CDS GK Questions 2026

Article 88 gives the Attorney General the right to speak in and otherwise take part in the proceedings of both Houses of Parliament, any joint sitting and any committee of which the office holder is named a member, but without the right to vote.

The richly illustrated manuscript of the Badshah Nama that now lies in the Royal Library at Windsor reached King George the Third in 1799 as a gift from the Nawab of Awadh.

Dadabhai Naoroji set up the East India Association in London in 1866 to place Indian questions before the British public and members of Parliament, and branches of it were soon opened in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras.

The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes began work as a separate body in 2004.

Khizr Khan founded the Sayyid dynasty at Delhi in 1414 after taking the city from Daulat Khan Lodi.

Vatapi is today's Badami in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, and it was the capital of the Chalukyas of Badami, founded by Pulakeshin the First in the sixth century.

The post of National Security Adviser was created in November 1998, when the Vajpayee government set up the National Security Council.

Rudramadevi ruled the Kakatiya kingdom from Warangal, called Orugallu then, in what is now Telangana, in the second half of the thirteenth century.

Shortughai stands in north-eastern Afghanistan, near the Oxus or Amu Darya river, and is the northernmost Harappan settlement known.

Article 60 lays down the form of the oath or affirmation that the President of India makes before entering office.

The elections of 1937 were held under the Government of India Act, 1935, and the Congress swept the country, winning a clear majority in five provinces and emerging as the largest party in most of the rest.

Nothing is oxidised when a soda bottle is opened; the pressure inside simply falls, the dissolved carbon dioxide becomes less soluble and escapes as bubbles.

This Act, formally the Indian Councils Act of 1909, first gave Muslims a separate electorate, in which Muslim voters chose Muslim members from Muslim-only constituencies.

Article 338A was inserted by the 89th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2003, which split the earlier joint commission into two separate bodies and gave the Scheduled Tribes a commission of their own from 2004.

Naphthalene is an aromatic hydrocarbon, C10H8, with a very high proportion of carbon, so the air around the flame cannot supply enough oxygen to burn all of it to carbon dioxide.

The Charter Act of 1833 ended the East India Company's last trading privilege, its monopoly over trade with China and in tea, and turned the Company into a purely administrative body holding India in trust for the British Crown.

The Tropic of Capricorn runs at about 23.5 degrees south and misses Uruguay, which lies further south between roughly 30 and 35 degrees.

It provides for Autonomous District Councils in the tribal areas of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram, and is read with Article 244(2).

The south-west monsoon splits over the sea into two arms, and Punjab is one of the few places where both reach.

The Battle of Ten Kings, or Dasarajna, is described in the seventh book of the Rigveda.