UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

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.

Sambhar, the large saline lake west of Jaipur and the biggest inland salt lake of the country, was added to the list of Ramsar wetlands in 1990; the other Ramsar wetland of the state is Keoladeo Ghana at Bharatpur, recognised in 1981.

The Palace on Wheels was introduced in 1982, using coaches in the style of the old princely saloons, and runs a weekly circuit through the cities and wildlife parks of Rajasthan; it is operated for the state by the Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation, which itself was set up in 1979.

The Pushkar fair is held at Pushkar in Ajmer district around Kartik Purnima, the full moon of Kartik, and combines a bathing pilgrimage to the lake and the temple of Brahma with one of the largest cattle and camel markets of the country.

Guru Shikhar stands on the Abu hills in Sirohi district and is the highest point of the whole Aravalli range; Mount Abu, the only hill station of Rajasthan, lies below it along with the Dilwara temples and the Nakki lake.

Udaipur is called the City of Lakes and the Venice of the East because of Lake Pichola, Fateh Sagar and the palaces built in and around the water, among them the Lake Palace or Jag Niwas on Pichola.

Chand Baori at Abhaneri in Dausa district is among the deepest and most photographed step wells in India, a square tank with flights of steps on three sides and a pavilion on the fourth.

The Vijay Stambh inside Chittorgarh Fort, the largest fort of India by area, was raised by Rana Kumbha of Mewar in the fifteenth century to mark his victory over Mahmud Khilji of Malwa.

The Dilwara group of Jain temples stands at Mount Abu, the only hill station of Rajasthan, and is built in white marble; the Vimal Vasahi is dedicated to Adinath and the Luna Vasahi to Neminath, and the carved ceilings and pillars are the reason for its fame.

The Hawa Mahal, the screen of latticed windows on the edge of the city palace complex, was built in 1799 by Sawai Pratap Singh and designed by the architect Lal Chand Ustad, so that the women of the household could watch processions in the street without being seen.

The serial property inscribed in 2013 covers exactly six forts: Chittorgarh, Kumbhalgarh in Rajsamand, Ranthambore in Sawai Madhopur, Amber near Jaipur, Jaisalmer, and Gagron in Jhalawar.

Keoladeo, a man-made wetland created by the rulers of Bharatpur and long known for the migratory birds that wintered there, was inscribed in 1985 and is the oldest World Heritage property of the state; it had already been recognised as a Ramsar wetland in 1981.

He became the first Chief Justice of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh when the court was constituted on 1 November 1956 with its principal seat at Jabalpur, and he went on to become Chief Justice of India and later Vice-President of India.

The Rewa division, with its headquarters at Rewa, covers the Baghelkhand districts of Rewa, Satna, Sidhi and Singrauli, together with the districts notified more recently in the same region.

It was founded in 1946 by the jurist and educationist Dr Hari Singh Gour, who endowed it largely from his own earnings, and it is therefore ten years older than the present state itself.

Balaghat, in the Jabalpur division on the border with Maharashtra, was the only district of the state to record more than a thousand females per thousand males in the 2011 Census, against a state figure of 931.

Indore, the commercial capital of the state, was the most populous district in the 2011 Census, while Harda was the least populous.