IBPS GK Questions 2026

The minister gave these numbers while setting out how the government funds nanomedicine, and said the work covers targeted drug delivery, cancer nanomedicine, infectious-disease nanomedicine, nucleic-acid and vaccine delivery, nano-diagnostics and imaging, regenerative medicine, wound healing and nanotoxicology with regulatory science.

The meeting is hosted by the Institute of Nano Medical Sciences of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Delhi, which is why the capital is the venue.

The Home Minister said the railways burnt 293 crore litres of diesel in 2015-16 and that the quantity had come down to 108 crore litres by 2024-25, a fall he linked to the spread of electric traction and one he felt received little notice.

The engine put into service at Sabarmati is a twin-section machine of that rating, and it can pull on its own a load that would otherwise need roughly 600 trucks.

The correct answer is Rs 1,472 crore, the combined worth of the works opened and the foundation stones laid at Sabarmati on the day the first LNG-powered train was flagged off.

The first train in India to run on liquefied natural gas was sent on its way from Sabarmati Railway Station in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, by the Union Home and Cooperation Minister, who described the step as useful for protecting the environment.

The SENSEX tracks thirty large, well traded companies listed on the BSE. The name is short for Sensitive Index.

SIDBI is the apex institution for micro, small and medium enterprises. It was set up in 1990 under an Act of Parliament, began work on 2 April that year, and has its head office at Lucknow.

It is a private sector joint venture, not a public sector insurer. SBI Life was set up in 2001 as a partnership between the State Bank of India and BNP Paribas Cardif of France.

The Basel Norms are international standards for banking supervision. They are issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, which works under the Bank for International Settlements at Basel in Switzerland.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India regulates the securities market and protects investors. SEBI was set up as a non-statutory body in 1988 and was given statutory powers by the SEBI Act of 1992, passed after the Harshad Mehta scam exposed how weak market supervision was.

UCO Bank uses this line in its logo and advertising. UCO Bank was founded in Kolkata in 1943 as the United Commercial Bank, and the industrialist G. D. Birla was behind its creation.

Expanding exports, drawing in investment and gaining easier access to markets abroad were all described as contributions towards that goal for Uttar Pradesh.

Greater Noida also figures in the speech for another reason worth remembering, the expansion of a large robotics manufacturing facility there, which the Minister offered as an illustration of modern industrial growth in the state.

The state's annual exports stand at roughly Rs 2 lakh crore at present, and the stated goal is to take that figure to Rs 5 lakh crore by 2030, which means more than doubling the value of goods sold abroad.

India works 12 major ports and 217 non-major ports, so the total covers both categories together.

Claims up to that level are met from the pool's accumulated reserves together with its reinsurance recoveries, and the government's guarantee is activated only once those reserves have been completely used up.

The correct answer is the General Insurance Corporation of India, better known as GIC Re, which has taken charge as Pool Manager and Administrator and handles the pool's day-to-day running, its performance reporting and its operational systems.

This is the total value of risk the pool is able to write, and it makes the pool the first domestic maritime insurance arrangement of that size in India.

Gross National Product minus depreciation gives Net National Product. Depreciation is the wear and tear of machinery, buildings and other capital goods during the year.