Banking GK Questions 2026

The Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956 divided industries into three schedules. Schedule A listed seventeen industries to be the exclusive responsibility of the state, such as arms, atomic energy, railways and heavy industry.

Consumption of fixed capital is the national income term for depreciation, the fall in the value of machines, buildings and other fixed assets as they are used up or become obsolete over the year.

The Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana can be joined by anyone between 18 and 50 years of age who holds a savings bank account.

TISCO, now Tata Steel, is owned and run by private shareholders, which is what makes an enterprise part of the private sector.

The Vice-President placed that figure beside two others to show how women’s economic participation has grown: around 9.2 million Self-Help Groups, covering more than 100 million rural women, and more than 250 million Indians lifted out of extreme poverty.

The inaugural address used this figure to show how far financial inclusion has spread, crediting the JAM trinity, Direct Benefit Transfer and the Goods and Services Tax with widening access, improving transparency and formalising the economy.

The Vice-President recalled that the institute was set up that year under Professor V. K. R. V. Rao and has stayed close to India’s development journey ever since; it hosts this conclave.

The conclave was organised on that theme by the Institute of Economic Growth, and the Vice-President used it to argue that economic resilience cannot be separated from social resilience, that inclusion is the foundation of resilience, and that no citizen, enterprise or region should be left behind.

BHARATPOL was launched then by the Union Home Minister to improve coordination, connectivity and information sharing between Indian and foreign law enforcement agencies.

That is the count the Ministry of Home Affairs gave for the period from 2019 up to August 2026, during which returning absconders was pursued as a national priority through global outreach, close coordination between agencies and diplomacy.

That was the false name under which the narco-trafficking kingpin secured citizenship of Türkiye, and behind it he continued sending heroin and methamphetamine into India from Afghanistan.

Navpreet Singh, named by the Ministry of Home Affairs as a hardened kingpin of the narcotics trade, had settled in Türkiye and taken Turkish nationality under the invented identity of Navab Virk.

The Goods and Services Tax was announced for the first time in the Union Budget for 2006-07, presented by the then Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, who proposed 1 April 2010 as the date for rolling it out.

HTTP, the HyperText Transfer Protocol, is the application-layer protocol a browser uses to ask a web server for a page and to receive the HTML, images and scripts that make it up.

HTML has no separate checkbox element at all. Every simple form control is written with the single input tag, and the type attribute decides what the browser draws, whether that is text, password, radio, checkbox, submit, file or hidden.

PPP is a data-link layer protocol that carries data directly between two nodes over a single link, such as a telephone line, a leased line or a serial cable.

Each hexadecimal digit stands for exactly four binary digits, so a two-digit hex number becomes an eight-bit binary number. Here C is 12 in decimal, which is 1100 in binary, and 6 is 0110.

Flash memory, ROM and a hard drive all keep their contents after the power is switched off, and that is exactly what non-volatile means.

Two laws of 2011 did the work together: the Orissa (Alteration of Name) Act changed the name of the state to Odisha, and the Constitution (113th Amendment) Act changed Oriya to Odia in the Eighth Schedule, which lists the languages of India.

Odissi grew out of the temple dance of Odisha, from the Mahari tradition of women dancers in the Jagannath temple and the Gotipua tradition of boys dressed as girls dancing outside it, and its sculptural poses echo the carvings of Konark and Bhubaneswar.