IBPS GK Questions 2026

The International Criminal Police Organization, or Interpol, was founded at Vienna in 1923 and moved its headquarters to Lyon in France in 1989, where its general secretariat works today.

SAARC was founded by the declaration signed at Dhaka in December 1985 by seven countries, and Afghanistan joined later as the eighth member.

The International Atomic Energy Agency was set up in 1957 and works from Vienna in Austria.

The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in 1945 and works from Rome in Italy. It leads international work on food production, nutrition and rural development, publishes the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, and observes World Food Day on 16 October, the date of its founding.

The International Labour Organization was created in 1919 by Part Thirteen of the Treaty of Versailles, at the end of the First World War, as part of the League of Nations system.

The World Health Organization works from Geneva in Switzerland. Its constitution came into force on 7 April 1948, which is why that date is observed every year as World Health Day, and its governing body, the World Health Assembly, meets in Geneva each May.

The Index of Economic Freedom has been published by this research organisation based at Washington DC since 1995, and it scores countries on matters such as property rights, tax burden, government spending, trade freedom and business regulation.

It is the world authority on chemical nomenclature, so it approves the names and symbols of newly discovered elements, standardises the naming of compounds and maintains the recommended values of atomic weights.

The United Nations works in six official languages, Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Of the four names in the list, Arabic, Spanish and Chinese are all official, so only German, the second item, is not.

The conference held in 1944 at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire in the United States set up two twin institutions, the International Monetary Fund to keep exchange rates orderly and help countries facing balance of payments difficulty, and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to lend for reconstruction and…

The Asian Development Bank was founded in 1966 to lend for development in Asia and the Pacific and has its headquarters at Manila, the capital of the Philippines.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization was founded in 1946 and works from Paris in France.

The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana was launched on 28 August 2014 as a national mission to give every household a bank account.

It keeps the Central KYC Records Registry, in which banks and other reporting entities file the KYC records of their customers with a unique KYC identifier.

It is a term deposit held in a permitted foreign currency such as the US dollar, pound sterling, euro or yen, for a period of one to five years, and both principal and interest are repaid in that currency, so a change in the rupee rate does not affect the…

Under the Banking Regulation Act as amended, a bank must transfer to this fund, maintained by the Reserve Bank of India, any deposit that has not been operated or claimed for ten years.

In a recurring deposit the customer promises to pay a fixed sum every month for a chosen period, and the bank pays interest at a rate close to that on a term deposit of the same maturity, the whole amount being returned with interest at the end.

A small account is opened for a person who has no officially valid document, on the strength of a self-attested photograph and a signature or thumb impression made before a bank officer.

The Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India set up in 1978, insures deposits in commercial banks, regional rural banks, local area banks, payments and small finance banks and cooperative banks.

Banks classify customers as low, medium or high risk when the account is opened, on the basis of identity, social and financial standing and the nature of the expected business.