Static GK in IBPS exams means banking awareness first. The awareness tests of PO, Clerk and RRB Mains name banking, economy, financial and digital awareness, and the questions that return every year are about the RBI and its functions, the monetary policy tools (repo, SDF, MSF, CRR, SLR), types of banks and accounts, NPAs, Basel norms, priority sector lending, payment systems such as UPI, NEFT, RTGS and IMPS, deposit insurance, financial inclusion schemes, and the regulators SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA and institutions such as NABARD and SIDBI. Headquarters and taglines of banks, capitals and currencies, national parks, dams and important days appear too, though with a smaller share than in SSC. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for banking exams, written as short facts and tables so that a topic can be revised in one sitting, with the terms and abbreviations that IBPS papers use. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what you retained, and come back to the notes for the facts you missed.
How many pillars does the Data Centre Evaluation Framework rest on?
The framework is built around Power and Energy; Water and Cooling; Siting and Environmental Sustainability; Economic and Strategic Value; and Policy, Governance and Implementation.
Read the full explanation →The Data Centre Evaluation Framework has been released by which body?
The document was drafted with inputs from industry, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the Ministry of Power and the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade.
Read the full explanation →Which Union ministry organises the National SARAS Mela along with the State government?
The President attended the fair on 15 October 2026, saw the stalls and interacted with Lakhpati Didis.
Read the full explanation →According to the President, how many women are now linked to self-help groups in India?
Speaking at the National SARAS Mela, the President said the number of women attached to self-help groups has risen to this level over the past 12 years, and that they are connected to over 90 lakh such groups.
Read the full explanation →How many stalls are women entrepreneurs using at this edition of the National SARAS Mela?
Around 1500 women self-help group entrepreneurs and Lakhpati Didis, drawn from 34 States and Union Territories, are showing their products at these stalls in Vijayawada, and the fair remains open until 31 October 2026.
Read the full explanation →In which city did President Droupadi Murmu attend the National SARAS Mela on 15 October 2026?
The fair is organised by the Union Ministry of Rural Development together with the Government of Andhra Pradesh, and the President visited the stalls and spoke with Lakhpati Didis during her visit.
Read the full explanation →Under which project were 40 new reservoirs in Ladakh dedicated to the people?
These water bodies are intended to supply irrigation water to farmers at the time of need in a high-altitude region where the farming season is short.
Read the full explanation →Travel time on the newly dedicated Nimmu-Padum-Darcha road falls from 12 hours to about how many hours?
The Nimmu-Padum-Darcha road, dedicated to the people of Ladakh at a cost of 2,500 crore rupees, brings a journey that earlier took 12 hours down to roughly three hours.
Read the full explanation →The new terminal inaugurated at Leh belongs to which airport?
The terminal triples the number of flights the airport can handle and raises yearly passenger handling from 10 lakh to 35 lakh.
Read the full explanation →What is the approximate total cost of the five development projects inaugurated in Ladakh on 15 October 2026?
The set includes the new airport terminal at Leh, the Nimmu-Padum-Darcha road, the Hanu hydroelectric project with its transmission network, reservoirs raised under Project Amrit Him Sarovar and the country's first Petroglyph Conservation Park.
Read the full explanation →The coastal drive test released by TRAI ran between which two points?
The correct answer is Port Blair to Havelock, the coastal stretch covered in the island drive test alongside a city drive in South Andaman district, ten hotspot locations and a walk test.
Read the full explanation →Which of these is NOT a parameter captured during a TRAI Independent Drive Test?
During an Independent Drive Test the regulator captures coverage gap, which is the share of samples with signal strength below the prescribed minimum for the technology in use, and for voice it records Call Setup Success Rate, Drop Call Rate, call setup time, call silence rate and speech quality on…
Read the full explanation →Which operator recorded the highest average download speed in the Kolkata area drive test?
The correct answer is RJIL, which averaged 297.95 Mbps on its 5G and 4G networks in parts of Kolkata city and the Howrah and Hooghly districts.
Read the full explanation →Under which Licensed Service Area was the TRAI drive test in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands conducted?
For telecom licensing the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are grouped with West Bengal, and the drive test across South Andaman district and the coastal route from Port Blair to Havelock was conducted under that service area during August 2026, supervised by the regulator regional office at Kolkata.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was NOT among the five sovereign commitments outlined at the workshop?
Professor R. R. Sonde of IIT Delhi-Abu Dhabi, the Guest of Honour, outlined five sovereign commitments covering energy independence, economic development, net-zero emissions and industrial decarbonisation, universal energy access, and a clean environment.
Read the full explanation →Where was the workshop commemorating National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day held?
The correct answer is the IIT Madras Research Park in Chennai, where the 9th Workshop on Recent Advancements in Hydrogen Value Chain was held on 13 October 2026.
Read the full explanation →The 9th Workshop on Recent Advancements in Hydrogen Value Chain was organised by which centre?
It organised the workshop at the IIT Madras Research Park in Chennai to commemorate National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day, and about 150 delegates from academia, research institutes and industry attended.
Read the full explanation →Which organisation is organising this edition of ESTIC?
The correct answer is the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, usually written as CSIR, which is organising this year edition of the conclave.
Read the full explanation →How many Technology Innovation Hubs has DST established under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems?
The DST Secretary, Professor Umesh Waghmare, said the department has set up that many Technology Innovation Hubs under the mission, and named TiHAN at IIT Hyderabad, IHFC at IIT Delhi and ARTPARK at IISc Bengaluru as examples.
Read the full explanation →What is the theme of ESTIC 2026?
Professor Abhay Karandikar, Member of NITI Aayog and the Chief Guest at the curtain-raiser, called the theme apt because it speaks of the creative minds that work on scientific innovations and then turn them into technologies that serve society.
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