CDS GK Questions 2026

Kingsford had passed harsh sentences on young Swadeshi workers as a magistrate at Calcutta and had been transferred to Muzaffarpur.

Savarkar had founded a youth body called Mitra Mela at Nasik in 1899 and converted it into the Abhinav Bharat Society in 1904, which spread in Maharashtra and later had branches in London through India House.

The Anushilan Samiti, founded in 1902, was the largest revolutionary organisation of Bengal, and its Dhaka branch under Pulin Behari Das was the most tightly organised.

A bomb was thrown at Lord Hardinge during his ceremonial entry into Delhi in December 1912, when the capital was being shifted from Calcutta.

The Ghadar Party was founded in 1913 at San Francisco by Indian emigrants, mainly Punjabi workers and farmers on the Pacific coast of North America.

Bhikaji Cama unfurled a flag of Indian independence at the International Socialist Congress held at Stuttgart in Germany in 1907, and appealed to the delegates to support the Indian cause.

The Act of 1935 ended dyarchy in the provinces, granted provincial autonomy and placed the whole provincial administration under ministers answerable to elected legislatures.

Balban took the title Zil-i-Ilahi to claim that the sultan rules as the shadow of God on earth, a claim that placed him far above his nobles.

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

Bhulabhai Desai led the defence at the Red Fort trials of the Indian National Army officers, and his argument that the soldiers of a recognised army were fighting for their country's freedom turned the trials into a public cause.

The Sea Phase consisted of coordinated exercises in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief, Visit-Board-Search-Seizure and Underway Replenishment, with helicopter work covering cross-deck landings, vertical replenishment and casualty evacuation.

Acronyms with a full form of this length are standard objective-paper material, and the safest way to carry them is word by word rather than by sense, because every distractor here is built to sound right.

Themes are among the most heavily tested details in questions on exercises and summits, because they are specific, short and easy to confuse with a plausible alternative.

The ASEAN-India Maritime Exercise was conducted there, with INS Sahyadri and INS Kulish representing the Indian Navy through both the Harbour Phase and the Sea Phase.

The correct answer is Vedic Kavach, the post-quantum cryptography platform built by BISAG-N. The keys produced by the quantum link were integrated with it, and test messages were then encrypted and decrypted from end to end.

Both numbers describe the quality of the link: the key rate is how fast fresh secret material can be produced for encryption, and the error rate measures how often a photon is read wrongly, which in quantum key distribution also signals whether anyone has interfered with the channel.

QNu Labs supplied the hardware QKD device Armos, BISAG-N contributed the post-quantum cryptography platform Vedic Kavach along with one end of the link, and IIT Gandhinagar hosted the other end and provided the field setting.

That is the span over which the country's first free-space Quantum Key Distribution link was established, between the BISAG-N campus and IIT Gandhinagar, in a field trial run on the night of 27 and 28 September.

Gandhi led the Kheda satyagraha in 1918, asking the government to remit land revenue after the crops failed in that district of Gujarat.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union is the global body of national parliaments and runs its own affairs, so an election at the United Nations is not on its programme.