Defence GK Questions 2026

This statement is not correct, because the peninsular sugar mills are concentrated mainly in Maharashtra and Karnataka, in the west and the interior of the plateau.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics was shared by David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz, three British-born physicists working in the United States.

Amphibians and most reptiles have a heart with three chambers: two atria and one ventricle. In frogs and toads, oxygen-rich blood from the lungs and oxygen-poor blood from the body both reach the single ventricle, so some mixing takes place.

Centrifugation separates very fine insoluble particles that are too small to settle on their own. The mixture is spun at high speed in a centrifuge.

The hilsa, called ilish in Bengali, is the national fish of Bangladesh. It is a fish of the herring family that lives in the sea and swims up rivers to breed, a habit called anadromous migration.

Pearls are harvested from pearl oysters, which are bivalve molluscs. When a foreign particle, such as a grain of sand or a parasite, gets inside the shell, the oyster's mantle covers it layer after layer with nacre, the shiny material also called mother of pearl.

Faraday's law is a law of magnitude, not a direction rule. It states that the emf induced in a circuit is proportional to the rate at which the magnetic flux through it changes.

Avani Lekhara is a para shooter from Jaipur, Rajasthan, who competes in the SH1 rifle class.

NASA's Lucy mission, launched in October 2021, is the solar-powered spacecraft that travels farthest from the Sun to study the Trojan asteroids.

Both statements describe the two ports correctly. Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh is India's deepest land-locked and protected port on the east coast.

Statements 1 and 2 describe the Lok Sabha's privilege procedure correctly, while statement 3 overstates the freedom from arrest. Under the Rules of Procedure of the Lok Sabha, the Speaker may refer any question of privilege to the Committee of Privileges on his own, without a motion from a member.

Maitree is the joint military exercise of the Indian Army and the Royal Thai Army. It began in 2006 and is held in India and Thailand by turns.

The Sylhet Referendum was held in early July 1947, just before Partition, to decide whether Sylhet district of Assam would stay with India or join East Bengal, which was going to Pakistan.

Speaking about demand within the country, Sarbananda Sonowal said the domestic market is booming and that public agencies are looking to acquire more than four hundred vessels in the years ahead.

At the Seoul meeting it repeated its strong intent to take part as the primary strategic investor, offering its global expertise in shipyard design, construction, advanced manufacturing and operations.

Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal met HD Hyundai Chairman Chung Ki-sun in Seoul and discussed the next steps for the greenfield shipyard proposed there.

This is the target set by the Department of Space, and emerging technologies such as reusable launch vehicles, air-breathing propulsion, electric propulsion and in-space docking are expected to support that growth.

The Union Cabinet approved the development of the vehicle in September 2024, and the amount covers development costs, three developmental flights, the essential facilities, programme management and the launch campaign.

Its two satellites docked for the first time on 16 January 2025, then repeated the manoeuvre with full autonomy from an inter-satellite distance of 15 m on 20 April 2025, and the following day power was transferred between the docked spacecraft.

The Dipavamsa is a Pali chronicle of Sri Lanka, not the biography of a king, while the other three are historical biographies of rulers.