Banking GK Questions 2026

The accounts laid before the 93rd General Council meeting put the Corporation's net profit for FY 2025-26 at Rs 1,475 crore, alongside a loan recovery rate of 99.84 per cent and net non-performing assets of zero.

Amit Shah holds both portfolios and took the chair at the 93rd General Council sitting on 29 October 2026 in New Delhi.

The General Council of the National Cooperative Development Corporation met for the 93rd time on 29 October 2026 at the Corporation's head office in New Delhi, with Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah in the chair.

Both were developed by the Ministry of Labour and Employment and handed to employers and compliance professionals so that they could apply the Labour Codes and the rules notified under them with less difficulty.

The first two sessions of the day dealt with an overview of the Labour Codes and with the compliance duties of employers under each code and the central and state rules, while the third and fourth were given to these two schemes of the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

The programme was held at IIA Bhavan in the Dadanagar Industrial Area of Kanpur, and was organised jointly by the Ministry of Labour and Employment and the Labour Department of the Government of Uttar Pradesh.

Recalling a conversation with the German Foreign Minister about the migration agreement between India and Germany, Piyush Goyal said the arrangement carries a requirement of 90,000 Indians a year, and that he was told Germany in fact needed substantially more Indian talent than that.

The Minister said that green and renewable sources now make up that share of India's installed electricity capacity, while adding that coal remains necessary for energy security and for keeping power affordable.

Piyush Goyal said India's space economy was valued at USD 8.4 billion at the time of his address and had the potential to reach USD 44 billion by that year, a prospect he linked to the opening of the space sector to private participation.

The Commerce and Industry Minister said the nine free trade and bilateral agreements concluded by the government have opened preferential market opportunities in economies whose combined output comes to that figure.

Air transport was the weakest of the 19 sub-sectors in August 2026 on both measures that the index offers: it contracted 9.6 per cent against August 2025, and its reading was the only one in the whole series below the level of the base year 2024-25.

The correct answer is retail trade, which expanded faster than any other sub-sector over August 2025 and also carried the second highest index reading in the series.

Every reading in the Index of Services Production is measured against output in that base year, so a sub-sector standing above the base-year level has grown since then and one standing below it has not recovered to where it was.

MoSPI compiles and publishes the Index of Services Production, and it released the figures for August 2026 covering 19 broad sub-sectors on the base year 2024-25.

That is the worth of the 23.46 lakh hospital admissions authorised under Ayushman Vay Vandana up to 20 October 2026, two years after the cover began on 29 October 2024.

The NHA runs Ayushman Vay Vandana for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and its Chief Executive, Dr. Sunil Kumar Barnwal, spoke on the second anniversary, saying older citizens should be able to reach healthcare with dignity and security and that money should not decide whether they get a…

By number of treatments it tops the list with 4.71 lakh procedures, close to 20.1 per cent of everything sanctioned under the scheme, and that volume points to how much untreated eye disease older people were living with before the cover arrived.

Ayushman Vay Vandana covers every Indian citizen who has completed 70 years of age, and it does so irrespective of income or social standing.

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A firewall stands between a computer or private network and the outside world and blocks traffic that is not allowed.