UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

The Arthashastra is a manual on how a king should govern, defend and expand his state, so its main subject is statecraft.

The commercial-crops component of the National Food Security Mission covers cotton, jute and sugarcane, while coffee is a plantation crop handled by the Coffee Board.

Kamarajar Port is a corporatised major port that was earlier called Ennore Port, but it is an artificial harbour, not a natural one.

Ribosomes make proteins, a job every living cell must do, so they are present in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.

Under the structured Master Trainer model, every Master Trainer who completes the Army course will go back and train 100 Civil Defence Volunteers in their own State or Union Territory.

The announcement states that this directorate of the Ministry of Home Affairs, working in coordination with the Indian Army, is undertaking the pilot initiative to strengthen Civil Defence preparedness through specialised training of Master Trainers.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has said that in the first phase a total of 600 Civil Defence Master Trainers, 50 from each participating State or Union Territory, are proposed to be trained by the second week of November 2026 through a three-day specialised programme at designated Indian Army training…

Narayana Bhatta, a Vaishnava scholar of the sixteenth century, wrote the Sanskrit text Vraja Bhakti Vilasa in 1552, describing the sacred sites of the Braj region around Mathura and Vrindavan.

Article 176 of the Constitution requires the Governor to give this special address on these two occasions. In the address the Governor tells the legislature why it has been summoned and sets out the policies and programme of the state government, whose council of ministers actually prepares the text.

Alluvial soils, laid down by rivers, generally contain plenty of potash but lack phosphorus, and they are also often short of nitrogen and humus.

The Congress resolution on non-cooperation, passed at the special Calcutta session of September 1920 and confirmed at Nagpur in December 1920, called for the renunciation of all voluntary association with the British Government.

Binodini Dasi, a leading actress of the Bengali stage, wrote Amar Katha ("My Story"), which first appeared in parts between 1910 and 1913 and was published as a book in 1913.

Railway tracks are joined by the thermite process, in which aluminium powder reduces iron oxide to molten iron. The reaction is Fe₂O₃ + 2Al → 2Fe + Al₂O₃.

Panaji, the capital of Goa, lies at about 15.5° N latitude, the lowest of the four cities, so it is the closest to the Equator.

The events run from the Lucknow Pact of 1916, through Subhas Chandra Bose's return to India in the 1920s and 1930s, to the Cripps Mission of 1942 and the Naval Mutiny of 1946.

The element with atomic number 11 is sodium, and with one electron in its outermost shell its valency is 1.

A firewall inspects incoming traffic, keeps out unauthorised users and blocks suspicious activity, but it has nothing to do with connecting telephones.

Arikamedu, near Puducherry on the Coromandel Coast, has yielded clear evidence of trade with the Roman world between about the first century BCE and the second century CE.

The force gives the car an extra 15 m/s, which is 54 km/h, and 40 + 54 = 94 km/h. By Newton's second law, acceleration a = F/m = 1000 N ÷ 800 kg = 1.25 m/s².

The human eye responds only to visible light, which lies roughly between 400 nm (violet) and 700 nm (red), and 500 nm is the only one of the three values in that range.