Defence GK Questions 2026

In an isotonic solution the concentration outside the cell equals that inside, so there is no net movement of water.

All three symbols come from the Latin names of these metals: aurum, stannum and plumbum. Many metals known since ancient times take their symbols from Latin rather than English.

The movement was a non-violent withdrawal of cooperation, not an attempt to seize the government's machinery. The Non-Cooperation Movement was approved at the Calcutta special session in September 1920 and confirmed at the Nagpur session in December 1920.

Xerophytes live where water is scarce, so they have few stomata to cut down water loss. Xerophytes are plants of deserts and dry habitats, such as cacti, Opuntia, Calotropis and Acacia.

Gondi, spoken by the Gond tribal community of central India, has not been included in the Eighth Schedule. The Eighth Schedule lists the languages recognised by the Constitution, and Articles 344 and 351 link it to the development of Hindi.

Many white blood cells destroy germs by swallowing them, and that digestion needs a large number of lysosomes. Lysosomes are small membrane-bound sacs packed with hydrolytic enzymes that break down proteins, fats, carbohydrates and nucleic acids.

The Latin phrase habeas corpus literally means 'you may have the body', and the writ protects personal liberty. Under Article 32 the Supreme Court, and under Article 226 the High Courts, can issue five writs.

Rows 3 and 4 are correct; rows 1 and 2 have the wrong region or type. Fold mountains form when plates converge and layers of rock crumple.

Items I, II and IV were part of the Non-Cooperation programme, but item III was not: Indians were asked to give up their titles, not keep them quietly.

This play by Kalidasa tells the love story of Agnimitra, son of Pushyamitra Sunga, and Malavika, a maid in the queen's household.

The Global Gender Gap Index is published every year by the World Economic Forum in its Global Gender Gap Report.

Membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) eases access to advanced nuclear technology and trade, but it does not make a country a party to the NPT.

Sohgaura, in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, is known for a Mauryan-period copper plate inscription, not for Harappan remains. The Sohgaura copper plate, written in Prakrit in the Brahmi script, is one of the earliest copper plate records of India and is usually dated to the Mauryan age.

Both Gandhi and Marx saw the State as an instrument of coercion and imagined an ideal society in which it would no longer be needed.

Black money is, by definition, income hidden from the tax authorities, so its most direct and serious effect is the tax the government never receives.

The real sector produces actual goods and services, so harvesting crops and making cloth belong to it, while lending and issuing bonds belong to the financial sector.

The DRC mines roughly three-quarters of the world's cobalt, far ahead of any other country. Cobalt is used in the cathodes of lithium-ion batteries because it keeps them stable and lets them store more energy, which is why demand has risen with electric vehicles and mobile phones.

Only row 2 is fully correct; rows 1 and 3 each have a wrong entry. Hundru Falls, near Ranchi in Jharkhand, is formed where the Subarnarekha river drops off the edge of the Ranchi plateau, part of the Chota Nagpur region, so row 2 is right.

Ram Mohan Roy respected the philosophical heritage of the East while urging Indians to adopt reason, science and social equality.

All three statements match what inscriptions tell us about how the decimal place-value system spread. In the place-value system, the value of a digit depends on its position, so nine digits and a zero can write any number.