Defence GK Questions 2026

The OTA trains officers only for the Indian Army, so it is a single-service institution, not an inter-services one. The Officers Training Academy at Chennai trains short service commission officers, men and women, for the Army; a second OTA works at Gaya.

The Dutch traveller wrote these words about the poverty of peasants under the Mughals during the reign of Jahangir.

Hooke's law says stress is directly proportional to strain, and that holds only up to the proportional limit, where the curve is a straight line.

A constellation is a group of stars that appears to form a shape when seen from the earth, but its stars usually lie at very different distances from us.

This is the vision the Indian Navy advances through deployments and port calls such as the visit of INS Tarkash to Port Louis, where joint training with the Mauritius Coast Guard, community outreach and participation in a national commemoration all serve the same purpose.

The first batch of indentured labourers from India stepped ashore at Aapravasi Ghat in Port Louis on 2 November of that year, and Mauritius has marked the date every year since; the observance in 2026 is the 192nd.

The frigate arrived there on 30 October 2026 while on an operational deployment to the Southern Indian Ocean Region, and the call is intended to strengthen naval cooperation through professional interactions, joint activities and cultural exchanges with the Mauritius Coast Guard.

Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, who was holding the appointment of Vice Chief of the Air Staff, assumes charge as the head of the Indian Air Force on 31 October 2026, and it is his elevation that creates the vacancy filled by Air Marshal Inderpal Singh Walia a day later.

Air Marshal Walia was serving as its Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief when he was named Vice Chief of the Air Staff, and his link with this command runs deeper still, because he had earlier been its Senior Air Staff Officer before rising to lead it.

The Ministry of Defence announced that this officer, decorated with the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal and the Vayu Sena Medal, takes over as Vice Chief of the Air Staff, the second-ranking appointment in the Indian Air Force.

The word barbarian comes from the Greek barbaros, a name for anyone who was not Greek, and the Romans later applied it to the peoples beyond their frontiers, such as the Germanic tribes, the Gauls and the Huns.

Article 371B, added by the 22nd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1969, lets the President provide for a committee of the Assam Legislative Assembly made up of members from the tribal areas.

In an ideal gas the molecules move with a whole range of speeds, so this statement is false. The kinetic theory treats an ideal gas as a large number of tiny molecules in random motion that collide elastically with one another and with the walls.

Sir B. N. Rau was the Constitutional Adviser to the Constituent Assembly and prepared its first draft, but he was not a member of the Drafting Committee.

The British physicist said these words in a lecture in January 2016, using his own work on black holes as a message of hope for people facing depression.

Tejas is India's indigenous Light Combat Aircraft, and the first two were handed over to the Indian Air Force on 1 July 2016 to form No. 45 Squadron, the Flying Daggers.

Bitcoin is a decentralised digital currency created by computer software, but the Reserve Bank of India has never made it legal tender.

Article 15(5) lets the State make special provisions for the admission of SCs and STs to educational institutions, including private ones whether aided or not, but it expressly leaves out minority institutions under Article 30(1).

Saadat Khan, titled Burhan-ul-Mulk, was appointed governor of Awadh by the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah in 1722 and founded the line of the Nawabs of Awadh.

Article 20(3) only bars compelling an accused to be a witness against himself; a confession made freely and lawfully can still be used as evidence.