UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

Carbofuran, methyl parathion, phorate and triazophos are all insecticides sprayed on crops, and all are highly toxic. Carbofuran is a carbamate; methyl parathion, phorate and triazophos are organophosphates.

DCCBs are the middle tier that funds the Primary Agricultural Credit Societies, but the commercial banks, not the DCCBs, give the largest share of short-term farm credit.

These three INA officers were tried together by the British at the Red Fort in Delhi in 1945. After the Second World War, the British put Shah Nawaz Khan, Prem Kumar Sehgal and Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon on trial for "waging war against the King".

The Climate Action Tracker is an independent scientific analysis run by research groups, not by any UN body. It is produced mainly by two non-profit research organisations, Climate Analytics and the NewClimate Institute, and has tracked national climate action since 2009.

Under the Permanent Settlement of 1793, a zamindar who missed the fixed date of payment lost his estate, while the Ryotwari system gave the peasant no relief in bad years.

Both the lists of the Seventh Schedule and the extent of a State's executive power are federal provisions named in the proviso to Article 368(2), so changing them needs ratification by half the State Legislatures.

In national income accounting the steps run from private income to personal income to personal disposable income. Private income is the factor income of the private sector plus transfers.

Mitochondria carry their own small, circular DNA and their own ribosomes. Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell, where aerobic respiration makes ATP.

The United Nations marks 12 August every year as International Youth Day. The UN General Assembly endorsed the day in 1999, on the recommendation of the World Conference of Ministers Responsible for Youth held in Lisbon in 1998, and it was first observed in 2000.

. The American federation is called "an indestructible union of indestructible states", a phrase from the US Supreme Court's judgment in Texas v. White (1869).

The INA drew its soldiers largely from Indian prisoners of war held by Japan, and Bose created the Rani of Jhansi Regiment for women.

All three are underground modified stems: the potato is a stem tuber, and onion and garlic are bulbs. A stem can be told from a root by its nodes and buds.

A wave moves forward by one wavelength in each cycle, so 150 wavelengths take 150 cycles, and 150 cycles at 300 per second take half a second.

A floating body is in equilibrium, so the upward buoyant force exactly balances its weight. By Archimedes' principle, a body in a liquid is pushed up by a force equal to the weight of the liquid it displaces.

These are the three main divisions of the human brain. The fore brain is the largest part.

x86 and MIPS assembly are low-level languages written for particular processor families, while Python and Java are high-level languages. An assembly language uses short mnemonics such as MOV, ADD and JMP that stand directly for a processor's machine instructions, so each family of processors has its own.

Lithium hydrogen carbonate exists only in solution; it cannot be isolated as a solid. All the alkali metals of group 1 form hydrogen carbonates (bicarbonates), but lithium behaves differently from the rest.

Pure water is neutral, and a neutral solution has a pH of 7 at 25 °C. pH is the negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion concentration.

Ultraviolet photons carry more energy than visible light, not less, so this statement is wrong. The energy of a photon is E = hc/λ, so a shorter wavelength means higher energy.

Both statements are true, but the direction in which the Earth spins does not explain why tides occur. Tides are caused mainly by the Moon's pull, with the Sun adding a smaller pull; the Moon's tide-raising force is roughly twice the Sun's because it is so much closer.