Defence GK Questions 2026

Australia hosted the fourth edition there in October 2025, which fits the pattern of the series moving between the two countries.

The Indian contingent at this edition is built around troops of the Garhwal Rifles, with personnel from other arms and services joining them, while the Australian contingent is drawn from 13 Brigade.

AUSTRAHIND is the joint military exercise of the Indian Army and the Australian Army, and its name joins the two countries.

He said that the seminar had, since 2022, connected the Navy's operational requirements with the technological strength of Indian industry and academia, and that niche technologies must be developed into systems that can be deployed at sea.

The NAUSETU Interface Standards will be released at Swavlamban 2026 together with the Swavlamban 5.0 Document and the Compendium on Technology Imperatives.

The fifth edition of Swavlamban, the Navy's annual NIIO seminar on innovation and indigenisation, is scheduled there on 26 and 27 October 2026, as announced at the curtain raiser press conference chaired by Vice Admiral Ajay Kochhar, Vice Chief of the Naval Staff.

Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, is not built on a river bank; it is known instead as the City of Lakes.

'One State, Many Worlds' is the tourism tagline of Karnataka, chosen to show how much variety a visitor can find within one State.

A change in the good's own price moves the buyer along the same demand curve; it does not shift the curve.

Milpa is the name for shifting cultivation in Mexico and Central America, and Ladang is its name in Malaysia and Indonesia.

Alexander Cunningham, the first Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India, identified the site of ancient Taxila near Rawalpindi in the 1860s. Cunningham used the accounts of Greek writers on Alexander's campaign and of the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang to match the city named in Indian texts with the ruins…

Physical capital is the variety of inputs, such as tools, machines, buildings, raw materials and money in hand, needed at every stage of production.

Article 30 gives all minorities, whether based on religion or language, the right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice, and names no other kind of minority.

In plant cells RNA is found in the nucleus, the cytoplasm, mitochondria, chloroplasts and ribosomes. RNA is made in the nucleus, where DNA is copied into messenger, transfer and ribosomal RNA; the nucleolus in particular is rich in ribosomal RNA.

The tapeworm is an animal, and animal cells have no cell wall, only a cell membrane. A rigid cell wall lies outside the cell membrane in plants, fungi, most bacteria and many protists, giving the cell shape and protection.

In the liver, methanol is oxidised to methanal (formaldehyde), which coagulates protoplasm and damages cells. Methanol, CH3OH, is the simplest alcohol and is sometimes mixed into illicit liquor.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 does not apply to the tribal areas of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura listed in the Sixth Schedule.

Kalsi, near Dehradun in Uttarakhand, has a full set of Ashoka's fourteen Major Rock Edicts carved on a single boulder.

The Ajanta paintings show yakshas, gandharvas and apsaras among their figures, and their painters used multiple perspectives to show crowded scenes.

The MPI measures the overlapping deprivations each person faces across indicators of health, education and standard of living. The global MPI was developed in 2010 by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative and the UNDP.