Static GK in IBPS exams means banking awareness first. The awareness tests of PO, Clerk and RRB Mains name banking, economy, financial and digital awareness, and the questions that return every year are about the RBI and its functions, the monetary policy tools (repo, SDF, MSF, CRR, SLR), types of banks and accounts, NPAs, Basel norms, priority sector lending, payment systems such as UPI, NEFT, RTGS and IMPS, deposit insurance, financial inclusion schemes, and the regulators SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA and institutions such as NABARD and SIDBI. Headquarters and taglines of banks, capitals and currencies, national parks, dams and important days appear too, though with a smaller share than in SSC. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for banking exams, written as short facts and tables so that a topic can be revised in one sitting, with the terms and abbreviations that IBPS papers use. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what you retained, and come back to the notes for the facts you missed.
Bank of Maharashtra has its head office in which city?
Bank of Maharashtra is headquartered at Pune, and its tagline is One Family One Bank.
Read the full explanation →Which two public sector banks have their head offices at Chennai?
Both Indian Bank, whose tagline is Your Own Bank, and Indian Overseas Bank, whose tagline is Good People to Grow With, are headquartered at Chennai, and their similar names make them easy to keep together.
Read the full explanation →Canara Bank is headquartered in which city?
Canara Bank has its head office at Bengaluru in Karnataka, and its tagline is Together We Can.
Read the full explanation →UCO Bank has its headquarters in which city?
UCO Bank is headquartered at Kolkata and is the public sector bank most often asked about in connection with that city; its tagline is Honours Your Trust.
Read the full explanation →Punjab National Bank has its head office in which city?
Punjab National Bank is headquartered at New Delhi, as is Punjab and Sind Bank, so both the public sector banks with Punjab in their names are based in the capital rather than in the state.
Read the full explanation →India's International Bank is the tagline of which bank?
India's International Bank is the line by which Bank of Baroda is best known, and it reflects the bank's long presence in overseas markets.
Read the full explanation →The head office of Bank of Baroda is in which city?
Bank of Baroda has its head office at Vadodara in Gujarat, the city formerly called Baroda, from which the bank takes its name, and that link between the name and the city is the simplest way to remember the fact.
Read the full explanation →The headquarters of the Reserve Bank of India is located in which city?
The Reserve Bank of India has had its central office at Bombay, now Mumbai, since 1937, and it has stayed there ever since.
Read the full explanation →From which edition were the National Games reorganised on the pattern of the Olympic Games?
Until then the National Games had been a meet of limited scale; the 1985 edition at New Delhi remodelled them on the Olympic pattern, with a much longer list of disciplines, a whole state rather than a single city as host, a torch relay, formal opening and closing ceremonies, a…
Read the full explanation →The Khelo India School Games were first held in which year?
The first edition of the Khelo India School Games was held at New Delhi in 2018 under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, and from the following edition at Pune the competition was broadened and renamed the Khelo India Youth Games, with under-seventeen and under-twenty-one categories and a long-term…
Read the full explanation →Besides the states and union territories, which team takes part in the National Games?
The Services Sports Control Board enters a single contingent known simply as Services, made up of sportspersons serving in the Army, the Navy and the Air Force, and because the armed forces recruit and train athletes from across the country this team has been among the most successful in the…
Read the full explanation →The 38th National Games, held in 2025, took place in which state?
The 38th National Games were held in Uttarakhand in 2025, with competition spread over Dehradun, Haldwani, Rudrapur, Haridwar and other centres, and with Mauli, a Himalayan monal, as the mascot; the monal is the state bird of Uttarakhand.
Read the full explanation →Moga, the mascot of the 37th National Games, represented which animal?
Moga was modelled on the gaur, the large wild cattle of the Western Ghats which is the state animal of Goa, and it was chosen as the mascot when Goa hosted the 37th National Games in 2023.
Read the full explanation →The 37th National Games, held in 2023, were hosted by which state?
The 37th National Games were held in Goa in 2023, the state hosting them for the first time after a long wait, with events spread across Panaji and other centres and with the mascot Moga, a gaur or Indian bison, the state animal of Goa.
Read the full explanation →Savaj, the mascot of the 36th National Games, was based on which animal?
Savaj was a cub of the Asiatic lion, and it was chosen as the mascot of the Gujarat edition of 2022 because the Gir forest of Gujarat is the only place in the world where that subspecies survives in the wild, making the lion the obvious emblem of the host…
Read the full explanation →The 36th National Games, held in 2022, were hosted by which state?
The 36th National Games were held in Gujarat in 2022, spread across Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot and Bhavnagar, with the mascot Savaj, an Asiatic lion cub chosen because the Asiatic lion survives in the wild only in that state.
Read the full explanation →Which body conducts the National Games of India?
The Indian Olympic Association is the national Olympic committee of the country, and it conducts the National Games in partnership with the Olympic association of the host state, deciding the list of disciplines, approving the venues and ratifying the results, with support from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the All India Olympic Games renamed the National Games?
The competition had been held since 1924 under the name the All India Olympic Games, and at the Bombay edition of 1940 it was renamed the National Games, which it has remained ever since.
Read the full explanation →The competition that is now known as the National Games of India was first held in 1924 in which city?
The first edition was staged in 1924 at Lahore, then the chief city of undivided Punjab, under the name the All India Olympic Games, and its purpose was to create a national meet from which an Indian team could be picked for the Olympic Games.
Read the full explanation →International Chess Day is observed on 20 July because on that day in 1924
The world governing body for chess was established on 20 July 1924 in Paris, and the anniversary is kept as International Chess Day, with the United Nations later recognising it as an international day in acknowledgement of the reach of the game and of its Indian ancestor, chaturanga.
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