CDS GK Questions 2026

The Irish-born theosophist, who had made India her home and led the Theosophical Society from Adyar, presided over the Calcutta session of the Congress in 1917, the year in which the Government interned her for her Home Rule agitation.

Vande Mataram, written in Sanskritised Bengali by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and included in his novel Anandamath, was sung for the first time at a Congress session at the Calcutta session of 1896, and Rabindranath Tagore himself set the tune and sang it.

The first session of the Indian National Congress met at the Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay from 28 to 31 December 1885 and was attended by 72 delegates, most of them lawyers, journalists, teachers and merchants drawn from the presidency towns, with W. C. Bonnerjee presiding.

A retired officer of the Indian Civil Service who had served in the North-Western Provinces, Hume issued an appeal to the graduates of Calcutta University in 1883, organised the body he called the Indian National Union, and brought its first session together at Bombay in December 1885, where it took…

A pyramid of energy is always upright because energy is lost as heat at every step of a food chain, so each higher trophic level holds less energy than the one below it.

An ecotone is the transition zone where two different ecosystems meet and mix, such as the belt between a grassland and a forest, an estuary between a river and the sea, or a mangrove strip between land and ocean.

That four-part description is the goal the conference's key deliberations were aligned to, and it was to be reached through jointness, coordination across agencies, the best use of available resources and strategic alignment.

He underscored the Navy's role as a strategic force multiplier in safeguarding national interests, commended its operational commitment to maintaining energy security and its efforts on technology absorption and indigenisation, and pressed for technology-driven transformation, resilience and greater integration among the defence forces.

The second edition of the Naval Commanders' Conference 2026 was conducted in New Delhi over three days, from 29 September to 1 October 2026, and it was at this apex-level sitting that the Navy's operational and materiel preparedness was reviewed.

The official account records that the boxer took the gold with an emphatic victory in the final, which indicates a commanding performance rather than a result that could have gone either way.

The Prime Minister used exactly this framing, which marks the medal as the closing result of the country's boxing effort at these Games, and he separately called the boxer's passion and dedication noteworthy.

Ankush won the gold medal in the men's 80 kg boxing event at the Asian Games with an emphatic victory in the final, and the weight division is the detail that decides this question.

The halocline is the layer in a vertical section of the ocean in which salinity changes sharply with depth; the name comes from the Greek halos, meaning salt.

An anticyclone is a system of high pressure, with the highest pressure at its centre, and the air there sinks from above.

The Coriolis effect is an apparent force produced by the rotation of the earth on its axis.

S waves are transverse and cannot pass through the liquid outer core, so a wide belt beyond about 103 degrees from the epicentre receives no S waves at all.

The Charter of the United Nations was signed at San Francisco on 26 June 1945, at the close of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, by the delegates of fifty nations; Poland signed a little later and so the organisation began with fifty-one original members.

Hyphasis is the Greek name of the Beas, and it was on its bank in 326 BC that Alexander's tired soldiers refused to march any further east, which is why the Beas marks the eastern limit of his campaign.

When layers of rock are squeezed by compression they bend, and a fold that arches upward is called an anticline.

Subhas Chandra Bose proclaimed the Provisional Government of Free India, the Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind, at Singapore on 21 October 1943.