CDS GK Questions 2026

Moraines, eskers and outwash plains are landforms left by glaciers, and among these Union Territories only Ladakh has glaciated high mountains.

UDAN is the regional connectivity scheme meant to grow regional air travel and make it affordable while keeping the routes viable for airlines.

COP-27 was the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The UNFCCC was adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and its parties meet every year at a COP.

Tiny gas molecules in the air scatter short wavelengths far more strongly than long ones. This is Rayleigh scattering: the amount of scattering varies inversely with the fourth power of the wavelength.

Australia's men's field hockey team is known as the Kookaburras, after the laughing bird native to Australia. The Kookaburras are among the strongest sides in world hockey.

Pairs I, II and III are correct; pair IV is wrong because UNTSO works in the Middle East, not Haiti.

The Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2007–2012) carried the title "Towards Faster and More Inclusive Growth". The Eleventh Plan was prepared by the Planning Commission under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, with Montek Singh Ahluwalia as Deputy Chairman.

That is exactly how the Indian Navy describes the ship in the announcement of its arrival at Busan, and each part of the phrase carries meaning.

The exercise is arranged in two parts. During the harbour phase the two navies hold professional interactions, cross-deck visits, cross-training and sporting events while the Indian frigate is alongside at Busan.

The ship that entered Busan Naval Harbour in the Republic of Korea for the India-Republic of Korea Navy bilateral exercise is INS Sahyadri, a guided missile stealth frigate that was designed and built in India.

The correct answer is Veer Guardian 26, the India-Japan air force exercise during which Japanese fighter aircraft came to India for the first time; the Chief of Staff of the Air Self-Defense Force travelled to India in conjunction with it.

Their discussion covered the working of the foundational security agreements and ways to accelerate operational readiness, technology sharing and defence industrial integration, as well as military-to-military exchanges, maritime security and the integration of defence supply chains.

The two ministers welcomed the steady progress in bilateral defence cooperation since they last met in August, and reviewed work on mine countermeasures, the prospect of joint development in naval shipbuilding and design, and cooperation between the two air forces.

The Defence Minister used the occasion for two bilateral meetings, one with the American Secretary of War and the other with the Japanese Minister of Defense.

During a sprint the muscles need energy faster than the blood can supply oxygen, so they switch to anaerobic respiration and lactic acid builds up.

Income distance had the highest weight, followed by population, area and demographic change. The Fourteenth Finance Commission, chaired by Y.V.

Fluorine cannot be detected by Lassaigne's test, because silver fluoride is soluble in water and gives no precipitate. Lassaigne's test, or the sodium fusion test, detects nitrogen, sulphur and halogens in an organic compound.

The Vijaynagar Advanced Landing Ground is in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh, in a remote valley close to the Myanmar border in the far east of the state.

Analogous structures do the same job but evolved separately, and the wings of birds and bats are a standard example.

Planaria is a free-living flatworm, while the other three are parasites that live inside a host. Planaria belongs to the phylum Platyhelminthes and lives in freshwater ponds and streams, gliding under stones and feeding on small animals.