UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

Rainfed Area Development is meant for farms that depend on rain, not on canals, so improving canal irrigation is not one of its strategies.

A typical flower has four whorls arranged on the thalamus: sepals on the outside, then petals, then stamens, and carpels at the centre.

A convex mirror always forms an erect, diminished image, so it shows a much wider area of the road behind than a flat mirror of the same size, which is why it is used as a rear-view or side-view mirror.

Hajipur in Bihar is the headquarters of the East Central Railway zone, which began working in 2002. Indian Railways is divided into zones, each with its own headquarters and divisions.

Decomposition breaks rocks down at the surface and is a process of weathering, whereas metamorphism changes rocks deep inside the crust through heat, pressure and chemically active solutions.

Wire B has half the resistance of wire A, and at the same voltage power is V²/R, so B dissipates twice the power: P₁ = 2P, which means P = P₁/2.

The Sun's surface is about 6,000 °C, so most of its energy reaches the Earth as short-wave radiation: visible light and near (short wavelength) infrared, with a small share of ultraviolet.

The radicle is the embryonic root, and it is the first part to come out of a germinating seed, growing downward to form the primary root.

Pressure is force divided by the area in contact: the weight is 2 kg × 10 m/s² = 20 N and the face touching the table is 0.30 m × 0.10 m = 0.03 m², so the pressure is 20 ÷ 0.03 ≈ 666.6 N/m².

Electric charge equals current multiplied by time, Q = I × t, with time in seconds: 0.6 A × 600 s = 360 coulombs.

All three statements describe the royal centre of Vijayanagara (Hampi) as the archaeological study of the site records it. The royal centre lay in the south-western part of the settlement, away from the sacred centre on the bank of the Tungabhadra.

The stinging hairs on nettle leaves inject methanoic acid (formic acid, HCOOH) into the skin when touched, and this acid causes the burning pain and itching.

On 18 April 1951, at Pochampally village in Nalgonda district of the then Hyderabad State (now in Telangana), landowner V. Ramachandra Reddy offered about 100 acres to landless Dalit families, and this became the first gift of the Bhoodan Movement.

Moran is an oil field in the Upper Assam valley, in Dibrugarh district of Assam, so it is not in Gujarat.

Indigestion and heartburn are usually caused by too much acid in the stomach, and an antacid is a mild base that neutralises this extra hydrochloric acid.

The opening of the pulmonary artery from the right ventricle is guarded by the pulmonary semilunar valve, which stops blood from flowing back into the ventricle when it relaxes.

In bryophytes the main, independent plant body is the haploid gametophyte, while the diploid sporophyte stays attached to it and depends on it for food.

When the Central Government declares an association unlawful under the UAPA, the notification does not stand on the Government's word alone: it must be referred to a Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal constituted of one person who is a sitting judge of a High Court, and the Tribunal decides within six…

The Prevention of Terrorism Act was enacted in 2002 and repealed in 2004, and the amendment of the UAPA made in the same year carried its definitions of terrorist act and terrorist organisation into that older Act, which is why the UAPA is today the principal anti-terror law.

The committee headed by Justice B. P. Jeevan Reddy, appointed in 2004 to review AFSPA, reported in 2005 that the Act should be repealed and that the powers genuinely needed should instead be written into the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.