NDA GK Questions 2026

All three statements correctly describe the Northern Plains of India. The Northern Plains were built from alluvium laid down by the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra and their tributaries, which together drain the Himalayas.

Mudflow and slump happen quickly enough to be seen, while creep and solifluction are slow movements noticed only over long periods.

It created the special status of "associate state" for Sikkim, a step short of full statehood. Sikkim had been an Indian protectorate since 1950.

Sound in air is a longitudinal wave, and only transverse waves can be polarised. Polarisation means restricting the vibrations of a wave to a single plane.

That is exactly what a port of call is. Ports of call first grew up as stopping points on the great ocean routes, where ships halted to take on fuel, fresh water and provisions before the next long leg of the voyage.

Under the Rules of Procedure of the Lok Sabha, the Speaker is elected on a date fixed by the President.

Because the axis is tilted, each hemisphere leans towards the Sun for part of the year and away from it for the rest, which brings the seasons.

The Nalayira Divyaprabandham, meaning "four thousand sacred compositions", gathers the Tamil hymns of the twelve Vaishnava saints known as Alvars.

Salt weathering breaks rock by the physical pressure of growing salts, so it is a form of physical (mechanical) weathering, not chemical weathering.

Acharya Narendra Dev was a founder and leading thinker of the Congress Socialist Party, the socialist group inside the Congress.

A polje is a very large, flat-floored depression in limestone country, often several kilometres long, far bigger than the other karst hollows.

The Communist member from Bengal attacked the Constituent Assembly as a body created under the British Cabinet Mission Plan. The Constituent Assembly was set up in 1946 under the Cabinet Mission Plan, and its members were elected indirectly by the provincial assemblies, not by universal adult franchise.

Reversing the pole that approaches the loop reverses the change in magnetic flux, so the induced current reverses too. When a magnet moves towards a closed loop, the magnetic flux through the loop changes and an electric current is induced (Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction).

Arranged by the year each era begins, the order is Vikrama, Shaka, Kalachuri, Gupta and Harsha. The Vikrama era (Vikram Samvat) begins in 57 BCE and is still used in much of north and west India.

Statement 1 is right, but statement 2 has the date change the wrong way round. The Earth turns 360° in 24 hours, so every 15° of longitude means one hour of time.

The five pledges, together called Panch Pran, were articulated by the Prime Minister from the ramparts of the Red Fort, and the Minister recalled them at this programme: the resolve to build a developed India, freedom from the colonial mindset, pride in the heritage of the country, unity and solidarity…

The Minister said that efforts were under way, under the guidance of the Prime Minister, to develop one lakh young leaders across the country, and he placed the MY Bharat portal at the centre of that effort as the route through which the young can find openings for participation, career…

He spoke at the programme held at a college in Kutiyana, in his own district, and called on young people to take the lead in nation-building and in the march towards a developed India.

The project conforms to the norms of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and to the standards of the Indian Green Building Council, and on completion it is to be rated IGBC Gold.

The correct answer is Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Western Naval Command, who opened the residential accommodation for defence civilians, the Station Health Organisation, and the trunk utility and access works.