Defence GK Questions 2026

Vatapi is today's Badami in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, and it was the capital of the Chalukyas of Badami, founded by Pulakeshin the First in the sixth century.

Vipasha is the Sanskrit name of the Beas, the river the Greeks called Hyphasis and the one at whose bank Alexander's army refused to march further east in 326 BC.

The post of National Security Adviser was created in November 1998, when the Vajpayee government set up the National Security Council.

Mosses, lichens and low shrubs make up the tundra, the treeless cover of the lands around the Arctic Ocean and of high mountain slopes above the tree line.

The Lodis followed the Sayyids at Delhi. Bahlol Lodi, an Afghan noble who was governor of Sirhind, took the throne in 1451 when the last Sayyid ruler Alam Shah gave up Delhi and settled at Badaun.

Rudramadevi ruled the Kakatiya kingdom from Warangal, called Orugallu then, in what is now Telangana, in the second half of the thirteenth century.

Shortughai stands in north-eastern Afghanistan, near the Oxus or Amu Darya river, and is the northernmost Harappan settlement known.

Article 60 lays down the form of the oath or affirmation that the President of India makes before entering office.

Ten of the twenty-eight entries are listed as peaks, namely Atisha Giri, Kanishka Peak, Martand Giri, Zorawar Peak, Rinchen Zangpo, Sakyasri Giri, Marpa Lotsava Ri, Milarepa Kangri, Shiva Ri and Maheshvara Ri, which is more than any other feature type on the list.

The twenty-eight places and features were marked with their standard names on the Survey of India's official map of the Union Territory of Ladakh, and that map, along with further places and features, can be seen in the state maps section of the Survey of India website.

The Centre, acting in consultation with the Union Territory of Ladakh, settled standard place and feature names for twenty-eight locations and had them marked on the official map of Ladakh issued by the Survey of India.

The elections of 1937 were held under the Government of India Act, 1935, and the Congress swept the country, winning a clear majority in five provinces and emerging as the largest party in most of the rest.

Nothing is oxidised when a soda bottle is opened; the pressure inside simply falls, the dissolved carbon dioxide becomes less soluble and escapes as bubbles.

This Act, formally the Indian Councils Act of 1909, first gave Muslims a separate electorate, in which Muslim voters chose Muslim members from Muslim-only constituencies.

Article 338A was inserted by the 89th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2003, which split the earlier joint commission into two separate bodies and gave the Scheduled Tribes a commission of their own from 2004.

Naphthalene is an aromatic hydrocarbon, C10H8, with a very high proportion of carbon, so the air around the flame cannot supply enough oxygen to burn all of it to carbon dioxide.

The Charter Act of 1833 ended the East India Company's last trading privilege, its monopoly over trade with China and in tea, and turned the Company into a purely administrative body holding India in trust for the British Crown.

The Tropic of Capricorn runs at about 23.5 degrees south and misses Uruguay, which lies further south between roughly 30 and 35 degrees.

It provides for Autonomous District Councils in the tribal areas of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram, and is read with Article 244(2).

The south-west monsoon splits over the sea into two arms, and Punjab is one of the few places where both reach.