Defence GK Questions 2026

The plan of 2008 works through eight National Missions: Solar, Enhanced Energy Efficiency, Sustainable Habitat, Water, Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem, Green India, Sustainable Agriculture, and Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change.

The National Action Plan on Climate Change was released on 30 June 2008 by the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change, and it set out the eight National Missions through which India would act on climate change at home.

Article 18 abolishes titles: the State may not confer any title that is not a military or academic distinction, and a citizen may not accept a title from a foreign state.

The Param Vir Chakra, instituted on 26 January 1950 with effect from 15 August 1947, is India's highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy and so takes the place the Victoria Cross held before independence; it was designed by Savitri Khanolkar and its first recipient was Major…

Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India at the Delhi Durbar of 1877, and the Order of the Indian Empire was created the following year to honour a wider and more junior group of officials than the Star of India covered; its motto, Imperatricis auspiciis, means under the auspices of…

Instituted by the East India Company in 1837, the Indian Order of Merit was the oldest gallantry decoration in India and, until 1911, the only such award open to Indian soldiers, who could not then receive the Victoria Cross.

Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, and it bears the words For Valour; the award was then backdated so that acts of gallantry from 1854 onwards, during the Crimean War, could be recognised.

A sepoy of the 129th Baluchis, Khudadad Khan won the Victoria Cross for holding his machine gun position in Belgium in October 1914, becoming the first Indian to receive the decoration after Indian soldiers were made eligible for it in 1911.

After troops under General Dyer fired on a gathering at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar on 13 April 1919, Tagore wrote to the Viceroy, Lord Chelmsford, on 31 May 1919, renouncing the knighthood conferred on him in 1915.

Gandhi had been awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind in 1915 for raising an ambulance corps in South Africa, and in 1920 he returned it in a letter to the Viceroy, giving up two South African war medals at the same time, as part of the surrender of titles and honours that the…

Queen Victoria instituted the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal in 1900 for distinguished public service in India, and unlike the orders of chivalry it was open to any person of any rank, Indian or European, man or woman, in gold, silver and bronze classes.

The Order of the Star of India was created in 1861, four years after the Revolt of 1857, to tie the princely rulers and senior officials of India to the British Crown, and its motto was Heaven's light our guide; it was given three classes in 1866, the Knight Grand…

A good fuel should have a moderate ignition temperature, not a very low one.

Destructive distillation means heating coal strongly in the absence of air, so that it decomposes instead of burning. The solid left behind is coke, which is almost pure carbon and is used as a reducing agent in the extraction of iron and other metals and as a smokeless fuel.

When the oxygen supply is short, the carbon of the fuel is only partly oxidised and carbon monoxide is formed instead of carbon dioxide.

It is the lowest temperature to which a combustible substance must be heated before it begins to burn, and it is a fixed property of that substance; substances with a very low ignition temperature, such as petrol, alcohol and liquefied petroleum gas, are called inflammable substances and are stored with…

Carbon dioxide is about one and a half times as dense as air, so when released it forms a blanket over the burning material and separates it from atmospheric oxygen, removing one side of the fire triangle.

Petrol and kerosene are lighter than water and do not mix with it, so water poured on an oil fire sinks below the burning layer and carries it outwards, enlarging the fire instead of putting it out.

Coal forms by the slow burial and compression of plant matter, and the longer and deeper the process goes the more carbon is left behind as moisture and volatile matter are driven off.

Liquefied petroleum gas is obtained during the refining of petroleum and from natural gas processing, and it is chiefly a mixture of butane and propane, which liquefy under moderate pressure at ordinary temperature and so can be stored in a cylinder.