IBPS GK Questions 2026

The figure is far above every other group and had itself risen from 20.05 per cent in July 2026, which is why mineral oils containing petroleum products are listed first among the drivers of the month's wholesale inflation.

That is the provisional year on year wholesale inflation rate announced for August 2026 on the base year 2022-23, and the index for all commodities stood at 110.8 in the same month.

The correct answer is silver jewellery, which stood first among the key items with high inflation in August 2026.

In August 2026 villages saw prices rise faster than cities, and the release gives these two figures against a combined headline rate of 4.82 per cent.

This is the provisional year on year rate for August 2026 compared with August 2025, worked out on the Consumer Price Index whose base year is 2024 equals 100.

It was placed first under Rajbhasha Kirti for the year 2025-26 in the category meant for ministries and departments having fewer than 300 employees, and the citation praised its effective use and innovative handling of official Hindi.

The Home Minister told the conference that Hindi Shabd Sindhu has now grown to that size, and that it is expected to become the largest dictionary anywhere in the world by 2029.

The Department of Official Language, which functions under the Ministry of Home Affairs, held the sixth edition of the All India Official Language Conference there together with the Hindi Diwas programme, and the sittings were spread over 14 and 15 September 2026.

The Prime Minister put out his message on that platform on 14 September 2026, and the Prime Minister's Office issued the same text as a press release on the same day.

The Prime Minister named exactly these three, and he added that they were on full display not in one match but throughout the tournament, which is why the phrase is worth memorising as a set.

The Prime Minister congratulated the Indian Women's Cricket Team on winning the Asia Cup and opened his message by calling the result a proud moment for Indian cricket.

Those taking part include business leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, researchers, policymakers, academicians and changemakers. An international expo alongside the forum will feature more than 125 national and international exhibitors showing practical circular solutions developed by startups and investment-ready innovations.

The forum at Gandhinagar is being organised under this theme, and its objective is to showcase India's initiatives for promoting circularity and to strengthen international cooperation.

India is hosting the forum there from 15 to 18 September 2026, and this is the first time that the World Circular Economy Forum is being held in South Asia.

The India-centric CEPI mission, Ind-CEPI, is implemented by BRIC-THSTI and BIRAC, and this vaccine was among its important outcomes. It received Emergency Use Authorisation.

India's bioeconomy reached that size in 2025 and recorded eighteen per cent growth over the previous year. The country's biotech startup ecosystem expanded to 11,855 startups, of which 1,780 were added in that single year, and the biopharma sector accounts for nearly thirty per cent of the bioeconomy.

Its Board and Investors Council met in New Delhi, and the Department of Biotechnology and CEPI jointly hosted a high-level evening reception at the India International Centre.

During August 2026 fourteen Amrit Bharat services were converted from special trains into regular trains, and that conversion took the total number of Amrit Bharat services to this figure.

Five new Gati Shakti Cargo Terminals were commissioned during August 2026, which took the cumulative count to this figure at the end of the month.

Indian Railways loaded that quantity during August 2026 and recorded a year-on-year growth of 5.4 per cent. Freight revenue in the same month rose by 6.27 per cent over the corresponding month of the previous year, which shows that the freight business strengthened in value as well as in volume.