Defence GK Questions 2026

The poise is the CGS unit of dynamic or absolute viscosity, named after the French physician Jean Poiseuille, and one poise equals one dyne-second per square centimetre, which is the same as one gram per centimetre per second.

Geitonogamy is pollination between two different flowers borne on the same plant.

This Act ended the last trading rights of the East India Company, its monopoly of trade with China and of the tea trade, and turned the Company into a purely administrative body holding India in trust for the British Crown.

A concave lens is a diverging lens, so for every position of a real object it forms an image that is virtual, erect and diminished.

Indian industry at the New Delhi round was represented by L&T and BEML, who joined officials in the discussion on defence production and logistics.

DAPA is the Republic of Korea's government body responsible for defence acquisition and for overseeing the Korean defence industry, and its Vice Minister Kim Il Dong co-chaired the Joint Committee Meeting in New Delhi alongside Additional Secretary (Defence Production) Dinesh Mahur.

The Joint Committee Meeting between India and the Republic of Korea on defence industries and logistics cooperation reached its tenth edition at the New Delhi round, where the two sides reviewed existing defence ties and discussed ways to widen cooperation in defence production and logistics.

The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, has four members — India, the United States, Japan and Australia — and Indonesia is not one of them.

Gyroplanes are small aircraft whose operational capabilities suit short flights and specialised tasks, and carrying passengers over intercontinental distances is well outside what they are described as being fit for.

This is the defining characteristic of the gyroplane: the rotor above the aircraft is not driven by the engine but turns freely in the airflow, and that rotation produces the lift, while the forward thrust is supplied separately by a propeller.

It has issued the Civil Aviation Requirement prescribing the ground and flying training syllabus that a candidate must complete before a pilot licence in the gyroplane category is granted.

That is the exact combination of qualities the Prime Minister singled out in his congratulatory message on the women's Trap team silver, and it suits the event well, because a team score in Trap is the sum of the members' individual efforts and therefore depends on all three shooters holding…

Trap is one of the shotgun events in competitive shooting: the athlete fires at clay targets that are flung away from the firing stand at speed, and the discipline rewards quick reaction, steady aim and concentration held over a long series of shots.

These three shooters made up the Indian side that finished second in the women's Trap team competition at the Asian Games, and the Prime Minister congratulated them by name on the silver, praising their precision, focus and teamwork.

The congratulatory message on the relay gold came from the Prime Minister and was put out through the Prime Minister's Office.

The four Indian runners finished ahead of every other team in the final, and the Prime Minister described the result as taking India to the top of the podium, which is the position held only by the gold medallists.

Kiran Pahal, Poovamma MR, Prachi and Vithya Ramraj ran together in that event at the Asian Games and finished first, and the Prime Minister praised their speed and determination for carrying the country to the top of the podium.

The intensity of an earthquake is measured on the Modified Mercalli scale, whose grades run from I to XII.

In his congratulatory message the Prime Minister lauded the shooter for her exceptional accuracy and her composure, said the achievement had brought immense pride to the nation, and added that it would encourage many more young sportspersons to take up shooting and aim for the highest honours.

Trap, the event in which Neeru Dhanda won her gold, is a shooting discipline: the competitor fires a shotgun at clay targets that are flung away from the firing station, so the result depends on accuracy and composure shot after shot.