Defence GK Questions 2026

Make in India was launched in 2014, not 2018, and fostering innovation is one of its stated objectives. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Make in India on 25 September 2014 to turn India into a global hub for design and manufacturing.

The black layer on old silver is silver sulphide (Ag₂S). Air contains traces of sulphur compounds, mainly hydrogen sulphide (H₂S) from burning fuels and decaying matter.

Bauxite, a hydrated aluminium oxide (Al₂O₃·2H₂O), is the main ore from which aluminium is extracted. Bauxite is first purified into alumina (aluminium oxide) by the Bayer process.

A guard tube is filled with anhydrous calcium chloride, which absorbs moisture and keeps the hydrogen chloride gas dry. In the school experiment, hydrogen chloride gas is made by heating sodium chloride with concentrated sulphuric acid, and the gas is passed through a guard tube containing calcium chloride.

The gastric glands in the stomach wall secrete hydrochloric acid, the only mineral (inorganic) acid among the options. Hydrochloric acid (HCl) makes the stomach strongly acidic, with a pH of about 1.5 to 3.5.

Pitch is the way our ear senses the frequency of a sound: the higher the frequency, the higher the pitch.

Institutional training, overseas employment and leveraging of public infrastructure are all sub-missions of the National Skill Development Mission.

When houses are built all around a lake or tank, the village grows in a ring around the water, giving a circular pattern.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1954 and again in 1981.

A rainbow forms only because sunlight is refracted, dispersed and internally reflected inside raindrops. When sunlight enters a water droplet it is refracted and split into its colours (dispersion), because each colour bends by a different amount.

Both a plane mirror and a convex mirror always form an erect, virtual image, whatever the distance of the object.

Iron is a transition (d-block) element, and such elements can show more than one oxidation state. In transition metals the energies of the outer s electrons and the inner d electrons are very close, so atoms can lose different numbers of electrons.

Helium is a noble gas whose atoms exist singly, so it is a monatomic gas, not a diatomic one. Helium has a completely filled first shell (1s²), so its atoms have no tendency to share electrons or bond with each other.

The four pillars are identity security, location integrity, network security and time integrity. Under identity security the project develops quantum-secure physical unclonable functions and quantum-safe trusted platform modules so that device identity is anchored in hardware.

The Technology Development Board is contributing half the project's cost from the Research Development and Innovation Fund, and the support is routed through Optionally Convertible Debt.

The Technology Development Board, which functions under the Department of Science and Technology, signed the agreement with this Karnataka-based company for financial support from the Research Development and Innovation Fund.

While speaking about the strategic value of Karwar, the Vice-President pointed to the ongoing development of modern naval infrastructure under Project Seabird, which is raising the Navy's capacity to base and maintain its ships and submarines and is also generating wider economic opportunities in the region.

The commissioning ceremony was held at Karwar, and the Vice-President used the occasion to explain why the location matters: Karwar has a deep natural harbour and lies close to the Arabian Sea, which makes it an important element of India's maritime security architecture.

The vessel was commissioned by Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan at Karwar in Karnataka and is described as the Indian Navy's first indigenous Multi-Purpose Vessel, with more than 75 per cent of its content made in India.

Agriculture uses natural resources directly, and services are the tertiary sector. Economic activities are grouped into three main sectors.