Banking GK Questions 2026

Lesotho lies wholly within South Africa and is one of only three countries in the world surrounded by a single neighbour, the other two being San Marino and Vatican City, both inside Italy.

Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is the only state in South East Asia without a sea coast; it is bordered by China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar, and the Mekong, which forms much of its western boundary, is its chief waterway and source of hydroelectric power.

Eritrea became independent of Ethiopia in 1993 after a long war and took with it the entire Red Sea coast, including the ports of Massawa and Assab, leaving Ethiopia landlocked; Ethiopia is today the most populous landlocked country in the world and routes most of its trade through Djibouti.

Bolivia and Paraguay are the only two landlocked states in South America. Paraguay has no coast but reaches the Atlantic along the Paraguay and Parana rivers, which carry most of its trade; Bolivia lost its Pacific coast to Chile in the War of the Pacific of 1879 to 1883.

Of the forty-four landlocked countries in the world, sixteen are in Africa, among them Chad, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Malawi and Lesotho; the colonial boundaries drawn in the nineteenth century are the reason so many African states were left without a coast.

Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world and by far the largest with no sea coast. Its shore on the Caspian does not change this, because the Caspian is the world's largest lake and has no natural connection with the ocean, so Kazakhstan is counted as landlocked.

A doubly landlocked country is one that is surrounded only by landlocked countries, so at least two international borders must be crossed to reach the sea.

The coastal states of India, counted from the west coast round to the east, are Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal; Gujarat has the longest coastline among them.

Proposed by Franco Modigliani with Richard Brumberg and Albert Ando, it holds that a person plans consumption over a whole lifetime, using available resources, the return on wealth and age.

It is the institute's flagship long-duration course for serving officers, and the Executive Council appreciated the work done to improve it, including collaborations with institutions of repute and greater involvement of outside experts, while asking that participants be drawn from more sectors of government and from a wider range of…

The council recorded its thanks to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the scheme, under which the institute's faculty will be able to reach a wider pool of journals, research papers, books, project reports and other academic publications than a single institution could afford on its own.

The Paul H. Appleby 2026 award was announced for three of them, S. S. Kshatriya, D. P. Tiwari and B. R. Sharma.

He is Minister of State with independent charge for Science and Technology and Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office and for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions as well as the Department of Space and Atomic Energy, and the chairmanship of the institute goes with the personnel portfolio.

The quiz is deliberately short so that a first-time visitor finishes it, and every participant who submits receives a participation certificate and can then see the correct answers, which is how the exercise doubles as a lesson on substance use prevention.

The campaign was first taken up in 272 districts picked out as the most vulnerable to substance use, and it was later widened to cover every district in the country, which is why the present coverage is often quoted as nationwide.

The campaign was launched on that date to reduce the demand for drugs through preventive education, awareness, treatment, rehabilitation and community participation, and it is now in its seventh year.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, which runs the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan and has opened this quiz under it.

The three corporations named in connection with the mela are the National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation, or NSFDC, the National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation, or NSKFDC, and the National Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation, or NBCFDC.

The correct answer is Mysuru, Karnataka, where the first mela of the series for the financial year was held at the Dasara Exhibition Grounds and concluded on 19 October 2026.

BHARAT-TULIP is the programme through which the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment helps artisans of its target groups sell their products, both at physical outlets and on e-commerce platforms, so that a craftsperson is not limited to buyers who walk into a fairground.