Banking GK Questions 2026

InScript, short for Indian Script, is the standard layout notified by the Government of India and built into Windows, Linux, macOS and Android; it places vowels and matras under the left hand and consonants under the right in the dictionary order of the script, so the same layout works for…

ISCII was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards as IS 13194 in 1991; it is an 8-bit code whose lower 128 positions are the same as ASCII and whose upper 128 positions carry an Indian script, a single table serving ten scripts because they share the phonetic order inherited…

This block of 128 code points holds the Devanagari consonants and independent vowels, the dependent vowel signs or matras, the virama, the nukta, the danda and double danda, and the Devanagari digits; characters added later sit in a separate Devanagari Extended block.

The correct answer is A, the Unicode Consortium, a non-profit body of software companies, governments and individual experts that publishes the Unicode Standard, assigns code points to characters and releases a new version with new scripts and symbols from time to time.

The correct answer is A, Pandharpur, on the Bhima river in Solapur district, where Vithoba or Vitthal, a form of Vishnu, is enshrined; Warkaris walk there in the great pilgrimage procession called the wari, carrying the palanquins of their saints, and the sect produced Jnaneshwar, Namdev, Eknath and Tukaram with…

The Dasha Mahavidyas are the ten great forms of the goddess in Tantric Shaktism, the list beginning with Kali and Tara and including Tripura Sundari, Bhuvaneshvari, Bhairavi, Chhinnamasta, Dhumavati, Bagalamukhi, Matangi and Kamala.

The Devi Mahatmya, known also as the Durga Saptashati or Chandi Path from its seven hundred verses, is a section of that Purana; it narrates the goddess slaying Mahishasura, Shumbha and Nishumbha, and is recited through Navaratri, which is why it is treated as the first full statement of the…

The correct answer is A, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the sixteenth century Bengali saint whose movement is called Gaudiya Vaishnavism after Gauda, the old name of Bengal; its philosophy of Achintya Bheda Abheda holds the soul to be inconceivably both different from and identical with God, and its practice is the congregational…

The correct answer is B, Ramanuja, who taught Vishishtadvaita or qualified non-dualism, in which the individual soul and the world are real and dependent on God rather than illusory, and who organised Sri Vaishnavism around Srirangam, giving the Tamil hymns of the Alvars a place beside Sanskrit scripture.

The correct answer is A, Basavanna, a minister and social reformer who led the Lingayat movement, gathered thinkers in the assembly called the Anubhava Mantapa, and whose followers wear a personal ishtalinga and reject caste, priesthood and temple ritual; the movement's literature is the body of Kannada vachana poems by…

The correct answer is B, Andal, the only woman among the twelve Alvars, whose Tiruppavai and Nachiyar Tirumozhi are sung in Vaishnava temples, especially in the month of Margazhi, and who is worshipped at Srivilliputhur.

The correct answer is B, the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, whose very name means the divine collection of four thousand, compiled from the hymns of the twelve Alvars and treated in Sri Vaishnavism as the Tamil Veda, recited in temple worship alongside Sanskrit scripture.

The sixty-three Nayanars sang in Tamil to Shiva between roughly the sixth and ninth centuries; the hymns of the three greatest, Appar, Sambandar and Sundarar, make up the Tevaram, which forms the first seven books of the twelve-book Tirumurai canon, while Sekkizhar's Periya Puranam, the twelfth book, tells their lives.

The pillar was set up by Heliodorus, the Greek ambassador of the Indo-Greek king Antialcidas at the court of a local ruler, and its Brahmi inscription calls it a Garuda pillar raised in honour of Vasudeva, the god of gods; it is the standard epigraphic proof that Bhagavatism, the early…

The correct answer is A, Lakulisha, who is held in Pashupata tradition to be an incarnation of Shiva and is shown in sculpture holding a club, the lakula from which his name comes; the Pashupata school is the earliest Shaiva order for which texts and inscriptions survive.

Both are enterprise resource planning packages distributed as open-source software, so the source code can be studied and modified, and both are deployed by small and medium firms that cannot meet the cost of a large proprietary suite; ERPNext is the Indian entry in the category.

Data mining applies statistical and machine learning techniques to large stores of data to find knowledge that was not asked for in advance: customer segments, associations between products bought together, trends over time and unusual cases that may be fraud.

Salesforce is the best-known customer relationship management product delivered as a cloud service, used over a browser on subscription, with Zoho from India and Microsoft Dynamics 365 among the other names in the category.

Online analytical processing answers few but complex queries that aggregate, slice and compare historical data held in a data warehouse, which is what business intelligence dashboards and drill-down reports rest on.

A contra voucher records movements that do not change the total funds of the business but only shift them between cash and bank or between two bank accounts, which is why both sides of the entry are the firm's own accounts.