Static general knowledge is the larger part of every UPSC general studies paper. The notices name the same areas again and again: the history of India and the national movement, Indian and world geography, polity and the Constitution, the economy and social development, and general science with environment and ecology. The balance shifts from exam to exam. NDA puts about half of its General Knowledge part on Physics, Chemistry and General Science. CSE favours polity, modern history, environment and the economy. CAPF adds security and human rights, and CDS spreads its questions across polity, history, geography, the economy and school science.
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What is the maximum payload YETI is designed to carry?
YETI is designed to lift payloads of up to 200 kg, and by a neat coincidence the same figure is its targeted range in kilometres, which makes the pair easy to remember together.
Read the full explanation →How much financial support has the Technology Development Board agreed to give for the YETI project?
That is the support the Technology Development Board has agreed to extend to ideaForge Technology Limited under the Research Development and Innovation Fund, and it comes in the form of debt financing.
Read the full explanation →Roughly how many training hours were generated by CTF 154 activities during the Indian Navy's command?
Across the Indian Navy's tenure, the activities of CTF 154 added up to more than 7,800 hours of training, with personnel from 39 countries taking part.
Read the full explanation →In which year did India become a full member of the Combined Maritime Forces?
India's association with the Combined Maritime Forces came in two steps: it first joined as an Associate Partner in 2022 and then took up full membership in 2023.
Read the full explanation →How many nations make up the Combined Maritime Forces partnership served by CTF 154?
The Combined Maritime Forces is a partnership of 47 nations, and CTF 154 is the one task force within it that is given over wholly to training, running professional courses and capacity building so that member navies can work with one another at sea.
Read the full explanation →In which city did the Indian Navy hand over command of Combined Task Force 154?
The ceremony at which the Indian Navy gave up command of Combined Task Force 154 was held at Manama in Bahrain on 14 October 2026, and it closed the first spell in which India headed a task force of the Combined Maritime Forces.
Read the full explanation →A snowboard pulled up by a tow rope travels at the rate of 5 m/s up a mountain. If 3000 watt of power is used, what force was applied to it ?
Power equals force times velocity, so the force is 3,000 W divided by 5 m/s, which is 600 N. Power is the rate of doing work: P = W/t. Work is force times distance, W = F × d, so P = F × d/t, and since d/t is the…
Read the full explanation →Broadly both birth and death rates are low in which one of the following stages of demographic transition model?
In this last stage both the birth rate and the death rate are low, so the population grows very slowly or stays almost steady.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is the deepest, inland and protected port on the east coast of India ?
It is the deepest landlocked and well-protected port on India's east coast. Visakhapatnam port in Andhra Pradesh lies in a natural harbour cut into the land, sheltered by the Dolphin's Nose headland, which protects ships from the waves of the Bay of Bengal.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following characteristics of a type of wind : 1. They occur at upper levels in the atmosphere 2. They are subjected to two forces, a pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force 3. When the forces balance, air moves at right angles to the pressure gradient, parallel to the isobars Identify the type of wind on the basis of the given characteristics :
A geostrophic wind blows high above the surface, where the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force balance and the air flows parallel to the isobars.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following statements is not correct?
Only the Supreme Court and the High Courts are courts of record under the Constitution; subordinate courts are not. Article 129 declares the Supreme Court a court of record, and Article 215 does the same for every High Court.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following scholars has conceptualized the Constitution of India as a 'seamless web' ?
The American historian described the Indian Constitution as a "seamless web" of three closely linked strands.
Read the full explanation →When a longitudinal wave moves through a certain medium, the quantity which is transmitted through the medium is
A wave carries energy from one place to another, while the particles of the medium only vibrate about their fixed positions.
Read the full explanation →How is the magnitude of price elasticity for an individual good determined? 1. By the degree to which the good is a necessity or luxury 2. By the extent to which substitutes are available 3. By the rate of income growth in the economy 4. By the relative importance of the good in the consumer's budget Select the correct answer using the code given below.
The nature of the good, its substitutes and its share in the budget decide how strongly demand reacts to price; the growth of income in the economy does not.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is a permeable rock that allows water to pass through it?
Water passes through limestone along its joints and bedding planes, and slowly dissolves the rock as it goes. Limestone is a sedimentary rock made mainly of calcium carbonate.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following was the founder of 'Sikkim Praja Mandal' ?
He founded the Sikkim Praja Mandal in 1945 to oppose the feudal landlord system and the absolute rule of the Chogyal.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following statements about the 'Amara-Nayaka' system is not correct?
The territories of the amara-nayakas were not hereditary; the Vijayanagara kings transferred them from one place to another from time to time.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following major river basins of India is the shortest in length and smallest in terms of catchment area?
Of the four, the Sabarmati is both the shortest river and the one with the smallest basin. The Sabarmati rises in the Aravalli hills of Rajasthan and flows about 370 km south-west through Gujarat, past Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, into the Gulf of Khambhat.
Read the full explanation →Zayed Medal is the top civilian honour of
The Order of Zayed is the highest civilian decoration of the UAE. The medal is named after Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding father of the UAE and its first President from 1971 until his death in 2004.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following statements about production possibility frontier is not correct?
On the frontier all resources are already fully used, so more of one good can be produced only by giving up some of the other.
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