Defence GK Questions 2026

Mangrol is the third shallow water craft for anti-submarine warfare delivered by that yard, and it will be commissioned at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai, with the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Western Naval Command presiding.

A total of fifteen Champion Awards were handed out, recognising organisations for indigenous technology development, product innovation, design capability, import substitution, excellence in manufacturing and export performance.

SIDM was set up in that year and has since grown into a common platform for large defence enterprises, micro, small and medium enterprises, startups, academic institutions and foreign original equipment manufacturers.

While giving away the SIDM Champion Awards, the Defence Minister repeated the target of lifting India’s defence exports to ₹50,000 crore by that year.

Speaking at the eighth annual session of the Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers in New Delhi, the Defence Minister said exports of defence goods had touched this figure in the financial year 2025-26, the highest India has ever reached, and that the rise over the preceding year was more than…

The minister said the platform, which pairs artificial intelligence with data analytics, has facilitated the disconnection of more than 7.14 crore fraudulent mobile connections.

The minister said more than 38,000 high-end GPUs have been onboarded under the IndiaAI Mission at roughly a third of the global average cost.

The three interconnected pillars are AI Readiness and Policy, which assesses policy gaps and sets up practical governance frameworks; AI Skills Development, which scales national talent through capacity building and training; and Public AI Infrastructure, which creates standards-based, interoperable sandbox environments for testing, validating, scaling and reusing locally relevant solutions.

The workshop was organised jointly by the department, which sits in the Ministry of Communications, and the Union, and was inaugurated by Jyotiraditya M. Scindia at India Mobile Congress 2026 in New Delhi.

The project is being built to the norms of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and of the Indian Green Building Council, and on completion it is to be rated IGBC Gold.

The base at Karwar, when the work is finished, will house roughly 10,000 uniformed and civilian personnel together with their families, and the Ministry expects this to strengthen the local economy, industry and tourism and to generate direct and indirect jobs across the Uttara Kannada region.

He is also Secretary of the Department of Military Affairs, and he opened the new housing for senior sailors and naval defence civilians, along with trunk utility and amenity infrastructure, at the Karwar base.

At the twenty-sixth Conference of the Parties, held at Glasgow in 2021, the Prime Minister announced five pledges that came to be called Panchamrit, the last of which was net zero emissions by 2070, together with targets on non-fossil energy capacity, the share of renewable energy, the cut in projected…

The updated first Nationally Determined Contribution submitted in August 2022 raised the promise on emissions intensity, the greenhouse gas emitted per unit of gross domestic product, to a 45 per cent reduction by 2030 against the 2005 level.

That body is the implementing arm of the Namami Gange programme for cleaning the river Ganga, created under the river conservation effort and not under the climate plan; its concern is pollution in one river basin rather than greenhouse gases.

The Green India Mission is written around two halves of 5 million hectares each: new forest and tree cover on 5 million hectares of land that does not carry forest, and an improvement in the quality of the forest already standing on another 5 million hectares, so the mission's total…

That ministry is the nodal ministry for climate change in the Government of India, coordinates the plan and its reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and itself runs the National Mission for a Green India.

One of the five goals of the National Water Mission is a 20 per cent improvement in water use efficiency, alongside comprehensive water data, attention to areas most vulnerable to shortage, more recycling and better basin-level planning; the mission is handled by the Ministry of Jal Shakti.

PAT is the best known of that mission's four initiatives: large energy-using factories in notified sectors are set a target to reduce their specific energy consumption, and a unit that saves more than its target earns tradable energy saving certificates, which a unit that falls short must buy.

The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission was launched in January 2010 under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, with an initial target of 20,000 MW of grid-connected solar power by 2022; the target was raised to 100 GW in 2015.