Defence GK Questions 2026

It was formed in Calcutta in October 1851 by merging the Landholders' Society and the Bengal British India Society. The British Indian Association was led by zamindars of Bengal such as Radhakanta Deb, its first president, with Debendranath Tagore as secretary.

Tilak founded the Indian Home Rule League at Belgaum in April 1916. Two Home Rule Leagues were set up in 1916 on the model of the Irish Home Rule movement, to demand self-government for India within the British Empire.

Article 324(5) says that an Election Commissioner cannot be removed from office except on the recommendation of the Chief Election Commissioner.

In a short circuit the resistance of the path falls almost to zero, so by Ohm's law the current rises sharply.

He headed the Provisional Government that the Bolsheviks under Lenin overthrew in the October Revolution of 1917. Russia had two revolutions in 1917.

Cattle, buffaloes, goats and sheep are ruminants, and a ruminant's stomach has four chambers. The four chambers are the rumen, the reticulum, the omasum and the abomasum.

Hot deserts have a large daily range of temperature and very little moisture, so rocks break up physically rather than decay chemically.

It is not among the 29 matters of the Eleventh Schedule that Article 243G lets a State entrust to the Panchayats.

Spring tides occur whenever the Sun, the Earth and the Moon lie in a straight line, a position called syzygy, whether the Moon is on the same side as the Sun or the opposite side.

The first three gallantry awards of independent India were instituted on 26 January 1950, but they were the Param Vir Chakra, the Maha Vir Chakra and the Vir Chakra.

Both statements correctly describe how the Ajanta murals were prepared and painted. The Ajanta caves in Maharashtra, carved between about the 2nd century BCE and the 5th century CE, hold the finest surviving Buddhist murals of ancient India.

It reverses the facts: the pulmonary arteries carry deoxygenated blood and the pulmonary veins carry oxygenated blood. Arteries and veins are named by the direction of flow, not by the oxygen they carry.

The CAG is appointed by the President and is barred from further office under the Government, but the CAG's reports go to the President, not the Prime Minister.

All three statements describe functions that political parties perform in a modern representative democracy. Parties contest elections: in most democracies the real contest is between candidates nominated by parties, and in India too most members of the Lok Sabha belong to some party.

The roles set out for these vessels are maritime surveillance, search and rescue, protection of offshore assets such as installations at sea, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, and anti-piracy missions.

The Ministry of Defence explained that ships of this class take their names from India's rich heritage, and that Srishti means creation, or the act of creating, in Sanskrit.

Yard 1283, named Srishti, was launched there on 27 October 2026 in the presence of the Secretary (Defence Finance) and senior officers of the Indian Navy and the Ministry of Defence.

The Republic of Singapore Navy sent RSS Supreme, a Formidable-class stealth frigate, and the ship carried an embarked SH-70B helicopter during the exercise.

SIMBEX-2026 was run in two stages. The harbour stage was held in port at Visakhapatnam and covered subject matter expert exchanges, cross-deck visits, planning conferences and sporting events.

SIMBEX is short for Singapore-India Maritime Bilateral Exercise, and it is conducted between the Indian Navy and the Republic of Singapore Navy.