Banking GK Questions 2026

In 1793 he settled the land revenue of Bengal, Bihar and Odisha permanently with the zamindars, who were recognised as proprietors so long as they paid a demand fixed for ever, and the cultivator was left without any recorded right in the land.

Kadaknath is a poultry breed of the Jhabua and Dhar region of western Madhya Pradesh, reared by tribal households, and its black flesh, bones and blood make it distinctive enough to have been given a geographical indication tag.

The correct answer is C, because the gains were not spread evenly: they were concentrated in the assured irrigation belt of Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, and later in parts of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, while the rain fed districts of central and eastern India gained far less.

Jute is called the golden fibre for the colour of its retted fibre, so the programme to raise its output and improve its processing is named the golden fibre revolution, and it matters most in West Bengal, Bihar and Assam.

Apiculture is bee keeping for honey and beeswax, and it is counted among the allied activities because it needs almost no land and raises the yield of nearby crops through pollination.

The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, which studies the stocks, breeding and farming of sea fish along the Indian coast, has its headquarters at Kochi in Kerala.

This goat of the cold Changthang plateau grows a very fine soft undercoat in winter, and that fibre, combed out in spring, is the pashmina from which Kashmiri shawls are woven.

Murrah, from the Rohtak and Hisar belt of Haryana, is the best known milk buffalo of India, recognised by its tightly curled horns and heavy milk yield, and it has been used to improve buffalo stock in many states and abroad.

He organised the milk producers of the Kaira district into the cooperative known by the brand Amul, designed the three tier Anand pattern, headed the National Dairy Development Board and led Operation Flood, which is why the growth of Indian dairying is credited to him.

Operation Flood was launched by the National Dairy Development Board in 1970 to build a national milk grid on the Anand pattern of cooperatives, and it ran in three phases until 1996, by which time village societies in most states were selling milk to the big cities.

The blue revolution is the name given to the rapid rise in fish output through aquaculture and improved marine fishing, which in India followed the spread of induced breeding of carp, the work of fish farmers development agencies and later a dedicated central scheme for fisheries.

The summit was held there over two days, and the Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Shri Chanchal Kumar, addressed its inaugural session before also opening the WAVES Global Investor and Investee Meet in the same city.

The white paper released by the Confederation of Indian Industry outlines a roadmap for India's media and entertainment sector to reach that size by the early 2030s, and it argues that faster reforms, stronger regional markets and measurable implementation are what would get the sector there.

The white paper was released at the CII Big Picture Summit held in Mumbai, and it lays out a roadmap for the Indian media and entertainment sector along with calls for quicker reform, stronger regional markets and implementation that can be measured.

In her statement the Finance Minister encouraged stronger collaboration among these three arms and pressed for the World Bank Group Guarantee Platform to be operationalised faster, pointing out that developing economies are constrained by a shortage of risk capital and that guarantees and risk mitigation instruments are among the most…

That was the stated agenda of the plenary, and India's intervention was delivered on precisely this topic, arguing that productive and better paid employment is the most effective pathway to cutting poverty and spreading prosperity.

The meeting of the Development Committee Plenary was held in Bangkok in Thailand, and the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, took part in it there as India's Governor of the World Bank.

CBLO was a short-term borrowing and lending instrument backed by government securities, which places it in the money market. The money market deals in funds lent for short periods, from overnight up to one year, through instruments such as call money, treasury bills, commercial paper, certificates of deposit and repos.

Each state brings its new recruits under NPS from the date it notifies, so this group can join. The National Pension System replaced the old defined-benefit pension for new Central Government employees from 1 January 2004, and states adopted it one by one through their own notifications.

BHIM can send money to anyone who has a UPI-linked bank account, but a chip-and-PIN debit card does not use four factors of authentication.