Defence GK Questions 2026

Under Article 54, the President is elected by the elected members of both Houses of Parliament, the elected members of the State Legislative Assemblies and, since the 70th Amendment, the elected members of the Assemblies of Delhi and Puducherry.

Muqarrab Khan was a close companion of Jahangir from his days as Prince Salim and rose high in the nobility once Jahangir became emperor in 1605.

Under the Citizenship Act, 1955, an Indian loses citizenship by renouncing it or by voluntarily taking the citizenship of another country; marriage and criticism of the government have no such effect.

Statements 1 and 2 describe the Indian Constitution correctly, but statement 3 wrongly claims that every country's constitution is secular.

Haji Muhammad Arif Qandahari, a noble who served under Bairam Khan and later Akbar, wrote the Persian chronicle Tarikh-i-Akbari. Akbar's reign is one of the best recorded in Indian history because many writers of his court left Persian accounts.

A gully plug is a small check structure built across a natural gully or stream channel in hilly and rural land, so it has no place in a city.

Infrared Focal Plane Arrays were described as the eyes of tactical missiles: working through an imaging infrared seeker, they allow the missile to find and follow its target during the terminal phase of flight, and the exhibits covered the short-wave, mid-wave and long-wave infrared bands.

At the thematic exhibition on semiconductors, DRDO showed its achievements in two critical areas, both developed at this laboratory.

The conclave was held at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi from 27 to 29 October 2026 and was inaugurated by the Prime Minister.

The event was organised by the Defence Research and Development Organisation in collaboration with CENJOWS at the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi, and featured a seminar on DRDO defence solutions for partner nations, moving from technology to strategic partnerships.

The Minister of State for Defence released a foreign-language compendium of DRDO products in these three languages so that partner nations which do not work in English can follow India's defence offerings and engage with Indian agencies more easily.

The Minister of State for Defence described these as the four pillars of the event while inaugurating it at the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi.

A joint sitting under Article 108 can be called only for an ordinary bill; it is not available for a Money Bill or a Constitutional Amendment Bill.

Nirbhay is the long-range subsonic cruise missile designed and developed in India by the DRDO. Nirbhay was developed by DRDO's Aeronautical Development Establishment in Bengaluru.

The amara-nayakas were military commanders to whom the Vijayanagara rulers gave territories to govern. Under the amara-nayaka system, a key political innovation of the Vijayanagara Empire, the king granted a commander an area of land called amaram.

Articles 15, 16 and 19 are available only to citizens of India, while Article 21 protects every person, including foreigners.

TRIPS stands for the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. TRIPS was negotiated in the Uruguay Round and came into force with the World Trade Organization on 1 January 1995, binding every WTO member.

Only during a National Emergency under Article 352 can the enforcement of Fundamental Rights be suspended. When a National Emergency is proclaimed, Article 358 automatically suspends the freedoms of Article 19, but only when the emergency is declared on the ground of war or external aggression, not armed rebellion.

The Venetian Niccolao Manucci came to India as a boy, spent the rest of his life here, and died in India in the early eighteenth century.

Halep of Romania won the 2019 Wimbledon women's singles title by beating Serena Williams in the final. Halep won the final 6-2, 6-2 in just 56 minutes, one of the most one-sided Wimbledon finals of recent times.