Banking GK Questions 2026

Component 1-B of PM-MKSSY meets the cost barrier by paying an eligible aquaculture farmer a one-time incentive of up to 40% of the insurance premium for one crop cycle, transferred directly to the bank account through the National Fisheries Digital Platform.

For the infrastructure development side of PM-AJAY, a village qualifies for a grant when its Scheduled Caste population is 40% or more and its total population is 500 or above, so both a share test and a size test have to be met.

The PIB backgrounder of 28 September 2026 states that this many villages had been declared Adarsh Grams as on 8 September 2026, a mark of how far the component has gone in lifting basic services in Scheduled Caste majority villages.

PM-AJAY is the umbrella scheme for the Scheduled Castes and it is carried out by that ministry, which handles the welfare of Scheduled Castes, backward classes, senior citizens and persons with disabilities.

The Bombay Stock Exchange became the first stock exchange in India to enter commodity derivatives when it launched futures contracts in gold and silver on 1 October 2018.

The Ramon Magsaysay Award is named after Ramon Magsaysay, the seventh President of the Philippines, who died in an air crash in 1957.

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant stands near the town of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, close to the border with Belarus, and was part of the Soviet Union when reactor number four exploded on 26 April 1986 in the worst nuclear accident in history.

The International Criminal Police Organization, or Interpol, was founded at Vienna in 1923 and moved its headquarters to Lyon in France in 1989, where its general secretariat works today.

SAARC was founded by the declaration signed at Dhaka in December 1985 by seven countries, and Afghanistan joined later as the eighth member.

The International Atomic Energy Agency was set up in 1957 and works from Vienna in Austria.

The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in 1945 and works from Rome in Italy. It leads international work on food production, nutrition and rural development, publishes the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, and observes World Food Day on 16 October, the date of its founding.

The International Labour Organization was created in 1919 by Part Thirteen of the Treaty of Versailles, at the end of the First World War, as part of the League of Nations system.

The World Health Organization works from Geneva in Switzerland. Its constitution came into force on 7 April 1948, which is why that date is observed every year as World Health Day, and its governing body, the World Health Assembly, meets in Geneva each May.

The Index of Economic Freedom has been published by this research organisation based at Washington DC since 1995, and it scores countries on matters such as property rights, tax burden, government spending, trade freedom and business regulation.

It is the world authority on chemical nomenclature, so it approves the names and symbols of newly discovered elements, standardises the naming of compounds and maintains the recommended values of atomic weights.

The United Nations works in six official languages, Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Of the four names in the list, Arabic, Spanish and Chinese are all official, so only German, the second item, is not.

The conference held in 1944 at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire in the United States set up two twin institutions, the International Monetary Fund to keep exchange rates orderly and help countries facing balance of payments difficulty, and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to lend for reconstruction and…

The Asian Development Bank was founded in 1966 to lend for development in Asia and the Pacific and has its headquarters at Manila, the capital of the Philippines.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization was founded in 1946 and works from Paris in France.

The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana was launched on 28 August 2014 as a national mission to give every household a bank account.