CDS GK Questions 2026

Excavations at Kalibangan in Rajasthan found a row of fire altars, the clearest evidence of a fire ritual in the Harappan civilisation.

The stretch of a spring is proportional to the force on it, and the weight of the mass on the Moon is one-sixth of its weight on Earth.

The word monsoon comes from the Arabic 'mausim', meaning season, and the climate is defined by winds that reverse their direction between summer and winter.

A primary rainbow comes from light that is refracted into a raindrop, reflected once inside it and refracted out again, and it is the brighter, inner bow.

Statement 1 restates Article 76, and statement 2 correctly describes the Solicitor General's place below the Attorney General. Article 76 of the Constitution creates the office of the Attorney General, the highest law officer of the Union.

Ocean currents are set off by solar heating and wind, while gravity and the Coriolis force shape how the water moves.

Vasco da Gama came first in 1498, Magellan's voyage followed in 1519–1522, and the English and Dutch companies were set up in 1600 and 1602.

Madhya Pradesh touches five states, and only these three of them have no coastline. Madhya Pradesh, itself landlocked, sits in the heart of India and borders Rajasthan to the north-west, Uttar Pradesh to the north-east, Chhattisgarh to the south-east, Maharashtra to the south and Gujarat to the west.

SIDM is an industry body for defence manufacturers, which is why it fits an event meant to connect military users with the firms that would actually build or refurbish the platforms.

The correct answer is Chandimandir Military Station, which is the headquarters station of Western Command and the chosen venue for the two-day seminar in December 2026.

The seminar carries exactly this theme, and the phrase itself captures the idea behind the whole exercise, namely that equipment already held by the Army should be reworked into advanced and future-ready combat systems rather than simply replaced.

Within the ADMM-Plus construct India is co-chairing the Experts Working Group on Counter-Terrorism jointly with Malaysia for the cycle that runs from 2024 to 2027.

India entered the ASEAN framework as a dialogue partner in that year, and the relationship has since widened into the defence domain through the ADMM-Plus mechanism.

The thirteenth edition of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus is being held at Cebu in the Philippines, which also holds the chair of the forum for the current year, and the Indian delegation to it is being led by Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh.

Tiger Triumph was the first tri-service exercise between India and the United States, held in November 2019 off the coast of Andhra Pradesh, with a harbour phase at Visakhapatnam and a field phase near Kakinada.

The Luhri Hydro-Electric Project is a run-of-the-river scheme on the Satluj (Sutlej) in Himachal Pradesh, on the stretch between the Shimla and Kullu districts.

The Kutch region of Gujarat is one of the driest parts of India, with low and highly uncertain rainfall, often below 40 cm a year, and failures of the monsoon in many years.

After Gandhi called off the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1922, the Congress split over the next step. The pro-changers, led by C.R.

The Great Indian Desert, or Marusthali, lies to the north-west of the Aravalli hills in western Rajasthan. It is believed that during the Mesozoic era, the age of the dinosaurs some 250 to 66 million years ago, this region lay under the sea.

The Pallavas, who ruled the Tondaimandalam region around Kanchipuram, issued their earliest copper-plate grants, such as the Mayidavolu and Hirahadagalli plates of Shivaskandavarman, in Prakrit.