Banking GK Questions 2026

Tele-MANAS, which stands for Tele Mental Health Assistance and Networking Across States, offers free and confidential counselling on this number at any hour of the day, in several languages, without the caller having to reach a hospital.

The minister said the platform, which pairs artificial intelligence with data analytics, has facilitated the disconnection of more than 7.14 crore fraudulent mobile connections.

The minister said more than 38,000 high-end GPUs have been onboarded under the IndiaAI Mission at roughly a third of the global average cost.

The three interconnected pillars are AI Readiness and Policy, which assesses policy gaps and sets up practical governance frameworks; AI Skills Development, which scales national talent through capacity building and training; and Public AI Infrastructure, which creates standards-based, interoperable sandbox environments for testing, validating, scaling and reusing locally relevant solutions.

The workshop was organised jointly by the department, which sits in the Ministry of Communications, and the Union, and was inaugurated by Jyotiraditya M. Scindia at India Mobile Congress 2026 in New Delhi.

The roundtable on implementing standards of the International Telecommunication Union against fraudulent communications was held on the sidelines of that Congress, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally inaugurated on 8 October 2026 at Yashobhoomi in New Delhi.

The Digital Intelligence Platform is the intelligence-sharing layer of India’s approach and links more than 1,600 organisations, among them telecom operators, banks and law-enforcement agencies.

Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani cited this figure for losses suffered by Indians in 2024 to organised, cross-border fraud, which includes impersonation, digital arrest scams, voice cloning generated by artificial intelligence and deepfakes.

ASTR is described as the artificial-intelligence based tool of C-DOT and forms one layer of India’s defence against fraudulent communications; it has helped disconnect over 82 lakh fraudulent mobile connections.

The correct answer is Dr Lata Wankhede, a Member of the Lok Sabha, who attended the meeting of the Standing Committee on Sustainable Development and joined the panel discussion on artificial intelligence and the future of work.

The emergency item, titled "Urgent parliamentary action to address climate-related disasters and strengthen resilience in the Himalayan region and other vulnerable regions", was proposed by Nepal and adopted on the third day of the Assembly.

The 153rd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union was held in Arusha in the United Republic of Tanzania, and the election of the new President took place there on the closing day.

He was declared elected President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union on 9 October 2026, the last day of the 153rd Assembly held in Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania.

He attended the interaction along with senior officials of the Government of India.

The correct answer is 70 competitors in 63 skills, described as the largest contingent India has ever sent to the competition.

India’s tally at the 48th WorldSkills Competition was 6 silver medals along with 20 Medals for Excellence, which together placed the country 10th.

Team India secured the tenth position at the 48th WorldSkills Competition, WorldSkills Shanghai 2026, taking 6 silver medals and 20 Medals for Excellence.

It prepared and released the draft guideline for compiling Gross State Domestic Product estimates from the expenditure side and placed the document on the ministry website for wider dissemination and feedback.

The release states plainly that while some States and Union Territories do put together estimates of Gross Fixed Capital Formation and Government Final Consumption Expenditure, no State or Union Territory is compiling PFCE at present.

The National Statistics Office has prepared the draft guideline for compiling Gross State Domestic Product estimates from the expenditure side with 2022-23 as the base year, and the whole framework is described as working under the revised base year arrangement.