IBPS GK Questions 2026

The Colombian writer published One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1967, the chronicle of the Buendia family in the imaginary town of Macondo, and he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982; his other celebrated novel is Love in the Time of Cholera.

The French philosopher and novelist declined the prize of 1964, explaining that a writer must not allow himself to be transformed into an institution and that he had always refused official honours.

The Swedish writer won the prize in 1909, eight years after the prize was first given, and she was later also the first woman elected to the Swedish Academy itself.

Alfred Nobel's will of 1895 named a different body for each prize, and for literature it named the Academy in Stockholm, founded in 1786 to guard the Swedish language, which still announces the laureate each October.

The Golden Boat is the English title of Sonar Tari, the Bengali collection of poems Tagore published in 1894, nineteen years before his Nobel Prize, and its title poem is among the best known in modern Bengali verse.

The Swedish Academy cited the profoundly sensitive and beautiful verse of Gitanjali, which Tagore had himself rendered into English as Song Offerings and published in 1912 with an introduction by W. B. Yeats; the prize made him the first Asian and the first non-European laureate in any Nobel category.

The prize was instituted in 1995, the year of the one hundred and twenty-fifth birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, and it is given for social, economic and political transformation through non-violence and other Gandhian methods; it carries one crore rupees, a citation and a piece of traditional handicraft, and it…

He was awarded the Param Vir Chakra posthumously for the action at Badgam near Srinagar in November 1947, during the first conflict in Kashmir, and the award itself was instituted in 1950 with effect from 15 August 1947, which is why the first recipient's action precedes the award's announcement.

The Vayoshreshtha Samman is given by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to eminent senior citizens and to institutions working for their welfare, and it is presented on 1 October, the International Day of Older Persons.

The prize was instituted in 1958 in memory of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, the chemist who was the first Director General of the Council and is called the father of research laboratories in India, and it is presented on the Council's foundation day in September.

The actress, remembered for films such as Achhut Kanya and for her part in Bombay Talkies, was the first recipient of the award given for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema, named after Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who made Raja Harishchandra in 1913 and is called the father of Indian cinema.

The award has been given since 1958 to school teachers of outstanding merit, with a certificate of merit, a silver medal and a cash prize, and since 2018 teachers have been able to nominate themselves through a three-tier online process.

Born on 5 September 1888, Radhakrishnan was a philosopher and teacher who became the first Vice President and the second President of India, and the day is observed in his honour at his own suggestion that his birthday be marked as Teachers' Day.

The President confers the National Award to Teachers on Teachers' Day, which falls on 5 September, the birthday of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

The honour was instituted in 1999 as the Stree Shakti Puraskar and given in six categories named after women of Indian history, among them Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar, Kannagi, Mata Jijabai, Rani Gaidinliu Zeliang, Rani Lakshmibai and Rani Rudramma Devi; in 2016 those categories were merged and the award was…

This ministry frames the scheme, invites and screens the nominations and arranges the ceremony at which the President confers the award on 8 March; the same ministry also administers the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar for children.

The Nari Shakti Puraskar, the highest civilian honour for women in India, is presented at Rashtrapati Bhavan on International Women's Day, which is observed on 8 March every year.

Instituted in 1994 and named after the Sherpa mountaineer who reached the summit of Everest in 1953 with Edmund Hillary, this award recognises outstanding achievement in adventure activities, with separate categories for land adventure such as mountaineering, water adventure such as sailing and rafting, and air adventure such as paragliding…

Entry 33 of the State List in the Seventh Schedule covers sports, entertainments and amusements, so the primary responsibility for sport rests with the state governments, which is why state sports departments and state associations run most competitions and facilities.

The trophy was instituted in 1956 to 1957 and is a rolling award given each year to the university with the best overall record across inter-university competitions, named after the first education minister of independent India.