IBPS GK Questions 2026

The Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000 created Jharkhand on 15 November 2000, and with the Chhotanagpur plateau Bihar lost its coal, iron ore, copper, bauxite and mica, along with the heavy industry at Jamshedpur, Bokaro and Ranchi.

Article 267(2) allows the legislature of a state to establish a Contingency Fund of the State by law, placed at the disposal of the Governor, from which advances can be made for unforeseen expenditure pending authorisation by the legislature, the amount being recouped later through a supplementary demand.

A budget is classified by the relation between receipts and expenditure, which gives three kinds only: a balanced budget, in which estimated receipts equal estimated expenditure; a surplus budget, in which receipts exceed expenditure; and a deficit budget, in which expenditure exceeds receipts.

Under Article 204 an Appropriation Bill is introduced after the Vidhan Sabha has voted the demands for grants, and it alone makes the withdrawal of money from the Consolidated Fund of the State lawful; no money may leave that fund except under an appropriation made by law.

Article 202 requires the Governor to cause a statement of the estimated receipts and expenditure of the state for every financial year, called the annual financial statement, to be laid before the House or Houses of the legislature.

This is false: an economic model can be stated in words, shown in diagrams or graphs, or written as equations.

It is one of the two education indicators in NITI Aayog's National Multidimensional Poverty Index. The national MPI measures deprivation, not income, across three equally weighted dimensions: health, education and standard of living.

Both statements describe the standard method used to draw India's poverty line. A poverty line is the income or spending needed to meet basic needs.

TELNET is an application-layer protocol that lets a user log in to a remote computer and work on it through a text terminal.

Bank rate and open market operations are instruments of the Reserve Bank's monetary policy; public debt and public revenue belong to fiscal policy.

SGST Acts are passed by each State Legislature, not by Parliament. The 101st Amendment, 2016 added Article 246A, which gives both Parliament and the State Legislatures the power to make laws on GST, and Article 279A, which created the GST Council.

Deflation is the opposite of inflation: the general price level keeps falling over a period of time. When prices fall steadily, the purchasing power of money rises, but the effect on the economy is usually harmful.

The live demonstration of Shrutlekh at the symposium showed speech being written down as it was spoken and translated at the same moment, a capability intended for lecture halls, research seminars, conferences and academic discussions.

The figures placed before the symposium were that BHASHINI supports 36 Indian languages for text, 23 Indian languages for voice and 35 international languages, that it has recorded over 10 billion cumulative AI inferences, and that its website translation plugin works on more than 800 government websites.

BHASHINI Pragati is a document translation workbench that the Digital India BHASHINI Division built for the CAG, and it was put before the symposium as an example of translating structured documents, including files that run from 100 to 500 pages, with quality checks and data-security safeguards.

The 29th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, shortened to ETD-2026, was held at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi from 23 to 25 October 2026, and the Digital India BHASHINI Division took part in it with a session on its multilingual artificial intelligence tools.

Its location is convenient for industry because it lies close to National Highways 22 and 19 and Gaya airport is roughly 39 kilometres away, giving access to major industrial and commercial centres.

BIMCGL was incorporated on 6 January 2025 as the dedicated implementing agency for the Gaya cluster and will handle coordinated planning, infrastructure work, statutory clearances, utility connectivity and investor facilitation.

Those agreements were signed with prospective investors for roughly 300 acres of industrial land at the Gaya cluster, and the employment potential attached to them was estimated at 16,095.

The cluster is spread over about 1,670 acres in Dobhi block of Gaya district, and the Union government approved it on 28 August 2024 at a total cost of ₹1,339 crore including the cost of land.