IBPS GK Questions 2026

Eligibility under the New Amnesty Scheme, 2025 is decided by the date on which the litigation began: only those court cases instituted up to 31 March 2025 may be taken up for settlement under it.

The Employees' State Insurance Corporation began running the New Amnesty Scheme, 2025 from 1 October 2025, and the window was originally set to shut on 30 September 2026.

IPPB was incorporated as a public limited company, but its two pilot branches opened at Raipur and Ranchi, not at Hyderabad and Varanasi.

The Vice-President said he was satisfied that negotiations on India's association with it had been concluded, and he mentioned this while speaking of cooperation in technology, research and innovation.

The Vice-President used this phrase for the proposed Free Trade Agreement between India and the European Union, expressed the hope that it would be signed within this year, and asked the visiting members for the support of the European Parliament in bringing it to completion.

Its delegation, led by Mr David McAllister, was received by the Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman at Parliament House in New Delhi, and the talk ranged over trade, technology, research and the broader partnership between India and the European Union.

Punatsangchhu-I is the project of that size, and the two ministers noted that dam work there has moved steadily since concreting resumed in April 2026.

Four bilateral meetings were held on the margins of the week, and Japan was not among them.

This was the installed electricity capacity of the country as on 30 September 2026, and of it about 308 GW, or roughly 55 per cent, came from non-fossil sources.

The projection of about 23 crore senior citizens by that year is the reason given for strengthening institutional machinery and community participation under Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana.

Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana was launched in 2021 and it took in that earlier plan, widened its scope and brought a number of separate measures for older persons under a single umbrella scheme of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

This amount has been released as grant-in-aid to 755 projects running under the Integrated Programme for Senior Citizens, which is a component of the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana, and it covers the quarter that ended on 30 September 2026 in the financial year 2026-27.

NPPA works under the Department of Pharmaceuticals, which is one of the departments of that ministry, and it is the body that fixed the revised maximum retail prices for anti-cancer medicine brands effective from 9 November 2026.

The correct answer is 9 November 2026, the date from which the revised maximum retail prices become effective for the 543 brands on the published list.

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority has published a list of 543 brands of anti-cancer medicines with their revised maximum retail prices, and those rates have to be charged from 9 November 2026.

The extension is deliberately limited to companies approved under Round 4, and the reason given is practical: a manufacturer entering now needs a longer investment and operational horizon to build a plant and then scale up its capacity, which a shorter tenure would not allow.

The Ministry of Textiles has set a two-month window in which the online portal will accept fresh applications under Round 4, and eligible companies have been asked to apply within that period in keeping with the scheme guidelines.

The ministry has halved the entry bar under Part 2 of the scheme so that micro, small and medium enterprises and mid-sized manufacturing units can take part, where earlier the requirement kept them out.

Speaking on Access and Benefit Sharing, the minister said this protocol provides the basis for sharing fairly and equitably the benefits that arise when genetic resources are used, and he pressed for the principle to be converted into procedures that are workable, transparent and equitable.

The four publications brought out at the side event were the guidelines for designating India's Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures, which let conservation outside formal protected areas be recognised; the fifth national report under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which is India's periodic account of biosafety governance; a handbook on…