Defence GK Questions 2026

The Moderates never demanded universal adult franchise; they asked only for a larger share for educated Indians in the legislative councils.

Annie Besant founded the Central Hindu College (with its school) at Benaras in 1898, and it later became the nucleus of Banaras Hindu University.

Statements 1 and 3 are correct; statement 2 is wrong because the woman surrounded by lotuses and elephants is a different figure, usually identified as Gajalakshmi or Maya.

The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 brought together the Factories Act, 1948, the Plantations Labour Act, 1951 and other laws on safety and working conditions.

Only statement 3 is correct: the acid must be added slowly to water, and dilution lowers the concentration of hydronium ions per unit volume.

Nattar does not mean a male serpent deity; the nattar were the members of the nadu, the assembly of a group of villages in early medieval Tamil Nadu.

These are cirrocumulus clouds: high clouds of ice crystals arranged in small white puffs and ripples. Clouds are grouped by height and shape.

. The National Recruitment Agency was created to hold a Common Eligibility Test to shortlist candidates for Group B and Group C (non-technical) posts of the Central Government.

. Hariti was a child-eating yakshi whom the Buddha converted into a protector of children and a benevolent mother figure.

Gandhiji regarded Gopal Krishna Gokhale as his political guru, his Rajya Guru. Gandhi first met Gokhale in 1896 and they grew close when Gokhale visited South Africa in 1912.

A wider deficit financed by borrowing tends to push up inflation and interest rates, and higher interest rates can slow private investment.

Planck's constant has the same dimensions as angular momentum, [M L² T⁻¹].

. Statement D is the incorrect one: the streams on a dissected volcanic cone do form a radial drainage pattern.

Biogas is mainly methane and carbon dioxide. Biogas is produced when bacteria break down animal dung, crop waste and kitchen waste in the absence of oxygen, a process called anaerobic digestion.

Adiabatic temperature changes in the atmosphere are caused by the expansion and compression of air, with no heat added or removed.

Punjab has the highest share of Scheduled Castes in its population among the States, about 31.9 per cent in Census 2011.

Statements 1 and 2 are correct; statement 3 is wrong because two indifference curves can never cut each other. An indifference curve shows the combinations of two goods that give a consumer the same satisfaction.

Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, was a devoted follower of the Naqshbandi saint Khwaja Ubaydullah Ahrar. The Naqshbandi order was the leading Sufi silsila of Central Asia, and Khwaja Ubaydullah Ahrar (died 1490) of Samarkand was its most powerful leader in the fifteenth century.

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, launched on 25 December 2000, is the oldest of the four schemes. PMGSY was started to give all-weather road connectivity to unconnected rural habitations, and it is fully centrally sponsored.

The Satapatra series (Shatapatre, "a hundred letters") was written by Gopal Hari Deshmukh, known as Lokahitawadi. Gopal Hari Deshmukh (1823-1892) was an early social reformer of Maharashtra.