CDS GK Questions 2026

Unlike the President, the Governor of a state has no diplomatic or military powers. The Governor's powers are broadly similar to the President's in the executive, legislative and judicial fields, but defence and foreign affairs belong to the Union.

India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, made solidarity with the newly free nations of Asia and Africa a central pillar of India's foreign policy.

Capital deepening means the stock of capital grows faster than the labour force, so each worker has more machines and tools to work with.

Article 53 vests the executive power of the Union and the supreme command of the defence forces in the President, but it does not say the power is used only through subordinate officers.

The idea of farr-i izadi, a light emanating from God, was first developed by the twelfth-century Iranian Sufi thinker Shihabuddin Suhrawardi.

Article 151(1) says the CAG's reports relating to the accounts of the Union are submitted to the President, who causes them to be laid before each House of Parliament.

Classical economists held that the economy always tends back to full employment, so any unemployment is short-lived. The classical theory rests on Say's Law, that supply creates its own demand, so there can be no general overproduction.

Lakshmidhara, a minister of the Gahadavala king Govindachandra of Kanauj, compiled the Kritya-kalpataru, the first great nibandha or digest of Dharmashastra, epic and Puranic texts.

This massive stone platform in the royal enclosure at Hampi was where the Vijayanagara kings performed the rituals of the Mahanavami festival.

Under paragraph 15 of the Sixth Schedule, the Governor can annul or suspend any act or resolution of a District or Regional Council.

The Damanganga Reservoir Project is the main irrigation scheme of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, whose canal network of about 115 km of minor canals and distributaries serves the territory.

Gandhi founded the Phoenix Settlement near Durban, South Africa, in 1904. Gandhi set up the settlement after reading John Ruskin's Unto This Last, which convinced him that the life of labour, of the tiller and the craftsman, is the life worth living.

The Sixth Schedule says the accounts of the District and Regional Councils are audited in the manner the CAG thinks fit.

The Ten Degree Channel, which runs along this latitude, separates the Andaman group from the Nicobar group. The Ten Degree Channel lies between Little Andaman in the north and Car Nicobar in the south, and it is about 150 km wide.

The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has its headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand. ESCAP is one of the five regional commissions of the UN Economic and Social Council.

The National Commission for Women is a statutory body set up under the National Commission for Women Act, 1990. Parliament passed the Act in 1990, and the Commission was constituted in January 1992.

The line comes from Gandhi's writings on health, where he treats the body as a servant of the spirit. Gandhi wrote widely on diet, fasting, nature cure and self-control, most famously in his little book on health.

The Sixth Schedule fixes the term in exactly these words. Autonomous District Councils are set up under the Sixth Schedule for the tribal areas of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.

The Union Budget is always presented first in the Lok Sabha, and the money bills that give effect to it can begin only in that House.

Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, the foremost peasant leader of Bihar, was elected President of the All India Kisan Sabha at its Vijayawada (Bezwada) session of 1944.