UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

The winter solstice of the Northern Hemisphere falls on about 22 December. On that day the Sun's rays fall vertically on the Tropic of Capricorn, and the North Pole is tilted away from the Sun.

The India Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project was launched by the Ministry of Environment and Forests in 2010 with World Bank support.

Colostrum is the thick, yellowish first milk a mother produces in the first few days after childbirth.

When a magnet moves inside a coil, the magnetic flux linked with the coil changes, and this change produces an electromotive force and a current.

Archaeologists divide the Stone Age into the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods mainly by the kind of stone tools found and the way they were made.

The Karachi Session of March 1931, presided over by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, passed the resolution on Fundamental Rights and Economic Policy.

Some Fundamental Rights are given only to citizens of India, while others are available to every person on Indian soil, including foreigners.

The Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was founded in Pune in 1870 to act as a bridge between the government and the people and to put the grievances of the public, especially peasants, before the British authorities.

This statement is incorrect because the Speaker resigns by writing to the Deputy Speaker, not to the President.

This is the incorrect statement, because the Rajya Sabha does discuss a Money Bill. Under Article 109, a Money Bill is introduced only in the Lok Sabha and, after it is passed, it is sent to the Rajya Sabha.

Zonal Councils are statutory bodies set up under the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, to promote cooperation among neighbouring states. There are five: Northern, Central, Eastern, Western and Southern.

The United Nations Security Council has fifteen members: five permanent members and ten non-permanent members elected by the General Assembly for two-year terms.

The Suresh Tendulkar expert group, which reported to the Planning Commission in 2009, deliberately moved away from the old calorie-based poverty line.

A cumulonimbus cloud is the final stage of a growing cumulus cloud. On a hot day, rising warm air forms small fair-weather cumulus.

An avalanche is a mass of snow and ice sliding suddenly down a mountain slope. It is driven by gravity acting on the snowpack, so it is grouped with landslides as a terrestrial or mass-movement disaster, not an atmospheric one.

Shipki La is the pass through which the Satluj river enters India from Tibet. It lies in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, on the border with the Tibet region of China.

Cooking soda, also called baking soda, is sodium hydrogen carbonate, also known as sodium bicarbonate. It is a mild base made from one sodium, one hydrogen, one carbon and three oxygen atoms.

The Kherwar or Sapha Har movement of the Santhals in the 1870s called on the tribe to worship one supreme god and to purify its own social life.

The Latin maxim means 'hear the other side', and it says no person should be condemned or punished without a fair chance to present their case.

Under paragraph 4 of the Fifth Schedule, a Tribes Advisory Council must be set up in every state that has Scheduled Areas, and the President may direct that one be set up in a state that has Scheduled Tribes but no Scheduled Areas.