Banking GK Questions 2026

In an optical fibre the glass core has a higher refractive index than the cladding around it, so light that meets the core-cladding boundary at an angle greater than the critical angle is reflected entirely back into the core instead of passing out, and it travels along the fibre in…

The International Telecommunication Union has adopted the framework recommendation for IMT-2030, which describes what 6G should achieve: terahertz and other very high frequency bands, latency below a millisecond, artificial intelligence built into the network, communication combined with sensing, satellite-extended coverage and better energy efficiency.

TRAI was set up under the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997, to regulate telecom services, fix tariffs and protect the interests of consumers once private operators entered the field.

The first mobile telephone call in India was made on 31 July 1995 between Kolkata and New Delhi, a year after the National Telecom Policy of 1994 opened mobile services to private operators.

The three categories actually defined are given in the other options.

Under IMT-2020 the peak downlink data rate for 5G is set at 20 gigabits a second, with 10 gigabits a second in the uplink; these are laboratory peaks under ideal conditions, not the speed a subscriber sees, and the separate target for the user experienced rate is 100 megabits a…

LTE is the radio technology through which 4G was delivered; the name was chosen because it was presented as the long-term evolution of the earlier 3G standards rather than a break with them.

The International Telecommunication Union names each generation of mobile telephony by a standard family, and 5G is IMT-2020, whose requirements include a peak downlink rate of 20 Gbps, a user experienced rate of 100 Mbps, one millisecond of air interface latency and a million connected devices in a square kilometre.

Commercial 5G services began in India on 1 October 2022, when they were launched at the India Mobile Congress in New Delhi, following the spectrum auction held earlier that year in the 600 MHz, 700 MHz, 3300 MHz and 26 GHz bands among others.

When Telangana was separated in 2014 the two states shared the old High Court at Hyderabad for a few years; a separate Andhra Pradesh High Court was then constituted and began functioning at Amaravati, the new capital on the bank of the Krishna, on 1 January 2019, while the court…

Mangampet, in the Kadapa basin of Rayalaseema, holds one of the world's largest single deposits of barytes, the ore of barium, which is used as a weighting agent in oil well drilling mud, in paint and in glass.

The Eastern Naval Command has its headquarters at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, the only natural harbour on India's eastern seaboard, and the city also has the Hindustan Shipyard, a submarine base and the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant.

The Veerabhadra temple at Lepakshi in the Anantapur region was built in the Vijayanagara period and is known for its painted ceilings, its carved Natya Mandapa, the great monolithic Nandi nearby and the hanging pillar that does not rest firmly on the floor.

The temple of Venkateswara, also called Balaji, stands on the seventh of the Tirumala hills above the town of Tirupati and is administered by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams; it draws more pilgrims than any other temple in the country and its annual Brahmotsavam is the chief temple festival of the…

The Belum Caves lie in the Kurnool region of Rayalaseema and are the longest caves in the plains of the subcontinent, cut in limestone by an underground stream, with long galleries, siphons and a deep point called Pataalaganga.

Kolleru is a large shallow freshwater lake lying in the low ground between the deltas of the Godavari and the Krishna; it acts as a natural flood balancing reservoir for the two rivers, is a wintering ground for pelicans and painted storks, and was declared a Ramsar site of international…

Kuchipudi is named after the village of Kuchipudi, or Kuchelapuram, in the Krishna delta, where the dance drama tradition of the Bhagavata Mela was carried on; Siddhendra Yogi is remembered as the figure who gave it its form, and the Tarangam, danced on the rim of a brass plate, is…

The Satish Dhawan Space Centre stands on Sriharikota island on the coast of the Nellore region, between the Pulicat lake and the Bay of Bengal, and every Indian orbital launch, by PSLV, GSLV, SSLV or LVM3, lifts off from there; the site is named after Satish Dhawan, a former chairman…

Telangana came into being on 2 June 2014 under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, becoming the twenty-ninth state of the Union, and Hyderabad was to serve as the joint capital of both states for a transitional period while Andhra Pradesh built its new capital at Amaravati.

He fasted for a separate Telugu-speaking province and died on 15 December 1952 on the fifty-eighth day of the fast; the protests that followed made the government concede the demand within days, and Andhra State was created the next October.