NDA GK Questions 2026

Gairsain, in the Chamoli district of the Garhwal hills, was declared the summer capital of Uttarakhand, a long-standing demand of the hill districts, which held that a capital in the plains at Dehradun left them neglected.

Itanagar, named after the Ita fort in the area, became the capital when Arunachal Pradesh was a Union territory and continued as the capital after it became a State in 1987.

Uttar Pradesh touches eight States, namely Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar, and in addition the Union territory of Delhi, which is the largest number for any State.

The McMahon Line was drawn at the Simla Convention of 1914 and is the boundary India recognises with China in the eastern sector, running along the crest of the hills north of Arunachal Pradesh.

Gujarat has the longest coastline of any Indian State, because its shore runs along the Gulf of Kachchh, the Saurashtra peninsula and the Gulf of Khambhat, which gives it a deeply indented outline and many ports, including Kandla and Mundra.

India shares its boundary with Myanmar through four States, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram, and Assam is not among them, because it is shut off from Myanmar by Nagaland and Manipur.

The Tropic of Cancer crosses India through eight States, namely Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram, and Odisha is not one of them because it lies to the south of the line.

The India and Bangladesh boundary runs through five States, and of these West Bengal has by far the longest stretch, since Bangladesh lies along its southern and eastern sides.

Shimla is the capital of Himachal Pradesh, and Dharamshala in the Kangra valley was declared its second or winter capital, where a session of the State assembly is held.

Chandigarh was built as the new capital of Punjab after Partition, and when Haryana was carved out of Punjab in 1966 the city was made a Union territory serving as the capital of both States.

Dispur, a locality within Guwahati, became the capital of Assam in 1973 after Shillong, the earlier capital, went to the newly created State of Meghalaya.

In the mesosphere the temperature falls as one goes up, reaching about minus 100 degrees Celsius at the mesopause near 80 km, which makes it the coldest layer of the atmosphere.

Calderas are the most explosive of the earth's volcanoes, because they erupt so violently that the magma chamber empties and the summit collapses into a wide hollow instead of building a cone.

Kerala shows almost no difference between day and night temperatures because it lies on the coast close to the equator, where the sea keeps the air mild and the humidity stays high.

Alexander the Great died in 323 BCE at Babylon, aged about thirty-two, on his way back from the Indian campaign.

Mountains are built by endogenic forces, the forces that act from inside the earth and raise, bend or break the crust.

The Home Rule Movement began in 1916, when two leagues were set up to demand self-government for India within the British Empire.

The Roaring Forties are the strong westerly winds of the southern hemisphere between about 40 and 50 degrees south. They blow with such force because there is almost no land in that belt to slow them down, so sailing ships once used them on the route to Australia.

The Sea Phase consisted of coordinated exercises in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief, Visit-Board-Search-Seizure and Underway Replenishment, with helicopter work covering cross-deck landings, vertical replenishment and casualty evacuation.

Acronyms with a full form of this length are standard objective-paper material, and the safest way to carry them is word by word rather than by sense, because every distractor here is built to sound right.