Defence GK Questions 2026

Without oxygen, yeast carries out alcoholic fermentation, breaking glucose into ethanol and carbon dioxide and gaining a little ATP. Glucose is first split into two molecules of pyruvate by glycolysis, which yields a net gain of two ATP.

Regur is the black soil of the Deccan, and its ability to hold moisture makes it the classic cotton soil of India.

Borax is sodium tetraborate decahydrate, Na2B4O7·10H2O, so it contains only sodium, boron, oxygen and hydrogen. Its chemical name is sodium tetraborate, and the ten molecules of water of crystallisation supply the hydrogen and part of the oxygen.

The commercial-crops component of the National Food Security Mission covers cotton, jute and sugarcane, while coffee is a plantation crop handled by the Coffee Board.

When ice melts it only changes from solid to liquid; the substance is still water, so it is a physical change.

Kamarajar Port is a corporatised major port that was earlier called Ennore Port, but it is an artificial harbour, not a natural one.

Ribosomes make proteins, a job every living cell must do, so they are present in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.

Under the structured Master Trainer model, every Master Trainer who completes the Army course will go back and train 100 Civil Defence Volunteers in their own State or Union Territory.

The announcement states that this directorate of the Ministry of Home Affairs, working in coordination with the Indian Army, is undertaking the pilot initiative to strengthen Civil Defence preparedness through specialised training of Master Trainers.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has said that in the first phase a total of 600 Civil Defence Master Trainers, 50 from each participating State or Union Territory, are proposed to be trained by the second week of November 2026 through a three-day specialised programme at designated Indian Army training…

The Ministry of Defence statement records that INS Sahyadri left Vladivostok in the Russian Federation on 20 October 2026, after the harbour phase of the exercise had been held there and the sea phase had been completed.

INDRA is the bilateral naval exercise of the Indian Navy and the Russian Federation Navy, and the Ministry of Defence said the conclusion of the drill reaffirmed the enduring defence and maritime partnership between India and Russia.

The Ministry of Defence said that Indian Naval Ship Sahyadri departed Vladivostok in the Russian Federation on 20 October 2026 after the bilateral naval exercise INDRA 2026 between the Indian Navy and the Russian Federation Navy was completed, so Sahyadri is the Indian warship tied to this edition of the…

Narayana Bhatta, a Vaishnava scholar of the sixteenth century, wrote the Sanskrit text Vraja Bhakti Vilasa in 1552, describing the sacred sites of the Braj region around Mathura and Vrindavan.

Article 176 of the Constitution requires the Governor to give this special address on these two occasions. In the address the Governor tells the legislature why it has been summoned and sets out the policies and programme of the state government, whose council of ministers actually prepares the text.

Alluvial soils, laid down by rivers, generally contain plenty of potash but lack phosphorus, and they are also often short of nitrogen and humus.

The Congress resolution on non-cooperation, passed at the special Calcutta session of September 1920 and confirmed at Nagpur in December 1920, called for the renunciation of all voluntary association with the British Government.

Binodini Dasi, a leading actress of the Bengali stage, wrote Amar Katha ("My Story"), which first appeared in parts between 1910 and 1913 and was published as a book in 1913.

Railway tracks are joined by the thermite process, in which aluminium powder reduces iron oxide to molten iron. The reaction is Fe₂O₃ + 2Al → 2Fe + Al₂O₃.

Panaji, the capital of Goa, lies at about 15.5° N latitude, the lowest of the four cities, so it is the closest to the Equator.