Defence GK Questions 2026

The Pallava king who ruled in the early 7th century took these titles, and they appear in the inscriptions of the cave temples he cut.

In early Buddhist art the Buddha was not shown in human form, and an empty seat stood for him seated in meditation.

A relief panel from the stupa at Kanganahalli in Karnataka shows a king with his queens and carries the label 'Raya Asoko' (Ranyo Ashoka), making it the only known portrait of Ashoka named in an inscription.

South-eastern Cameroon lies inside the drainage area of the Congo river, and the country is one of the six nations that share the Congo Basin rainforest.

The araghatta was a water-lifting wheel that carried a chain or ring of pots down into a well and brought them up full.

Pushkar Singh Dhami, who holds that office, flagged in the seventeen-member team at a ceremony in Dehradun, praising the exceptional grit and endurance of the climbers and describing the achievement as an example of courage and a matter of national pride.

The correct answer is that the Everest attempt is planned during the force's Swarnim Jayanti, the golden jubilee, in the year given in option A. The Mount Mukut climb was the fifth and concluding phase of an eighteen-month preparatory programme built around that goal, and the operational experience and lessons…

The seventeen-member Coast Guard team climbed Mount Mukut under the expert guidance of that institute, and the climb formed the fifth and final phase of a preparatory programme that ran for eighteen months.

A team of seventeen climbers of the Indian Coast Guard reached the summit of Mount Mukut at that height on 7 October 2026, working through extreme weather on the way up.

Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, who holds that appointment, presided over the ceremony at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai, which falls within the area of the Western Naval Command.

Mangrol is a coastal town and a well known fishing harbour in the Junagadh district of Gujarat, and the warship carries its name.

INS Mangrol, with pennant number P82, is the third Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft of that class to enter service with the Indian Navy.

The ship was designed in India and constructed by that yard, and it carries more than 80 per cent indigenous content, which the Navy cites as evidence of India's own strength in warship design, construction and systems integration.

The equation v = u + at has the form y = c + mx, so the graph is a straight line that cuts the velocity axis at u and has slope a. On a velocity-time graph, time is on the x-axis and velocity on the y-axis.

The apical meristem at the tip of the stem and root makes new cells that increase the plant's length, so damage to it stops growth in length.

Marsilea is a water fern, a pteridophyte, and pteridophytes are the first land plants with true vascular tissues, xylem and phloem.

The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin launched the world's first Five Year Plan in 1928. The first Soviet plan, for 1928 to 1932, set targets for rapid industrial growth and collectivised agriculture, with the state deciding what to produce.

An LED is a p-n junction diode that gives out light when current flows through it in the forward direction.

Groundwater is fed by rain that soaks into the ground, so how far a place lies from the coast does not by itself decide how much groundwater it has.

By Coulomb's law the force F = kq₁q₂/r² comes out positive, meaning repulsive, whenever the two charges have the same sign.