Banking GK Questions 2026

She and the President of Singapore, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, together hosted the luncheon that Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman attended during her visit from 8 to 11 October 2026.

The engagements in Singapore gave the two sides an opportunity to review progress in advancing the outcomes of that roundtable and to explore avenues for deepening the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between India and Singapore.

During the Union Finance Minister’s visit, the two sides exchanged views on strengthening India-ASEAN cooperation and regional economic ties in the run-up to Singapore’s ASEAN Chairmanship, which falls in that year.

Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman called on him during her visit from 8 to 11 October 2026 and also attended a luncheon he hosted along with the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.

A key aim of the partnership is better candidate registration through this platform, together with Aadhaar-based face authentication under the Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System, so that enrolment and attendance at the institutes are both verifiable.

The agreement signed on 12 October 2026 covers uniform training standards, quality administration and systematic capacity building at the Rural Self Employment Training Institutes, and extends to the settlement of trained candidates, their credit linkage and the monitoring of both.

This is the training target given to the Rural Self Employment Training Institutes for the current year, and it is larger than the target that had been fixed for the previous year, 2025-26.

The Bairabi-Sairang railway line of that length was called a historic milestone that placed Mizoram on the railway map of the country and changed the state’s access to major economic centres.

The Mizoram Ginger Mission of this size is meant to draw nearly 20,000 farming households into a single value chain that covers cultivation, processing, branding, connectivity and access to national and international markets.

Union Minister for Communications and DoNER, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, took up ten projects of about this value in Mizoram on 12 October 2026 in the presence of Chief Minister Pu Lalduhoma.

Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Phailin crossed the coast on 12 October 2013, and Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Hudhud crossed on 12 October 2014.

The bi-annual Pre-Cyclone Exercise Meeting for the post-monsoon season, covering October to December 2026, was held under the chairmanship of Dr. Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director General of Meteorology at the India Meteorological Department, who is also the 3rd Vice President of the World Meteorological Organisation.

The IMD, which works under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, dedicated the Cyclone Warning and Marine Weather Services Decision Support System to the nation on 12 October 2026.

Retail investors can bid for government securities in primary auctions, and NDS-OM is the RBI's trading platform for them, but CDSL was not promoted by the RBI.

Household savings reach the government through many channels, and dated securities sold in auctions make up the bulk of the Centre's internal debt.

The capital budget records capital receipts and capital expenditure, and all three items fall in it. The Union Budget has two parts.

The MPC fixes the policy repo rate, the RBI's benchmark rate, but it has six members and is chaired by the RBI Governor.

Expansionary policies, fiscal stimulus and higher purchasing power all raise aggregate demand, which is what drives demand-pull inflation. Demand-pull inflation happens when total demand for goods and services runs ahead of what the economy can supply, described as too much money chasing too few goods.

Buying new technology creates a lasting asset, so it is capital expenditure; debt and equity are ways of raising money, not kinds of expenditure.

Amber, blue and green boxes are the categories in which the WTO Agreement on Agriculture classifies farm subsidies. The Agreement on Agriculture came out of the Uruguay Round and took effect with the WTO in 1995.