CDS GK Questions 2026

RNA is usually single-stranded and its sugar, ribose, carries an extra hydroxyl group, which makes the molecule more reactive and easier to break or alter than double-stranded DNA.

Article 323A, added by the 42nd Amendment in 1976, lets Parliament by law set up administrative tribunals for the Union and for each state or group of states to decide disputes on recruitment and service conditions of public servants.

Siyar-ul-Mutakherin, meaning 'Review of Modern Times', was written in Persian by Syed Ghulam Husain Khan Tabatabai and completed around 1781.

The question asks which statement is not correct. The Azamgarh Proclamation was issued in August 1857 in the name of the rebels, and is usually linked with Firoz Shah, a prince of the Mughal family.

The Quad, or Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, has four members: India, the United States, Japan and Australia. France is a major Indo-Pacific partner of India with its island territories in the Indian Ocean, but it is not a member of the grouping.

Chisht, today Chisht-e-Sharif, is a small town in the valley of the Hari Rud river in Herat province of Afghanistan, east of the city of Herat.

Article 55(3) of the Constitution says the President is elected in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote, and the voting is by secret ballot.

By Newton's law of gravitation, the acceleration due to gravity at the surface is g = GM/R², where G is the universal gravitational constant, M is the mass of the Earth and R is its radius.

Kunzru, a member of the Servants of India Society, founded the Seva Samiti at Allahabad in 1914 to organise social service: relief during famines, floods and epidemics, help to pilgrims at melas, and the spread of education and sanitation.

Plantation agriculture is the large-scale growing of a single cash crop such as tea, coffee, rubber, sugarcane, cocoa or bananas, mainly for export.

Per capita GDP is total output divided by total population, and it can be broken into three parts that multiply together.

Around 240 BC Eratosthenes, the librarian of Alexandria in Egypt, learnt that at noon on the summer solstice the Sun shone straight down a well at Syene (modern Aswan), so it was directly overhead there.

Molarity and molality are both standard ways of stating how much solute is present in a solution.

Renukoot in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh is known for aluminium, not for iron and steel. Renukoot is home to the Hindalco aluminium smelter, set up in the early 1960s near the Rihand dam, whose cheap hydroelectric power suits the huge electricity needs of aluminium smelting.

For a real object anywhere in front of it, a convex mirror always gives a virtual, erect and diminished image.

Red light has the longest wavelength in the visible spectrum, so glass slows it the least and bends it the least.

Maulana Azad was India's first Education Minister, serving in Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet from 1947 until his death in 1958. Azad was a scholar, journalist and Congress leader who had been the youngest president of the Indian National Congress in 1923 and its president again from 1940 to 1946.

Indian Standard Time is based on 82.5° E, and a place 5 hours behind lies 75° to the west of it, at 82.5° − 75° = 7.5° E. The Earth turns 360° in 24 hours, so local time changes by one hour for every 15° of longitude, or four minutes…

For three equal resistors R in parallel, 1/Rp = 1/R + 1/R + 1/R = 3/R, so Rp = R/3.

The brothers Harihara I and Bukka Raya I founded the Vijayanagara Empire in 1336, with its capital on the banks of the Tungabhadra at Hampi.