Defence GK Questions 2026

The Salal hydroelectric project is a run-of-the-river project on the Chenab in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir. Built and run by NHPC, Salal has an installed capacity of 690 MW and was the first project India built under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 on a western river.

All three statements correctly describe how particles move in the two kinds of mechanical waves. In a longitudinal wave, such as sound in air, the particles vibrate back and forth along the direction in which the wave travels.

Both statements repeat paragraph 3 of the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution, which deals with the administration of Scheduled Areas.

In paper making the raw plant material is cooked with caustic soda, which dissolves the gums, resins and lignin that bind the cellulose fibres together.

Aluminium has three valence electrons, one fewer than silicon, so each aluminium atom leaves a hole that acts as a positive charge carrier.

An ecosystem is a community of living things together with the non-living environment they interact with, and it can be as large as an ocean or as small as an aquarium.

Since the 44th Amendment, the President cannot suspend the right to move a court for enforcing Articles 20 and 21, even during a national emergency.

Khuntkatti was the traditional land system of the Munda tribe of the Chota Nagpur plateau, in present-day Jharkhand. Under khuntkatti, land belonged jointly to the lineage (khunt) of the families who first cleared the forest and settled the village.

The air we breathe out carries carbon dioxide, which reacts with limewater to form a white, insoluble solid that makes it look milky.

In 1940 Subhas Chandra Bose joined hands with the Muslim League in Bengal and led the campaign to remove the Holwell Monument from Calcutta.

India's territorial waters, where it has full sovereignty, extend 12 nautical miles (about 22.2 km) from the baseline of its coast.

Acceleration is the change in velocity divided by the time taken, and 10 minutes is one-sixth of an hour.

Without enough vitamin D the body cannot absorb calcium and phosphorus properly, so a child's growing bones stay soft and bend.

Urea is the body's way of getting rid of the nitrogen that comes from breaking down proteins, and only proteins among these contain nitrogen.

Telangana is a landlocked state bordered by exactly these four states. Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh on 2 June 2014 as India's 29th state, with Hyderabad as its capital.

The resolution that created NITI Aayog names the Prime Minister as Chairperson, a Governing Council of Chief Ministers and Lieutenant Governors, and a Chief Executive Officer appointed by the Prime Minister.

This is the false statement: glass cools into an amorphous solid without any regular crystal structure. When molten glass cools, its viscosity rises so quickly that the atoms have no time to arrange themselves in an ordered crystal lattice.

Saline soils are found in dry regions and in waterlogged or swampy areas, but they are poor in nitrogen, not rich in it.

Plastics are long chains of carbon atoms joined by strong covalent bonds, which water, air and most microbes cannot easily break.

For an object launched horizontally, the time of fall depends only on the height, because its starting vertical speed is zero.