Defence GK Questions 2026

According to the Supreme Court of India, Justice Surya Kant was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court on 24 May 2019 and was sworn in as the fifty-third Chief Justice of India on 24 November 2025, with retirement due on 9 February 2027.

Justice Y. V. Chandrachud was Chief Justice of India from 1978 to 1985 and his son, Justice D. Y. Chandrachud, became the fiftieth Chief Justice of India in November 2022, the only instance of a father and a son both holding the office.

Article 126 provides that when the office of Chief Justice of India is vacant, or when the Chief Justice is by reason of absence or otherwise unable to perform the duties of the office, the duties shall be performed by such one of the other judges of the Court as…

Article 124(2) provides that a judge of the Supreme Court holds office until he attains the age of sixty-five years, and the Chief Justice of India is a judge of that Court, so the same limit applies to him.

Article 60 lays down the form of oath for the President and provides that it is made in the presence of the Chief Justice of India, or in his absence the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court available.

Justice Kamal Narain Singh was Chief Justice of India for only seventeen days, from 25 November to 12 December 1991, the shortest tenure in the history of the office.

Justice Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud was Chief Justice of India from 22 February 1978 to 11 July 1985, a tenure of about seven years and four months, by far the longest any holder of the office has had.

Justice Mohammad Hidayatullah, who was Chief Justice of India from 1968 to 1970, officiated as President of India from 20 July to 24 August 1969, in the gap between the death of President Zakir Husain and the election of V. V. Giri.

Article 124 establishes the Supreme Court of India and lays down that every judge of the Court, including the Chief Justice of India, is appointed by the President by warrant under his hand and seal; Article 124(2) fixes the retirement age at sixty-five years and Article 124(4) prescribes the procedure…

When the Federal Court of India became the Supreme Court of India on 26 January 1950, Justice H. J. Kania, who had been Chief Justice of the Federal Court, became the first Chief Justice of India.

Physiological density divides the total population of a region by the area of its cultivable or arable land, so it measures the pressure of all the people on the land that can actually grow food, and it is far higher than ordinary density in countries such as Egypt, where most…

Push factors are the unfavourable conditions of the place a person leaves, such as unemployment, poverty, crop failure, drought, flood, epidemic and political unrest; they push people out.

Natural growth is the increase that comes from the balance of births over deaths alone, so it is births minus deaths in the period, and it is negative when deaths exceed births.

Asia holds roughly three-fifths of all the people in the world, mainly in the two great clusters of East Asia and South Asia, which include the two most populous countries on earth.

The width of each bar in a population pyramid shows the share of that age group, so a broad base means that children form a very large part of the population, which happens where the birth rate is high; the narrow top shows that few people survive to old age.

In the first stage of the demographic transition the society is rural and agrarian, life expectancy is low, medical facilities are poor and literacy is low, so both the birth rate and the death rate are high and they roughly cancel each other, leaving population almost stationary.

Replacement level fertility is the total fertility rate at which a generation of women exactly replaces itself in the next generation.

The United Nations marked 15 November 2022 as the Day of Eight Billion, the date on which the world population was estimated to have reached eight thousand million.

In this essay of 1798 Malthus argued that population tends to increase in a geometric progression while the means of subsistence can increase only in an arithmetic progression, so growth must be restrained either by positive checks such as famine, disease and war, or by preventive checks such as late…

Density of population is a ratio between the number of people and the area they occupy, and the standard unit is the number of persons living in one square kilometre; it is the simplest way of measuring the pressure of people on land.