IBPS GK Questions 2026

Hot money is the name given to short-term portfolio capital that chases returns from one market to another and can be withdrawn within days, pushing up share prices and the rupee while it comes in and pulling both down when it goes.

An entity of such a country, or an investor who is a citizen of or situated in one, may invest only through the government route whatever the sector, and the rule also covers a transfer of ownership that results in such beneficial ownership.

Participatory notes are offshore derivative instruments issued by foreign portfolio investors registered with SEBI to clients abroad who want exposure to Indian shares without registering in India themselves; the underlying shares are held by the issuing investor.

The correct answer is C, 2014, when the SEBI Foreign Portfolio Investors Regulations came into force and the three older categories, namely foreign institutional investors, their sub-accounts and qualified foreign investors, were merged into one class registered in risk-based tiers.

The FDI policy lists a small set of prohibited activities: the lottery business, gambling and betting including casinos, chit funds, Nidhi companies, trading in transferable development rights, real estate business and the construction of farm houses, the manufacture of cigars, cheroots and cigarettes, and activities closed to private investment such…

Under the automatic route the foreign investor needs no prior permission from either the government or the Reserve Bank of India; the Indian company simply reports the inflow and the issue of shares to the Reserve Bank within the prescribed time.

The Foreign Investment Promotion Board was wound up and its work handed to the administrative ministries concerned, which now receive applications through the Foreign Investment Facilitation Portal.

The correct answer is C, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, a department of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, which was known as the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion until it was renamed in 2019.

The correct answer is B, the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999, which came into force in 2000 and governs all dealings in foreign exchange, including inward and outward investment.

Foreign direct investment is made to acquire a lasting interest in an enterprise abroad, conventionally measured as ten per cent or more of the voting power, and with it comes a say in how the company is run; portfolio investment buys shares and bonds without any such control.

The conclave is convened jointly by the Institute of Economic Growth, usually shortened to IEG, and the Union Ministry of Finance, and has run every year since it began in 2022.

Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan inaugurated the conclave on 3 October 2026 and gave the inaugural address, in which he said that economic resilience cannot be separated from social resilience and that inclusion is a foundation of resilience in a fast-changing world.

This was the theme chosen for the fifth edition of the Kautilya Economic Conclave, held across three days from 3 to 5 October 2026 in New Delhi by the Institute of Economic Growth together with the Union Ministry of Finance.

India's record on access and benefit-sharing was set out as the country prepared to take part.

The framework also works with the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan for the period ending in the next decade.

The correct answer is Rs 2.02 crore, the sum the Authority released among twenty-seven states and three union territories as their share of contributions paid by seed companies.

The correct answer is Dr. Sebastian Bosse, who opened the inaugural session of the second meeting in his capacity as Chair of GI-AI4FS.

The Telecommunication Engineering Centre, which works under the Department of Telecommunications in the Ministry of Communications, hosted the meeting jointly with ICAR of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

GI-AI4FS is a global initiative of the United Nations and the ITU is named as the body that coordinates it, working in close collaboration with three partner agencies.

The Ministry of Defence recalls that the Greek Minister of National Defence came to India in February 2026 and held talks with the Raksha Mantri, and it treats such high-level exchanges as evidence of a growing India-Greece partnership in the defence and strategic domains.