Static GK carries most of the General Knowledge marks in the defence exams, and science carries the largest share of it. In NDA & NA, Physics, Chemistry and General Science are about half of the 400 marks of Part B, and History, the freedom movement and Geography are about 20% each, as per the notice. In the CDS (II) 2026 General Knowledge paper, GK24 counted about 37 science questions, about 20 each on Polity and History, about 15 on Geography and environment and about 10 on the Economy; this count is guidance, not an official break-up. The Army's Agniveer CEE gives 15 of its 50 General Duty questions to General Knowledge and 15 to General Science, which covers cells, the human body, plants and animals and common epidemics. Its GK list names history, culture and geography of India and its neighbours, the Constitution, inventions and discoveries, books and authors, and the Indian Armed Forces. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes and GK questions tagged for NDA, CDS and Agniveer, in English and Hindi: General Science, Indian History, Art and Culture, Indian Polity, Geography, Indian Economy and Static GK. Read one topic at a sitting, then solve its questions and the previous-year questions of your exam to see what stayed with you.
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The Phukot Karnali project is a 480 MW hydropower scheme on the Karnali river in western Nepal, developed with India's NHPC.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following statements regarding River Brahmaputra:
1. It rises in Tibet, near Lake Mansarovar.
2. It takes a "U" turn near Namcha Barwa and enters India through a gorge.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
The Brahmaputra rises in Tibet close to Lake Mansarovar and, after a hairpin turn around Namcha Barwa, cuts a deep gorge into Arunachal Pradesh.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements with regard to the famous 'silk routes' are correct?
1. Silk routes refer to East-bound European silk cargoes along these routes.
2. There were several silk routes, over land and by sea, joining together vast regions of Asia with Europe and northern Africa.
3. They are known to have existed since before the Christian Era and thrived almost till the fifteenth century.
4. Besides silk, Chinese pottery, textiles and spices from India and South-east Asia travelled the same route.
Select the answer using the code given below:
Statement 1 is wrong: the name "silk routes" comes from the West-bound cargoes of Chinese silk, not East-bound European silk.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following social reformer started a society for the encouragement of widow remarriage in 1866 in Maharashtra?
Vishnushastri Pandit led the society formed in Maharashtra to encourage the remarriage of widows, the Vidhava Vivahottejak Mandal. In nineteenth-century Maharashtra, widow remarriage was one of the main causes of social reformers.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following presented "The April Theses" to the Russian people in 1917?
Lenin set out the April Theses soon after he returned to Petrograd from exile in Switzerland in April 1917. The February Revolution of 1917 ended the rule of Tsar Nicholas II and brought a Provisional Government to power.
Read the full explanation →At which of the following was the American Declaration of Independence adopted on 4 July, 1776?
Meeting at Philadelphia, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on 4 July 1776. The Second Continental Congress met from May 1775, after fighting had begun at Lexington and Concord.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following statements concerning the American War of Independence:
1. The Americans raised the slogan, "No taxation without representation".
2. The American merchants resorted to the boycott of the British products.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
The colonists protested with the slogan "No taxation without representation" and backed it with a boycott of British goods.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following statements with regard to the types of land listed in the Amarakosha.
I. Devamatrika refers to land watered by rain.
II. Aprahata refers to fallow land.
III. Pankila refers to highly fertile land.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Devamatrika is land watered by rain and aprahata is fallow land, but pankila means muddy land, not highly fertile land.
Read the full explanation →What is the name of the award given to meritorious men in the Mughal Court in the form of a robe of honour that was once worn by the Emperor?
The khilat was a robe of honour that had once been worn by the emperor, and giving it was believed to pass on his blessing to the person honoured.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following statements with regard to bead production in Harappan towns:
I. The materials used to make beads included carnelian, quartz and steatite.
II. The beads were cylindrical, barrel-shaped and disc-shaped.
III. Specialized stone drills were used for making holes through the beads.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
All three statements describe Harappan bead making correctly: the stones used, the shapes made and the drills used to bore them.
Read the full explanation →Match List I with List II:
List I (Event): I. Passing of the Age of Consent Bill; II. Establishment of the Arya Samaj; III. Death of Dayanand Saraswati; IV. Foundation of the Nagari Pracharini Sabha
List II (Year): A. 1893; B. 1883; C. 1875; D. 1891
Select the answer using the code given below:
The Age of Consent Bill was passed in 1891, the Arya Samaj was founded in 1875, Dayanand Saraswati died in 1883 and the Nagari Pracharini Sabha was set up in 1893.
Read the full explanation →How does the joint training in Exercise Garuda Shakti conclude?
The joint training culminates in this final phase, which is designed to put the two contingents into lifelike operational situations and to assess the endurance, coordination and combat readiness they have built up during the drill.
Read the full explanation →Which Indian Army unit forms the Indian contingent in Exercise Garuda Shakti?
The Indian contingent at the eleventh edition of Garuda Shakti comprises troops of this regiment, while the Indonesian contingent is made up of personnel from the Indonesian Special Forces.
Read the full explanation →Where is the 11th edition of Exercise Garuda Shakti being conducted?
The eleventh edition of the India-Indonesia joint special forces exercise commenced at Banyuwangi and is being conducted from 27 October to 06 November 2026, which means this edition is being hosted by Indonesia rather than India.
Read the full explanation →Exercise Garuda Shakti is a joint special forces exercise between India and which other country?
Garuda Shakti is the joint special forces exercise of India and Indonesia, and its eleventh edition commenced at Banyuwangi in Indonesia, with the Indian side represented by the Parachute Regiment (Special Forces) and the host side by the Indonesian Special Forces.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is a west-flowing river?
The Narmada flows west through a rift valley and falls into the Arabian Sea. The Narmada rises at Amarkantak in Madhya Pradesh and flows west for about 1,300 km between the Vindhya and Satpura ranges, along a rift valley formed by faulting.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following issues was included in the Indo-US Nuclear Agreement of 2007?
. The 123 Agreement finalised in 2007 gave India advance consent to reprocess US-origin spent fuel at a new safeguarded facility.
Read the full explanation →The major part of Central Asia is dominated by which one of the following language families?
Most of Central Asia speaks Turkic languages, which are traditionally grouped in the Altaic family. Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz and Turkmen, the main languages of four of the five Central Asian republics, are Turkic.
Read the full explanation →If the linear momentum of a moving object gets doubled due to application of a force, then its kinetic energy will
Kinetic energy equals p²/2m, so doubling the momentum p makes the kinetic energy four times as large. Momentum is p = mv and kinetic energy is KE = ½mv².
Read the full explanation →A solution contains 20 g of solute in 180 g of solvent. If the solvent is water, what is the concentration of the solution in terms of mass by mass percentage?
Mass by mass percentage is the mass of solute divided by the mass of the whole solution: 20 ÷ (20 + 180) × 100 = 10%.
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