IBPS GK Questions 2026

Commerce Secretary Shri Rajesh Agrawal said in his keynote address that India’s combined exports of goods and services grew by 14 per cent year-on-year to this level during April-September of 2026-27, which he cited as evidence that exports had stayed resilient despite global uncertainty.

The Chintan Shivir for the engineering sector was convened by the Department of Commerce along with EEPC India to chart a strategy for total engineering goods exports of US$250 billion by 2030, together with deeper market access through free trade agreements and the long-term availability of key raw materials.

Experts from fisheries institutions and other stakeholders at the workshop prepared a framework of activities for this phase, and a programme of consultations with fishing communities was proposed.

The initiative is led by the Union Department of Fisheries in collaboration with this body, and the whole plan is being prepared within the framework of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Abhilaksh Likhi, Secretary in the Department of Fisheries, said India has set a target of 30 million tonnes of fish production over the next five years, and that seafood exports are expected to rise to Rs 1.25 lakh crore in the same period.

Under the Budget Announcement for 2026-27, the Union Department of Fisheries approved integrated development of 49 reservoirs in Madhya Pradesh at a project cost of Rs 8755.60 lakh, along with five Amrit Sarovars at a cost of Rs 69 lakh, an investment of Rs 88.25 crore taken together.

That was India's total fish production in 2024-25, and of this quantity inland fisheries contributed 151.60 lakh tonnes, which is close to three-fourths of the national output.

The conclave was organised in Bhopal by the Department of Fisheries of the Government of Madhya Pradesh along with the Union Department of Fisheries and the National Fisheries Development Board, to draw investment into processing, value addition and exports from inland fisheries.

Manganese ore is a key raw material for the steel industry, and the Ministry of Steel says the milestone strengthens its domestic availability.

The Ministry of Steel says that under its Green Steel Initiative, Green Steel Certificates have been issued to 104 distinct steel producers across the lists put out up to October 2026.

The Ministry of Steel has prepared a draft National Steel Policy, Vision 2047, and it targets crude steel capacity of 604 MT by the year 2047.

He addressed the gathering, greeted the country on the queen's birth anniversary and on the 202nd celebration of her victory against the British, and thanked those who made the event possible.

The ceremony at Prerana Sthal in the Parliament premises combined two occasions, the birth anniversary of Kittur Rani Chennamma and the 202nd Victory Celebration, or Vijayotsava, of her win against the British.

The official account of the programme calls her Kittur Rani Chennamma and describes her as the brave queen of Kittur, the nation's unparalleled woman warrior who challenged an imperial power and stands in history as an immortal symbol of resistance.

This is the named focus of the partnership, meant to prepare banking systems both for the opportunities that quantum technology brings and for the security problems it creates, which is why the two sides will study quantum-inspired and quantum-safe methods.

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing is an autonomous scientific society under that ministry, and its Secretary, S. Krishnan, was present when the memorandum with Bank of India was exchanged.

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing signed the memorandum with Bank of India on 22 October 2026 to work on quantum financial innovation and the adoption of emerging technologies in banking.

The Centre of Excellence at IIT (BHU), Varanasi has been given a brief in communication technology: wireless communications, quantum technologies, cybersecurity and communication systems driven by artificial intelligence, with advanced research in 5G Advanced and 6G technologies, very large-scale Multiple-Input Multiple-Output systems, sensing merged with communication, AI-native networks and devices…

The Centre for Development of Telematics, or C-DOT, is the research and development centre of the Department of Telecommunications, which is a department of the Ministry of Communications, and it is in that capacity that it signed the agreement for a Centre of Excellence at IIT (BHU), Varanasi.

The Centre for Development of Telematics signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi to establish its sixth Centre of Excellence, and the signing was followed by the formal opening of the centre on the campus.