NDA GK Questions 2026

At the top of its flight all the kinetic energy of the ball has turned into gravitational potential energy. The mass is 350 g, that is 0·35 kg.

This is the declared theme of the ninth edition of the India-Brazil-South Africa Maritime Exercise, which aims at collective maritime security and at preparing the three navies to deal with challenges at sea.

IBSAMAR has been held once in two years since that year, under the India-Brazil-South Africa framework, and has become a settled platform for joint training and for sharing operational practices among the three navies.

INS Tarkash, a frontline guided missile stealth frigate of the Indian Navy, has been sent on an overseas deployment to South Africa to join the ninth edition of the India-Brazil-South Africa Maritime Exercise.

These are practical choices for the Himalayan belt, where settlements can be cut off for months and a short distance on a map can take hours to travel.

AIIMS Bilaspur is the third institution involved, and its role is to study the health impact of high-altitude conditions on patients who come to the region.

The Union Health Minister performed the Bhumi Pujan and laid the foundation stone there, and a former Chief Minister of the state as well as the Member of Parliament from Mandi spoke at the ceremony.

Platelets, or thrombocytes, gather at a cut and start the process that forms a clot and stops bleeding. Platelets are tiny cell fragments without a nucleus, broken off from large cells called megakaryocytes in the bone marrow.

Most Ashokan inscriptions are in Brahmi, and the script already shows regional differences in the shapes of its letters. Ashoka's edicts were written mostly in Prakrit, in the Brahmi script, which James Prinsep deciphered in 1837-38.

Glass is made by melting silica sand with fluxes and stabilisers, and this option lists the standard batch. Silica, from pure sand, forms the glassy network.

Scattering acts on incoming short-wave sunlight, while the heat the Earth gives back as long-wave energy reaches the air by conduction, convection and radiation.

Chemical messengers called neurotransmitters are released from the nerve endings, the tips of the axon, into the synapse. A nerve impulse travels from the dendrites through the cell body and along the axon as an electrical signal.

Baking soda, sodium hydrogen carbonate, is a mild base, so a small amount shifts fresh milk, whose pH is about 6.6, slightly above 7.

Ethyne, C2H2, has its two carbon atoms joined by a triple bond, each carbon also holding one hydrogen. Carbon has a valency of four.

Gersoppa Falls, better known as Jog Falls, is where the Sharavati river plunges down the edge of the Western Ghats in Karnataka.

Adrenaline, released by the adrenal glands into the blood, speeds up the heart beat when the body faces stress or danger.

These are the five great elements, the Pancha Mahabhuta, that Indian philosophy saw as the building blocks of the physical world.

Water molecules are strongly polar, so they can pull apart the positive and negative ions of a salt and surround them.

The anther is the top part of the stamen, the male organ of a flower, and pollen grains form inside it.

The alveoli are tiny air sacs at the end of the smallest airways, and oxygen and carbon dioxide pass through their walls.