IBPS GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is B, Bachendri Pal, who reached the summit on 23 May 1984 with an Indian expedition and was honoured with the Padma Shri and later the Padma Bhushan.

She won the bronze medal in the sixty-nine kilogram class in weightlifting at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, the first Olympic medal by an Indian woman in any sport.

There is no such method of measurement; the GDP deflator is a price index derived after the aggregates have been estimated, used to convert nominal values into real values.

Interest payments are the cost of borrowing done in earlier years, so taking them out of the fiscal deficit leaves the borrowing the government needs for this year's own activities; a zero primary deficit means the government is borrowing only to pay interest on past debt.

The fiscal deficit is the gap between what the government spends and everything it receives other than borrowings, so it measures exactly how much the government must borrow during the year and is the headline figure watched in every Budget.

The National Income Committee was appointed in 1949 with Professor P. C. Mahalanobis as chairman and Professor D. R. Gadgil and Dr V. K. R. V. Rao as members; its reports in the early 1950s produced the first official estimates of national income for independent India and shaped the work…

He estimated India's national income for the year 1867-68 and used the figure in his argument about the drain of wealth from India under British rule, which is why he is remembered as the first to attempt the exercise.

The Survey is written in the Economic Division of the Department of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance, under the overall supervision of the Chief Economic Adviser, and is laid before both Houses of Parliament, usually a day before the Union Budget.

Both statements state the same rule from opposite sides: national income is the value of final goods and services, and the value of intermediate goods is excluded so that the same output is not counted at every stage of production.

Work through the expression in two steps. Adding depreciation to a net aggregate turns it gross, so NNP at market prices plus depreciation gives GNP at market prices.

The deflator is nominal GDP divided by real GDP and multiplied by a hundred, so it is not computed from a fixed basket of goods at all; it is implied by the two GDP series, and that is exactly why it carries the word implicit.

National income counts only final goods and services; intermediate goods are deliberately left out, because counting the flour as well as the bread would mean counting the same value twice.

It admitted Sikkim as the twenty-second State of the Indian Union, inserted it into the First Schedule and omitted the earlier provisions that had given it a special status.

It amended the First Schedule to give effect to the acquiring of territories by India and the transfer of certain territories to Bangladesh under the Land Boundary Agreement, settling a dispute that had lasted since Partition.

Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act of 2014 and came into existence on 2 June 2014, which is observed as its formation day.

The Seventh Constitutional Amendment Act of 1956 accompanied the States Reorganisation Act, abolished the old classification of States into Parts A, B, C and D, and reorganised the country into fourteen States and six Union territories.

It was carved out of the Madras Presidency in 1953 for Telugu speakers, after the death of Potti Sriramulu on a fast unto death pressed the demand to a point the government could not resist.

The States Reorganisation Commission was appointed in 1953 under the chairmanship of Fazl Ali and submitted its report in 1955.

The President sought the advisory opinion of the Supreme Court on whether the agreement to transfer part of the Berubari Union to Pakistan could be carried out under Article 3.

Article 4 states that a law made under Article 2 or Article 3 may contain provisions for amending the First Schedule, which lists the States and Union territories, and the Fourth Schedule, which allots Rajya Sabha seats, and that no such law shall be deemed to be an amendment of…