing across fuel, stores and provisions, so that a task force can keep operating without returning to harbour.

The yard is building all five Fleet Support Ships ordered by the Indian Navy, and FSS-1 will be launched there on 6 October 2026 into the waters of the Bay of Bengal, eighteen months after its steel was first cut.

According to the Ministry of Defence, the Indian Army contingent at Mountain Guardian 2026 comprises troops from a Bhairav Battalion, while the partner contingent from the United Arab Emirates comprises troops of a Mountain Infantry Battalion.

The Ministry of Defence stated that a total of 92 personnel are taking part in the exercise, with the Indian Army and the UAE Army represented in equal numbers.

The Ministry of Defence announced that the India–UAE joint military exercise Mountain Guardian 2026 began at the Foreign Training Node in Chaubatia, Uttarakhand, with equal participation from both armies and mountain warfare as the theme.

Nelson Mandela, the leader of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and later its President, received the Bharat Ratna in 1990, the same year in which Dr B. R. Ambedkar was honoured posthumously.

The Bharat Ratna is a medallion shaped like a peepal leaf, about an inch and three-eighths wide, bearing a sun on the front with the words Bharat Ratna below it in Devanagari, and the State Emblem with the motto Satyameva Jayate on the reverse.

The Carnatic vocalist M. S. Subbulakshmi received the Bharat Ratna in 1998 and was the first musician in the list.

Article 18 abolishes titles and forbids the State from conferring any title except a military or academic distinction. The civilian awards survive because they are treated as decorations and not as titles, and for the same reason a recipient may not write Bharat Ratna before or after a name.

Until December 2011 the Bharat Ratna could be given only for art, literature, science and public service. The rules were then widened to cover any field of human endeavour, and in 2014 Sachin Tendulkar became the first sportsperson to receive the award, along with the scientist C. N. R. Rao.

The Pashtun leader Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, called the Frontier Gandhi and the founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement, received the Bharat Ratna in 1987 and was the first recipient who was not an Indian citizen.

Indira Gandhi received the Bharat Ratna in 1971, while she was Prime Minister, and she is the first woman in the list.

The original rules of 1954 did not allow a posthumous award; the provision was added in 1955, and the first person honoured after his death was Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second Prime Minister of India, in 1966, the year he died at Tashkent.

The first three recipients of the Bharat Ratna, all in 1954, were C. Rajagopalachari, the last Governor-General of India, the physicist C. V. Raman and the philosopher S. Radhakrishnan, who later became President.

The Bharat Ratna was instituted on 2 January 1954 by President Dr Rajendra Prasad, on the same day as the Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri, and the first awards were conferred later the same year on C. Rajagopalachari, C. V. Raman and S. Radhakrishnan.

The Act created the Lokpal, an anti-corruption ombudsman for the Union, consisting of a Chairperson and members of whom not more than half are judicial members, and it required the States to establish a Lokayukta.

The article, inserted by the 7th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1956, requires the President to appoint a Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities, usually called the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, to investigate all matters relating to the safeguards provided for linguistic minorities and to report to the President, who places the report…

The Central Information Commission was created by the Right to Information Act, 2005, and hears second appeals from the orders of public information officers and first appellate authorities of the Union.

It provides that the Chairman or any other member of a Public Service Commission shall be removed from office by order of the President on the ground of misbehaviour only after the Supreme Court, on a reference made by the President, has held an inquiry and reported that the member…

The article requires the President to appoint a person qualified to be a judge of the Supreme Court as Attorney General for India, the highest law officer of the Union, who advises the Government on legal matters and appears for it in the Supreme Court.