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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

Q6164.Important Days & DatesHard

National Press Day is observed in India on which date?

  1. A.3 May
  2. B.16 November
  3. C.12 November
  4. D.26 November
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Correct answer: B. 16 November

The Press Council of India, the statutory watchdog of the press set up to preserve its freedom and to maintain its standards, began functioning on 16 November 1966, and the date is observed as National Press Day in recognition of a free and responsible press.

Q6165.Important Days & DatesMedium

Vijay Diwas is observed in India on 16 December every year to mark which event?

  1. A.The victory in the Kargil conflict of 1999
  2. B.The surrender of Pakistani forces at Dhaka in 1971
  3. C.The liberation of Goa in 1961
  4. D.The ceasefire in the war of 1965
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Correct answer: B. The surrender of Pakistani forces at Dhaka in 1971

Pakistan's eastern command surrendered to the Indian Army and the Mukti Bahini at Dhaka on 16 December 1971, ending a war of thirteen days and leading to the creation of Bangladesh, which observes the same date as its Victory Day.

Q6166.Important Days & DatesMedium

Kisan Diwas, or National Farmers' Day, is observed on 23 December as the birth anniversary of which former Prime Minister?

  1. A.Lal Bahadur Shastri
  2. B.Chaudhary Charan Singh
  3. C.Morarji Desai
  4. D.Chandra Shekhar
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Correct answer: B. Chaudhary Charan Singh

Born on 23 December 1902, he served as Prime Minister in 1979 and 1980 and is remembered above all as a champion of the peasantry, whose writings and land reform measures were built around the small farmer.

Q6168.Important Days & DatesEasy

Human Rights Day is observed on 10 December because on that day in 1948 the United Nations General Assembly did which of the following?

  1. A.Adopted the United Nations Charter
  2. B.Adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  3. C.Created the Human Rights Council
  4. D.Adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child
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Correct answer: B. Adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The General Assembly adopted the Declaration in Paris on 10 December 1948, and the date has been observed as Human Rights Day since 1950.

Q6170.Important Days & DatesMedium

National Pollution Control Day is observed on 2 December in memory of which event?

  1. A.The Chernobyl nuclear accident
  2. B.The Bhopal gas tragedy
  3. C.The signing of the Kyoto Protocol
  4. D.The Stockholm Conference on the environment
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Correct answer: B. The Bhopal gas tragedy

On the night of 2 and 3 December 1984 methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal and killed thousands of people, in what remains the worst industrial disaster in India.

Q6172.Important Days & DatesHard

National Milk Day is observed in India on 26 November to mark the birth anniversary of which person?

  1. A.M. S. Swaminathan
  2. B.Verghese Kurien
  3. C.Tribhuvandas Patel
  4. D.Norman Borlaug
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Correct answer: B. Verghese Kurien

Born on 26 November 1921, Kurien is called the Father of the White Revolution in India. He built the Amul cooperative at Anand in Gujarat and led Operation Flood, the programme that made India the largest producer of milk in the world, and the day has been observed since 2014.

Q6173.Important Days & DatesEasy

Constitution Day is observed in India on 26 November because on that day in 1949 the Constituent Assembly did which of the following?

  1. A.Held its first sitting
  2. B.Adopted the Constitution of India
  3. C.Brought the Constitution into force
  4. D.Elected the Drafting Committee
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Correct answer: B. Adopted the Constitution of India

The Constituent Assembly adopted, enacted and gave to itself the Constitution on 26 November 1949, and the Government of India has observed the date as Constitution Day, or Samvidhan Divas, since 2015.

Q6174.Important Days & DatesMedium

National Education Day is observed in India on which date?

  1. A.5 September
  2. B.11 November
  3. C.14 November
  4. D.26 November
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Correct answer: B. 11 November

The date is the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, born in 1888, who was independent India's first Minister of Education and the moving spirit behind the founding of the University Grants Commission and the Indian Institutes of Technology.