Banking GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is 95.52 per cent, the overall tele-density of the country when machine-to-machine cellular connections are included in the count.

One artisan each came from Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Nagaland, Karnataka and Maharashtra, so the number of artisans and the number of States were the same.

Anurag Sahu of Madhya Pradesh practises this GI-tagged craft, carving marble statues, pooja articles, souvenirs and home decor items from New Bhedaghat Marble of Jabalpur, and under the scheme he was onboarded on two e-commerce platforms to take his products online.

The artisan Deepu S from Karnataka specialises in traditional Channapatna toys and Kinhal toys, both of which reflect that State’s toy-making heritage; under the PM Vishwakarma Scheme he received a toolkit, completed skill training and was onboarded on an e-commerce platform.

The artisans and craftspeople who displayed their work at the Cultural Bazar are beneficiaries of the PM Vishwakarma Scheme of this ministry, and the stall at the Parliament House Complex was set up in the scheme’s name.

More than 300 projects for tribal communities across States will be taken up on Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas, with 228 ready to be inaugurated and 74 awaiting foundation stones.

The Jan-HIT Portal, which stands for Janjatiya Health Intelligence and Technology, has been developed with ICMR and is described as the country’s first platform for tribe-disaggregated health data, covering 20 States.

The Government designated 15 November as Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas in 2021 to commemorate his birth anniversary, and his 150th birth anniversary was observed as Janjatiya Gaurav Varsh in 2024-25 with over 28 national events, more than 2 lakh activities and above 3.8 crore participants.

The day falls on the birth anniversary of Dharti Aaba Bhagwan Birsa Munda, and the Government of India designated it as Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas in 2021.

The Minister highlighted a forthcoming Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, the Ministry of Education and UNESCO to bring the Sport Values in Every Classroom Toolkit to India, with the aim of carrying sporting values, ethics and integrity into classrooms and reaching millions of young…

The Union Sports Minister said that India had strengthened its legal and institutional framework through the National Anti-Doping Act, 2022 and its 2025 Amendment, and that both of them came into force in July 2026.

The Union Sports Minister told the Bureau that during 2025-26 the National Anti-Doping Agency of India carried out over 7,000 tests along with more than 350 education and awareness sessions that reached 27,000 participants, and that the agency concentrated on risk-based testing and intelligence-led investigations rather than random sampling alone.

The correct answer is Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, who chaired the third formal meeting of the COP10 Bureau as well as the fourth formal meeting of the Fund’s Approval Committee for 2026-27.

He had inaugurated the two-day Forum a day earlier and he delivered the valedictory address at the historic Constitution House of the Parliament of India, speaking to presiding officers, delegates and parliamentarians from BRICS member and partner nations.

Reaffirming the consensus of the New Delhi Declaration, the member parliaments issued an explicit endorsement of UN Security Council reform with a reference to Paragraph 13 of that declaration, the aim being to make global governance more representative of the Global South.

At the close of the Forum the Lok Sabha Speaker handed over the chairship of the BRICS Parliamentary Forum to China, which takes the BRICS chair for the year 2027, and expressed confidence that cooperation would continue to flourish under its leadership.

The Forum was organised on this theme, and the deliberations over the two days followed it closely: delegates discussed people-centric development, strong democratic institutions, cooperation between parliaments, and the responsible use of digital technology and Artificial Intelligence, together with resilience, innovation, cooperation and sustainability.

The scientist leading the session explained that fertiliser applied indiscriminately pushes up the cost of cultivation and causes nutrient imbalances, whereas application decided by soil-test results, the requirement of the crop and the condition of the orchard improves nutrient-use efficiency and supports production that can be sustained.

The programme was built around balanced fertilisation, soil health, nutrient recycling, crop diversification and the sustainable management of mango and litchi orchards, and the institute described its aim as strengthening climate-resilient livelihoods in the mango and litchi growing areas of East Champaran in Bihar.

The ICAR-Mahatma Gandhi Integrated Farming Research Institute is situated at Motihari and functions under the Department of Agricultural Research and Education; it organised the farmer awareness and field interaction programme at Kothia Hariram village in the Mehsi block of East Champaran district.