IBPS GK Questions 2026

The award, instituted in 1991 to 1992 as the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and first given to the chess player Viswanathan Anand, was renamed the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award in 2021 in honour of the hockey player who won Olympic gold with India in 1928, 1932 and 1936.

The institute was founded there in 1961 as the National Institute of Sports and was later named after Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose; it is the main centre for training coaches in India and now functions under the Sports Authority of India.

The Sports Authority of India was set up in 1984 as a society so that the stadiums and other facilities built for the Asian Games held at Delhi in 1982 would continue to be used for training rather than fall idle.

The Dronacharya Award was instituted in 1985 and honours coaches who have consistently produced outstanding athletes, the name being taken from the teacher of archery in the Mahabharata.

The Arjuna Award was instituted in 1961 to recognise consistently outstanding performance by a sportsperson over a period of years, and it remains the standard recognition for a leading active athlete who has not won the country highest sporting honour.

TOPS was launched in 2014 under the National Sports Development Fund and was thoroughly revamped in 2018.

Khelo India was launched in 2018 by merging earlier grassroots sports programmes into a single national scheme, and its first competition, the Khelo India School Games, was held at New Delhi in January of that year.

The day marks the birth anniversary of Major Dhyan Chand, the hockey player who was part of the Indian sides that won Olympic gold in 1928, 1932 and 1936, and it is the day on which the national sports awards are conferred at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

UPI was launched by NPCI in 2016 as a system that lets a user link several bank accounts to one mobile application and transfer money instantly using a virtual payment address or a QR code, without sharing account numbers.

NavIC is the operational name of the system formally called the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, built by ISRO so that the country would not depend on a foreign constellation for positioning in a crisis.

The 802.15 family covers wireless personal area networks, the very short-range links meant to join the devices a single person carries, and Bluetooth was standardised within it as IEEE 802.15.1.

An accelerometer measures acceleration along three axes, which includes the constant pull of gravity, so the phone can work out which way is down and therefore how it is being held.

NFC is deliberately designed for extremely short range, so the two devices must be touching or nearly touching before any data passes.

GSM is the European-born digital standard that replaced the analogue first generation networks; it introduced the removable SIM card, digital encryption of the radio link, international roaming and the short message service, on which a plain text message is limited to one hundred and sixty characters.

Android uses a modified Linux kernel at its lowest layer to manage memory, processes, power and device drivers, and builds its own runtime, libraries, application framework and user interface above it.

The International Mobile Equipment Identity is a fifteen-digit number assigned to every handset, made up of a code identifying the type approval of the model, a serial part and a final check digit.

The SIM is a small smart card issued by the operator that stores the subscriber identity, the authentication keys used to prove that identity to the network, and a limited amount of contact and message data.

A telephone conversation requires both parties to speak and listen at the same time, so a mobile link must carry traffic in both directions together.

LTE is the radio access technology of fourth generation mobile networks, standardised by the Third Generation Partnership Project.

A nineteenth century scholar and reformer, he compiled Hemkosh, which was the first Assamese dictionary to be arranged on etymological lines and which fixed much of the modern spelling of the language; the work was published after his death.