Static GK carries most of the General Knowledge marks in the defence exams, and science carries the largest share of it. In NDA & NA, Physics, Chemistry and General Science are about half of the 400 marks of Part B, and History, the freedom movement and Geography are about 20% each, as per the notice. In the CDS (II) 2026 General Knowledge paper, GK24 counted about 37 science questions, about 20 each on Polity and History, about 15 on Geography and environment and about 10 on the Economy; this count is guidance, not an official break-up. The Army's Agniveer CEE gives 15 of its 50 General Duty questions to General Knowledge and 15 to General Science, which covers cells, the human body, plants and animals and common epidemics. Its GK list names history, culture and geography of India and its neighbours, the Constitution, inventions and discoveries, books and authors, and the Indian Armed Forces. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes and GK questions tagged for NDA, CDS and Agniveer, in English and Hindi: General Science, Indian History, Art and Culture, Indian Polity, Geography, Indian Economy and Static GK. Read one topic at a sitting, then solve its questions and the previous-year questions of your exam to see what stayed with you.
In 1730 Amrita Devi Bishnoi and 363 others gave up their lives at Khejarli to protect which tree?
At Khejarli near Jodhpur in 1730, the men of the Maharaja of Jodhpur came to fell khejri trees for lime kilns needed to build a new palace.
Read the full explanation →The Silent Valley movement of Kerala was launched to save a forest from a project on which river?
The Kerala State Electricity Board proposed a hydroelectric dam across the Kunthipuzha river in Palakkad district, which would have submerged a tract of undisturbed tropical evergreen rainforest and the habitat of the lion-tailed macaque.
Read the full explanation →The Narmada Bachao Andolan is chiefly associated with which activist?
She has led the Narmada Bachao Andolan since it took shape in 1985 against the Sardar Sarovar and other large dams on the Narmada, arguing that the displaced, many of them tribal, were never given land or proper rehabilitation.
Read the full explanation →The Appiko movement was launched in which state?
The Appiko movement began in 1983 at Salkani village in the Sirsi taluk of Uttara Kannada district, in the Western Ghats of Karnataka, under Pandurang Hegde.
Read the full explanation →The Chipko movement of 1973 began in which district?
The movement began in 1973 at Mandal village in Chamoli district of the Garhwal Himalaya, then part of Uttar Pradesh and today in Uttarakhand.
Read the full explanation →Who is the highest law officer of a state government and under which article is the office created?
The Governor appoints a person qualified to be a judge of a High Court as Advocate General of the state, to advise the state government on legal matters and to perform the legal duties the Governor assigns; he holds office during the pleasure of the Governor and may speak in…
Read the full explanation →Which statement about the Attorney General of India in Parliament is correct?
Article 88 gives the Attorney General the right to speak in and otherwise take part in the proceedings of both Houses of Parliament, in any joint sitting and in any committee of which he is named a member, and Article 105 extends the privileges and immunities of a member to…
Read the full explanation →Which article of the Constitution deals with the Attorney General of India?
It provides for the appointment of the Attorney General for India by the President from among persons qualified to be appointed a judge of the Supreme Court, states his duty to advise the Government of India on legal matters, and says he holds office during the pleasure of the President…
Read the full explanation →The Comptroller and Auditor General of India is described as the friend, philosopher and guide of which parliamentary committee?
That committee examines the appropriation and finance accounts of the Union along with the audit reports of the CAG, and since its entire work begins from those reports and his officers assist it in understanding them, he is called its friend, philosopher and guide.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is true of the Comptroller and Auditor General after he leaves office?
Article 148(4) provides that the Comptroller and Auditor General shall not be eligible for further office either under the Government of India or under the government of any state after he has ceased to hold his office.
Read the full explanation →The Comptroller and Auditor General of India can be removed from office in the same manner as
Article 148(1) says the CAG shall be removed from office only in like manner and on the like grounds as a judge of the Supreme Court, which means an address by each House of Parliament supported by a majority of the total membership and by two thirds of the members…
Read the full explanation →The Comptroller and Auditor General of India holds office for a term of
Under the Comptroller and Auditor General (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Act of 1971, made under Article 149, he holds office for six years from the date he enters upon it or till he attains the age of sixty five years, whichever is earlier.
Read the full explanation →Which article of the Constitution provides for the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India?
It provides that there shall be a Comptroller and Auditor General of India appointed by the President by warrant under his hand and seal, and goes on to deal with the oath, the removal, the salary and the bar on further office.
Read the full explanation →The reports of the CAG of India relating to the accounts of a state shall be submitted to the ______.
Article 151(2) says the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General relating to the accounts of a state shall be submitted to the Governor, who shall cause them to be laid before the legislature of the state.
Read the full explanation →The office of the Comptroller and Auditor General in the Indian Constitution has been borrowed from which country?
The framers took the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, along with parliamentary government, the rule of law, single citizenship and the writs, from the British Constitution, where an officer of the same name audits public spending for Parliament.
Read the full explanation →What is the required qualification to be appointed as Attorney General of India?
Article 76 requires the Attorney General to be a person qualified to be appointed a judge of the Supreme Court, which is why the paper puts the answer as Supreme Court Judge.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following holds his or her office during the pleasure of the President?
Article 76 says he is appointed by the President and holds office during the pleasure of the President, and the Constitution prescribes neither a fixed term nor any procedure for his removal.
Read the full explanation →In which language was the Buddhist canon, the Tripitaka, composed?
The correct answer is B, Pali, the popular speech in which the Buddha is believed to have preached and in which the three baskets of the canon were put together, the Vinaya Pitaka on monastic discipline, the Sutta Pitaka on his discourses and the Abhidhamma Pitaka on philosophy.
Read the full explanation →The first epigraphic mention of the practice of sati is found in which inscription?
The record from Eran in present day Madhya Pradesh, of the time of Bhanugupta at the beginning of the sixth century, says that after a chief named Goparaja fell in battle his wife followed him on the funeral pyre, and this is the earliest epigraphic reference to the custom.
Read the full explanation →The Rummindei pillar inscription of Ashoka is connected with which place?
The pillar stands at Rummindei in the Nepal terai, records that the king came in person in the twentieth year of his reign to worship at the spot where the Buddha was born, had a stone wall and a pillar set up, and reduced the tax of the village to…
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