Banking GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is J. P. Nadda, the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, who read out the Integrity Pledge to senior officers at Kartavya Bhawan-1 in New Delhi.

The week is deliberately placed around his birthday, which falls on 31 October, and that is why this year's observance runs from 26 October to 1 November 2026 rather than on fixed calendar dates.

The theme set for the week is 'Satyanishtha se Samriddhi', which the government renders in English as Probity for Prosperity, and it treats honesty, integrity and openness as the pillars that hold up good governance and public trust in institutions.

Smt. Nidhi Khare, Secretary in the Department of Consumer Affairs, described 'One Nation, One Time' as this project, whose aim is to make accurate, reliable and traceable Indian Standard Time available throughout the country.

The programme in New Delhi began with an international seminar on that theme, and the first session of the committee followed it.

CIML is the committee of the OIML, and the meeting in New Delhi brings together delegates, officials and technical experts from member countries to take forward cooperation on measurement standards, protection of consumers and fair trade.

India is hosting the 61st Meeting of the International Committee of Legal Metrology at New Delhi, and the sittings run from 26 to 28 October 2026.

The statistics ministry stated that these two questions were added at that Ministry's request, so that establishments engaged in handloom, power-loom and handicraft work can be identified within the survey frame.

The revised schedule introduces, for the first time, questions on the constraints women face in operating and managing their establishments, to build an evidence base on the factors affecting female-led enterprises in the unincorporated sector.

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has proposed moving the Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises from the calendar-year cycle it has followed so far to the financial year, so that its reference period matches that of other enterprise surveys such as the Annual Survey of Industries and the…

While explaining the amendment, the Ministry noted that flex fuel technology is already in use in these countries, where vehicles are built to operate on a range of ethanol and petrol blends drawn from a single fuel tank.

E85 is a blend of petrol and ethanol in which ethanol forms up to that share by volume. In this notation the letter E denotes ethanol while the number indicates the proportion of ethanol present in the fuel, which is why E100 refers to a fuel consisting predominantly of ethanol.

The Ministry notified amendments to these rules so that vehicles capable of running on E85 and other high ethanol fuels can be certified and brought into use.

Shri Amit Shah, Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, unveiled the Vision Document on Narcotic Control for 2026 to 2029 in June 2026.

The training will be delivered through six central government institutions under the Drug De-addiction Programme, and the NDDTC at AIIMS, which is located at Ghaziabad, will coordinate the overall implementation of the initiative.

Under the Vision Document on Narcotic Control for the period 2026 to 2029, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has been entrusted with building the capacity of this many service providers, including medical and allied healthcare personnel engaged in de-addiction services, by March 2029.

Chief Minister Shri Suvendu Adhikari, speaking at the flagging-off ceremony, said the annual average railway allocation for West Bengal during the years from 2009 to 2014 was Rs 4,380 crore, and that it has risen to the figure in option C for the current year.

While flagging off the new express train, the Railway Minister said that this many stations in Jharkhand are being rebuilt under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme, and that work has already been finished at several of them, among them Godda, Govindpur Road, Lohardaga, Madhupur and Muri.

The service is named the Jaipur (Khatipura)-Tatanagar-Santragachi Express, and it was flagged off by the Union Railway Minister, who joined through video conferencing, together with the Chief Minister of West Bengal.

Setting out the groundwork India has laid, the Minister said the Alang-Sosiya yard has 115 ship recycling facilities that comply with the Hong Kong Convention within the framework of the International Maritime Organisation.