UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

The Commission acted on its own motion on a media report that the police had walked three men through a Kolkata locality in a semi-nude state with ropes tied round their waists, and it issued a notice to the Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, seeking a detailed report within two weeks.

It organised the second edition of the ARISE Cities Forum with the National Institute of Urban Affairs, with support from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, and it also developed the Delhi Biodiversity Map that was launched at the closing ceremony.

The Delhi Declaration 2026 was written to travel from New Delhi to COP31 at Antalya, and the forum's theme, From Bharat to Antalya, was built around that journey.

Implement. Deliver.

Its second edition was held on 27 and 28 October 2026 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, organised by ICLEI South Asia along with the National Institute of Urban Affairs and supported by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

Movement of ions through protein channels is facilitated diffusion, a passive process that needs no energy from ATP. Active transport moves substances against their concentration gradient, from low to high concentration, using carrier proteins and energy, usually from ATP.

These four are the classical Lokapalas, each guarding one of the four main directions of the world. In Hindu tradition, as described in texts such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and in later iconography, Indra guards the east, Yama the south, Varuna the west and Kubera the north.

The Bill proposed only a limited criminal jurisdiction for Indian officials over Europeans, and it met fierce European opposition that forced a diluted version.

An emulsion is a colloid in which tiny droplets of one liquid are spread through another liquid with which it does not mix.

Under the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968, a party recognised as a state party in four or more states qualifies as a national party.

Both particles gain the same kinetic energy, but the electron is far lighter, so it ends up much faster. When a charge q is accelerated through a potential difference V, it gains kinetic energy equal to qV.

The Eleventh Schedule lists 29 subjects on which the state legislature may give powers and responsibilities to the Panchayats. The Eleventh Schedule was added by the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992, along with Part IX on Panchayats.

The object lies between F and 2F of the convex lens (25 cm and 50 cm), and such an object always gives a real, inverted and enlarged image beyond 2F. Using the lens formula 1/v − 1/u = 1/f with u = −40 cm and f = +25 cm gives…

Nanotechnology deals with matter at the scale of roughly 1 to 100 nanometres, where materials begin to show new properties.

The orthodox Calcutta leader founded the Dharma Sabha in 1830 to defend traditional Hindu practices against the reformers. Raja Radhakanta Deb (1784–1867) was a scholar who compiled the Sanskrit encyclopaedia Shabdakalpadruma and was a leading figure of Calcutta society.

Interest on the public debt is the single largest item of the Union Government's revenue expenditure, taking roughly a third of it.

A linker is system software, a programming tool that joins compiled pieces of code into one program that can run; it does not do a task for the end user.

Ribosomes are the only one of these found in prokaryotic cells such as bacteria, because they are not enclosed by a membrane.

Neither statement is correct: only starch is a mixture of amylose and amylopectin, and only glycogen is stored in liver cells.

T-55, T-72 and T-90 are Soviet and Russian-designed main battle tanks, while T-155 is not a tank at all; the name belongs to a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer made in Turkey.