CDS GK Questions 2026

The Defence Acquisition Council that met on 26 October 2026 was chaired by Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh, and it accorded Acceptance of Necessity to capital acquisition proposals of the three Services at an estimated cost of about Rs 2,12,000 crore.

All three kinds of wave reflect, carry energy and exert pressure, but only electromagnetic waves can travel through a vacuum.

Loktak Lake lies south of Imphal in Manipur and is the largest freshwater lake in North-East India. Loktak is famous for its phumdis, floating masses of soil, vegetation and decaying organic matter that drift on the water.

A kilogram-metre per second squared is mass times acceleration, which is force; it is the newton, not a unit of energy.

Coating iron or steel with a thin layer of zinc is called galvanisation, and it is the most common way to protect them from rusting.

Tors are piles of rounded, weathered blocks standing on hilltops, and they form typically in granite. Granite cools deep underground and develops a network of joints, or cracks.

Stretching the wire to twice its length makes its resistance four times larger, so at the same voltage the current falls to a quarter.

Jamshedpur stands at the meeting point of the Subarnarekha and Kharkai rivers, not the Damodar and Barakar. Jamsetji Tata chose Sakchi, later named Jamshedpur, and the Tata Iron and Steel Company began production there in 1912.

In his 1913 model of the atom, Bohr proposed that electrons move in certain fixed orbits, called stationary states, in which they do not radiate energy.

The Estimates Committee is drawn entirely from the Lok Sabha, while the other two financial committees include members of the Rajya Sabha.

The Alaska Current and the Agulhas Current carry warm water, while the Falkland and West Australian currents are cold. A useful rule is that currents flowing from the tropics towards the poles are warm and those flowing from high latitudes towards the equator are cold.

Only the first pair is right: John Kay invented the flying shuttle.

Granite is far harder than soapstone, and foliation is a feature of metamorphic rocks, not sedimentary ones, so these two statements are wrong.

The field inside a long solenoid is directly proportional to the number of turns per unit length, so doubling n doubles the field.

Saadat Khan Burhan-ul-Mulk was appointed governor of Avadh by the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah in 1722 and made it a virtually independent state.

A light year is the distance light travels in empty space in one year, so despite its name it measures length, not time.

Chilli is native to the Americas and reached India through the Portuguese in the sixteenth century, after their voyages linked the New World with Asia.

Kamarajar Port, earlier called Ennore Port, lies on the Coromandel Coast about 24 km north of Chennai. The port was built to take the load of coal imports off Chennai Port and to feed the thermal power stations of the Tamil Nadu electricity board.

The National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property has its headquarters in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. NRLC was set up in 1976 under the Department of Culture, Government of India, and works under the Ministry of Culture.

No such revision took place; the Ain-i-Akbari remained Abu'l Fazl's own work, completed in Akbar's reign. Abu'l Fazl, a leading noble and close friend of Akbar, wrote the Akbar Nama in three volumes.