UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

Aluminium has three valence electrons, one fewer than silicon, so each aluminium atom leaves a hole that acts as a positive charge carrier.

Since the 44th Amendment, the President cannot suspend the right to move a court for enforcing Articles 20 and 21, even during a national emergency.

Khuntkatti was the traditional land system of the Munda tribe of the Chota Nagpur plateau, in present-day Jharkhand. Under khuntkatti, land belonged jointly to the lineage (khunt) of the families who first cleared the forest and settled the village.

In 1940 Subhas Chandra Bose joined hands with the Muslim League in Bengal and led the campaign to remove the Holwell Monument from Calcutta.

India's territorial waters, where it has full sovereignty, extend 12 nautical miles (about 22.2 km) from the baseline of its coast.

The resolution that created NITI Aayog names the Prime Minister as Chairperson, a Governing Council of Chief Ministers and Lieutenant Governors, and a Chief Executive Officer appointed by the Prime Minister.

This is the false statement: glass cools into an amorphous solid without any regular crystal structure. When molten glass cools, its viscosity rises so quickly that the atoms have no time to arrange themselves in an ordered crystal lattice.

For an object launched horizontally, the time of fall depends only on the height, because its starting vertical speed is zero.

The 2023 delimitation in Assam used the 2001 Census figures, but it raised the number of Assembly seats reserved for Scheduled Tribes.

India is the second-largest emitter of fuel-combustion CO2 in the Asia-Pacific after China, and power and heat generation is its biggest source, but its per capita emissions are well above 0.5 tonne.

The Peninsular Block is an old, stable landmass with worn-down residual hills and a western edge that sank along faults, but its rivers flow in broad, shallow valleys.

The transcriptome is the complete set of RNA transcripts, chiefly messenger RNA, made from the genes at a given time.

Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) is the rule that certain solar projects must use solar cells and modules made in India.

As a member of the World Trade Organization, India had to protect geographical indications under the TRIPS Agreement, and the 1999 Act was passed for that purpose.

Both ideas are geoengineering proposals meant to cool the planet by changing how much heat enters or leaves the Earth.

Cnidarians, fungi and protozoa all include species that live in close, mutually useful partnerships with other organisms. Symbiosis means two different species living closely together, often to the benefit of both.

The Levant is the land on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea in West Asia. The word comes from the French 'lever', to rise, meaning the land where the sun rises, as seen from Europe.

The core idea of a constitution is constitutionalism: power is granted to the government, but only within set limits. A constitution sets up the organs of the State and divides power among them, but its chief purpose is to stop that power from becoming arbitrary.

Rafale, MiG-29 and Tejas Mk-1 are all fourth or 4.5 generation fighters; none of them is a fifth-generation aircraft. A fifth-generation fighter is defined by all-aspect stealth, internal weapons bays, supercruise and advanced sensor fusion.

The Gooty tarantula is a tree-dwelling spider found only in a few forest patches of India; it is not a crustacean.