Banking GK Questions 2026

In a progressive tax the rate rises as income rises, so each extra rupee is taxed at a higher rate than the rupees before it.

It is the advance grant the Lok Sabha makes so that the government can keep spending from 1 April until the full budget is passed.

A unicorn is a startup that is not listed on the stock market and is valued at more than one billion US dollars.

The expert group headed by Suresh Tendulkar, which reported in 2009, recommended measuring poverty through MPCE on the Mixed Reference Period.

When the government runs a deficit, it borrows heavily from the same pool of savings that private firms use, so interest rates rise and private investment falls.

The name of a rowing event tells you both the size of the crew and the way the oars are held: sculling means each rower works a pair of oars, and double means the boat carries two of them.

What the Prime Minister called noteworthy was not the single silver alone but the run behind it: medals at three Asian Games one after another, a record of turning up at the top of the sport over many years rather than in one good season.

Sanda is the full-contact fighting format of wushu and its bouts are decided in weight categories, which is why the weight appears in the name of the event itself.

The money came from the disposal of files, obsolete material and scrap during the month-long drive held from 2 to 31 October 2025.

The campaign is run in two clearly separated stages, and a question of this kind usually turns on telling them apart.

It runs the special campaign across the Government, lays down the parameters against which each office identifies its pending matters, issues the guidelines that offices follow, and takes the reporting of achievements on the campaign portal.

This is the feature that sets the platform apart from a conventional news agency, because a small newspaper can run a national or international story under its own masthead without attributing it to the broadcaster.

Free access has been stretched in steps rather than granted once and for all, which is exactly what makes this a favourite question.

PBSHABD is its free news feed, and the very name carries the parent body in it, since it expands to Prasar Bharati - Shared Audio-Visuals for Broadcast and Dissemination.

The support is deliberately paid month by month over the same six months that now make up the minimum placement period, so that the money helps a candidate stay in a new job and a new city rather than arriving as one lump sum.

The Ministry of Rural Development started the scheme on that date to give placement-linked skill training to youth of 15 to 35 years from poor rural households, and the scheme is marking its twelfth anniversary this year.

Under the earlier design of the scheme a placement counted only when the trained candidate held continuous employment for at least three months, so option A states the old rule and not the present one.

Per capita income is the average income of a person in a year, found by dividing national income by the entire population, including children and those who do not work.

The National Statistical Office, formed by merging the Central Statistical Office with the National Sample Survey Office, prepares the national accounts under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.

Exports are goods produced at home and sold abroad, so they belong in domestic production. Imports are produced abroad but are already included in the spending of households, firms and government, so they must be taken out to leave only what the country itself produced.