IBPS GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is 237. The release carries this as one of its headline findings, stating that in 237 districts women constitute one-third of the total workforce in the unincorporated sector. Every other option is also a real figure from the same release, which is what makes this question difficult, so each one must be attached to the right fact. The figure 280 is the number of districts where gross value added per worker exceeds the all-India average of Rs 1,56,539. The figure 331 is the approximate number of districts where gross value added per worker lies between one lakh and one and a half lakh rupees. The figure 25 is the number of districts where women make up more than half of the workforce. Two related findings are worth adding: the districts with the highest share of women-led establishments lie in Telangana, Manipur and Meghalaya, and in Mizoram at least half the establishments in every district are owned by women.

The correct answer is 757. The release says that estimates of the indicators are given for 757 out of the 770 districts available in the sampling frame at the time the ASUSE sample was selected. Option C is the sharpest distractor precisely because that figure also appears in the release, but it is the size of the sampling frame and not the number of districts actually shown, so the two must be kept apart. The gap between the two numbers is explained in the release itself. Lakshadweep and Chandigarh each have a single district, so their district estimates coincide with their union territory estimates and were already published. Delhi is excluded for a different reason, namely that its rural population is very small and its villages few, so all its districts were merged into one stratum and district estimates could not be generated. Options A and D do not appear anywhere in the release.

The correct answer is the Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises 2025, abbreviated as ASUSE 2025. The release states that the report, titled Unincorporated Sector at the District Level, draws upon ASUSE data to present the scale, structure and economic performance of the sector district by district, and that this is the first initiative of the National Statistics Office to disseminate district-level estimates from a large-scale nationwide survey. The other three surveys named in the options are genuine statistical exercises, which makes them convincing distractors, but none of them is mentioned in this release and none supplies these estimates. Remember the supporting details as well: the survey covers rural and urban areas across the country, it takes in manufacturing, trade and other services, and the data were collected on tablets using computer assisted personal interviewing, with relative standard errors reported so that users can judge reliability.

The correct answer is the Consumer Protection Act, 2019. The release states that the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020 were notified under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, and that they provide the framework for safeguarding consumers against unfair trade practices in the e-commerce sector; the amendment of 2026 strengthens that same framework. The other three statutes are real laws that a candidate may associate loosely with online business, but none of them is named in this release, and attributing the rules to them would be wrong. The chain worth memorising runs in one line: the Act of 2019 is the parent, the Rules of 2020 sit under it, the Amendment Rules of 2026 modify those rules, and the whole package takes effect from the first day of 2027. Also remember that the administering authority named here is the Department of Consumer Affairs.

The correct answer is 30 days. The amended rules provide that where a price reduction is announced, both the reduced price and the prior price shall be displayed, and they define the prior price as the lowest price at which the goods or services were offered during the thirty days preceding the announcement. The point of the provision is to stop the familiar trick of quietly raising a price and then advertising a discount from the inflated figure, because the reference point is now the lowest price in a fixed window rather than a figure of the seller choosing. The other options are periods that do not appear in the release. Candidates should tie this provision to the neighbouring ones in the same list, namely the ban on manipulating search results in a way that misleads users and the requirement that sponsored listings be identified through clear and prominent disclosures.

The correct answer is 1 January 2027. The release says in its headline points, and repeats at the very end, that the new rules shall come into force from January 1, 2027, which gives e-commerce entities a clear runway before compliance becomes mandatory. The three wrong options are all dates that sound administratively plausible, and this is precisely the trap: a candidate who remembers only that the amendment was made in 2026 may assume it applies at once, and pick the October date. It is worth separating the two years cleanly in memory. The amending instrument is titled the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) (Amendment) Rules, 2026, because that is the year it was made, but the date of commencement falls in the following year. The rules it amends are the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020, which were notified under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019.

The correct answer is 50. Listing the achievements of the cooperation period that has just ended, the release records the launch in 2024 of the ASEAN-India Fellowship for Higher Education in Agriculture and Allied Sciences, which provides for 50 master’s fellowships over five years for students from ASEAN member states. The other options are numbers that fit the shape of such a scheme but are not supported by the release, and a candidate who guesses will very likely pick one of them. Two further details from the same list are worth carrying into the examination hall alongside this figure: the ASEAN-India Millets Festivals were held at Jakarta and New Delhi in 2023 to promote dietary diversification, nutrition and climate-resilient crops, and the joint leaders statement on strengthening food security and nutrition in response to crises also belongs to this period of cooperation.

The correct answer is 2026-2030. The meeting looked forward to the adoption and implementation of the medium-term plan of action for cooperation in agriculture and forestry for 2026-2030, and the release sets out its four mutually reinforcing areas, namely policy dialogue with food security, trade, investment and resilient value chains; institutional networking, information exchange and digital innovation; capacity building, technology cooperation and joint research and development; and human-resource development with farmer exchanges and inclusive rural enterprise. Option A, 2021-2025, is the period of the plan that was being closed out, and the release praises the progress made under it, so it describes the past and not the future. Option C and option D are periods that do not appear anywhere in the release and have been placed here only to test whether the candidate has memorised the exact span. Note also that the same years, 2026-2030, cover the ASEAN sectoral plan for food, agriculture and forestry welcomed at this meeting.

The correct answer is New Delhi. The release opens by saying that the Ninth ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture and Forestry was held on 9 September 2026 in New Delhi, India, and it closes with the ministers thanking the Government of India for the hospitality and the arrangements made for the meeting, which confirms India as the host. Option A, Jakarta, is a trap for the hurried reader, because Jakarta does appear in the release, but only as one of the two cities where the ASEAN-India Millets Festivals were held in 2023, the other being New Delhi. Option B, Manila, is not named anywhere; the Philippines is mentioned because the co-chair from the ASEAN side was its Agriculture Secretary, not because the meeting was held there. Option D, Bangkok, does not figure in the release at all. Candidates should link the ninth edition firmly with New Delhi and the tenth edition with the year 2028.

The correct answer is Chandrayaan-3. Recalling the landmarks of the Indian space programme, the Prime Minister said that Chandrayaan-3 made India the first nation to land near the lunar south pole, and he presented that touchdown as a benchmark for the world. Option A, Chandrayaan-2, is not credited with this achievement anywhere in the release, and the only lunar mission it names in this context is the third one, so the answer cannot be shifted to the earlier mission. Option C, Aditya-L1, is named in the same passage but for an entirely different purpose: it is described as unlocking the secrets of the Sun, which makes it a solar observation mission rather than a lunar one. Option D, Gaganyaan, does not appear in the release at all; what the address does mention is that an Indian astronaut visited the International Space Station in the previous year, which is a separate fact and not a mission name.

The correct answer is 2035. While outlining the road map for the country, the Prime Minister announced plans to establish an indigenous space station by 2035 and to send an astronaut to the Moon by 2040. These are the only two forward-looking dates given in the release, and the earlier of the two belongs to the space station. Option C, 2040, is a very tempting distractor because that year does appear in the release, but it is attached to the crewed lunar mission and not to the station, so a candidate who mixes up the two loses the mark. Option A, 2030, does not appear in the release at all and has simply been placed there because it looks like a plausible round-number goal. Option D, 2045, is likewise absent from the account of the address. The safest way to hold this pair in memory is as a sequence: the station comes first, the Moon landing follows five years later.

The correct answer is Paris. The release states that the Prime Minister addressed the International Space Summit held in Paris, France, and that he joined the gathering through video conference. He thanked President Emmanuel Macron for the timely initiative behind the summit and for the gracious invitation extended to him, and he described it as the first summit of its kind. His closing appeal was framed around the city itself, asking that the Space Summit in Paris send out a clear message that nations will explore, innovate and protect space together. Berlin is therefore wrong, because the release makes no mention of Germany or of any German city in connection with this meeting. Rome is wrong for the same reason, as Italy does not figure anywhere in the account of the summit. Madrid is wrong as well, since Spain is not named at any point. Only France, its capital and its President appear in the release, which makes Paris the single defensible option here.

The correct answer is 2047. The President said the country is moving ahead with the national goal of building a developed India by that year, a hundred years after independence, and described what such a country would look like: quality education and healthcare reaching everyone, science and technology used for human welfare, equality of opportunity, full use of the potential of women and youth, and a life of dignity for every citizen. She added that universities and young people have an important role in reaching these goals. Options A, B and C name earlier years that are sometimes attached to other national targets, such as energy or climate commitments, but the Viksit Bharat goal is fixed to the centenary year of independence. Candidates should attach the year firmly to the phrase, because it recurs in scheme and speech questions alike.

The correct answer is Vadodara, in Gujarat. The President attended the 75th annual convocation of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in that city, and the university takes its name from the ruler of the former princely state of Baroda, which is the older name of Vadodara itself. That link between the two names is what the question is really testing. Option A, Ahmedabad, option B, Surat, and option D, Rajkot, are other major cities of Gujarat, and each is home to universities of its own, but none of them hosts this institution. The President noted that the university has spent 75 years bringing several streams of knowledge together and said higher education institutions must remain alert and dynamic in that direction as the country works towards the goal of a developed India.

The correct answer is the President of India, Droupadi Murmu. She attended the 75th annual convocation ceremony of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda at Vadodara in Gujarat and addressed the graduating students, telling them that education will be meaningful only if the country and society benefit from it. Option A, the Prime Minister, is wrong because the release comes from the President's Secretariat and names the President alone as the dignitary at the ceremony. Option C, the Vice-President, is a common distractor in convocation questions because Vice-Presidents also attend such events, but that is not the case here. Option D, the Union Education Minister, is likewise not named in this release. In her address the President pressed the case for a multidisciplinary approach, saying no important problem today can be solved within a single stream of study.

The correct answer is New Delhi. Under the Viksit Bharat Challenge, participants climb through an Essay Challenge, District Championships and State or Union Territory level rounds, and the winners reach the national Viksit Bharat Young Leaders Dialogue held in the capital from 10 to 12 January 2027. The exercise began with the Viksit Bharat Quiz on 17 August 2026, which remains open until 30 September 2026 on the MY Bharat platform. Options A, C and D name other large Indian cities, none of which was announced as the venue of the national dialogue. Alongside the main challenge the dialogue carries five more tracks, namely the Cultural Track, Design for Bharat, Hack for Social Cause, Youth Entrepreneurs Challenge and Youth Parliament, and selected participants get to present their ideas before policymakers and, at the national stage, before the Prime Minister.

The correct answer is 31 October 2023. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Mera Yuva Bharat on that date, setting it up as a technology-enabled platform through which young Indians could join the country's development journey. At the launch he stressed the value of bringing the nation's youth on to a common platform. The growth since then is worth memorising along with the date: registrations crossed 2 crore in October 2025, went past 2.46 crore by August 2026, and have now crossed 3 crore. Option A is a date associated with National Youth Day observances rather than this launch. Option B and option D are national days that often appear as distractors in such questions but have no link to the platform's launch. The milestone was announced by the ministry on 23 September 2026.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. Mera Yuva Bharat, or MY Bharat, is the national youth engagement platform of the Department of Youth Affairs within that ministry, and it has now gone past 3 crore registered youth in under three years. Option A, the Ministry of Education, runs school and higher education programmes and is not the owner of this platform, though students are among its users. Option C, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, handles skilling missions and is a natural-looking but wrong choice here. Option D, the Ministry of Women and Child Development, deals with a different set of schemes altogether. The platform offers Experiential Learning Programmes, volunteering, quizzes, youth dialogues and community engagement, and an AI-enabled CV Builder has been added to help young users prepare professional profiles.

The correct answer is Optionally Convertible Debentures, usually shortened to OCD. The Technology Development Board is routing its support to Ubifly Technologies through this instrument, which is a form of debt that the holder has the option of converting into equity shares of the company after an agreed period. Option A is wrong because the release does not describe the money as a grant; the choice of a convertible instrument is precisely what distinguishes this kind of deep-tech support from a subsidy. Option B is wrong because sovereign green bonds are raised by the government in the market for environment-related spending and have nothing to do with this approval. Option D is wrong because viability gap funding is a support mechanism used mainly in infrastructure projects. The Research Development and Innovation Fund, from which this support comes, is a Rs 1 lakh crore pool aimed at private-sector-led technology development.

The correct answer is a three-seater zero-emission advanced air mobility aircraft. The release describes the e200X as configured for one pilot and two passengers, with a targeted range of 110 km and an ideal speed of 160 kmph, and with a landing gear built for both conventional and vertical landing so that it can operate out of relatively small spaces. Option A is wrong because the aircraft is electrically powered and seats three, not two, and it is not described as a trainer. Option C is wrong because the configuration explicitly includes a pilot on board along with two passengers, so it is not an unmanned platform. Option D is wrong on every count, as the e200X is a small electric machine and not a turboprop airliner. Its indigenous elements include vertical rotors, forward propellers, proprietary flight-control algorithms, power-distribution controllers and battery packs with integrated cooling.