The static part of banking awareness is mostly banking and the economy; history and geography get a smaller share than in SSC exams. The test names say so: General/Economy/Banking Awareness including RBI circulars in IBPS PO, General Awareness/ Economy/ Banking Knowledge in SBI PO, and General/Financial Awareness in the clerk exams. Questions keep returning to the RBI and its functions, monetary policy tools such as the repo rate, CRR and SLR, types of banks and accounts, NPAs, KYC, priority sector lending, payment systems such as UPI, NEFT and RTGS, regulators such as SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA, development institutions such as NABARD and SIDBI, the Budget and the Economic Survey. RBI Grade B and NABARD Grade A go further, with full papers on Economic and Social Issues, and NABARD on Agriculture and Rural Development: agronomy, irrigation, animal husbandry, climate change and rural development schemes. Some static GK still appears: headquarters and heads of banks, currencies and capitals, and important days. This page gathers GK24's topic-wise GK notes for banking exams, in English and Hindi, in short facts and tables. Read one topic at a sitting, then take its topic quiz to see what you remember.
The steeplechase in athletics is run over a distance of
The Olympic steeplechase is a 3000-metre race in which runners clear solid barriers and a water jump on every lap.
Read the full explanation →How many events make up the decathlon?
The word decathlon is built from the Greek deca, meaning ten, and athlon, meaning contest. It is a men's combined event held over two days, and its ten disciplines take in sprints, hurdles, the middle-distance 1500 metres, jumps and throws.
Read the full explanation →The Indian athlete P. T. Usha is popularly called
P. T. Usha comes from Payyoli in the Kozhikode district of Kerala, and her speed on the track earned her the name of her village.
Read the full explanation →Which Indian athlete was popularly known as the Flying Sikh?
He earned the name in Pakistan after beating the home favourite at a meet in Lahore, and it stayed with him.
Read the full explanation →What is the standard distance of a marathon race?
A marathon is run over 42.195 kilometres, which is exactly 26 miles and 385 yards. The odd figure was fixed at the London Olympics of 1908, when the course was extended to finish in front of the royal box, and it became the official distance a few years later.
Read the full explanation →In which of the following sports of Tokyo Olympic 2020, Neeraj Chopra won the gold medal?
Neeraj Chopra won the men's javelin throw at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which were held in 2021, and that medal was India's first Olympic gold in athletics and its first individual gold since shooting in 2008.
Read the full explanation →Kisan Diwas, or National Farmers' Day, is observed on 23 December in honour of which former Prime Minister?
He was born on 23 December 1902, served as Prime Minister of India, and worked all his life on the problems of land holdings and of the peasantry, which is why his birthday is kept as Kisan Diwas.
Read the full explanation →Rashtriya Ekta Diwas, or National Unity Day, is observed on 31 October to mark the birth anniversary of
He was born on 31 October 1875, and as the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister he brought the princely states into the Indian Union, which earned him the name Iron Man of India.
Read the full explanation →Indian Navy Day is observed on 4 December in memory of which operation of the 1971 war?
On the night of 4 December 1971 the Indian Navy attacked Karachi harbour with missile boats, sinking enemy vessels and setting the oil tanks ablaze without losing a ship.
Read the full explanation →Army Day is celebrated in India on 15 January because on this day in 1949
On 15 January 1949, Lieutenant General K. M. Cariappa took over from the last British commander as Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, and that handover is what Army Day marks.
Read the full explanation →National Technology Day is observed on 11 May every year in memory of
India carried out nuclear tests at Pokhran in Rajasthan on 11 May 1998 under the operation known as Shakti, and a home-built aircraft was flight-tested and a missile fired on the same day.
Read the full explanation →Constitution Day, or Samvidhan Diwas, is observed on
The Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution of India on 26 November 1949, and that day is kept as Constitution Day.
Read the full explanation →National Sports Day is observed in India on 29 August, the birth anniversary of
The hockey player was born on 29 August 1905 and won Olympic gold with India in 1928, 1932 and 1936.
Read the full explanation →Engineers' Day is celebrated in India on 15 September every year to mark the birth anniversary of
Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya was born on 15 September 1861, served as the Diwan of Mysore, and built the Krishnarajasagara dam and the system of automatic sluice gates that made his name.
Read the full explanation →Teachers' Day is celebrated in India on 5 September in honour of
He was born on 5 September 1888, was a philosopher and teacher before entering public life, and served as the first Vice-President and the second President of India.
Read the full explanation →National Science Day is observed in India on 28 February to commemorate
Sir C. V. Raman announced his discovery of the scattering of light, now called the Raman effect, on 28 February 1928, and it won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930, the first for an Indian in the sciences.
Read the full explanation →National Youth Day is observed on 12 January to mark the birth anniversary of
He was born on 12 January 1863, and the Government of India declared his birthday National Youth Day so that his call to the young would be placed before students each year.
Read the full explanation →Republic Day is celebrated in India on 26 January because on this day in 1950
The Constitution took effect on 26 January 1950 and India became a sovereign republic. The date was chosen on purpose, because the Indian National Congress had declared Purna Swaraj, or complete independence, on 26 January 1930, and the founders wished to honour that pledge.
Read the full explanation →Which protocol is used to upload files to and download files from a remote server on the internet?
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It opens two channels with a server, one on port 21 for commands and one on port 20 for the matter itself, and moves whole files in either direction, which is how web pages are put on a hosting server.
Read the full explanation →The domain name .gov in a web address shows that the site belongs to
The last part of a domain name is the top-level domain and tells you the kind of owner. Government offices use.gov, often with the country code added, as in india.gov.in for the National Portal of India.
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