Defence GK Questions 2026

The Dardic languages form a branch of the Indo-Aryan group, which is part of the Indo-European family. Dardic languages are spoken in the north-west of the subcontinent: in Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, Chitral and parts of Afghanistan.

The Puranas call the Satavahana kings the Andhras or Andhra-bhrityas, so the dynasty is often named Andhra-Satavahana. The Satavahanas rose in the Deccan after the decline of the Mauryas and ruled from Pratishthana (Paithan) on the Godavari and later from Amaravati region.

Libya lies in North Africa, west of Egypt, and is separated from the Arabian Peninsula by Egypt and the Red Sea.

Saracenic, or Indo-Islamic, architecture is built on the true arch, the vault and dome, and lime mortar, while lintel and beam belong to the older Indian style.

The Indian Legion came first (1942), then the Azad Hind Government (October 1943), then the INA trials (November 1945) and finally the Bombay naval strike (February 1946).

These water bodies are intended to supply irrigation water to farmers at the time of need in a high-altitude region where the farming season is short.

The Nimmu-Padum-Darcha road, dedicated to the people of Ladakh at a cost of 2,500 crore rupees, brings a journey that earlier took 12 hours down to roughly three hours.

The terminal triples the number of flights the airport can handle and raises yearly passenger handling from 10 lakh to 35 lakh.

The set includes the new airport terminal at Leh, the Nimmu-Padum-Darcha road, the Hanu hydroelectric project with its transmission network, reservoirs raised under Project Amrit Him Sarovar and the country's first Petroglyph Conservation Park.

The Rs 2,563 crore contract with New Space India Limited, Bengaluru, gives the Air Force a communication satellite of its own, designed, developed and manufactured in India, so that its aircraft and ground assets keep a protected, continuous link.

The torpedo carries advanced manoeuvring features and can engage enemy submarines at long ranges.

Varunastra is launched from a warship and is meant to destroy submarines, and it was developed in India by the Naval Science and Technological Laboratory.

The Bengaluru-based company signed a contract worth Rs 2,563 crore with the Ministry of Defence on 15 October 2026 for GSAT-7C, a dedicated communication satellite for the Indian Air Force.

Adenosine triphosphate stores energy in its phosphate bonds and releases it wherever the cell needs it, so it is called the energy currency of the cell.

Narayan Malhar Joshi was the main organiser behind the founding of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) in Bombay in October 1920.

It flows south along the west coast of North America, carrying cold water from higher latitudes towards the equator. As a rule, currents moving from the poles towards the equator are cold, and those moving from the equator towards the poles are warm.

This is the order in which these metals stand in the reactivity series, and it matches how vigorously they release hydrogen from dilute hydrochloric acid.

Iron is needed to make haemoglobin, so too little iron means too little haemoglobin and a reduced ability of the blood to carry oxygen.

Loktak is in Manipur, Barapani in Meghalaya, Kolleru in Andhra Pradesh, and Pulicat on the Andhra Pradesh–Tamil Nadu border. Loktak is the largest freshwater lake in north-east India, famous for its floating islands of vegetation called phumdis; Keibul Lamjao, the only floating national park in the world, lies on it.

All three statements are correct descriptions of fog and its two main types. Fog forms when air near the ground cools to its dew point and its water vapour condenses on tiny dust and smoke particles, so it is in effect a cloud at or near ground level.