UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

The 73rd Amendment gave panchayats constitutional status. The Constitution (Seventy-third Amendment) Act, 1992 came into force on 24 April 1993, the date now marked as National Panchayati Raj Day.

The 1971 Census recorded a decadal growth of about 24.8 per cent for 1961–71, the highest of any decade in India's census history.

The amara-nayaka system was the main political innovation of the Vijayanagara Empire, under which military commanders were given territories to govern.

The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve spreads across Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, meeting where the Western and Eastern Ghats join. Set up in 1986, the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve was India's first biosphere reserve and in 2000 became the first in India to join UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves.

He was called Danka Shah, the drum-beating maulvi, because he moved from place to place with drums announcing his preaching against British rule.

The tundra is too cold, with a very short growing season and permanently frozen subsoil, for trees to grow, so it has no timber.

Gokhale moved the Elementary Education Bill in the Imperial Legislative Council in 1911 to make primary education free and compulsory.

Humus is the dark, amorphous organic matter of soil, and its colloidal nature lets it hold nutrients and water for plants.

Hilly terrain, economic backwardness and a sizeable tribal population are criteria; the strategic factor is location along international borders, not a coastal zone.

Vermicompost is a nutrient-rich organic manure and crop rotation helps control pests and weeds, but organic farming does use biofertilizers and bio-pesticides.

The Tenth Schedule covers nominated members too, but its merger exception protects a member who refuses a merger and sits as a separate group.

In 1967 the Supreme Court held that Parliament could not amend Part III to take away or abridge any Fundamental Right.

Lipases split fats into fatty acids and glycerol. Fat digestion happens mainly in the small intestine.

He got the title Vidyasagar from the Sanskrit College, Calcutta, and he argued for widow remarriage precisely on the basis of the scriptures.

Bauxite is a mixture of hydrated aluminium oxides and hydroxides, not a silicate, and it is the main ore of aluminium.

A single-celled organism has no organs at all; the one cell takes in food through its surface or by forming temporary structures.

A lower CRR means banks must park less money with the RBI, so they have more to lend, and lending creates more money.

A healthy young human ear can hear sounds with frequencies from about 20 hertz to about 20,000 hertz. Frequency is the number of vibrations per second, measured in hertz, and our ears sense it as pitch.

The G20 was formed in 1999, not 2001, as a forum of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors. The Group of Twenty was set up in 1999 after the Asian financial crisis, so that finance ministers and central bank governors of major developed and emerging economies could meet regularly.

A muscle contracts when calcium ions are released from the sarcoplasmic reticulum, and it relaxes when they are pumped back into it.