Defence GK Questions 2026

The Ministry of Defence states that the Fleet Support Ships are indigenously designed and built by Hindustan Shipyard Limited, Visakhapatnam, with indigenous content above 82 per cent, which it reads as a mark of close cooperation between the Navy, the shipyard, defence industries and MSMEs.

The Fleet Support Ships are under construction at HSL in Visakhapatnam, and FSS-1, the first of the class, was launched there on 6 October 2026 with Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh as chief guest.

Digital India was launched on that date with three stated aims: digital infrastructure as a utility for every citizen, governance and services on demand, and the digital empowerment of citizens; BharatNet, Common Service Centres, DigiLocker and the UMANG application all sit within it.

Phishing uses a message that looks as though it comes from a trusted institution, so that the reader voluntarily gives up credentials; the same fraud carried out by telephone call is called vishing and by text message smishing.

The Act of 2023 calls the individual to whom the personal data relates the Data Principal, and gives that person rights of access, correction, erasure and grievance redressal.

A denial of service attack exhausts a server's capacity with a flood of requests, and when the flood is generated from many machines at once, often a botnet of infected computers, it is called distributed.

The NPCI, set up in 2008 under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act of 2007 by the Reserve Bank and the Indian Banks' Association, launched UPI in 2016; it also runs RuPay, IMPS, the Aadhaar Enabled Payment System, NACH and FASTag.

The NCIIPC was designated under section 70A of the IT Act to protect critical information infrastructure, meaning computer resources whose incapacitation would have a debilitating effect on national security, the economy, public health or safety, and it works as a unit of the NTRO.

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team functions under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and is designated by section 70B as the national agency for collecting and analysing information on cyber incidents, issuing advisories and coordinating responses.

In 2015 the Supreme Court held section 66A, which punished the sending of offensive messages through a communication service, to be unconstitutional because it was vague and overbroad and violated the freedom of speech under Article 19(1)(a).

These are the three goals of information security: only authorised persons should read the data, the data must not be altered without authority, and the system must work when it is needed.

It gives legal recognition to electronic records and digital signatures, creates the offences of computer-related crime, and was amended substantially in 2008 to add provisions on cyber terrorism, interception and data protection by body corporates.

The Mannerheim Line was built by Finland across the Karelian Isthmus and is named after Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim; it was the main Finnish defensive position against the Soviet Union in the Winter War of 1939 and 1940.

After the war of 1971 India and Pakistan signed the Simla Agreement, which provided that the line resulting from the ceasefire of December 1971 would be respected by both sides, and from then on that line was called the Line of Control.

India's land border with Bangladesh is about 4,096 kilometres long, the longest it has with any neighbour, and it touches five states: West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.

The Oder and Neisse Line follows the courses of the Oder and the Lusatian Neisse rivers and was settled as the western boundary of Poland after the Second World War, which moved Poland's frontier a long way west.

The Maginot Line was a chain of concrete forts and obstacles built by France along its eastern frontier between the two world wars, facing Germany, and named after the French minister of war Andre Maginot.

A long stretch of the border between the United States and Canada, from the Lake of the Woods to the Strait of Georgia, follows the 49th parallel of north latitude, which is why that part of the frontier appears as a perfectly straight line on any map; a boundary drawn…

The Korean peninsula was divided along the 38th parallel of north latitude after the Second World War, and although the armistice line of 1953 does not follow the parallel exactly, the Demilitarized Zone runs close to it and the parallel remains the name used for the division.

The Simla Convention brought together representatives of British India, Tibet and China, and the line drawn there by Sir Henry McMahon runs along the crest of the eastern Himalaya; India treats it as the boundary with China in the eastern sector, while China rejects it and claims Arunachal Pradesh.