Banking GK Questions 2026

The Centre for Trade and Investment Law is housed there, and its Head, Prof. James J. Nedumpara, also holds the WTO India Chair.

The ministry said the Central Sliver Plants of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission are being modernised and that these two have completed the work and become operational, with the Chittadurga plant meeting half of its energy requirement from solar power while wind power is under study.

The ministry said that women make up roughly four fifths of the approximately half a million Khadi artisans, and that their participation has been especially strong in agarbatti, handmade paper, the Honey Mission and the service industries, giving them a route to financial independence.

The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises stated that the Centre of Excellence for Khadi at NIFT, Delhi has developed that many Khadi design collections across multiple categories, as part of the effort to place Khadi in contemporary fashion and lifestyle.

At the close of the Jakarta round the two sides fixed the next Joint Committee sitting for January 2027, to be held in India and again in hybrid mode.

The Joint Committee has eight sub-committees, and three of them held hybrid meetings on the margins of the 15th round in Jakarta.

ASEAN hosted the 15th Joint Committee of the ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement there from 6 to 9 October 2026, along with meetings of sub-committees, and the round was conducted in hybrid format.

The Ministry of Coal reported that the rate at which coal stocks at power stations were being drawn down slowed sharply, with the daily drawdown dropping by more than half from 0.243 MT a day in September to 0.116 MT a day in October.

Rail loading of coal has averaged more than 465 rakes a day during October, and the ministry noted that the 470-rake target was met on three days running, which it treated as a sign that logistics had strengthened alongside production.

The Ministry of Coal said that daily supplies of coal to the power sector have climbed roughly 36% from the low point reached in September, and that the October average is around 9% higher than the September average.

GIC, the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, and Temasek Holdings are the two Singaporean institutional investors named as having significant investments spread across the Indian economy, and the Union Finance Minister is to hold separate meetings with the chief executives of both.

During her official visit the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs is to call on him as part of a set of high level engagements with the country’s leadership.

That is the cumulative figure for foreign direct investment flowing from Singapore into India over the period from April 2000 to March 2026, and it is the number behind the description of Singapore as India’s single largest source of such investment.

The city state is India’s largest source of foreign direct investment, with cumulative inflows of roughly USD 194.68 billion between April 2000 and March 2026, and its institutional investors, among them GIC and Temasek, hold significant positions across the Indian economy.

A peer-to-peer lending platform, which matches individual lenders with individual borrowers, must be registered as a Non-Banking Financial Company — Peer to Peer Lending Platform under master directions the Reserve Bank issued in 2017; it acts only as an intermediary and may not lend on its own book or give…

The Reserve Bank Innovation Hub was set up in 2020 at Bengaluru as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank to build products that deepen financial inclusion, and the Unified Lending Interface, a common platform through which lenders can draw authenticated data for credit appraisal, grew out of its…

RTGS, which settles large-value transactions one by one in real time, and NEFT, which settles in batches, are both owned and operated by the Reserve Bank, and both have been available round the clock on all days.

The guidelines issued in September 2022 require that all loan money move directly between the borrower’s bank account and the bank account of the regulated entity, that is the bank or non-banking finance company doing the lending, without any pool or pass-through account of a third party in between.

e-RUPI is a prepaid electronic voucher, delivered to the beneficiary as an SMS string or a QR code, which can be redeemed only by the named person and only for the named purpose, for example a vaccination or a diagnostic test.

The retail digital rupee earns no interest, and this is a deliberate design decision: an interest-bearing CBDC would pull money out of bank deposits and shrink the funds banks have to lend, so the Reserve Bank kept it non-interest bearing like cash.