CDS GK Questions 2026

Mission Indradhanush aims to raise full immunisation coverage among children, and it also covers pregnant women. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched it on 25 December 2014 to reach children who had been left out or only partly vaccinated under the routine Universal Immunisation Programme.

S-waves are not less destructive; their side-to-side shaking does more damage to buildings and overpasses than P-waves do. S-waves, or secondary waves, are transverse body waves: they move the ground at right angles to the direction in which they travel.

Isoenzymes, also called isozymes, are different molecular forms of an enzyme that speed up the same chemical reaction but differ in their amino acid sequence.

All three statements describe the weapons correctly. HAMMER, short for Highly Agile Modular Munition Extended Range, is a French precision-guided air-to-ground bomb kit made by Safran; India bought it to arm its Rafale jets, which can strike targets tens of kilometres away with it.

The Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules give all four subjects to the Department of Defence in the Ministry of Defence.

The Dasavatara temple at Deogarh is a Gupta building, but the Bhitargaon temple is made of brick, not dressed stone.

In October 1962 American aerial photographs revealed Soviet missile sites under construction in Cuba; President John F. Kennedy ordered a naval quarantine of the island and, after thirteen days, Nikita Khrushchev agreed to withdraw the missiles, the United States undertaking not to invade Cuba.

The wall was opened and began to be broken up on 9 November 1989, the single most memorable image of the end of the Cold War.

The Gold Coast became independent as Ghana on 6 March 1957 under Kwame Nkrumah, the first colony in sub-Saharan Africa to do so, and Nkrumah became a leading voice of pan-Africanism and a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement.

Krishna Menon, India's best known diplomat of the period and later Defence Minister, is credited with coining the expression non-alignment in a United Nations speech in 1953; he is also remembered for the longest speech ever made at the Security Council, on Kashmir.

The five principles were written into the preamble of the agreement on trade and intercourse between India and the Tibet region of China, signed on 29 April 1954 by Jawaharlal Nehru and Zhou Enlai.

The first summit of non-aligned countries met at Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, in September 1961, with twenty-five participating countries, and Jawaharlal Nehru, Josip Broz Tito, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Sukarno and Kwame Nkrumah are regarded as the movement's founders.

The Asian-African Conference met at Bandung in Indonesia in April 1955 with twenty-nine newly independent countries, condemned colonialism and racialism, and endorsed the principles of peaceful coexistence; it is often called the forerunner of the Non-Aligned Movement.

The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance was signed in the Polish capital on 14 May 1955, which is why the alliance carries that city's name, although its forces were commanded from Moscow.

The North Atlantic Treaty was signed at Washington on 4 April 1949 by twelve countries, during the Berlin blockade, and bound its members to treat an attack on one as an attack on all.

Churchill, by then out of office, spoke at Westminster College in Fulton on 5 March 1946 and said that an iron curtain had descended across the continent from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic.

The English engineer Thomas Savery patented a steam pump in 1698 and called it the Miner's Friend, as it was meant to pump water out of flooded mines.

The French set up their first factory in India at Surat in 1668, under François Caron. The French East India Company was founded in 1664 under the patronage of King Louis XIV and his minister Colbert, making it the last of the major European companies to reach India.

Napoleon defeated Austria at Wagram near Vienna in July 1809, and Austria signed the Treaty of Schönbrunn in October 1809.

Each half of the wire has a resistance of 10 Ω, and two 10 Ω resistors in parallel give 5 Ω. The resistance of a wire is R = ρL/A, so it is directly proportional to its length when the material and thickness stay the same.