Defence GK Questions 2026

The announcement describes it as India's proposed next-generation timing and spectroscopy mission, which together with other future observatories will bring improved sensitivity and monitoring capability for studying ultraluminous X-ray sources.

The paper was authored by Tarang Vashisht, a student at IISER Mohali, together with Aru Beri of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and researchers from IUCAA and the Raman Research Institute.

It is often used as a benchmark for how bright an accreting object can be, since beyond it the outward push of radiation would overwhelm the inward pull of gravity.

Archival and recent observations of the source were drawn from the Chandra, XMM-Newton and Swift space-based X-ray telescopes covering the years 2000 to 2024, which makes it one of the longest X-ray studies of this object carried out so far.

It is the body through which the Indian Air Force Educational and Cultural Society delivers ScrollControl to the schools, and it also arranges the training and certification of teachers, their entry on the National Security Database and help for victims at any hour through cyber lawyers, cyber psychologists and forensic…

CBSE has told the schools affiliated to it to take up cyber safety practices by keeping Cyber Jagrookta Diwas once every month, and the ScrollControl rollout lets Air Force Schools meet that direction with teachers trained in house.

The teachers who finished the certification course under ScrollControl carry that designation, and it allows them to work as first responders when a cyber incident touches a pupil.

The Indian Air Force Educational and Cultural Society, working under Air Headquarters, placed 42 Air Force Schools on ScrollControl, a child digital safety programme run through the Information Sharing and Analysis Center Foundation.

The two contracts for the eight corvettes were inked at Kartavya Bhawan-2 in New Delhi, and the Defence Secretary, Rajesh Kumar Singh, was present on the occasion.

The distinguishing feature of this programme is that the design work for the corvettes has been done within the Indian Navy itself, while the construction has gone to defence public sector undertakings that were picked through competition rather than simply nominated.

The order for eight Next Generation Corvettes has been shared between two government-owned shipyards, and GRSE takes the larger share of five ships.

That was the post he held just before moving to the Eastern Air Command as its Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief.

He joined the flying branch of the Indian Air Force as a fighter pilot on the fourteenth of June that year, which means a career of more than three and a half decades before taking over a command.

He took over the Eastern Air Command of the Indian Air Force as its Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, moving from the appointment of Senior Air Staff Officer at the headquarters of South Western Air Command.

While setting out the fourth pillar of his vision, the Chief of the Air Staff said that stronger jointness with the Army, the Navy and national agencies would be pursued in keeping with the national vision of JAI, whose three words are Jointness, Aatmanirbharta and Innovation.

The guiding theme has four pillars, one for each letter. V is for Vigilance, Victory and Readiness, which asks every formation to hold the highest state of operational preparedness and seeks to restore combat strength to sanctioned levels.

He took over as the 29th Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force on 1 November 2026, marking the start of his tenure with a wreath-laying at the National War Memorial and a ceremonial Guard of Honour at Air Force Station New Delhi.

The port call at Souda Bay on 31 October 2026 took place during an ongoing deployment of Indian Naval Ship Trishul to the Mediterranean, and Souda Bay is a Greek port in that sea.

The establishment at Souda Bay is the NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Centre, usually written as NMIOTC, and the crew of Indian Naval Ship Trishul is to be familiarised with its facilities during the port call, along with those of Naval Support Activity Souda Bay.

Souda Bay is the Greek port where Indian Naval Ship Trishul called on 31 October 2026 while deployed in the Mediterranean Sea.