Banking GK Questions 2026

The Prime Minister's message recorded that the men's team had won back-to-back Asian Games golds for the first time and had secured a fifth gold in all at the Games, which fixes the running total at five.

The Prime Minister, in congratulating the men's team on retaining its Asian Games gold, noted that the triumph was made more special because India's men's and women's hockey teams had both won gold at the same Asian Games for the first time.

The four areas are strengthening academic research and scholarship, preservation and digitisation of linguistic and literary resources, wider dissemination of classical language heritage, and strengthening regional academic ecosystems.

The correct answer is the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute in Pune, a deemed-to-be university, which will host the centre for Classical Marathi in Maharashtra.

This pairing is a favourite with paper setters precisely because it is not the one a candidate would guess, since Pali is not a language a reader would associate with a particular modern State in the way Assamese or Bengali is.

The Department of Higher Education under the Ministry of Education approved the establishment of five Centres of Excellence, one each for Classical Assamese, Classical Bengali, Classical Marathi, Classical Pali and Classical Prakrit.

The correct answer is Vedic Kavach, the post-quantum cryptography platform built by BISAG-N. The keys produced by the quantum link were integrated with it, and test messages were then encrypted and decrypted from end to end.

Both numbers describe the quality of the link: the key rate is how fast fresh secret material can be produced for encryption, and the error rate measures how often a photon is read wrongly, which in quantum key distribution also signals whether anyone has interfered with the channel.

QNu Labs supplied the hardware QKD device Armos, BISAG-N contributed the post-quantum cryptography platform Vedic Kavach along with one end of the link, and IIT Gandhinagar hosted the other end and provided the field setting.

That is the span over which the country's first free-space Quantum Key Distribution link was established, between the BISAG-N campus and IIT Gandhinagar, in a field trial run on the night of 27 and 28 September.

That is the phrase used in the congratulatory message, which also carried best wishes to the team members for their future endeavours, while the Prime Minister's Office noted on X that the gold had come to India yet again.

The message spoke of the team retaining its title and of the gold coming to India yet again, which together make clear that the side was defending a medal it already owned rather than claiming one for the first time.

The Prime Minister congratulated the Indian men's cricket side on retaining its gold medal at the Asian Games, called the result a joyous occasion for the nation and wished the players well for their future endeavours.

That is the precise shape of the record, and precision matters because questions on firsts are usually set to catch a candidate who remembers the sport but not the exact claim.

The medal was won in the Women's Individual Golf event, and it is India's first gold in that event at the Asian Games.

She won the country's first gold medal in the Women's Individual Golf event at the Asian Games, and the Prime Minister congratulated her the same day, describing the achievement as one for the history books and praising the superb finish that produced it.

The final went to the single-arrow decider that archery uses when two competitors cannot be separated on set points, and the Prime Minister's message praised the composure the archer kept at precisely that moment.

The medal was won in the individual event shot with the recurve bow, and it is this event in which no Indian woman had previously finished on the top step at the Asian Games.

She became the first Indian woman to win the Recurve Individual gold medal at the Asian Games, doing so at the 2026 edition, and the Prime Minister congratulated her on the achievement the same day.

PM-SETU puts industry in charge of cluster governance: the anchor industry partner takes a majority holding of fifty-one per cent in the special purpose vehicle, while the Union government and the State government hold the rest in equal parts.