Banking GK Questions 2026

These three grades of fine silver bullion and coins were brought within the scope of the standard after the gazette notification of Amendment No. 1 to IS 2112:2025, which deals with silver and silver alloys, jewellery and artefacts, their fineness and their marking.

This was the theme announced for the national celebration held in New Delhi, and it shaped the day's announcements: the Bureau of Indian Standards released standards on clean energy mobility, including one for electric vehicle charging cables and another for pedal assisted bicycles, and the Union Minister for Consumer Affairs…

Besides being a renowned classical dancer and author, she served as an officer of that service, and this detail is the kind of cross-link a paper setter likes, because it ties a book release to the services list.

While speaking on the spread of cancer care, the Vice-President said that over 700 District Clinics and 500 Day Care Cancer Centres have been established, and that 19 State Cancer Institutes and 20 Tertiary Care Cancer Centres have been approved for operationalisation.

The Vice-President released her inspirational memoir at Uprashtrapathi Bhavan and spoke of it as an account of passion, hard work and resilience, and of her journey through cancer.

Implementation has deliberately been made phased, and the first phase covers larger societies that cross this threshold in the relevant financial parameters, so that smaller institutions have extra time to strengthen their internal systems and processes before the enhanced reporting reaches them.

That amendment gave the Central Government the power to prescribe auditing and accounting standards for these societies, and the new audit reporting order has been formulated in pursuance of the provision.

MSCARO stands for the Multi-State Co-operative Societies (Auditor’s Report) Order, and the version mandated now creates a uniform, structured and risk-based framework in which auditors report on financial, administrative, governance and statutory compliance parameters through a standard format with clear Yes or No answers and remarks.

The committee has been asked to examine the demand for revising this price in the light of the cost of producing sugar, what mills actually realise in the market, and the financial viability of the mills themselves.

The committee was constituted following the decisions taken during a meeting in which representatives of sugarcane farmers from these two States met the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare together with the Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.

The Government of India constituted the committee under his chairmanship to examine the issues raised by sugarcane farmers and to recommend suitable measures.

Two independent professional agencies valued the bank, one comparing it against the closing accounts of all public sector banks as on 31 March 2026 under relative valuation, the other weighing tangible and intangible assets, land and property included, against liabilities in the audited accounts of the same date.

This is the aggregate equity block going to the Strategic Buyer, and it is made up of two parts: the Government of India contributes 30.48 per cent and LIC contributes 30.24 per cent, with the sale proceeds divided in that same ratio.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs picked this company as the Strategic Buyer when it approved the strategic restructuring of the bank, and its parent is M/s Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment works through this corporation to run BHARAT TULIP, and it is NBCFDC that facilitates market linkages for artisans on digital platforms and e-commerce channels, along with promotion, quality assurance, skill development and support for logistics and delivery.

It implements the programme through the National Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation, which handles the market linkage work on digital platforms and e-commerce channels.

That is what the abbreviation stands for in BHARAT TULIP, the programme the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment runs through the National Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation to broaden the market reach of traditional artisans.

As Director of NIPER Raebareli she said the proposed Centre of Excellence would serve as a dedicated platform for structured training and certification in clinical research, and that bringing academic and industry expertise together would produce a model capable of being repeated in other regions and therapeutic areas.

It is described as the central government's flagship initiative for building a stronger biopharma ecosystem, and among its goals is the creation of a thousand clinical trial sites across the country; the partnership between NIPER Raebareli and AstraZeneca India directly serves that objective.

The partnership begins by adopting 25 clinical trial sites in emerging research geographies, assessing what each can do, and then giving the staff targeted training and mentoring while tightening documentation and the processes around ethics, safety and trial feasibility.