IBPS GK Questions 2026

Section 62(5) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 says that no person shall vote at any election while he is confined in a prison, whether under a sentence of imprisonment or transportation or otherwise, or is in the lawful custody of the police.

A monopolist is the only seller of a good that has no close substitute, so buyers cannot shift away easily when the price rises and the demand curve the firm faces is steeper, that is less elastic.

The same drive was followed at the sabhas in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Jharkhand and Haryana, where plantation accompanied the honouring of sanitation workers and the Swachhata pledge.

The framework lets a panchayat judge its own sanitation work each year, and it was taken up in the Special Gram Sabhas, above all in ODF Plus (Model) Gram Panchayats; the Joint Secretary and Mission Director of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) made a presentation on it at Majigam.

Union Minister of Jal Shakti Shri C. R. Patil attended the Special Gram Sabha there, in Chikhli Block, on Swachh Bharat Diwas.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union is the global body of national parliaments and runs its own affairs, so an election at the United Nations is not on its programme.

He is to sit in the Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, speak in the General Debate and in the debate on the emergency item, and attend the hearing of those who are candidates for the post of IPU President.

The Assembly and the meetings held around it are taking place at Arusha, a city in that country, from 5 to 9 October 2026, and the Indian Parliamentary Delegation left for Arusha for this purpose.

The bond that NABKISAN listed on the National Stock Exchange in Mumbai runs for five years and pays this rate to its holders until it is redeemed in September 2031.

NABKISAN Finance Limited is a NABARD subsidiary, and the listing of the WASH bond was described as a step that strengthens the commitment of both NABARD and NABKISAN to new financing routes for rural development.

NABKISAN Finance Limited, a subsidiary of NABARD, placed India's first social bond meant only for water, sanitation and hygiene work, and investors bid for 1.8 times the paper on offer.

The Transmission Control Protocol decides how data is exchanged across the internet and breaks a message into numbered packets that IP then carries to the destination.

The Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956 divided industries into three schedules. Schedule A listed seventeen industries to be the exclusive responsibility of the state, such as arms, atomic energy, railways and heavy industry.

Consumption of fixed capital is the national income term for depreciation, the fall in the value of machines, buildings and other fixed assets as they are used up or become obsolete over the year.

The Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana can be joined by anyone between 18 and 50 years of age who holds a savings bank account.

TISCO, now Tata Steel, is owned and run by private shareholders, which is what makes an enterprise part of the private sector.

The Vice-President placed that figure beside two others to show how women’s economic participation has grown: around 9.2 million Self-Help Groups, covering more than 100 million rural women, and more than 250 million Indians lifted out of extreme poverty.

The inaugural address used this figure to show how far financial inclusion has spread, crediting the JAM trinity, Direct Benefit Transfer and the Goods and Services Tax with widening access, improving transparency and formalising the economy.

The Vice-President recalled that the institute was set up that year under Professor V. K. R. V. Rao and has stayed close to India’s development journey ever since; it hosts this conclave.

The conclave was organised on that theme by the Institute of Economic Growth, and the Vice-President used it to argue that economic resilience cannot be separated from social resilience, that inclusion is the foundation of resilience, and that no citizen, enterprise or region should be left behind.