Banking GK Questions 2026

The four publications brought out at the side event were the guidelines for designating India's Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures, which let conservation outside formal protected areas be recognised; the fifth national report under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which is India's periodic account of biosafety governance; a handbook on…

India held a side event there with its National Biodiversity Authority and the United Nations Development Programme, and the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change released four publications at it.

The scheme treats international quality and performance standards as the gate through which Indian equipment reaches foreign buyers, so it sets aside this amount to help manufacturers secure certification from International Sports Federations and to renew it when it lapses.

The announcement came in that budget and the Cabinet approval that followed gave the scheme its outlay, its components and its life span, which runs from 2026 to the financial year 2033-34.

The scheme avoids building industrial land afresh and instead plugs the proposed Sports Goods Manufacturing Zones into infrastructure that these two already provide, so that makers, suppliers, testing facilities, design and prototyping centres and ancillary enterprises can sit in one place.

The Cabinet decision fixes this amount as the total outlay of the scheme and sets its life from the year 2026 to the financial year 2033-34.

Alongside the testing programme, the agency held more than three hundred and fifty education and awareness sessions during the year, reaching twenty-seven thousand participants, which shows that prevention through awareness is being pursued in parallel with sample collection.

These are the three values that the UNESCO official named at the conclave as the ones the toolkit carries into education and sport, and they are to be taught through classroom activity rather than only on the playing field.

The choice of venue was not incidental: international delegates who had attended the statutory meetings of the UNESCO anti-doping conventions the previous day were present, which placed the classroom initiative squarely within the wider anti-doping effort.

The toolkit's video modules are to be made available in thirteen Indian languages so that the material can reach students in different parts of the country rather than only those comfortable in English or Hindi.

Items such as switchgear and circuit breakers, uninterruptible power supplies and solid-state drives, and end-face connectors for optical fibres pushed the group up, which tells a story about demand from power distribution and data networks.

On this base the general index for the month under review reads above the hundred mark, which simply means output is higher than it was in the base year.

The correct answer is electricity and gas supply, which grew at the fastest rate among the four sectors that make up the index.

The correct answer is 6.7 per cent, the year on year growth recorded by the quick estimates for September 2026.

The Cabinet decision records that the scheme for container manufacturing had been announced in that budget, and the approval of 28 October 2026 is the step that turned the announcement into a sanctioned scheme with components and amounts.

The Interest Subvention Assistance component, for which 859 crore rupees has been provided, lowers the interest cost on eligible term loans by three percentage points a year.

The scheme envisages raising annual domestic container manufacturing capacity by roughly ten times, up to that level.

The correct answer is 10,000 crore rupees, the full outlay sanctioned for the scheme and available up to the financial year 2039-40.

The scheme supports the preparation of about 2.55 lakh holistic Gram Panchayat Development Plans every year on that portal, bringing village priorities, departmental interventions and available resources onto one platform for participatory planning.

PANCHAM is described in the Cabinet decision as an artificial-intelligence enabled, multilingual, two-way communication platform working in seventeen Indian languages, and the scheme will use it to explain central programmes to villagers in language they actually speak.