IBPS GK Questions 2026

The Vice President recalled at the 105th Foundation Day celebrations that the institution now known as Tamilnad Mercantile Bank came into being in 1921 under that name, and praised its growth from a modest beginning into a major banking institution.

The Department of Telecommunications, which runs the 4G Saturation Project, sits in this ministry, and the announcement on rural connectivity was issued in its name.

That was the design target of the 4G Saturation Project, which aims to bring reliable mobile communication to remote and underserved habitations that had no fourth generation signal at all.

The Department of Telecommunications reported that the number of villages without 4G connectivity has come down to this figure in 2026.

Along with the unanimously adopted Joint Ministerial Statement, this plan was accepted at Colombo and gives the grouping a structured roadmap for cooperation in disease surveillance, pandemic preparedness, digital health, traditional medicine, the One Health approach and the development of a health workforce.

At Colombo the Union Health Minister announced India’s commitment to hosting the BIMSTEC Centre of Excellence in Traditional Medicine at this institute, and the Joint Ministerial Statement welcomed the initiative.

The first meeting of the health ministers of the BIMSTEC countries took place in Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, on 11 November 2026, and Sri Lanka’s Minister of Health and Mass Media, Nalinda Jayatissa, chaired the proceedings.

Considering the gravity of the incident at the Bijwasan Fee Plaza, the authority issued a show cause notice proposing that the agency and also its owners and directors be barred from participating in future NHAI tenders for a year.

Along with debarring M/s Riddhi Siddhi Associates from any ongoing or future tender of the authority for one month, NHAI imposed a penalty of that amount on the firm for the misbehaviour of its personnel with road users.

The National Highways Authority of India placed the Bijwasan Fee Plaza on that highway when it described the incident of 5 November 2026, in which personnel of the user fee collection agency misbehaved with road users.

The department held that felicitation for sanitation workers, together with a health camp for them, on 8 October 2026 to recognise their contribution and support their well-being.

That is the number of grievances settled on the dedicated one-day event of 30 October 2026, when field functionaries and the community took part on a large scale.

Both the Ministry of Women and Child Development and the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation state that the drive to institutionalise Swachhata and clear pending references ran through that window, and that States and Union Territories held a dedicated one-day event within it on 30 October 2026.

The Union Cabinet approved an incentive scheme of this size in September 2025 under the National Critical Mineral Mission, to build capacity for separating and producing critical minerals from secondary sources such as battery waste and electronic waste.

Black mass, the powder obtained from shredding end-of-life lithium-ion batteries and battery manufacturing waste, holds recoverable quantities of lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese, so options A, B and C are all named in the notification.

The notification issued by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade names the item as Lithium-Ion Battery Black Mass falling under this code, which covers waste and scrap of primary cells, primary batteries and electric accumulators, along with spent cells and accumulators that are unsorted and carry no lead, cadmium or…

The government supplies this many grades of phosphatic and potassic fertilizers, di-ammonium phosphate among them, to farmers at subsidised prices through fertilizer manufacturers and importers.

From that date the subsidy on phosphatic and potassic fertilizers has been paid under the Nutrient Based Subsidy regime, in which the government fixes a per-kilogram subsidy on each nutrient rather than on each bag, and pays it to manufacturers and importers at notified rates.

The Cabinet put this figure on the Nutrient Based Subsidy for the Rabi season of 2026-27 on phosphatic and potassic fertilizers, with the rates running from 01.10.2026 to 31.03.2027.

A lower fee reduces the cost a lending institution has to carry for buying guarantee cover, and that cost is ultimately reflected in what the micro borrower pays.