IBPS GK Questions 2026

India has no bilateral free trade agreement with Brazil. Its only preferential link with Brazil is through the limited India-MERCOSUR Preferential Trade Agreement, which covers a short list of products at reduced duty and is not a free trade agreement.

The Ministry of Cooperation is examining a proposal for a common cooperative digital platform to market cooperative products and farm produce more effectively, and the Secretary informed participants that the Open Network for Digital Commerce had offered its support for the initiative.

The Secretary of the Ministry of Cooperation explained that the recent amendment to the National Cooperative Development Corporation Act has paved the way for extending assistance to such bodies, which opens a direct route for various State-level institutions to draw funds from the Corporation, and he urged States to make…

The workshop gave special attention to building stronger value chains in exports, organic products and seeds through these three national cooperative institutions, and to empowering primary cooperative institutions through them.

The Secretary of the Ministry told the inaugural session that the suggestion to hold a workshop on cooperative development in Bastar, a district long affected by Left Wing Extremism, had come from Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah, which is precisely what makes the venue worth…

The joint report released at this year ceremony, titled Progress towards the 6G Principles of the New Delhi Declaration: Actions, Outcomes and Outlook, First Edition, October 2026, marks the completion of one year since the Declaration was endorsed at that symposium, and records the actions and outcomes reported by the…

Before the symposium the Bharat 6G Alliance already held ten global and two domestic collaborations, and at the inaugural ceremony it exchanged five more Memoranda of Understanding, with GSMA, the one6G Association, GTI Alliance Ltd, the 6G Industry Forum and VoICE.

The Bharat 6G Alliance released nine Working Group white papers, reflecting the technical contributions of its industry, academic and research members.

Union Minister for Communications and Development of North Eastern Region Jyotiraditya M. Scindia inaugurated the 3rd International Bharat 6G Symposium 2026, organised by the Bharat 6G Alliance at Yashobhoomi, Dwarka, in New Delhi, with sessions running from 7 to 9 October 2026.

In February 2019, on the direction of the Government, the pricing authority capped trade margins on 42 selected non-scheduled anti-cancer drugs, using Paragraph 19 of the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013.

Two bodies have distinct roles here, and the question turns on telling them apart.

The Department of Pharmaceuticals expects the cap on margins for non-scheduled anti-cancer medicines to save patients about Rs 2,500 crore every year, mainly by reducing what they spend from their own pockets on treatment.

The Government has approved a ceiling on the margins charged while non-scheduled anti-cancer medicines move through the supply chain to the patient, and that ceiling is fixed at 30 per cent of the MRP.

The Council recommended changes to sections 68, 129 and 130 of the CGST Act so that a vehicle carrying goods may be stopped only when there is specific intelligence about it and an officer of at least this rank has cleared the action.

The Council recommended cutting the ceiling on the general penalty under section 125 of the CGST Act from 25,000 rupees to 10,000 rupees.

The Council recommended the complete withdrawal of arrest powers under the goods and services tax by deleting this section from the CGST Act, 2017, a step presented as part of a trust-based tax system that still keeps deterrence against fraud.

Among the decriminalisation measures taken at the 57th meeting of the GST Council, the money threshold at which a prosecution may be launched was lifted to five crore rupees, so that criminal proceedings are reserved for large cases of fraud and evasion rather than ordinary disputes over tax.

Through Samriddhi Kendras it offers tele-consultation and diagnostics, digital classrooms and skilling, e-governance, banking, soil testing, drone-based agricultural services, employment help and e-commerce under one roof, and it is being piloted at Umri in Madhya Pradesh, Chaurawala in Uttar Pradesh and Narakoduru in Andhra Pradesh.

These projects are funded through the Digital Bharat Nidhi and are meant to carry 4G service into remote and uncovered places that telecom operators had not reached because the commercial case was weak, so the spending bridges a digital divide rather than chasing revenue.

The rules, notified by the Department of Telecommunications under the Telecommunications Act, 2023, came into effect on 1 January 2025 and set up a uniform and transparent framework for laying telecom infrastructure, with rationalised charges and time-bound processing.