CDS GK Questions 2026

PARAM Shivay was commissioned in 2019 at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, and it was the first supercomputer assembled within India under the National Supercomputing Mission.

PARAM 8000 was built by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing at Pune and was unveiled in 1991, three years after C-DAC itself was set up in 1988.

It admitted Sikkim as the twenty-second State of the Indian Union, inserted it into the First Schedule and omitted the earlier provisions that had given it a special status.

It amended the First Schedule to give effect to the acquiring of territories by India and the transfer of certain territories to Bangladesh under the Land Boundary Agreement, settling a dispute that had lasted since Partition.

Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act of 2014 and came into existence on 2 June 2014, which is observed as its formation day.

The Seventh Constitutional Amendment Act of 1956 accompanied the States Reorganisation Act, abolished the old classification of States into Parts A, B, C and D, and reorganised the country into fourteen States and six Union territories.

It was carved out of the Madras Presidency in 1953 for Telugu speakers, after the death of Potti Sriramulu on a fast unto death pressed the demand to a point the government could not resist.

The States Reorganisation Commission was appointed in 1953 under the chairmanship of Fazl Ali and submitted its report in 1955.

The President sought the advisory opinion of the Supreme Court on whether the agreement to transfer part of the Berubari Union to Pakistan could be carried out under Article 3.

Article 4 states that a law made under Article 2 or Article 3 may contain provisions for amending the First Schedule, which lists the States and Union territories, and the Fourth Schedule, which allots Rajya Sabha seats, and that no such law shall be deemed to be an amendment of…

The proviso to Article 3 lays down two conditions. First, such a Bill may be introduced in either House only on the recommendation of the President.

Article 2 provides that Parliament may by law admit into the Union, or establish, new States on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit.

Article 1 says that India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States, and the Drafting Committee chose that phrase with care.

Article 3 deals only with territory that is already part of India.

Sanyal, a founder of the Hindustan Republican Association and the author of its manifesto The Revolutionary, wrote Bandi Jivan, an account of prison life and revolutionary faith that circulated widely among the youth of the 1920s. Option A is wrong because Ram Prasad Bismil is remembered for his autobiography written…

A schoolteacher known as Masterda, Surya Sen led the Indian Republican Army in a raid on the armoury at Chittagong in April 1930, hoisted the national flag and declared a provisional government before the group took to the hills.

The two threw low-intensity bombs into the empty benches of the Central Legislative Assembly on 8 April 1929 while the Public Safety Bill and the Trade Disputes Bill were being pushed through, shouted slogans, threw leaflets and refused to escape, so that the trial could be used to explain their…

Revolutionaries from the United Provinces, Punjab and elsewhere met at the ruins of Feroz Shah Kotla in September 1928 and reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, adding socialism to its aim of independence; Chandra Shekhar Azad became its commander in chief.

Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie was a political aide to the Secretary of State for India, and Madan Lal Dhingra, who belonged to the India House circle of Shyamji Krishna Varma, shot him at a meeting in London in 1909 and was hanged the same year.

The HRA had been founded at Kanpur in 1924 by Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee and Ram Prasad Bismil, and it needed money for arms, so its members stopped a train near Kakori in the United Provinces and took the government treasury it carried.