IBPS GK Questions 2026

The Afro-Asian Games were conceived as a meeting of the champions of Africa and Asia, and the first edition was held at Hyderabad in 2003, with the main events at the Gachibowli stadium complex built for the purpose.

The Winter series began the next year, in 1960, at Chamonix in France, so option B is the right city attached to the wrong series, and that swap is the usual way this question is made difficult.

FISU was founded in 1949, has its headquarters at Lausanne in Switzerland, and runs both the Summer and the Winter World University Games along with a long list of World University Championships.

The twelfth edition of the South Asian Games was held in 2016 across two north-eastern cities, with Guwahati in Assam as the main venue and Shillong in Meghalaya hosting part of the programme, and India finished at the top of the medal table as it has in almost every edition.

The regional games of the subcontinent began in the Nepalese capital in 1984 under the name South Asian Federation Games, commonly shortened to SAF Games, and the shorter name South Asian Games was adopted in 2004.

The International Olympic Committee set this band when it created the Youth Olympic Games so that the event would reach adolescents at the stage when they are choosing whether to continue in sport, and the age is counted as of the year of the Games.

The Youth Olympic Games were proposed by Jacques Rogge, then President of the International Olympic Committee, approved in 2007, and the first Summer edition was staged at Singapore in 2010 for athletes aged fifteen to eighteen.

ONDC is not an application or a marketplace but a set of open protocols, in the same spirit as UPI in payments, designed so that a buyer using one application can discover and order from a seller registered on a different application.

EDI is the computer-to-computer exchange of standard business documents such as purchase orders, invoices, despatch advices and payment instructions, in an agreed format, without paper and without a person re-typing the data at the other end.

This Act is the legal foundation of electronic commerce in India: it recognised electronic records as equivalent to paper records, gave digital and later electronic signatures the status of a signature, provided for certifying authorities, and created the offences under which online fraud such as identity theft and cheating by…

On such a platform both the buyer and the seller are enterprises: a factory sources raw material, components, machinery or packaging from suppliers, and the orders are usually bulk orders with negotiated prices, credit terms and long-term supply contracts.

GeM is an online marketplace on which central and state government departments, public sector undertakings and other public bodies buy common-use goods and services from registered sellers, with the aim of making purchase faster, cheaper and transparent.

HTTPS is HTTP carried inside a protected channel: the browser and the server first exchange a digital certificate and agree on keys, after which card numbers, passwords and addresses travel as cipher text that an eavesdropper on the network cannot read.

M-commerce, or mobile commerce, is the part of electronic commerce conducted on smartphones, tablets and even feature phones over a wireless network, and the term is credited to Kevin Duffey in 1997.

NPCI, set up in 2008 as the umbrella organisation for retail payments in the country, built and runs UPI, which lets a user link several bank accounts to one mobile application and transfer money instantly using a virtual payment address, without sharing account numbers.

Here both sides of the deal are individuals and the website only provides the listing, the search and sometimes the payment and dispute machinery, earning a fee or advertising revenue rather than a trading margin.

In an auction the price is not fixed by the seller but is discovered from what buyers are willing to bid, and this way of trading appears at two levels.

The institute, which lies at Izatnagar near Bareilly, is the country's premier centre for veterinary research and teaching, covering animal diseases, vaccines and livestock production, and it has a second campus at Mukteswar in the Nainital district.

The institute is the country's reference laboratory for viral diseases, it tests and confirms outbreaks and it also works on vaccines; the National AIDS Research Institute is in the same city.

The institute works on food processing, preservation, packaging and nutrition, and it shares the city with the Defence Food Research Laboratory, so Mysuru is best remembered as the food research city.