IBPS GK Questions 2026

The proviso to Article 3 lays down two conditions. First, such a Bill may be introduced in either House only on the recommendation of the President.

Article 2 provides that Parliament may by law admit into the Union, or establish, new States on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit.

Article 1 says that India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States, and the Drafting Committee chose that phrase with care.

Article 3 deals only with territory that is already part of India.

OPEC was founded in 1960 at a conference in Baghdad by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, and its secretariat was first at Geneva before moving to Vienna in 1965, where it remains.

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation was founded in 1985 at Dhaka, where its charter was signed, and its permanent secretariat was set up at Kathmandu in Nepal in 1987.

The United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference met at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire in the United States in July 1944 and agreed to set up the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which is why the two are called the Bretton Woods twins; both…

The WTO began on 1 January 1995 as the outcome of the Uruguay Round, and it replaced the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade as a permanent organisation with a dispute settlement system.

The OECD was established in 1961 as the successor of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, which had been created to administer aid under the Marshall Plan, and it works from Paris as a forum of mostly high-income countries that sets standards and publishes comparative statistics.

The New Development Bank was agreed at the sixth BRICS summit at Fortaleza in Brazil in 2014 and began work with its headquarters at Shanghai, with K. V. Kamath of India as its first president and an African regional centre in South Africa.

South Africa was invited to join in 2010 and took part in the summit at Sanya in China in 2011, and the letter S was added to the acronym to make BRICS.

The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China met for the first summit of the grouping at Yekaterinburg in Russia in June 2009, turning an analyst's acronym into a working forum.

Jim O'Neill, then an economist at Goldman Sachs, used the acronym BRIC in a paper of 2001 to describe Brazil, Russia, India and China, the four large economies he expected to grow into a major share of world output.

The New Delhi Leaders' Summit of September 2023, held under India's presidency at Bharat Mandapam, admitted the African Union as a permanent member, so that the group now has a second regional organisation alongside the European Union.

The first summit at the level of heads of state and government was called in November 2008, when the collapse of large financial firms threatened the world economy, and it met at Washington.

The Group of Twenty was formed in 1999, in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis, as a forum where the finance ministers and central bank governors of the major advanced and emerging economies could discuss the stability of the world financial system.

India touches China through Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh, and Nagaland is not on that boundary; its international border is with Myanmar.

Gairsain, in the Chamoli district of the Garhwal hills, was declared the summer capital of Uttarakhand, a long-standing demand of the hill districts, which held that a capital in the plains at Dehradun left them neglected.

Itanagar, named after the Ita fort in the area, became the capital when Arunachal Pradesh was a Union territory and continued as the capital after it became a State in 1987.

Uttar Pradesh touches eight States, namely Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar, and in addition the Union territory of Delhi, which is the largest number for any State.