Banking GK Questions 2026

A regional rural bank is set up under the Regional Rural Banks Act, 1976 to serve farmers, farm labourers and rural artisans, so the Reserve Bank asks it for a much higher share than it asks of a commercial bank: 75 per cent to the priority sector, with 18 per…

The Directions list eight categories: agriculture, micro, small and medium enterprises, export credit, education, housing, social infrastructure, renewable energy and others.

Of the 40 per cent that a domestic commercial bank must lend to the priority sector, 18 per cent of Adjusted Net Bank Credit has to go to agriculture, which covers farm credit, agriculture infrastructure and ancillary activities.

A domestic commercial bank, and a foreign bank with 20 or more branches in India, must lend 40 per cent of its Adjusted Net Bank Credit, or of the Credit Equivalent of Off-Balance Sheet Exposure where that is higher, to the priority sector.

FIFA introduced it in 2009 for the most beautiful goal of the year, and it is named after Ferenc Puskas of Hungary, the forward of the great side of the nineteen fifties.

The German midfielder, captain of the side that won the World Cup of 1990, was the first FIFA World Player of the Year when the award began in 1991; FIFA gave it until 2015, with the Ballon d’Or years of 2010 to 2015 in between, and replaced it with The…

The International Cricket Council began its annual awards in 2004, and the cricketer of the year receives the trophy named after the great all-rounder of the West Indies; the first winner was Rahul Dravid of India, and Sachin Tendulkar, Ravichandran Ashwin and Virat Kohli have also received it.

France Football and FIFA joined their two awards into one for those six years, so the winner of each of those years holds the FIFA Ballon d’Or; the partnership ended and the two awards were given separately again from 2016, when FIFA began The Best FIFA Men’s Player.

The women’s award was introduced in 2018, more than sixty years after the men’s, and the Norwegian forward, then with Lyon, was its first winner.

The Kopa Trophy was introduced in 2018 and is named after Raymond Kopa, the French forward who won the Ballon d’Or in 1958; its first winner was Kylian Mbappe of France.

Lev Yashin of the Soviet Union, known as the black spider for his dark jersey and his reach, won the Ballon d’Or in 1963, and no other goalkeeper has taken it since, which is why the trophy for the best goalkeeper of the year, given from 2019, is named the…

The English winger, then playing for Blackpool and already past forty, received the first Ballon d’Or in 1956, at a time when only European players could be considered.

The French magazine France Football created the Ballon d’Or in 1956 on the idea of its editor Gabriel Hanot, and the winner is settled on the votes of journalists, which is what separates it from an award given by a federation.

The award went to the scene after India won the World Cup of 2011, when the younger players carried Sachin Tendulkar on their shoulders around the Wankhede ground; the Best Sporting Moment is the one Laureus award decided by a public vote, which is why the Indian following mattered.

The first President of a democratic South Africa was the patron of the Laureus awards, and at the opening ceremony in 2000 he said that sport has the power to change the world and to unite people in a way that little else does; the sentence is now printed with…

The awards were established in 1999 by the founders of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, and the first ceremony took place in 2000 at Monte Carlo in Monaco, where Nelson Mandela, the patron of the awards, said that sport has the power to change the world.

Born on 12 January 1863 at Kolkata, he represented Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893 and founded the Ramakrishna Mission in 1897; his birthday has been observed as National Youth Day since 1985.

Born on 25 December 1924, he served three terms as Prime Minister, and the day is observed as Good Governance Day; his memorial in Delhi is named Sadaiv Atal.

Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948 at Birla House in Delhi, and the day is observed every year as Martyrs' Day, with two minutes of silence at eleven in the morning.

Known as the champion of the peasantry, he served as Prime Minister and his memorial in Delhi is named Kisan Ghat; his birthday, 23 December 1902, is observed across the country as Kisan Diwas or Farmers' Day.