NDA GK Questions 2026

Mature human red blood cells and platelets have no nucleus. Red blood cells lose their nucleus as they mature in the bone marrow; this gives their biconcave disc shape more room for haemoglobin to carry oxygen, but it also means they cannot divide or repair themselves and live only about…

Plant growth regulators, or plant hormones, are small molecules that control growth even in tiny amounts, and each main group comes from a different chemical family.

The Constitution of India borrowed the rule of law, the law-making procedure and the parliamentary system from the British Constitution, but took the independence of the judiciary from the US Constitution.

In dinitrogen pentoxide, nitrogen has an oxidation state of +5, the highest it can reach, because a nitrogen atom has five electrons in its outer shell.

Henry St. Clair Wilkins, an officer of the Royal Engineers, designed the Bombay Secretariat, completed in 1874 as part of the grand row of public buildings that rose along the Oval in Bombay after the old fort walls were pulled down in the 1860s. The building is in the Venetian…

Arikamedu, near Puducherry on the Coromandel coast, was a busy port from about the 2nd century BCE, and its remains show trade with the Roman world.

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) works under the Ministry of Home Affairs, which is the nodal ministry for disaster management in India.

Granite is an igneous rock, formed when molten magma cools and hardens. Because it cools slowly deep inside the earth's crust, its crystals grow large enough to be seen by the naked eye, so it is called an intrusive or plutonic igneous rock.

Jahanara Begum, the eldest daughter of Shah Jahan, wrote the Munis al-Arwah ("Confidant of Souls") in 1640 as a biography of Shaikh Muinuddin Chishti, the founder of the Chishti order in India.

Monopolistic competition is a market with many buyers and sellers, each seller offering a product that is slightly different from the others.

Delhi has three UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and they are exactly these three. Humayun's Tomb was inscribed in 1993; built in the 1560s at the wish of his widow Bega Begum, it was the first garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent and a model for the Taj Mahal.

The idea of human development, put forward by Mahbub ul Haq and Amartya Sen, rests on four pillars: equity, sustainability, productivity and empowerment.

Handloom cotton weaving was India's largest industry, and it suffered most when British rule opened India to machine-made cloth. Before the 19th century, Indian muslins, calicoes and chintz from Bengal, Gujarat and the Coromandel coast were sold across the world.

Ashoka's empire covered almost the whole subcontinent, but the Brahmaputra valley lay beyond its eastern limit.

A software port is a logical number, not a physical socket, so it is used for network connections and for telling services apart.

These two Neolithic sites of the Kashmir valley are known for people living in pits dug into the ground.

All three statements repeat the words of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, adopted in 1982 and in force since 1994.

Both statements swap the roles of high and low clouds. Low clouds such as stratus and stratocumulus are thick and bright from above.

Rice is mainly a kharif crop, and in West Bengal and the neighbouring states farmers grow three rice crops in a year: aus in the pre-monsoon and early monsoon season, aman in the main monsoon season with a winter harvest, and boro in winter and spring.

Stewart Island, the Bay of Plenty and Hawke Bay are all in New Zealand. Stewart Island, called Rakiura in Maori, is the third-largest island of the country and lies south of the South Island across the Foveaux Strait.