UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

Section 12 of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 gives the NHRC every one of these four functions. The NHRC is a statutory body, not a constitutional one, set up on 12 October 1993 under the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993.

Nutmeg comes from the Banda Islands in the Moluccas of present-day Indonesia, and it was not one of the main goods India sent to Rome.

Silver is less dense, so a silver piece takes up more volume, loses more weight to buoyancy in water, and must therefore be heavier in air to show the same weight under water.

The commission upheld Wood's Despatch but asked the state to give special care to the spread of primary education. The Indian Education Commission was appointed in 1882 by Lord Ripon under the chairmanship of Sir William Wilson Hunter, to review how far the Despatch of 1854 had been carried out.

Silver reacts with traces of hydrogen sulphide in the air and forms a black coating of silver sulphide. This slow attack on a metal by its surroundings is called corrosion, and on silver it is usually called tarnishing.

In uniform circular motion the acceleration points towards the centre of the circle, at right angles to the velocity. In uniform circular motion the speed stays the same, but the direction of motion changes at every point, so the velocity keeps changing and the body is accelerating.

The Ramsar Convention is the international treaty for the conservation and wise use of wetlands. It was signed on 2 February 1971 at Ramsar, a town in Iran on the Caspian Sea, and came into force in 1975.

In 1864 Sir John Lawrence made Simla the official summer capital, moving the Viceroy and his Council there from Calcutta for the hot months.

The species was named Trimeresurus arunachalensis, the Arunachal pit viper, after the state where it was found. Pit vipers are venomous snakes with a heat-sensing pit between each eye and nostril, which lets them detect warm-blooded prey in the dark.

All three are State List subjects: taxes on agricultural income, duties on succession to agricultural land and estate duty on agricultural land.

The Indian Penal Code was drafted on the recommendation of the First Law Commission, and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 repealed and replaced it.

Villi are tiny finger-like folds of the inner lining of the small intestine that greatly increase its surface for absorbing digested food.

The zamindars did exploit the peasants, and yet peasants often backed them against the Mughal state. Zamindars held rights over land and collected revenue on behalf of the state, keeping a share for themselves.

India joined the MTCR as its 35th member on 27 June 2016. The MTCR was set up in 1987 by the G7 countries as an informal group that limits the spread of missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles able to carry weapons of mass destruction.

IPPB was incorporated as a public limited company, but its two pilot branches opened at Raipur and Ranchi, not at Hyderabad and Varanasi.

The dialogue is the Madhura Sutta, a discourse of the Majjhima Nikaya, in which Maha Kachchana answers Avantiputta, the king of Madhura (Mathura).

Mercury is both the smallest and the least massive of the eight planets, with only about 5.5 per cent of the mass of the Earth.

Zinc oxide is amphoteric: it reacts with acids as a base and with strong alkalis as an acid, giving a salt and water in both cases.

Slaked lime on the wall slowly absorbs carbon dioxide from the air and turns into a thin, shiny layer of calcium carbonate.

Rakesh Sharma flew in 1984, Kalpana Chawla in 1997, Sunita Williams in 2006 and Sirisha Bandla in 2021. Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian citizen in space on 3 April 1984, aboard the Soviet Soyuz T-11, and told Indira Gandhi that India looked 'saare jahan se achha'.