Static GK carries most of the General Knowledge marks in the defence exams, and science carries the largest share of it. In NDA & NA, Physics, Chemistry and General Science are about half of the 400 marks of Part B, and History, the freedom movement and Geography are about 20% each, as per the notice. In the CDS (II) 2026 General Knowledge paper, GK24 counted about 37 science questions, about 20 each on Polity and History, about 15 on Geography and environment and about 10 on the Economy; this count is guidance, not an official break-up. The Army's Agniveer CEE gives 15 of its 50 General Duty questions to General Knowledge and 15 to General Science, which covers cells, the human body, plants and animals and common epidemics. Its GK list names history, culture and geography of India and its neighbours, the Constitution, inventions and discoveries, books and authors, and the Indian Armed Forces. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes and GK questions tagged for NDA, CDS and Agniveer, in English and Hindi: General Science, Indian History, Art and Culture, Indian Polity, Geography, Indian Economy and Static GK. Read one topic at a sitting, then solve its questions and the previous-year questions of your exam to see what stayed with you.
Birsa Munda, the tribal leader of the Ulgulan, was born at Ulihatu, which is now in which state?
Birsa Munda was born in 1875 at Ulihatu in the Khunti district of present-day Jharkhand, then part of the Chotanagpur region of Bengal and later Bihar.
Read the full explanation →Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru, was born at which city?
Guru Gobind Singh was born in 1666 at Patna in Bihar, while his father Guru Tegh Bahadur was travelling in the east, and the gurdwara Takht Sri Patna Sahib marks the site.
Read the full explanation →The physicist C. V. Raman, the first Indian to win a Nobel Prize in science, was born in which present-day state?
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was born in 1888 at Tiruchirappalli in present-day Tamil Nadu and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light, the discovery announced on 28 February 1928 that is remembered every year as National Science Day.
Read the full explanation →Which pair of leaders was born in the same city?
Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 and his daughter Indira Gandhi on 19 November 1917, both at Allahabad, now Prayagraj, in the family home that Motilal Nehru named Anand Bhavan.
Read the full explanation →Dr Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, was born at which place?
Dr Rajendra Prasad was born on 3 December 1884 at Ziradei, a village in the Siwan district of Bihar.
Read the full explanation →Bhagat Singh was born in the village of Banga, which was then part of the Lyallpur district. Where does this village lie today?
Bhagat Singh was born in 1907 at Banga in the Lyallpur district of undivided Punjab. Lyallpur was renamed Faisalabad after Partition and lies in the Punjab province of Pakistan, so the village of his birth is now in Pakistan.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following leaders was born at Cuttack in present-day Odisha?
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was born on 23 January 1897 at Cuttack in Odisha, where his father Janakinath Bose practised as a lawyer, although the family was Bengali and he was later educated at Calcutta and Cambridge.
Read the full explanation →The birthplace of Dr B. R. Ambedkar, Mhow, is located in which present-day state?
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born on 14 April 1891 at Mhow, a military cantonment town in the Indore region of what is now Madhya Pradesh, where his father was serving in the army.
Read the full explanation →Mahatma Gandhi was born at which of the following places?
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 at Porbandar, a coastal town of the Kathiawar region in present-day Gujarat, where his father Karamchand Gandhi served as the diwan of the princely state.
Read the full explanation →In which of the following year was the first general election held in India?
India's first general election was spread over the winter of 1951 and 1952 and is dated 1952, the year the first Lok Sabha and the first set of state legislative assemblies were constituted.
Read the full explanation →Under the scheme recommended by the High Level Committee on Simultaneous Elections, if the Lok Sabha or a state assembly is dissolved before completing its term, the fresh election that follows would be held for which period?
The committee recommended that where a House has to be dissolved early, because of a hung House or a no-confidence motion for example, the mid-term election should be for the remainder of the five-year period of the House that was dissolved, which the report calls the unexpired term.
Read the full explanation →The 79th Report on the feasibility of holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies, submitted in December 2015, was the report of which body?
Its 79th Report of December 2015 examined the feasibility of holding simultaneous elections, found the idea workable and suggested that the polls be held in two phases within a five-year cycle so that the number of election years could be cut down.
Read the full explanation →The superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of electoral rolls and the conduct of elections to Parliament and the state legislatures is vested in the Election Commission by which Article?
Article 324 vests in the Election Commission the superintendence, direction and control of the preparation of the electoral rolls for, and the conduct of, all elections to Parliament and to the legislature of every state, and of elections to the offices of President and Vice-President.
Read the full explanation →The duration of a state legislative assembly is laid down in which Article of the Constitution?
Article 172(1) provides that every legislative assembly of a state shall continue for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting and no longer, with the same Emergency proviso that applies to the Lok Sabha, so an assembly term can be extended by one year at a time…
Read the full explanation →While a Proclamation of Emergency is in operation, by how much may Parliament extend the term of the Lok Sabha by law under Article 83(2)?
The proviso to Article 83(2) allows Parliament to extend the term of the Lok Sabha by law for a period not exceeding one year at a time while a Proclamation of Emergency is in operation, and the extension cannot in any case continue beyond a period of six months after…
Read the full explanation →The High Level Committee on Simultaneous Elections recommended that elections to the panchayats and municipalities be held within how many days of the general election to the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies?
The committee proposed a synchronisation in two steps: first the Lok Sabha and all the state legislative assemblies would go to the polls together, and then elections to the local bodies, that is the panchayats and the municipalities, would be held within a hundred days of that poll.
Read the full explanation →The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024 proposes to insert which new Article to provide for the appointed date and the synchronisation of assembly terms?
The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024, introduced in the Lok Sabha on 17 December 2024, proposes a new Article 82A under which the President notifies an appointed date on the first sitting of the Lok Sabha after a general election, and the term of every assembly constituted…
Read the full explanation →Which report of the Law Commission of India, submitted in 1999 on the reform of the electoral laws, recommended holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies?
The Law Commission of India, in its 170th Report on Reform of the Electoral Laws in 1999, recommended that there should be one single election for the Lok Sabha and all the legislative assemblies once in five years, and the Commission returned to the subject in a draft report in…
Read the full explanation →The High Level Committee on Simultaneous Elections, which submitted its report in March 2024, was chaired by which of the following?
The High Level Committee on Simultaneous Elections was constituted on 2 September 2023 under the chairmanship of former President Ram Nath Kovind and submitted its report on 14 March 2024, recommending a two-step synchronisation of elections and a single electoral roll.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the last general election held simultaneously for the Lok Sabha and all the state legislative assemblies?
The first four general elections, in 1951-52, 1957, 1962 and 1967, were held simultaneously for Parliament and the state assemblies, and 1967 was the last of them.
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