Banking GK Questions 2026

Ethereum, Solana, Polkadot and Tether are all names from the world of blockchain-based digital currencies. A cryptocurrency is a digital asset recorded on a blockchain, a shared ledger kept by many computers, and secured by cryptography rather than issued by a central bank.

Both statements misdescribe the GDP deflator. The deflator is the ratio of nominal GDP to real GDP, multiplied by 100.

The American chip maker opened India's first such centre in Bengaluru in 1985, the start of what is now called the Global Capability Centre (GCC) model.

It is the batch file that MS-DOS runs automatically, line by line, every time the computer starts. A batch file is a plain text file of DOS commands with the.BAT extension.

The first option names the preparatory phase instead, which ran from 15 to 30 September 2026 and was used to map targets across units, regional offices and joint ventures, so it is a close distractor rather than the answer.

Reporting the position as on 23 October 2026, the company said it had taken up 180 campaign sites for cleanliness against a target of 145, cleared 24,96,193 square feet of space against the 24,15,786 square feet proposed, and disposed of 1,272 metric tonnes of scrap against a target of 1,266.22…

This edition of the campaign places a dedicated emphasis on handling institutional electronic waste in an environment-friendly way, and the work is done in keeping with the E-Waste Management Rules, 2022.

The purpose of the campaign is to settle the habit of cleanliness in government offices and to bring down the stock of pending matters, and offices are scored on space management, scrap disposal, record management, best practices, improvement of premises, environment-friendly working and citizen-centric steps.

His 150th birth anniversary falls on 4 November. His ideals drew heavily on his close association with the Arya Samaj, for whose work he travelled to South Africa in the opening years of the twentieth century and met Mahatma Gandhi there; he also worked among the Girmitiya community in Guyana…

Narinder Singh Kapany is known across the world as the Father of Fiber Optics, and his 100th birth anniversary falls on 31 October.

The Prime Minister inaugurated the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre there during his visit to Chennai earlier in the month, and he spoke about it in the 139th episode of Mann Ki Baat.

Mann Ki Baat is the monthly radio address of the Prime Minister, and the edition broadcast on 25 October 2026 was its 139th.

India recorded 114 medals at the 2026 edition of this competition, the largest haul the country has ever managed there, and the Games had just concluded when Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the contingent.

The contingent gathered a record 114 medals at the 2026 edition, which no earlier Indian team at the event had matched.

The Indian contingent of para-athletes closed the Asian Para Games 2026 with that number of medals, which is a record for the country at the event and the best-ever performance it has managed there.

The correct answer is Tamil Nadu, which accounts for 20 of the Ramsar Sites in the country, the highest for any State.

The treaty takes its name from Ramsar, the Iranian town where it was adopted on 2 February 1971, and it entered into force in 1975.

Sukhna Wetland lies in Chandigarh and is a rain-fed reservoir created in 1958 at the foot of the Shivalik hills; it shelters threatened species such as the Pallas's fish eagle, the common pochard and the black pond turtle, and migratory birds of the Central Asian Flyway winter there.

India reached this figure on 15 October 2026, when Sukhna Wetland in Chandigarh and Sauj Jheel in Uttar Pradesh were added to the list of Wetlands of International Importance.

Launched in 2020, Mera Pani Meri Virasat offers an incentive per acre to farmers in blocks where groundwater has fallen sharply if they replace water-hungry paddy with crops such as maize, pulses, cotton or vegetables, or take up agroforestry; the aim is crop diversification to save the aquifer.