Banking GK Questions 2026

Under the National Quantum Mission the country set an eight-year target of covering 2,000 kilometres of quantum-secure communication, and the 1,000-kilometre milestone was reached in three years, which is well ahead of the pace that target implied.

These three measures were used to pick the districts, after which the share of net cropped area and of operational holdings in each State and Union Territory was also considered so that the spread remained fair, with at least one district per State.

The average score of the 100 districts across the six objectives of the scheme stood at 18.85 in April 2026 and reached 46.89 in August 2026, which is an improvement of 28.04 points over those months.

The scheme runs on a three-tier structure. At the district level, the District Dhan Dhaanya Krishi Yojana Samiti, headed by the District Collector or District Magistrate, prepares and implements the District Action Plan.

The scheme works in 100 Aspirational Agricultural Districts, and these were identified using three indicators: low productivity, low cropping intensity and low disbursement of agricultural credit.

The Indian Lighthouse Festival has moved along the coast in three editions: the first was held at Fort Aguada in Goa in 2023, the second at Puri in Odisha in 2024, and the third at Visakhapatnam in 2026.

Four lighthouses are being established along this river at Pandu, Bogibeel, Silghat and Biswanath Ghat, and together they will be the first lighthouse infrastructure India places on an inland waterway rather than on the sea coast.

The Lighthouse Museum of 77 metres forms part of the National Maritime Heritage Complex at Lothal, an archaeological site tied to ancient seaborne trade, and it is estimated at ₹266.11 crore.

India maintains 205 lighthouses along a coastline that stretches beyond 11,000 km, and these towers are looked after by the Directorate General of Lighthouses and Lightships under the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.

The campaign is run by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in collaboration with the Cycling Federation of India, which is the national federation for the sport, the Raahgiri Foundation, which works on reclaiming streets for walking and cycling, and MY Bharat, the ministry's youth platform.

The correct answer is Parul Chaudhary, who won two bronze medals at the Asian Games, one in the women's 3000m steeplechase and the other in the 5000m. Option A, Prachi Chaudhary, is wrong, and the similarity of the two names is exactly what such a question tests: she won a…

The ride went from Namo Ghat to the Diksha Mandap of Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, and both of those landmarks are in Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh; the start was at 6 in the morning.

The 94th edition of the ride, held in Varanasi, was built around this theme, which joins the weekly fitness drive to the effort to keep young people away from substance abuse and sets both in the frame of a developed India.

The Vice-President recalled the legacy of Birsa Munda, Sidho-Kanhu and Tilka Manjhi, all of them figures of tribal resistance closely associated with the region around Deoghar, and used their memory to ask the graduates to carry their knowledge into villages, tribal communities and the remotest parts of the country.

Speaking about the expansion of medical education and health infrastructure, the Vice-President said the country had 387 medical colleges before 2014 and now has 846, and he presented institutions such as AIIMS Deoghar as proof of development that is balanced and inclusive.

The Vice-President pointed to this with satisfaction, saying that it showed the country moving from the empowerment of women towards development led by women, and that it showed how education allows women to realise their potential.

Deoghar lies in the Santhal Pargana region of Jharkhand, and the Vice-President described the convocation as a celebration of that region's aspirations, speaking of what the institute means for tribal and rural communities around it.

The Games have deliberately been designed as a non-competitive platform: the purpose is to demonstrate traditional and indigenous sporting practices, to document them, and to let practitioners from different countries exchange knowledge, with emphasis on the cultural meaning of each game.

Mallakhamb is a gymnastic form performed on a wooden pole or a hanging rope, Yogasana has been shaped into a competitive sport in India in recent years, and Kalaripayattu is a martial art associated with Kerala.

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports is organising them together with the Government of Gujarat, which is the clue that fixes the host state and therefore the city.