UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

Mission Indradhanush aims to raise full immunisation coverage among children, and it also covers pregnant women. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched it on 25 December 2014 to reach children who had been left out or only partly vaccinated under the routine Universal Immunisation Programme.

S-waves are not less destructive; their side-to-side shaking does more damage to buildings and overpasses than P-waves do. S-waves, or secondary waves, are transverse body waves: they move the ground at right angles to the direction in which they travel.

All three statements describe the weapons correctly. HAMMER, short for Highly Agile Modular Munition Extended Range, is a French precision-guided air-to-ground bomb kit made by Safran; India bought it to arm its Rafale jets, which can strike targets tens of kilometres away with it.

The Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules give all four subjects to the Department of Defence in the Ministry of Defence.

The Dasavatara temple at Deogarh is a Gupta building, but the Bhitargaon temple is made of brick, not dressed stone.

Soap micelles are large enough to scatter the light passing through the solution, and this scattering makes soapy water look cloudy.

Sir Benegal Narsing Rau was appointed Constitutional Adviser to the Constituent Assembly and prepared its first draft of the Constitution in October 1947.

The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project is built on the Godavari river in Telangana and is often described as the world's largest multi-stage lift irrigation scheme.

Lying between India and Sri Lanka off Tamil Nadu, it is built around a chain of 21 small islands with estuaries, beaches, coral reefs, salt marshes, seagrass beds and mangroves.

LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array, is a huge radio telescope network built by ASTRON in the Netherlands, described as the largest and most sensitive radio telescope working at low frequencies.

The iron stirrup gave the rider a firm seat, and that firm seat made the lance charge possible, so both statements are correct.

These four outer planets are the gas planets, also called Jovian planets, made mostly of hydrogen, helium, ices and liquids rather than rock.

The Constitution reserves seats in Panchayats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, and it also lets Panchayats levy and collect taxes, so statement 2 is false.

Insolation, the incoming solar radiation, arrives mainly as short waves centred on visible light, but the Earth's curved surface spreads it unevenly, so statement 2 is false.

Arc volcanoes form above subduction zones at convergent plate boundaries, not at divergent ones, so statement 1 is false while 2 and 3 are true.

Lactose, the sugar of milk, is a disaccharide formed when one molecule of glucose joins one molecule of galactose. Disaccharides are sugars made of two simple sugar units, or monosaccharides, linked by a glycosidic bond.

Article 371D deals with Andhra Pradesh and now also Telangana; the special provision for Sikkim is Article 371F. Part XXI of the Constitution contains special provisions for several states in Articles 371 to 371J. Article 371D was added by the 32nd Amendment in 1973 to give the people of Andhra…

Both Shvetaketu and Nachiketa are young seekers in the Upanishads whose stories show that knowledge is won by asking questions and refusing easy answers.

Total internal reflection happens only when light inside a denser medium meets the boundary with a rarer one at an angle larger than the critical angle, and all of the light is reflected back.

Aridisols are the soils of deserts, and they are poor in organic matter, so this statement about them is not correct.