Defence GK Questions 2026

The Chagos Archipelago lies in the central Indian Ocean, not in the North Pacific. The Chagos Islands lie south of the Maldives, roughly 500 km away, and include Diego Garcia, the site of a major military base.

The Vitthala temple stands in Hampi, the ruined capital of the Vijayanagara Empire in present-day Karnataka. The temple is dedicated to Vitthala, a form of Vishnu, and was built mainly in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with major additions under Krishnadevaraya.

In parts of the dry west, arid soils hold so much salt that common salt is made by evaporating the saline water.

CCE is not the name of any pottery tradition; the other three are standard pottery types of early India. Archaeologists date and group early Indian sites by the pottery found in their layers.

He was President when Parliament passed the Indian Post Office (Amendment) Bill, 1986, and he did not give it his assent.

Lingayats bury their dead and opposed child marriage while accepting widow remarriage, but they rejected the caste system and ideas of pollution.

All four statements are true of tropical rain forests. These forests grow near the Equator, in the Amazon, the Congo basin and South-East Asia, with heavy rain and high heat all year.

The President of India has no place in NITI Aayog's Governing Council, which is a forum of the Prime Minister and the heads of the States and Union Territories.

Kandariya Mahadeva is the largest and finest temple of the Khajuraho group in Madhya Pradesh. The temple was built around 1025–1050 CE under the Chandela rulers, traditionally credited to Vidyadhara.

Caves, arches, stacks and stumps are erosional landforms carved by sea waves on rocky coasts. Waves attack a headland from both sides and wear away the weaker rock along cracks.

Israel has land borders with all four countries named in the question. Israel lies on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea.

The fields set out for the 25th Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government are the strengthening of multilateral cooperation among the member countries in trade, the economy, investment, connectivity, innovation and cultural as well as humanitarian exchange; the delegations are also to review how ongoing cooperation programmes are…

Rajnath Singh, who holds the defence portfolio, visits Dushanbe in Tajikistan to speak for India at the 25th Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on 19 and 20 October 2026.

The Ministry of Defence has said that the 25th Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation takes place in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, on 19 and 20 October 2026, and that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh travels there to speak for India.

Indexation links a payment to a price index so that its real value is protected when prices rise. Under indexation, wages, pensions or other payments are adjusted automatically in line with a price index.

Following the Communal Award of 1932, this Act reserved seats for women in the legislatures and divided them among the communities.

This is false: Indians entered the service through its open examination from the 1850s. The medical service of the East India Company began in Bengal in 1764, and the separate presidency services were later joined into a single Indian Medical Service in 1896.

Bermuda is a small group of islands in the western North Atlantic, about 1,000 km east of the coast of North Carolina in the USA.

The 21st Constitutional Amendment Act of 1967 added Sindhi to the Eighth Schedule. The Eighth Schedule lists the official languages of India recognised by the Constitution.

The Ahoms are a community of Assam descended from the Tai people who founded the Ahom kingdom there.