NDA GK Questions 2026

Seven friendly foreign countries have sent flying contingents to Tarang Shakti 2026, and the list is Australia, the United States of America, the United Arab Emirates, France, Germany, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

The flying phase of Exercise Tarang Shakti 2026 opened at Air Force Station Jodhpur the day after the inaugural ceremony, and the visiting contingents are operating from there through the exercise window of 26 September to 12 October 2026.

This is the declared theme of the second edition of the multilateral air exercise, which the Indian Air Force is conducting from 26 September to 12 October 2026 at Air Force Station Jodhpur.

The purpose is twofold: the armed forces get their missiles delivered on time, and DRDO is freed to concentrate on research and development while industry takes up the production load.

The comparison the Minister drew is the part worth memorising: the same allocation stood at around Rs 2.53 lakh crore in 2013-14, which makes option A a real figure but from the wrong year, and therefore the most attractive distractor in the set.

After the earlier goal of Rs 30,000 crore in annual defence exports was met in the previous year, the government fixed a higher goal of Rs 50,000 crore to be reached by 2029.

Supplies went to more than 100 countries, which is why the Defence Minister described the country as moving from being an importer to a trusted global supplier.

A normal umbilical cord contains two arteries and one vein, three blood vessels in all. The umbilical cord joins the developing foetus to the placenta.

Modhera is better known for its Sun Temple, raised by King Bhimdev the First in 1025 and attacked the very next year, when Mahmud of Ghazni also pulled down the Somnath temple; it hosts a dance festival every January after Makar Sankranti.

A household logs in with its mobile number, gives its location, fills in the family details and submits the form; nothing has to be uploaded, the whole process runs to about fifteen to twenty minutes, and a special identity number comes back that is shown to the enumerator when the…

Indian Army soldiers crossed the Line of Control on that night and hit terrorist launch pads, and the action is described as a decisive break in the way India answers cross-border terrorism, followed later by the Balakot air strike and Operation Sindoor.

The September edition of the monthly radio address, broadcast on 27 September 2026, was its 138th episode, and in it the Prime Minister looked back at ten years of the surgical strike carried out on the night of 28-29 September 2016, appealed to households to enter their own census details…

When the government set longer term goals for the space programme in 2023, it named an Indian space station, the Bharatiya Antariksh Station, and an Indian crewed landing on the Moon.

Born at Karnal in Haryana, Kalpana Chawla studied aeronautical engineering, moved to the United States and joined NASA, flying first on the shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist.

All Indian orbital launches, including the PSLV, GSLV and LVM3 flights, lift off from Sriharikota on the Andhra Pradesh coast, which has two operational launch pads.

China launched Yang Liwei aboard Shenzhou-5 in October 2003, becoming the third country after the Soviet Union and the United States to send a human into orbit on its own rocket and spacecraft.

The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth once aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961, becoming the first human being in space.

Vyommitra, a name built from vyom for sky and mitra for friend, is a half-humanoid robot developed by ISRO to fly on an uncrewed Gaganyaan mission.

The Human Space Flight Centre, set up in 2019 as the ISRO centre responsible for the Gaganyaan programme, works from Bengaluru, which is also the location of the ISRO headquarters, the U R Rao Satellite Centre and the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network.

The crew module is the pressurised double walled cabin where the astronauts live, and it is the only part that returns to Earth, protected by a heat shield and lowered by parachutes.