Banking GK Questions 2026

He raised the slogan in 1965, when the country was fighting a war on one side and facing a shortage of food grains on the other, and the two words placed the soldier and the farmer side by side as the twin defenders of the nation.

The Maratha leader, called Lokmanya and described by the British as the father of Indian unrest, declared that swaraj was his birthright and that he would have it, and the sentence became the rallying cry of the extremist wing of the Congress in the first decade of the twentieth century.

Cleanliness was a lifelong concern for him; he cleaned latrines himself at Sabarmati and Sevagram, insisted that every satyagrahi do the same, and declared on more than one occasion that sanitation mattered more than political freedom, because a nation that could not keep itself clean would not know what to…

The chess grandmaster received the award in its first year, 1991-92, when it was called the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna; it was renamed the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in 2021 and remains the highest sporting honour of the country.

She won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the Sydney Olympics of 2000, in the sixty-nine kilogram category, and became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal of any colour.

The Malayalam poet received the first Jnanpith Award in 1965 for his collection Odakkuzhal, meaning the bamboo flute; the award is given by the Bharatiya Jnanpith for outstanding writing in any of the languages recognised by the Constitution.

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest honour in Indian cinema, was instituted in 1969 to mark the birth centenary of Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who made Raja Harishchandra in 1913, and the first award went to the actress Devika Rani, who was also a founder of Bombay Talkies.

She won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design in 1983, for the film Gandhi released in 1982, sharing it with John Mollo, and she was the first Indian to win an Oscar in any category.

He commanded a company of the 4th Battalion of the Kumaon Regiment at Badgam near Srinagar in November 1947 and held off a far larger force of raiders until he was killed; the Param Vir Chakra, instituted on 26 January 1950 with effect from 15 August 1947, was conferred on…

Known as the Frontier Gandhi and as Badshah Khan, he led the Khudai Khidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier Province and became a citizen of Pakistan after partition; India honoured him with the Bharat Ratna in 1987, the first time the award went to someone who was not an Indian…

He died at Tashkent in January 1966 after signing the agreement that ended the war of 1965, and the Bharat Ratna was conferred on him that same year, the first time the honour was given after the recipient's death.

She received the Bharat Ratna in 1971, while she was Prime Minister, and she remains the first woman on the list.

The Bharat Ratna was instituted in 1954 and in that first year it went to three men: C. Rajagopalachari, the last Governor-General of India, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, then Vice-President and later President, and the physicist C. V. Raman.

He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light, the phenomenon known as the Raman effect, which he announced on 28 February 1928; that date is kept as National Science Day.

He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali, becoming not only the first Indian but the first Asian of any country to receive a Nobel Prize.

India won the series in New Zealand in 1968 under Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, taking three of the four Test matches, and it was India's first series win on foreign soil after thirty-six years of Test cricket.

The Indian Premier League, the franchise Twenty20 competition run by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, played its first season in April and May 2008, and the Rajasthan Royals, captained by Shane Warne, won that edition.

Gavaskar reached ten thousand Test runs in 1987, the first cricketer of any country to do so, and he had earlier passed Don Bradman's record of twenty-nine Test centuries, finishing his career with thirty-four.

The inaugural ICC World Twenty20 was staged in South Africa in September 2007, and India beat Pakistan in the final at the Wanderers in Johannesburg, Joginder Sharma bowling the last over and Irfan Pathan taking three wickets.

Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, the prince of Nawanagar who played for England in the 1890s and was famous for the leg glance, gave his name to the trophy for the national first-class championship, which was first played in the 1934 and 1935 season and was won by Bombay.