IBPS GK Questions 2026

His 150th birth anniversary falls on 4 November. His ideals drew heavily on his close association with the Arya Samaj, for whose work he travelled to South Africa in the opening years of the twentieth century and met Mahatma Gandhi there; he also worked among the Girmitiya community in Guyana…

Narinder Singh Kapany is known across the world as the Father of Fiber Optics, and his 100th birth anniversary falls on 31 October.

The Prime Minister inaugurated the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre there during his visit to Chennai earlier in the month, and he spoke about it in the 139th episode of Mann Ki Baat.

Mann Ki Baat is the monthly radio address of the Prime Minister, and the edition broadcast on 25 October 2026 was its 139th.

India recorded 114 medals at the 2026 edition of this competition, the largest haul the country has ever managed there, and the Games had just concluded when Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the contingent.

The contingent gathered a record 114 medals at the 2026 edition, which no earlier Indian team at the event had matched.

The Indian contingent of para-athletes closed the Asian Para Games 2026 with that number of medals, which is a record for the country at the event and the best-ever performance it has managed there.

The correct answer is Tamil Nadu, which accounts for 20 of the Ramsar Sites in the country, the highest for any State.

The treaty takes its name from Ramsar, the Iranian town where it was adopted on 2 February 1971, and it entered into force in 1975.

Sukhna Wetland lies in Chandigarh and is a rain-fed reservoir created in 1958 at the foot of the Shivalik hills; it shelters threatened species such as the Pallas's fish eagle, the common pochard and the black pond turtle, and migratory birds of the Central Asian Flyway winter there.

India reached this figure on 15 October 2026, when Sukhna Wetland in Chandigarh and Sauj Jheel in Uttar Pradesh were added to the list of Wetlands of International Importance.

Launched in 2020, Mera Pani Meri Virasat offers an incentive per acre to farmers in blocks where groundwater has fallen sharply if they replace water-hungry paddy with crops such as maize, pulses, cotton or vegetables, or take up agroforestry; the aim is crop diversification to save the aquifer.

The company's long-standing Haryana plants are at Gurugram and at Manesar, which lies on the Delhi-Jaipur highway in the same district and grew into an industrial model township around the car plant and its component suppliers, making the Gurugram-Manesar belt the centre of India's passenger car making.

Haryana enacted its Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act in 2005, following the Twelfth Finance Commission's advice that states pass such laws to qualify for debt relief; the Act commits the state to keep its fiscal deficit within about 3 per cent of gross state domestic product, to eliminate the…

Article 293 allows a state to borrow within India on the security of its Consolidated Fund, within limits set by its legislature, and requires the consent of the Government of India for any further borrowing while a loan made by or guaranteed by the Centre is still outstanding, a clause…

After the legislature votes the demands for grants, an Appropriation Bill is introduced under Article 204 to authorise withdrawal from the Consolidated Fund of the State for the granted sums and for the charged expenditure, and no money may leave that fund without such an Act.

Article 202 requires the Governor to cause the Annual Financial Statement, the estimated receipts and expenditure of the state for a financial year, to be laid before the House or Houses of the legislature, and this statement is what is called the budget of Haryana.

The Panipat refinery, commissioned in 1998, is an Indian Oil refinery and is the only refinery in Haryana; a naphtha cracker and petrochemical complex were later built alongside it, which makes Panipat an energy and petrochemical centre as well as a textile town.

Panipat is called the city of weavers and is a national centre for handloom products such as blankets, carpets, durries and furnishings, much of it made from recycled yarn, and the trade grew after refugee weavers settled there following Partition.

Lying in the National Capital Region next to Delhi, Gurugram holds the state's largest concentration of information technology and business process management firms, corporate head offices, malls and high-value real estate, and it also has car manufacturing, so it yields the biggest share of the state's goods and services tax…