Banking GK Questions 2026

The minister said a dedicated training drive would be run through the Krishi Vigyan Kendras across the country so that farmers become skilled in using the portal and other digital tools, and he asked that the language and the process be kept simple enough for small and marginal farmers with…

The DBIM and GIGW standards, in their 3.0 versions, are the government’s norms for the look, the security and the accessibility of official websites, and the new portal has been built to follow them.

Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan formally launched this revamped portal on the Navami day of Navratri, so that scheme information, financial assistance and farming advice reach farmers directly on their mobile phones instead of through visits to offices or through intermediaries.

Mona Agarwal’s score in the women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 event was high enough to establish a fresh Asian Para Games mark in that event, and the record came along with the gold medal on India’s opening day at the Games.

Avani Lekhara shot an impressive score in the women's 10m air rifle standing SH1 final at the Asian Para Games 2026 and finished second, which gave her the silver medal.

She won the gold medal in the women's 10m air rifle standing SH1 event at the Asian Para Games 2026, and the outstanding score she shot also set a new Asian Para Games record in that event.

As many as 5,753 participants answered every question correctly and scored 15 out of 15, which left far more candidates than the ten prizes available, so the winners were decided by lots as permitted by the terms and conditions of the quiz.

The quiz sought to engage participants in learning about human rights, about that Act and about the functions, powers and duties of the National Human Rights Commission in promoting and protecting human rights across the country.

That is the number of entries actually submitted, and they came from every State and Union Territory of the country.

It ran the online quiz with MyGov from 1 September to 10 October 2026 in the run-up to its own Foundation Day, and announced the ten winners on 19 October 2026.

The choice follows from the subject matter: legal metrology governs weights, measures and the instruments used in trade, so correct quantity declarations and fair transactions are a consumer protection concern.

That seminar is set for 26 October 2026 and will bring experts from different countries together to trade experience and good practice on modernising legal metrology systems.

The OIML was founded in that year as an intergovernmental organisation whose purpose is to bring legal metrology procedures in different countries into line with one another.

India will host the 61st CIML Meeting from 26 to 28 October 2026, the first time the country has been given this meeting, and the Department of Consumer Affairs is organising it with the International Organization of Legal Metrology.

The International Renewable Energy Agency put world installed pumped hydro capacity at 159.8 GW at the end of 2025. China held close to 66 GW of that, far ahead of the rest.

As solar and wind capacity grows, electricity has to be stored when generation runs ahead of demand and returned when it falls short, so the Central Electricity Authority projects a storage requirement of that size by 2031-32.

The Central Electricity Authority credits that lead to the landform of the region and the steep gradients of rivers that rise in the Western Ghats, which give engineers the height difference a pumped storage scheme needs.

Surveys have marked 320 pumped storage sites in India whose capacities add up to that figure, spread over all five regions of the country and at every stage of development, including schemes already running.

SEBI was set up in 1988 as a non-statutory body and was given statutory status and powers by the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992, after which it became the regulator of the securities market, with its head office in Mumbai; appeals from its orders lie to the…

NASDAQ opened in 1971 in the United States as the world's first electronic stock market, with quotations carried on a computer network instead of a trading floor, and it now lists most of the large American technology companies; its benchmark is the NASDAQ Composite.