UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

These records preserve petitions that women sent to the panchayat seeking redress. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries village panchayats settled disputes and punished misconduct.

He won gold in the men's javelin F46 class at Rio 2016 with a world record throw of 63.97 m. Devendra Jhajharia, from Churu in Rajasthan, lost his left arm to an electric shock as a child.

Bacteria on the floor break down the urea in urine and release ammonia, which has a sharp, pungent smell. Urea, CO(NH2)2, is the main nitrogenous waste of humans.

SPARSH stands for Scholarship for Promotion of Aptitude and Research in Stamps as a Hobby. The scheme was launched by the Department of Posts under the Ministry of Communications in 2017.

CAATSA stands for Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, a US federal law of 2017. The US Congress passed CAATSA in July 2017 and President Donald Trump signed it in August 2017.

The UN World Tourism Organization chose India to host the official World Tourism Day celebrations of 27 September 2019. World Tourism Day is observed every year on 27 September.

It is very cold, chemically inert and cheap, which makes it the standard coolant for preserving cells and tissues. Liquid nitrogen boils at about −196 °C. At such low temperatures the chemical and enzyme activity inside cells almost stops, so tissues can be kept unchanged for years.

Christopher Nolan's film on the father of the atomic bomb was named Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards in March 2024.

The Earth is slightly flattened at the poles, and the poles themselves are points, not lines. Because the Earth is an oblate spheroid, a degree of latitude is a little shorter at the equator, about 110.6 km, than near the poles, about 111.7 km.

Both statements describe how nucleases are used as tools of recombinant DNA technology. Nucleases are enzymes that break the phosphodiester bonds of DNA.

Tritium is the only radioactive isotope of hydrogen; its nucleus is unstable and decays by giving out beta particles. Hydrogen has three natural isotopes, all with one proton but different numbers of neutrons.

The National Mission on Edible Oils - Oil Palm (NMEO-OP), approved in August 2021, gives special focus to these two areas because their high rainfall and humid climate suit oil palm.

RCEP is a free trade agreement built around ASEAN and its FTA partners, and India chose to stay out of it.

Assembly language replaces the binary machine codes of a processor with short symbols called mnemonics, such as MOV, ADD and JMP.

Sorting wastes into categories and disposing of each in the proper way reduces pollution, so it helps solve environmental problems rather than cause them.

The Sukhoi-30 MKI is not made by DRDO; it was designed by Russia's Sukhoi bureau and is built in India under licence by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) at Nashik.

The order of setting up is Sarkaria Commission (1983), Eleventh Finance Commission (1998), Second Administrative Reforms Commission (2005) and Punchhi Commission (2007).

The peacock is a bird and the camel is a mammal, and these are the only two groups of animals that are warm-blooded.

Penicillin stops bacteria from building their peptidoglycan cell wall, so the weakened cells burst and die. Penicillin binds to and blocks the transpeptidase enzymes, also called penicillin-binding proteins, that cross-link the peptidoglycan chains of the wall.

Russian athletes competed at the Tokyo 2020 Games, held in 2021, under the name ROC because Russia was barred from competing under its own name and flag.