Banking GK Questions 2026

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister, together with the Chief Minister of West Bengal, formally announced the city as host of the fifth edition, which will be held at the New Town Convention Centre from 28 to 31 January 2027.

The Home Minister said the Shahzad Bhatti network, which smuggled weapons, explosives and narcotics across the border, has been designated a terrorist organisation under this law.

Speaking at the counter-terrorism conference in New Delhi, the Union Home Minister said that over the years from 2019 to 2026 the government succeeded in bringing 288 fugitive criminals back to India, and that these returns came from 36 different countries.

At the PRAHAAR conference in New Delhi the Union Home Minister launched this portal, whose purpose is to bring together and quicken the effort of returning fugitives who have fled abroad.

Under Section 22 of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, the RBI alone has the right to issue currency notes in the country, and it decides how many notes of each denomination are printed.

The Reserve Bank of India set up this sub committee of its Central Board under Y. H. Malegam in October 2010, after complaints of very high interest rates and harsh recovery in the microfinance business.

Mobile Number Portability allows a subscriber to shift to another operator while keeping the same telephone number, and that many requests were filed during the month under review.

Tele-density expresses the number of telephone connections for every hundred people, and for the country as a whole, with machine-to-machine cellular connections counted in, it stood at that level.

The correct answer is 1101.21 million, the broadband base at the close of that month.

The one-time payment for the annual pass is made through it, and once the money is received the pass is activated on the FASTag already linked to that vehicle, so nothing new has to be fitted to the car.

The pass carries two ceilings side by side, a calendar ceiling of one year and a usage ceiling of two hundred crossings at toll plazas, and the holder travels under whichever of the two still has room.

This single payment buys the holder a year of use, or two hundred crossings of toll plazas, whichever limit is reached first, and does away with the need to keep recharging the tag.

India attaches particular importance to this population and has placed it among the species chosen for focused conservation effort, a list of twenty-five in all.

India joined the International Whaling Commission in that year and has played a prominent part in whale conservation within the body ever since.

India used its Opening Statement there to argue for conservation grounded in science.

It is CBDT that fixed the new dates for the return of income and for the report of audit under the Income-tax Act, 1961.

Because a return in an audit case rests on an auditor's report, the Board shifted the report deadline along with the return deadline, and the report is now due on the twenty-first day of October.

For the class of taxpayers who must get their accounts audited, the statutory last date to file the return of income for Assessment Year 2026-27 was 31 October 2026, and the Central Board of Direct Taxes has now pushed it forward by three weeks.

It has been designated the nodal agency and is coordinating the drive with the Material Recycling Association of India, holding virtual meetings with nodal officers of the ministry's offices; more than 44 office locations have been finalised nationwide, more than 28 of them in Maharashtra.

Reporting on the round it ran from November 2025 to August 2026, NITI Aayog said it had settled 4,105 public grievances, along with 127 PMO references, 34 grievance appeals and 5 Parliamentary Assurances, while freeing about 90 square feet of space.