IBPS GK Questions 2026

The Board sits within that department and finances Indian enterprises that are developing and commercialising home grown technology, which is why it was the body to sign an agreement for an indigenous computed tomography scanner.

The correct answer is Col N. S. Johal, the Chief Executive of the Target Olympic Podium Scheme, who went through India showing at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games and the state of preparation for the Los Angeles Olympics.

The review conclave treated the Asian Games of 2030 at Doha as one of the three events to prepare for, alongside the Los Angeles Olympics of 2028 and the Commonwealth Games of 2030 that India is to host.

India ended the Asian Games of that year in that position, and it was precisely this result that the Union Sports Minister sat down to examine with the heads of the National Sports Federations.

The correct answer is 476.20 billion dollars, the estimate for merchandise and services exports together over the first six months of the financial year, a growth of 13.84 per cent.

This was the steepest rise among the major commodity groups and made electronics the single biggest driver of merchandise export growth.

The correct answer is 80.75 billion dollars, the estimate for merchandise and services exports taken together in the month, which works out to growth of 10.99 per cent over the same month of the previous year.

SCOMET is the list under which India regulates the export of dual-use and strategically sensitive items, and its dashboard is one of those placed on the command centre in the first phase, alongside the Importer Exporter Code, Advance Authorisation, Export Promotion Capital Goods, Certificate of Origin and restricted imports and…

The platform consolidates information on trade performance, export promotion schemes, regulatory approvals and application processing, and it is being run on existing digital infrastructure such as the systems of the Directorate General of Foreign Trade and the Trade Connect ePlatform.

The Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal, inaugurated the National Strategic Trade Command Centre there, in the presence of the Commerce Secretary, Rajesh Agrawal, and the Director General of Foreign Trade, Lav Agarwal.

This is the foundation of parliamentary government in India, because the Council stays in office only while it holds the confidence of that House.

That is how the communique describes the step, and it follows the scheme of Article 75: Ministers are appointed by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister and hold office during the pleasure of the President, so only the President can accept a Minister resignation.

The press communique states that the President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, accepted the resignation under that clause, which lays down that a Minister holds office during the pleasure of the President.

The Secretary of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation urged districts to make real use of the Decision Support System, which stitches these datasets together so that planning rests on evidence rather than guesswork: water-stressed areas can be identified, source sustainability can be planned and the most urgent works…

Gram Panchayats, Village Water and Sanitation Committees and local stakeholders were part of the exercise, and the Secretary praised the work and asked the district to study whether continuous rural water supply is feasible in suitable areas.

Its District Magistrate and Collector, Aditya Goyal, described a three-stage approach of execution, commissioning and then operation and maintenance, and said large multi-village schemes had carried round-the-clock piped water to IIM Sambalpur.

The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, written short as DDWS, is a department of that ministry, and it ran the thirteenth edition of the District Collectors' Peyjal Samvad over video conferencing, with Secretary Ashok K.K.

The survey is the main source of data on participation in the labour force and on employment and unemployment conditions, and its design was changed from January 2025 so that monthly and quarterly estimates could be produced.

Urban female labour force participation improved by 0.5 percentage points over the month, from 25.4 per cent, and reached its highest level since October 2025.

Urban LFPR gained 0.3 percentage points over the month, rising from 50.4 per cent in August 2026, and this improvement was the main point of the bulletin.