Skip to content
GK24

IBPS GK Questions 2026

Static GK in IBPS exams means banking awareness first. The awareness tests of PO, Clerk and RRB Mains name banking, economy, financial and digital awareness, and the questions that return every year are about the RBI and its functions, the monetary policy tools (repo, SDF, MSF, CRR, SLR), types of banks and accounts, NPAs, Basel norms, priority sector lending, payment systems such as UPI, NEFT, RTGS and IMPS, deposit insurance, financial inclusion schemes, and the regulators SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA and institutions such as NABARD and SIDBI. Headquarters and taglines of banks, capitals and currencies, national parks, dams and important days appear too, though with a smaller share than in SSC. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for banking exams, written as short facts and tables so that a topic can be revised in one sitting, with the terms and abbreviations that IBPS papers use. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what you retained, and come back to the notes for the facts you missed.

IBPS GK Questions with Answers

Q5181.InternationalMedium

Which set of laws did India highlight at the 15th UN Congress as its new criminal codes?

  1. A.Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and Indian Evidence Act
  2. B.Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam
  3. C.Bharatiya Danda Sanhita, Bharatiya Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Praman Adhiniyam
  4. D.Bharatiya Nyaya Adhiniyam, Bharatiya Nagarik Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Sanhita
Show answer
Correct answer: B. Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam

The correct answer is the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, the three laws the minister described as built around technology, faster justice, forensic investigation and digital-first procedures.

Q5184.Government SchemesMedium

Under which ministry does the Department of Pharmaceuticals, which runs the PRIP scheme, function?

  1. A.Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
  2. B.Ministry of Science and Technology
  3. C.Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
  4. D.Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Show answer
Correct answer: C. Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers

The correct answer is the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, which houses the Department of Pharmaceuticals, and it is that department which announced the approvals under PRIP.

Q5186.EnvironmentMedium

Which ministry released the implementation guidelines of National Coastal Mission 2.0?

  1. A.Ministry of Jal Shakti
  2. B.Ministry of Earth Sciences
  3. C.Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
  4. D.Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
Show answer
Correct answer: C. Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

The correct answer is the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and the guidelines were released by its minister, Bhupender Yadav, in New Delhi.

Q5187.EnvironmentMedium

National Coastal Mission 2.0 is to be implemented across how many coastal states and Union Territories?

  1. A.Seven coastal states and three Union Territories
  2. B.Nine coastal states and four Union Territories
  3. C.Eleven coastal states and two Union Territories
  4. D.Thirteen coastal states and five Union Territories
Show answer
Correct answer: B. Nine coastal states and four Union Territories

That is the geography named for the mission, and it matches the shape of the Indian coastline, where the shore runs through nine states and a set of island and coastal Union Territories.

Q5190.Science & TechnologyHard

Roughly what share of the universe's hydrogen was in neutral atomic form at the epoch CHIME observed?

  1. A.About two per cent
  2. B.About twenty per cent
  3. C.About half
  4. D.Almost all of it
Show answer
Correct answer: A. About two per cent

An accompanying paper examined what the observed signal reveals about the distribution of hydrogen, and co-author Shabbir Shaikh of Arizona State University said the data indicate that roughly this share of the universe's hydrogen was in neutral atomic form at that time, broadly consistent with other measurements.

Q5191.Science & TechnologyMedium

Which Indian institute's researchers were part of the CHIME collaboration behind this detection?

  1. A.Indian Institute of Astrophysics
  2. B.Physical Research Laboratory
  3. C.Raman Research Institute
  4. D.Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Show answer
Correct answer: C. Raman Research Institute

The study that reported the first standalone detection included CHIME collaborators at RRI, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology, and its associate professor Saurabh Singh is among the co-authors quoted on the result.

Q5192.Science & TechnologyMedium

CHIME, the telescope that made the first standalone detection of the hydrogen glow, stands for which of the following?

  1. A.Cosmic Hydrogen Imaging and Mapping Experiment
  2. B.Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment
  3. C.Combined Hydrogen Interferometric Measurement Endeavour
  4. D.Cosmological High-energy Infrared Mapping Experiment
Show answer
Correct answer: B. Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment

CHIME is an interferometric radio telescope in Canada, built to map the distribution of hydrogen gas in the early universe so that astronomers can calculate how the universe expands and thereby study dark energy.

Q5193.Government SchemesHard

Under the New Discovery track, projects at which Technology Readiness Levels are eligible to apply?

  1. A.TRL 1, 2 or 3
  2. B.TRL 4, 5 or 6
  3. C.TRL 6, 7 or 8
  4. D.Any level from TRL 1 to TRL 9
Show answer
Correct answer: A. TRL 1, 2 or 3

Start-ups and MSMEs taking up New Chemical Entity or New Biological Entity projects at those three readiness levels may apply under this exclusive track, and the department will support them to progress to higher levels but not beyond TRL 6.

Q5195.Government SchemesMedium

PRIP, the scheme under which the New Discovery track has been announced, stands for which of the following?

  1. A.Promotion of Research and Innovation in Pharma and MedTech
  2. B.Pharmaceutical Research and Industrial Promotion
  3. C.Programme for Rural Innovation in Pharmaceuticals
  4. D.Production Reform and Innovation Partnership
Show answer
Correct answer: A. Promotion of Research and Innovation in Pharma and MedTech

The scheme is run by the Department of Pharmaceuticals under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, and it is designed to strengthen the country's pharmaceutical and medical technology research ecosystem by helping start-ups, MSMEs and large companies move up the innovation value chain.

Q5196.Government SchemesMedium

What is the maximum financial assistance available under the New Discovery track of the PRIP Scheme?

  1. A.Rs 5 crore
  2. B.Rs 25 crore
  3. C.Rs 50 crore
  4. D.Rs 100 crore
Show answer
Correct answer: C. Rs 50 crore

The Department of Pharmaceuticals announced that the New Discovery track will provide financial assistance of up to this amount per company, per project or per portfolio of projects, subject to minimum co-funding of a quarter of the project cost from bona fide institutional investors.

Q5197.Banking & FinanceHard

Investigations and inquiries under which code are expressly covered by the Bankers' Books Evidence Act, 2026?

  1. A.Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
  2. B.Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam
  3. C.Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
  4. D.Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
Show answer
Correct answer: C. Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

The Act states that it will be used in any legal proceeding, in arbitration, and in any investigation or inquiry under that Sanhita or under any other law for the time being in force, wherever evidence is or may be taken.

Q5198.Banking & FinanceHard

Under the new Act, when can a bank officer be required to appear as a witness or produce a banker's book?

  1. A.Whenever any party to a case asks for it
  2. B.Only under a written order of the court recording a special cause
  3. C.Only with the prior approval of the Reserve Bank
  4. D.Only if the bank is a party to the proceeding
Show answer
Correct answer: B. Only under a written order of the court recording a special cause

The Act allows the contents of a banker's book to be proved by a certified copy without producing the original, so an officer is not ordinarily compelled to appear, and it protects officers from routine appearance where the bank is not a party.

Q5200.Banking & FinanceEasy

The Bankers' Books Evidence Act, 2026 replaces which earlier law?

  1. A.The Bankers' Books Evidence Act, 1891
  2. B.The Indian Evidence Act, 1872
  3. C.The Banking Regulation Act, 1949
  4. D.The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
Show answer
Correct answer: A. The Bankers' Books Evidence Act, 1891

The new Act carries the same name with the new year and takes the place of the colonial-era statute, which was framed at a time when banking systems were entirely paper-based.