UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

The Helmand rises in the Hindu Kush west of Kabul, crosses southern Afghanistan and ends in the Hamoun wetlands on the Afghanistan-Iran border.

A batholith is the largest intrusive igneous body and forms deepest in the crust, so it lies lowest of all these forms.

The Phukot Karnali project is a 480 MW hydropower scheme on the Karnali river in western Nepal, developed with India's NHPC.

The Brahmaputra rises in Tibet close to Lake Mansarovar and, after a hairpin turn around Namcha Barwa, cuts a deep gorge into Arunachal Pradesh.

. The 123 Agreement finalised in 2007 gave India advance consent to reprocess US-origin spent fuel at a new safeguarded facility.

The Portuguese traveller Domingo Paes visited Vijayanagara and left a detailed account of the capital. Paes came to Vijayanagara around 1520, during the reign of Krishnadeva Raya, the greatest ruler of the Tuluva dynasty.

The Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan received the 56th Jnanpith Award and the Konkani writer Damodar Mauzo the 57th; both were announced together in December 2021.

Isonif, isohel and isohaline are matched correctly; an isohypse joins places of equal height, not equal cloudiness. An isoline joins points on a map that have the same value of something.

National Waterway 2 is the 891 km stretch of the Brahmaputra between Sadiya and Dhubri in Assam. It was declared a national waterway in 1988 and is managed by the Inland Waterways Authority of India, set up in 1986 with its headquarters at Noida.

The Onge, the Jarawa and the Sentinelese are all native tribes of the Andaman Islands.

A pendentive is the curved triangular piece in the corner of a square room that carries the round base of a dome down onto the arches below.

The Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh received the 52nd Jnanpith Award, for the year 2016. The Jnanpith Award is given by the Bharatiya Jnanpith trust for an outstanding contribution to literature in Indian languages, and is India's highest literary honour.

High-yielding variety seeds came only in the mid-1960s with the Green Revolution, not immediately after Independence. After Partition, India lost much of its irrigated wheat and rice land to Pakistan and faced food shortages.

Monpa is spoken in Arunachal Pradesh, not in Jammu and Kashmir. The Monpa people live mainly in the Tawang and West Kameng districts of Arunachal Pradesh, and their language belongs to the Tibeto-Burman group.

Pragyan was a six-wheeled rover carried inside the Vikram lander. Chandrayaan-2 was launched on 22 July 2019 by the GSLV Mk III with an orbiter, the Vikram lander and the Pragyan rover.

The 1598 farman allowed the Jesuit fathers to build a church at Cambay. Cambay was a busy port on the Gulf of Khambhat where Portuguese traders and missionaries were active.

Under the nutrition indicator, a household is deprived if any one eligible member is undernourished, and a woman of 15 to 49 with a BMI below 18.5 counts as undernourished.

Only the Abyssinian plateau (Africa) and the Anatolian plateau (Asia) are matched with the right continent. The Abyssinian or Ethiopian plateau is a high volcanic tableland in the Horn of Africa, where the Blue Nile rises from Lake Tana.

The UN General Assembly fixed 15 September as the International Day of Democracy. The General Assembly adopted the resolution in 2007, and the day was first observed in 2008.

The Act's definition covers any unwelcome physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct of a sexual nature, so all three count.