Banking GK Questions 2026

DAKSHIN, the Global South Centre of Excellence, is housed at RIS, and it was in that capacity that it signed the Letter of Association with CSIR on 3 November 2026.

The correct answer is 64.72 crore passengers, the number carried during October 2026.

To meet the heavier requirement of thermal power stations, the railways stepped up coal movement to this daily average during October 2026, and the supply of coal to power houses grew 19.5 per cent over the year.

The correct answer is food grains, whose loading rose by 26.3 per cent over October 2025, the steepest gain among all the commodities listed for the month.

This was the quantity of goods moved by the network during October 2026, and it stands as the heaviest loading ever recorded for the month of October.

In the same round, the steepest margin over an individual plot's floor price came to 67.65 per cent.

The first phase, held on 12 October 2026, placed 150 parcels, and the second phase on 3 November 2026 placed another 114, so the two rounds together account for 264 parcels sold for Rs 584.33 crore against a combined reserve price of Rs 497.29 crore.

NLMC is a wholly government-owned company under that department, and its mandate is to spot, assess, ready and place in the market the surplus land and buildings held by central public sector enterprises and other government bodies.

The second phase of the land sale run by the National Land Monetization Corporation closed at Visakhapatnam on 3 November 2026, and the 114 parcels that found buyers brought in bids worth Rs 218 crore in all.

A business delegation of that many Indian companies travelled with Jitin Prasada, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry and for Electronics and Information Technology, on his two-day programme in Poland.

He asked companies from both countries to use the coming India-European Union Free Trade Agreement to widen market access and deepen investment ties.

The two visits together show how quickly senior exchanges are now following one another between the two countries.

The India-Poland Strategic Partnership was set up in that year, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his landmark visit to Poland, and the ministerial travel of November 2026 was described as carrying that partnership forward.

The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority works under this ministry and supports exporters, farmers and farmer producer organisations in reaching overseas buyers, which is exactly what it did for the kiwi from Ziro and the pomegranates from Kullu.

The export let participating farmers earn half again as much as the price prevailing in the home market, a gain credited to direct procurement from growers and to collective participation through the Bhuntar farmer producer organisation, which brings together about 600 farmers.

APEDA facilitated the export of 1.3 metric tonnes of the Sinduri variety from Kullu district to Dubai, packed in 650 boxes of 2 kg each and shipped by Amama Exports, a firm based in Uttar Pradesh.

APEDA facilitated a trial export of 1.5 metric tonnes of kiwi from Ziro in Arunachal Pradesh to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, and the consignment was displayed at LuLu Hypermarket, Al Qusais.

It was an invitation-only forum curated in partnership with BloombergNEF, and its first leg was held on the second day of the summit.

The summit brought together representatives of over 130 countries, among them more than 40 ministers, along with policymakers, investors, financial institutions and industry leaders.

The high-level dialogue called The Next Terawatt was convened by the International Solar Alliance together with these two, and it was joined by the Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy, the Union Minister of Power and Housing and Urban Affairs, and the Minister of State for New and Renewable…