IBPS GK Questions 2026

The Union Sports Minister told the Bureau that during 2025-26 the National Anti-Doping Agency of India carried out over 7,000 tests along with more than 350 education and awareness sessions that reached 27,000 participants, and that the agency concentrated on risk-based testing and intelligence-led investigations rather than random sampling alone.

The correct answer is Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, who chaired the third formal meeting of the COP10 Bureau as well as the fourth formal meeting of the Fund’s Approval Committee for 2026-27.

He had inaugurated the two-day Forum a day earlier and he delivered the valedictory address at the historic Constitution House of the Parliament of India, speaking to presiding officers, delegates and parliamentarians from BRICS member and partner nations.

Reaffirming the consensus of the New Delhi Declaration, the member parliaments issued an explicit endorsement of UN Security Council reform with a reference to Paragraph 13 of that declaration, the aim being to make global governance more representative of the Global South.

At the close of the Forum the Lok Sabha Speaker handed over the chairship of the BRICS Parliamentary Forum to China, which takes the BRICS chair for the year 2027, and expressed confidence that cooperation would continue to flourish under its leadership.

The Forum was organised on this theme, and the deliberations over the two days followed it closely: delegates discussed people-centric development, strong democratic institutions, cooperation between parliaments, and the responsible use of digital technology and Artificial Intelligence, together with resilience, innovation, cooperation and sustainability.

The ministry highlighted the contribution of the National Handloom Development Corporation Limited at Noida, whose offices held cleanliness drives, competitions and a tree plantation under Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam between 2 and 23 October 2026.

The ministry completed the review of every physical file it had identified for the purpose, and that total was 5,593, one of the parameters it reported as fully finished in the progress up to 25 October 2026.

Ministries run Special Campaign 6 under its guidance, and it has set up the web portal on which each ministry uploads progress so that the drive can be monitored centrally.

The commission urged all the authorities concerned to implement the recommendations in the advisory and to furnish an Action Taken Report within two months, so that it stays informed about the progress made.

The commission quoted the Periodic Labour Force Participation Survey to show that women's participation in the labour force stood at this level in September 2026, and set it beside the roughly 4.4 lakh cases of crimes against women in the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau.

The National Human Rights Commission built its advisory around eight areas of action: raising awareness about women's safety and sexual harassment, infrastructure, encouraging bystander intervention, the role of the police, support for survivors, cybercrime against women, long-term reforms, and other measures.

In its National Statement India listed its conservation network as 1,134 Protected Areas, 103 Ramsar sites, 57 Biodiversity Heritage Sites and 18 Biosphere Reserves, of which 13 belong to the Man and the Biosphere network of UNESCO.

India's minister told the High-Level Segment that the country's updated National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan converts the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework into 23 National Biodiversity Targets, and that progress against them is measured through 142 indicators.

The 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity met at Yerevan, and the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change thanked the Government of Armenia for hosting the seventeenth meeting of the Convention.

The Buildathon was organised by the Department of School Education and Literacy in collaboration with the Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog and AICTE, whose chairman Prof. T. G. Sitharam is among those attending the felicitation ceremony.

This is the count of project submissions the Buildathon received from schools across India, taking the Idea Track and the Prototype Track together, and it is the figure on which the Guinness World Records certification as the Largest Innovation Solution Competition rests.

The Ministry of Education announced that the Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025 had been certified by Guinness World Records under exactly this category, on the strength of 2,87,967 project entries sent in by school pupils from across the country through the Idea Track and the Prototype Track.

The two disputes were resolved amicably through that officer conciliation efforts rather than through adjudication. The Banking Ombudsman handles customer complaints against banks and has no role in a dispute between a bank and its employees, so that option is wrong.

The option of Rs 10.52 crore is the benefit under the second settlement alone, signed on 23 October 2026 with the Bihar Gramin Bank Workers Organisation for around 2,500 employees, so it is a part and not the whole.