IBPS GK Questions 2026

Among the seven major bridges in the project is a 340-metre structure over the perennial Bagmati river, which the corridor must cross on its way from Muzaffarpur towards the border.

This is the model under which the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs cleared the upgradation of the 82.57-km stretch at a total capital cost of Rs 3,590.73 crore.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the upgradation of this length of the Muzaffarpur-Sitamarhi-Sonbarsa section of National Highway-22 to four lanes in August 2026, at a total capital cost of Rs 3,590.73 crore on the Hybrid Annuity Mode.

Training was delivered along two tracks, through online modules and physically at this academy, for departmental officers and employers alike, while the Exemption Division at the head office ran dedicated hybrid programmes for field officials posted across the country.

That recognition is not waived at all; it is the very qualification a trust must already possess to be eligible, since the scheme is aimed at trusts recognised under the Income Tax Act, 1961 that nevertheless lack a formal exemption order.

Section 17 of this Act is the provision under which a formal exemption order is granted to a Provident Fund Trust; the comparable provision in the newer law is section 143 of the Code on Social Security, 2020.

The amnesty was made available for a period of six months counted from the date on which the Employees' Provident Fund Scheme, 2026 was notified, and that notification was issued on 29 June 2026.

Dr. Mishra said artificial intelligence, machine learning, geospatial systems, satellite imagery and advanced analytics offer real opportunities to improve the timeliness, accuracy and usefulness of official statistics, yet technological advance must remain guided by statistical quality, transparency, privacy, security and accountability.

In his address, Dr. P. K. Mishra pointed to the introduction of the new National Accounts Series with 2022-23 as the base year, together with updated Consumer Price Index and Index of Industrial Production series, as an important step in keeping statistical methods aligned with an economy that is becoming…

He argued that a strong statistical system is essential for evidence-based policymaking and for reaching the goal of Viksit Bharat 2047, and described statistics as a strategic national asset rather than an administrative requirement.

Karel Havlicek, the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, is in India on a four-day visit during which he is meeting ministries, trade bodies and businesses, and his itinerary includes visits to industrial units in these two cities.

The correct answer is the India-Czech Joint Defence Committee, named in the talks as the mechanism through which the two sides would take their defence industrial engagement further.

Rajnath Singh met Karel Havlicek, who is the First Deputy Prime Minister as well as the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, in New Delhi, and the two reviewed the entire range of defence industrial cooperation between their countries.

The centre acts as a single digital platform bringing together data on air quality, dust control sites, ambient noise, industrial emissions, stubble burning incidents, citizen grievances and enforcement vehicles, and uses cameras and location tracking for round-the-clock watch.

Delhi had forty-seven monitoring stations run by various agencies, among them the Delhi Pollution Control Committee, the Central Pollution Control Board, the India Meteorological Department, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology and the ministry dealing with housing and urban affairs.

The Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, along with Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, flagged off 150 new electric buses at Swami Vivekanand ISBT in Anand Vihar under the Sewa Sankalp Abhiyaan, as part of the capital's push towards cleaner public transport.

After the response to the first phase, the second and final phase was rescheduled to that date, with bidding open from 11 in the morning until 5 in the evening, and it offers the land parcels left unsold from the first round.

Its premium land parcels in Visakhapatnam were put up for sale by the National Land Monetization Corporation, and 150 plots were sold on day one for 366.33 crore rupees.

On the first day of the auction, 150 plots belonging to Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited were sold and the winning bids together came to 366.33 crore rupees.

Indian Railways raised its domestic coal supply to power stations during September 2026, moving an average of 443 coal rakes every day.