IBPS GK Questions 2026

Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887 at Erode in the Madras Presidency, worked on number theory, infinite series and continued fractions, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society at a very young age.

On 11 May 1998 India tested nuclear devices at Pokhran in Rajasthan under Operation Shakti; the same day the indigenous Hansa-3 trainer aircraft made its first test flight and the Trishul missile was successfully test-fired, and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee named the date National Technology Day.

C. V. Raman made the announcement on 28 February 1928 and won the Nobel Prize in Physics for it in 1930, the first Nobel in the sciences for an Indian.

On this day in 1928 C. V. Raman announced the discovery of the Raman Effect, the scattering of light with a changed wavelength when it passes through a transparent medium, and the discovery brought him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.

A FASTag is a sticker on the windscreen that a reader at the toll plaza identifies by radio, so the toll is deducted from a linked account and the vehicle need not stop; the system is called National Electronic Toll Collection and is run by the National Payments Corporation of…

The system, run by the National Payments Corporation of India, lets a customer withdraw cash, deposit money or check a balance at a banking correspondent's micro ATM by giving the Aadhaar number, the name of the bank and a biometric authentication, without a card or a cheque.

Real Time Gross Settlement is meant for large value payments, which are settled one transaction at a time as they are received rather than in batches, and the system sets a floor of two lakh rupees with no upper limit.

The amount of a debit card payment leaves the account at once, which is the essential difference from a credit card, where the bank pays first from a limit it has granted and bills the holder later with an interest free period.

Such an operator is authorised under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act of 2007, the machine carries the operator's own brand instead of a bank's, cards of every bank work on it, and the cash is supplied through a sponsor bank.

The machine does the work of a teller at the counter, giving cash, accepting deposits, printing statements and taking requests, and it works at any hour without a member of the staff.

RuPay was launched as an Indian card network so that domestic card payments would be settled within the country instead of through foreign networks, and its cards are issued by banks for savings accounts and under government schemes.

UPI was launched in 2016 and allows a payment from one bank account to another through a mobile application, using a virtual payment address instead of the account number and a UPI PIN for authentication.

YONO, which stands for You Only Need One, was launched by the State Bank of India as a single application for banking, investment, insurance and online shopping, and it also allows cash withdrawal at the bank's machines without a card.

The Bharat Interface for Money application was released in December 2016 by the National Payments Corporation of India so that payments over the Unified Payments Interface, launched earlier that year, could be made from any smartphone with a bank account linked to it.

FIFA was founded in 1904 and has long had its headquarters at Zurich in Switzerland, from where it organises the World Cup and governs the national federations.

The Beighton Cup has been played at Kolkata since the closing years of the nineteenth century and is among the oldest field hockey tournaments anywhere, older than most international competitions in the game, and the great teams and players of Indian hockey have all passed through it.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India was formed in 1928 and India played its first Test match four years later, in 1932.

The Davis Cup is the international team competition for men in lawn tennis, played between countries in ties spread over a season, and the corresponding competition for women is now called the Billie Jean King Cup.

The Swaythling Cup is the men's team championship of the world table tennis championships and the Corbillon Cup is the women's team championship of the same event, and the two names are almost always set together in question papers.

The Santosh Trophy is the national football championship of India, played between teams representing the states and certain institutions, and it has been held since 1941.