UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

Chadwick discovered the neutron in 1932 and won the Nobel Prize in Physics for it in 1935. He bombarded beryllium with alpha particles and found that the radiation given off was not affected by electric or magnetic fields, yet could knock protons out of paraffin.

Bryophytes live on land but still need water to complete reproduction, so they are called the amphibians of the plant kingdom.

A liquid boils when its vapour pressure equals the pressure of the air pressing on its surface, so lower air pressure means a lower boiling point.

Cones are the photoreceptor cells of the retina that respond to colour in bright light. The human retina carries two kinds of photoreceptors.

Under Article 316 of the Constitution, a member of the Union Public Service Commission holds office for six years from the day he takes charge, or until he turns 65, whichever comes first.

The Home Minister said the Shahzad Bhatti network, which smuggled weapons, explosives and narcotics across the border, has been designated a terrorist organisation under this law.

Speaking at the counter-terrorism conference in New Delhi, the Union Home Minister said that over the years from 2019 to 2026 the government succeeded in bringing 288 fugitive criminals back to India, and that these returns came from 36 different countries.

At the PRAHAAR conference in New Delhi the Union Home Minister launched this portal, whose purpose is to bring together and quicken the effort of returning fugitives who have fled abroad.

India cited this supply, along with medical assistance to more than 150 countries, as proof of the principle of One Earth, One Health and of its commitment to the Global South.

India argued that the agreement will be judged by whether this system is fair, so that a country which shares pathogens or biological resources receives vaccines, diagnostics, therapeutics and other technologies in return, within a reasonable time and with its sovereignty intact.

The correct answer is Union Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava, who spoke for India at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 25 September and reaffirmed the commitment of the country to global health security.

The Vice-President offered these three ideas as the philosophy behind the programme while urging countries of the Global South to respond together to challenges that cut across technology, cyberspace, artificial intelligence, energy and maritime security, climate change and supply chains.

The programme is put together by the two ministries along with that secretariat, and it is conducted in association with the National Defence College, which is where such strategic courses are run.

The fourth edition of the International Strategic Engagement Programme has 38 delegates in all, and of these 25 are international delegates who have come from 22 countries, among them Sri Lanka, Seychelles, Mongolia, Nepal, Mauritius, Maldives, Oman, Guyana, Chile, Argentina, the Philippines, Thailand, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, Myanmar, Uzbekistan and Brazil.

Early Mathura Buddhas show the right hand raised with the palm facing out, the gesture that says "fear not". The Mathura School flourished under the Kushanas in the first centuries CE, at the same time as the Gandhara school of the north-west.

Baiju, also called Baiju Nayak, was the leading singer at the court of Raja Man Singh Tomar in Gwalior and later served Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat.

The Indian Forest Act of 1878 created the three classes of reserved, protected and village forests. British interest in Indian forests grew as the railways and shipbuilding needed huge amounts of timber.

Both treaties were made to save the ozone layer in the stratosphere, which screens out harmful ultraviolet rays. The Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer was adopted in 1985 as a framework agreement.

Anabaena is a cyanobacterium, a prokaryote with no true nucleus, and all prokaryotes are placed in Monera. In R.H.

Nitrogen is an unreactive gas, so it drives the oxygen out of the packet and stops the oil in the chips from getting oxidised.