NDA GK Questions 2026

Raiyat, muzarian and asami were all used for the peasant in Mughal-period sources, while majur means a labourer. The Indo-Persian sources of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries most often called the peasant raiyat (plural riaya) or muzarian; the words kisan and asami also appear.

Liquid nitrogen boils at about −196 °C, cold enough to stop almost all biological activity, and it is cheap, inert and safe to handle.

Chhattisgarh is a long, narrow state that stretches from about 17.8° N in Sukma district to about 24.1° N in Balrampur district, a north-south length of roughly 700 km.

All three features listed, excess salts of sodium, potassium and magnesium, a sandy to loamy texture and their spread in western Gujarat, the eastern deltas and the Sundarbans, describe saline soils.

The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) is an array of 30 fully steerable parabolic dish antennas, each 45 metres across.

Statements 1 and 3 describe real parts of the Sarnath pillar, while the abacus is neither elliptical nor plain. The Mauryan pillar at Sarnath, set up by Ashoka, had a tall, smooth, tapering shaft of polished Chunar sandstone.

Rutherford's model could not explain why the orbiting electrons do not fall into the nucleus. According to classical physics, a charged particle moving in a circular path is accelerating and must keep radiating energy.

Division is an arithmetic operator that works on numbers, while logical operators work on true and false values. Logical (Boolean) operators take one or more conditions that are either true (1) or false (0) and return a true or false result.

Utnur in present-day Andhra Pradesh is a Neolithic site of the southern Deccan, known for its ash mounds. These ash mounds formed where Neolithic cattle-keepers burnt the dung collected inside large cattle pens, and they belong to the same culture as Kupgal, Kodekal and Piklihal.

The Cripps Mission of March 1942 offered India Dominion status after the Second World War, not full independence. Sir Stafford Cripps, a member of Churchill's War Cabinet, came as Japan advanced in South-East Asia.

The Surat split of December 1907 came from a basic difference in method.

Chabahar gives India a sea-and-land route to Afghanistan and Central Asia that bypasses Pakistan. The port lies on the Makran coast of Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan province, on the Gulf of Oman, outside the Strait of Hormuz.

Anatolia–Turkey and Amhara–Ethiopia are correct, while Cabo Delgado and Catalonia are paired with the wrong countries. Anatolia, also called Asia Minor, is the large peninsula between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean that forms most of Turkey's territory, so pair 1 is correct.

Mangalyaan is the popular name of ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission, and India reached Mars orbit on its first attempt, but it was not the second country to do so.

When the Constitution came into force on 26 January 1950, its Preamble declared India a Sovereign Democratic Republic.

The Senkaku Islands are a small group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, administered by Japan and claimed by China, which calls them the Diaoyu Islands; Taiwan also claims them as Diaoyutai.

Maritime practitioners, scientists, academicians, policymakers and experts from 18 countries across the Indo-Pacific will contribute to the dialogue, and the conference has five professional thematic sessions spread over its three days.

The initiative sets out seven interconnected maritime lines of thrust, and successive editions of the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue have taken up selected dimensions of those lines of thrust.

The Indian Navy will hold the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue in New Delhi from 3 to 5 November 2026 on this theme, with the National Maritime Foundation as the principal organiser, and experts from 18 countries of the region taking part.

Ferric chloride is a salt of a weak base, iron(III) hydroxide, and a strong acid, hydrochloric acid, so its solution is acidic and has a pH below 7.