IBPS GK Questions 2026

EPFO, which works under the Ministry of Labour and Employment, concluded Special Campaign 6 conducted during October 2026, and said the drive reaffirmed its commitment to administrative efficiency, cleanliness, transparency and better public service delivery.

The Vice-President welcomed the innovative use of technology at the festival, singling out the more than 2,100 indigenous drones that staged scenes from the Ramayana in the sky, and the participation of around 1,000 artists in the cultural programmes.

The Vice-President traced the growth of Deepotsav from its inception in 2017, when a little more than 1.7 lakh lamps were lit at Ayodhya.

C. P. Radhakrishnan, the Vice-President, inaugurated Deepotsav 2026 at Ram Ki Paidi in Ayodhya as the chief guest. He witnessed the lighting of the ghats, cultural presentations based on the Ramayana and musical fireworks, and performed the Saryu Aarti at Naya Ghat.

The correct answer is Dr. Manoj Kumar, Additional Secretary in the Legislative Department, who presided over the opening session.

The correct answer is Kartavya Bhavan 2, New Delhi, where the session was held in the legislative training auditorium on 5 November 2026.

The Five Cs of Purposeful Leadership are Consistency, Culture, Contribution, Community and Curiosity, so options A, B and D all belong to the set and only the third does not.

The correct answer is the Legislative Department, which works under the Ministry of Law and Justice and has begun the Interaction Series so that senior officers can pass on their experience and professional judgement on leadership, administration and personal effectiveness.

That is the ceiling on the trade margin which sellers of these anti-cancer medicines must observe, and a company may take the annual price increase allowed by Paragraph 20(1) of the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013 only while it continues to respect that limit.

The figure follows from price cuts reported in 1031 anti-cancer formulations, out of 1225 for which 76 companies filed revised prices, covering 121 drugs in all.

The correct answer is the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), which works under the Department of Pharmaceuticals in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers and fixed the ceiling on trade margins for 137 anti-cancer drugs.

NPPA capped the trade margin on the maximum retail price of 137 anti-cancer drugs, and the lower prices that follow from that cap begin on that day.

The campaign set out to institutionalise Swachhta and to address pending matters across these several categories, which is why its reporting covers both paperwork and public grievances.

The ministry reported that approximately this much office space was released during the campaign by clearing scrap, electronic waste and files that were no longer required.

The ministry reviewed that many physical files during the campaign and recorded the achievement slightly above the number planned, which is why it is reported as 101 per cent of the set target.

The Ministry of Steel conducted SCDPM 6 across that month-long window along with the Central Public Sector Enterprises under it, with the campaign directed at streamlining governance through the effective disposal of pending matters and at promoting cleanliness and efficiency in official functioning.

The ministry listed four cumulative outcomes of the blending programme since ethanol supply year 2014-15: foreign exchange savings above that amount, substitution of about 316 lakh metric tonnes of crude oil, avoidance of about 952 lakh metric tonnes of carbon dioxide, and transfers of more than Rs 1.66 lakh crore…

All 56 samples tested in Karnataka, taken from different locations and from all three oil marketing companies, conformed to the prescribed specification, with ethanol content ranging between 19 and 20 per cent and averaging that figure.

This is the Bureau of Indian Standards specification for ethanol-blended motor gasoline, and E20 petrol supplied by the three public sector oil marketing companies across the country is required to conform to it.

Under the Quality Coordination Cell exercise of the oil marketing companies and the Centre for High Technology, 893 E20 samples were drawn from depots and retail outlets in 27 States and Union Territories and tested for ethanol content, and every one of them fell inside the prescribed band of 19…