IBPS GK Questions 2026

The Pre-COP31 meeting was convened in Nadi, Fiji, and it was there that Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav addressed the Plenary Discussion on Political Landing Zones and Outcomes and asked the Parties for greater flexibility, pragmatism and mutual respect.

That is the estimated size of the Ayush services economy in FY2024-25, after growth at a 16.91 per cent compound annual rate since FY2022-23, and it is the base from which the sector is projected to reach US$216-318 billion by 2047.

The Ayush Service Sector Report is a study by RIS and was brought out on Ayurveda Day 2026.

They remain the biggest revenue-generating segment of the Ayush services sector, bringing in an estimated US$16.21 billion, which works out to 43.9 per cent of the sector's revenue.

The assessment of the Ayush services sector puts the share of women in the sector's total workforce at 43 per cent, and notes that the share rises past half in several organised segments.

The Ministry of Communications said the telecom licences for Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite services were granted for satellite communications based on non-geosynchronous satellite orbit.

The Ministry of Communications explained that every satellite communication licensee is required under the terms and conditions of its licence to show that it meets the security conditions, the purpose being to ensure that the services provided satisfy security requirements and keep all users and their data safe.

The Ministry of Communications stated that telecom licences have been granted to three Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite operators whose services rest on non-geosynchronous satellite orbits, and that all three are at broadly the same regulatory stage because the security assessment of each is still in progress.

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development began work on 12 July 1982 under an Act of 1981, on the recommendation of the Sivaraman Committee, taking over the agricultural credit functions of the Reserve Bank and the refinance business of the Agricultural Refinance and Development Corporation; it has its…

It is issued by the Government of India under the Coinage Act and carries the signature of the Finance Secretary rather than of the Governor of the Reserve Bank; all coins are likewise issued by the Government, while the Reserve Bank only distributes them.

The Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India and insures deposits in commercial banks, local area banks, regional rural banks, small finance banks, payments banks and cooperative banks; the cover was raised to five lakh rupees per depositor per bank…

The National Payments Corporation of India was set up in 2008 by the Reserve Bank of India and the Indian Banks Association as a not-for-profit company under the companies law, and it operates the retail payment systems of the country, among them the Unified Payments Interface, RuPay, IMPS, NACH, AePS…

The Financial Stability and Development Council was set up in 2010 by an executive order of the Government, following a recommendation of the Raghuram Rajan Committee on financial sector reforms, and it is chaired by the Union Finance Minister with the heads of the regulators, the Finance Secretary and senior…

The Forward Markets Commission had regulated forward and commodity derivative trading since 1953 under the Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act 1952 and worked under the Ministry of Finance in its last years; it was merged into the Securities and Exchange Board of India on 28 September 2015, the first merger of…

The Tribunal was set up under the SEBI Act and sits at Mumbai; since the Finance Act 2017 it also hears appeals against orders of IRDAI and of PFRDA, so one tribunal now serves three regulators.

PFRDA was first created in 2003 by a resolution of the Government as an interim authority to oversee the new defined contribution pension arrangement, and it ran the National Pension System for a decade without a statute; the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Act 2013 gave it statutory standing.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India was first constituted in April 1988 as a non-statutory body with advisory functions, and it received statutory powers through the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act 1992, passed in the year the securities scam made a strong market regulator unavoidable.

IRDAI began in New Delhi but its office was shifted to Hyderabad in 2001, and this move is exactly why the question is asked: the candidate who assumes that every financial regulator sits in Mumbai or Delhi gets it wrong.

Formally the Royal Commission on Indian Currency and Finance, it reported in 1926 and recommended a central bank separate from the Imperial Bank of India; the recommendation led to the Reserve Bank of India Act 1934, and the Bank began work on 1 April 1935 with its central office at…

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India is the statutory regulator of insurance, created under the IRDA Act 1999 after the Malhotra Committee recommended opening the sector to private and foreign capital; it licenses life, general, health and reinsurance companies and registers agents, brokers and surveyors, and its headquarters…