Banking GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is Shri C. Rajagopalachari, a recipient of the Bharat Ratna and the first Governor General of independent India, who delivered the very first lecture of the series.

Akashvani has organised the annual Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Lecture from that year onwards, in memory of independent India’s first Deputy Prime Minister, who also held the Information and Broadcasting portfolio and is remembered as the architect of national integration and as the Iron Man of India.

The correct answer is Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and of Rural Development, who is to deliver the sixty seventh lecture in the series at the Rang Bhawan Auditorium of Akashvani in New Delhi.

The cover under the initiative extends to three kinds of cargo, namely Full Container Load, Less than Container Load and refrigerated or reefer containers, and consignments of energy are specifically kept outside it.

Component II of the initiative is designed to push exporters towards taking cover from the Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India for their coming shipments to the notified regions, and the inducement it offers is risk coverage at the level of ninety five per cent.

The Department of Commerce has carried forward the timelines of Component II of RELIEF, the time-bound intervention that sits under the Export Promotion Mission, up to the close of March 2027, and the change was notified through Notification No. 37/2026-27 issued on 30 September 2026.

The programme is meant to carry the propulsion technology from Technology Readiness Level six, where a system has been proved in a relevant environment, up to Technology Readiness Level nine, where it is flight proven and ready for wider operational use, through further development, validation and deployment work.

The system is described as a green propulsion solution that uses a hydrogen peroxide based propellant with additives, supported by an integrated engine and catalyst assembly that includes an ultra-high-temperature ceramic catalyst meant to survive demanding conditions.

The Technology Development Board, which functions under the Department of Science and Technology, signed an agreement with Manastu Space Technologies Private Limited of Navi Mumbai for financial support of Rs 116 crore drawn from the Research Development and Innovation Fund, and this money is being routed as Optionally Convertible Debt.

Shri Om Birla is the Lok Sabha Speaker, and it was in that capacity that he wrote on the Forum's role in strengthening parliamentary dialogue and cooperation among BRICS member and partner countries, with the agenda of institutional resilience, AI governance, South-South cooperation and sustainability guided by the four pillars…

The subjects before the Forum are institutional resilience, AI governance, South-South cooperation and sustainability, and all four are guided by the four pillars of India's BRICS Chairship.

The Forum in question is the twelfth edition of the BRICS Parliamentary Forum, and the Lok Sabha Speaker has written about the part it plays in strengthening parliamentary dialogue and cooperation among the grouping's member and partner countries.

It constituted the AVGC Promotion Task Force in April 2022, bringing together industry, academia and Government, and guided it by three principles: public-private collaboration, inter-ministerial convergence and an integrated approach to the sector.

Extended Reality is the umbrella term for technologies that combine real and digital environments through computer systems and wearable devices, and it has three members.

The allocation is meant to set up Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics Content Creator Labs in 15,000 secondary schools and 500 colleges across the country, and the Indian Institute of Creative Technologies in Mumbai will plan, coordinate and implement the initiative as the nodal agency.

Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari 1.0, which ran from 1 April 2024 to 31 May 2025, followed these three principles while strengthening public participation in water conservation, and it also mobilised convergence with running government schemes to speed the work up.

Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain was launched on 22 March 2021, which falls on World Water Day, and its guiding slogan was 'Catch the Rain, Where It Falls, When It Falls'.

That is the total number of artificial recharge and storage structures built under the Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari initiative taken as a whole.

The conclave covers twelve key thematic areas, which include System and Synthetic Biology, advanced manufacturing, energy technologies, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and advanced healthcare, and the whole exercise is tied to the vision of Viksit Bharat 2047.

He graced the curtain raiser as Chief Guest, spoke of India's growing scientific capabilities and the potential of biotechnology to drive national development, and cited the development of COVID-19 vaccines as an instance of basic biological research leading to life-saving innovation.