Defence GK Questions 2026

The Act guarantees at least 100 days of unskilled manual work, not skilled labour.

With a land area of only about 32 square kilometres, Lakshadweep is the smallest Union Territory of India. Lakshadweep is a group of 36 coral islands in the Arabian Sea off the Kerala coast, of which only about ten are inhabited.

All four belong to the First Anglo-Maratha War: Surat (1775), Purandar (1776), Wadgaon (1779) and Salbai (1782). In 1775 the Bombay government signed the Treaty of Surat with Raghunathrao, promising to put him in power as Peshwa in return for Salsette and Bassein.

Opportunity cost is what you sacrifice by choosing one option, measured by the best option you did not take. Because resources such as time, money and land are scarce, choosing one use means giving up others.

Radical socialism is a European political tradition, chiefly French, and is not one of the strands of socialism that grew in India.

When a bank collects tax, it acts as an agent on behalf of its customer and the government, which is an agency function.

Sound travels as compressions and rarefactions, while light is a transverse electromagnetic wave. In a longitudinal wave the particles of the medium vibrate back and forth along the direction in which the wave moves.

Shivaji took Torna first, then Javli, then killed Afzal Khan, and later raided Shaista Khan's camp. In 1646, still a teenager, Shivaji captured the fort of Torna from the Bijapur Sultanate, his first major conquest.

The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve spreads across Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka. Set up in 1986, Nilgiri was India's first biosphere reserve, and in 2000 it became the first Indian reserve on UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves.

This Delhi-based NGO, working on HIV/AIDS, led the long legal fight against Section 377 of the IPC. Section 377 punished "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" and was used against consensual same-sex relations.

IMR is a rate, so it compares infant deaths with live births in the same year. An infant is a child who has not yet completed one year of life.

Crowding-in means that government spending pulls private investment in rather than pushing it out. When the government builds roads, railways, ports and power lines, it lowers the cost of doing business and raises demand for cement, steel and machinery.

The Union Home Minister said the Ministry of Home Affairs has decided to wage a joint fight against drugs through the remaining part of 2026 and the years 2027, 2028 and 2029, so that the country is rid of the problem by the end of 2029.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the National Police Memorial in that year, dedicating it to police personnel from every part of the country who died in the line of duty.

Hot Springs lies in the remote, high-altitude and inhospitable stretch of Ladakh, and it was there on 21 October 1959 that ten men of the Central Reserve Police Force laid down their lives against an attack by Chinese troops.

The day recalls the action at the Hot Springs post in the remote and inhospitable terrain of Ladakh on 21 October 1959, when ten personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force were killed while resisting an attack by Chinese troops.

Fullerenes are made of carbon atoms alone, with no surface to trap other substances, so they are counted as the purest form of carbon.

Surface gravity is g = GM/R², so doubling the mass doubles g while doubling the radius divides it by four, leaving g₁ × 2/4 = g₁/2.

The Jhelum was called the Vitasta in the Rig Veda and in later Sanskrit texts. The rivers of the Punjab region carried Vedic names: Vitasta for the Jhelum, Asikni for the Chenab, Parushni for the Ravi, Vipasha for the Beas and Shutudri for the Satluj.

Methane makes up the largest share of biogas, usually about 55 to 75 per cent, and it is the gas that burns.