Defence GK Questions 2026

Ankush won the gold medal in the men's 80 kg boxing event at the Asian Games with an emphatic victory in the final, and the weight division is the detail that decides this question.

The Prime Minister framed the gold as the outcome of a long career rather than one good day in the ring, and he also wished the boxer well for the endeavours ahead of her.

The boxer closed out the final with a 5-0 scoreline, which the government described as an emphatic victory, and that margin is the reason the win was reported as a dominant one rather than a narrow escape.

Lovlina Borgohain won the gold medal in the women's 75 kg boxing event at the Asian Games, and the weight division is the single detail most likely to be tested, because several Indian boxers compete in neighbouring classes.

The wrestler was appearing at the Asian Games for the first time, and he turned that first appearance into a gold medal, which is what made the achievement notable enough for the Prime Minister to call it a memorable triumph.

Sujeet competed in the freestyle wrestling competition, and his win gave India its first wrestling gold of this edition of the Asian Games.

Sujeet won the gold medal in the men's 65 kg freestyle wrestling event at the Asian Games after a thrilling final, and the weight class is the detail a paper setter is most likely to test.

The halocline is the layer in a vertical section of the ocean in which salinity changes sharply with depth; the name comes from the Greek halos, meaning salt.

An anticyclone is a system of high pressure, with the highest pressure at its centre, and the air there sinks from above.

The Coriolis effect is an apparent force produced by the rotation of the earth on its axis.

S waves are transverse and cannot pass through the liquid outer core, so a wide belt beyond about 103 degrees from the epicentre receives no S waves at all.

The Charter of the United Nations was signed at San Francisco on 26 June 1945, at the close of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, by the delegates of fifty nations; Poland signed a little later and so the organisation began with fifty-one original members.

Hyphasis is the Greek name of the Beas, and it was on its bank in 326 BC that Alexander's tired soldiers refused to march any further east, which is why the Beas marks the eastern limit of his campaign.

When layers of rock are squeezed by compression they bend, and a fold that arches upward is called an anticline.

Subhas Chandra Bose proclaimed the Provisional Government of Free India, the Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind, at Singapore on 21 October 1943.

Article 88 gives the Attorney General the right to speak in and otherwise take part in the proceedings of both Houses of Parliament, any joint sitting and any committee of which the office holder is named a member, but without the right to vote.

The richly illustrated manuscript of the Badshah Nama that now lies in the Royal Library at Windsor reached King George the Third in 1799 as a gift from the Nawab of Awadh.

Dadabhai Naoroji set up the East India Association in London in 1866 to place Indian questions before the British public and members of Parliament, and branches of it were soon opened in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras.

The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes began work as a separate body in 2004.

Khizr Khan founded the Sayyid dynasty at Delhi in 1414 after taking the city from Daulat Khan Lodi.