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.
The sangai, a brow-antlered deer, is the state animal of which state?
The sangai or Manipur brow-antlered deer is found only on the floating phumdi vegetation of Keibul Lamjao National Park in the southern part of Loktak Lake, the only floating national park in the world.
Read the full explanation →The hangul, a threatened deer, is the state animal of:
The hangul or Kashmir stag is the only Asiatic subspecies of the red deer found in India, and it survives mainly in the Dachigam National Park near Srinagar.
Read the full explanation →The chinkara is the state animal of which state?
The chinkara, also called the Indian gazelle, is the state animal of Rajasthan. It is a small antelope of dry scrub and desert that can survive long spells without drinking, which suits the Thar, and the Bishnoi community of western Rajasthan has protected it for centuries.
Read the full explanation →The Indian space station planned as a long term goal of the Indian space programme is named:
When the government set longer term goals for the space programme in 2023, it named an Indian space station, the Bharatiya Antariksh Station, and an Indian crewed landing on the Moon.
Read the full explanation →Kalpana Chawla is remembered as:
Born at Karnal in Haryana, Kalpana Chawla studied aeronautical engineering, moved to the United States and joined NASA, flying first on the shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist.
Read the full explanation →Gaganyaan will be launched from which centre?
All Indian orbital launches, including the PSLV, GSLV and LVM3 flights, lift off from Sriharikota on the Andhra Pradesh coast, which has two operational launch pads.
Read the full explanation →Which country became the third to launch a human being into orbit using its own spacecraft?
China launched Yang Liwei aboard Shenzhou-5 in October 2003, becoming the third country after the Soviet Union and the United States to send a human into orbit on its own rocket and spacecraft.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first human being to travel into space?
The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth once aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961, becoming the first human being in space.
Read the full explanation →Vyommitra, associated with the Gaganyaan programme, is:
Vyommitra, a name built from vyom for sky and mitra for friend, is a half-humanoid robot developed by ISRO to fly on an uncrewed Gaganyaan mission.
Read the full explanation →ISRO's dedicated centre for the human spaceflight programme is located at:
The Human Space Flight Centre, set up in 2019 as the ISRO centre responsible for the Gaganyaan programme, works from Bengaluru, which is also the location of the ISRO headquarters, the U R Rao Satellite Centre and the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network.
Read the full explanation →The orbital module of Gaganyaan consists of:
The crew module is the pressurised double walled cabin where the astronauts live, and it is the only part that returns to Earth, protected by a heat shield and lowered by parachutes.
Read the full explanation →The TV-D1 mission of October 2023 was conducted mainly to test which system of Gaganyaan?
TV-D1, the first test vehicle abort mission, was launched from Sriharikota on 21 October 2023.
Read the full explanation →Rakesh Sharma travelled to space in 1984 aboard which spacecraft?
Rakesh Sharma flew on Soyuz T-11, launched from Baikonur on 2 April 1984, and docked with the Soviet space station Salyut 7.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian to travel to space?
Rakesh Sharma, then a Squadron Leader in the Indian Air Force, became the first Indian in space on 3 April 1984.
Read the full explanation →The Gaganyaan mission will be launched by which vehicle?
Gaganyaan will fly on the LVM3, the heaviest Indian launch vehicle, modified and certified for carrying human beings and then written as HLVM3.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was merged into the State Bank of India with effect from 1 April 2017?
From 1 April 2017 the State Bank of India absorbed its five remaining associate banks, the State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, the State Bank of Hyderabad, the State Bank of Mysore, the State Bank of Patiala and the State Bank of Travancore, together with Bharatiya Mahila Bank, which had…
Read the full explanation →Rustom Cavasjee Cooper v. Union of India, decided by the Supreme Court in 1970, is known as the:
R. C. Cooper, a shareholder and director of one of the affected banks, challenged the law of 1969, and an eleven judge bench of the Supreme Court struck it down because the compensation provided for the acquired undertakings was not adequate and the banks were barred from carrying on business.
Read the full explanation →The banks nationalised on 19 July 1969 were those holding deposits of at least:
The cut off used in the first round of nationalisation was deposits of fifty crore rupees or more as on the relevant date, and fourteen banks crossed it.
Read the full explanation →Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank were amalgamated with which bank with effect from 1 April 2019?
With effect from 1 April 2019, Vijaya Bank of Karnataka and Dena Bank of Gujarat were merged into Bank of Baroda.
Read the full explanation →Allahabad Bank, the oldest joint stock bank in India, was merged into which bank in 2020?
Allahabad Bank, founded in 1865 and one of the fourteen banks nationalised in 1969, was amalgamated into Indian Bank with effect from 1 April 2020.
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