IBPS GK Questions 2026

Manvini Bhavai is his novel of rural Gujarat during a devastating famine, written from the inside of peasant life, and it is the work for which he received the Jnanpith Award.

A leading writer of the Jonaki era that began with the magazine of that name in 1889, he wrote humour, satire, plays and the much loved collection of folk tales Burhi Aair Sadhu, meaning Grandmother Tales, and he composed O Mur Apunar Desh, which is now the state song of…

The fifteenth and sixteenth century Vaishnava saint founded the Ekasarana faith and shaped much of Assamese cultural life: he composed the devotional songs known as Borgeet, wrote the one-act plays called Ankiya Nat that are staged as Bhaona, gave rise to the dance tradition now called Sattriya, and wrote the…

Writing in the fourteenth century, he put the Ramayana into Assamese verse in seven books, which is what the name Saptakanda records, and the work is counted among the first translations of the epic into any modern Indian language.

He is called the father of Odia fiction and of modern Odia prose and is titled Utkala Byasa Kabi, and his novel Chha Mana Atha Guntha is a sharp, ironic account of how a scheming landlord dispossesses a poor weaver couple of their small plot of land.

The fifteenth century poet composed the Odia Mahabharata, along with the Chandi Purana and the Vilanka Ramayana, and in writing the epic in the speech of ordinary people rather than in Sanskrit he earned the title Adikavi, the first poet of Odia.

Her poem Ajj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu calls on the old poet of Heer to speak again over the suffering of Partition, her novel Pinjar tells the story of an abducted woman of those years, and she received the Jnanpith Award in 1981 for the collection Kagaz Te Canvas.

His Heer, composed in 1766, is the version of the tragic love story of Heer and Ranjha that is still sung and quoted across Punjab, and it is the answer whenever an examiner names the qissa.

He published Saraswatichandra in four parts between 1887 and 1901, and the long social novel about a learned young man and the world around him is treated as the work with which the modern Gujarati novel begins.

Narsinh Mehta was a fifteenth century devotional poet of Gujarat who is honoured as the Adi Kavi, the first poet of the language, and his bhajan Vaishnav Jan To lists the qualities of a true devotee, which is why Gandhi made it part of the daily prayer at his ashram.

Section 29A, inserted by amendment in 2018, lists disqualifications, chiefly for promoters and connected persons whose accounts have been classified as non-performing, for undischarged insolvents and for persons disqualified as directors, so that a defaulting promoter cannot buy the company back cheaply through the very process his default caused.

The Committee of Creditors is made up of the financial creditors of the company, with voting shares in proportion to the debt owed to each, and a resolution plan is approved only when creditors holding at least sixty-six per cent of the voting share vote for it; the same majority…

The Committee on the Financial System of 1991 and the Committee on Banking Sector Reforms of 1998, both under him, recommended prudential norms for income recognition and provisioning, a minimum capital to risk-weighted assets ratio, a lower statutory liquidity ratio and cash reserve ratio, entry for new private banks and…

The Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act of 1993 set up the Debt Recovery Tribunals, with Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunals above them, to take bank recovery suits out of the ordinary civil courts where they had been pending for years.

The Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act of 2002 lets a secured creditor issue a notice to a defaulting borrower and then take possession of and sell the secured asset without going to court, and it also provides for asset reconstruction companies that buy…

Section 12 of the Code gives the resolution process 180 days from the date of admission, allows the adjudicating authority to extend it once by up to 90 days on a resolution of the Committee of Creditors, and the amendment of 2019 added the outer limit of 330 days, which…

Created under the Code of 2016, it registers and oversees insolvency professionals, insolvency professional agencies and information utilities, and makes the regulations under which the resolution process runs, which makes it both a regulator and a rule-maker.

For companies and limited liability partnerships the application for insolvency is filed before the Tribunal, which admits or rejects it, declares the moratorium and appoints the interim resolution professional; appeals lie to the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal and then to the Supreme Court.

The Code was passed in 2016 on the recommendations of the Bankruptcy Law Reforms Committee and replaced a scatter of older laws, among them the Sick Industrial Companies Act and parts of the Companies Act, with a single time-bound process in which control passes from the defaulting promoter to the…

The classification runs in a sequence: an account that has just become non-performing is sub-standard for the first twelve months, after which it becomes doubtful, and it is called a loss asset when recovery is no longer expected.