CDS GK Questions 2026

The voluntary union of a maiden and her lover is the Gandharva marriage, which is the sixth of the eight forms listed in the Manusmriti.

Under ijarah only the ijaradar's payment to the state was fixed; what he collected from the peasant was not, so the peasant faced rising and arbitrary demands.

Of the four, X-rays lie farthest towards the short-wavelength, high-energy end of the electromagnetic spectrum. All electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light in vacuum but differ in wavelength.

Nuclear power plants produce energy by splitting heavy nuclei, and the energy released is given by Einstein's relation E = mc².

Rocks are constantly changed from one form to another, and the agents of that change are weathering, erosion and metamorphism, which together make up the rock cycle.

The Treaty of Yandabo, signed on 24 February 1826, ended the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824 to 1826. The war broke out when Burmese expansion into Manipur, Assam and the Cachar region brought Burma into conflict with the East India Company; Lord Amherst was Governor-General.

National Youth Day is observed on 12 January, not 12 March, and it marks the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.

The time period of a simple pendulum depends on the square root of its length and not on its mass, so four times the length gives twice the period.

Antibodies are made by B lymphocytes, which turn into plasma cells that release antibodies in very large numbers during an immune response.

Mutual respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, mutual non-interference and peaceful co-existence are all Panchsheel principles; collective security is not one of them.

All rose plants of one kind belong to a single species, the basic unit of classification. A species is a group of individuals that are alike in their main features and can interbreed in nature to produce fertile offspring.

The English physicist James Prescott Joule showed around 1841 that when a current flows through a conductor, the heat produced is proportional to the square of the current, the resistance of the conductor and the time for which the current flows.

The Kuvempu Rashtriya Puraskar for 2020 was given to the Odia poet Rajendra Kishore Panda.

Statement 1 is right: all four were declared Ramsar wetlands of international importance in 2021, Sultanpur and Bhindawas in Haryana, and Thol and Wadhwana in Gujarat.

Lhotse is not in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands at all; it is a Himalayan peak on the border of Nepal and Tibet, just south of Mount Everest, and at about 8,516 metres it is the fourth-highest mountain in the world.

Gujarat has the longest coastline of any Indian state. Its coast runs from the Rann of Kachchh in the north, around the Gulf of Kachchh and the Saurashtra (Kathiawar) peninsula, into the Gulf of Khambhat and down to the border with Maharashtra near Daman.

India's first underwater metro tunnel runs beneath the Hooghly river in Kolkata. It is part of the East-West Metro corridor (the Green Line) of Kolkata Metro and joins Howrah on the west bank with Kolkata on the east bank.

The Adivaraha cave temple at Mamallapuram has two rare royal portrait panels of the Pallava kings. One shows Simhavishnu seated between two queens, and the other shows his son Mahendravarman I standing with his two queens, with labels in the Pallava Grantha script naming them.

Invisibles are part of the current account of the balance of payments, not the capital account. The balance of payments records all of a country's transactions with the rest of the world and has two main parts.

Article 12, the first article of Part III, defines "the State" for the purpose of Fundamental Rights.