Static GK in IBPS exams means banking awareness first. The awareness tests of PO, Clerk and RRB Mains name banking, economy, financial and digital awareness, and the questions that return every year are about the RBI and its functions, the monetary policy tools (repo, SDF, MSF, CRR, SLR), types of banks and accounts, NPAs, Basel norms, priority sector lending, payment systems such as UPI, NEFT, RTGS and IMPS, deposit insurance, financial inclusion schemes, and the regulators SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA and institutions such as NABARD and SIDBI. Headquarters and taglines of banks, capitals and currencies, national parks, dams and important days appear too, though with a smaller share than in SSC. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for banking exams, written as short facts and tables so that a topic can be revised in one sitting, with the terms and abbreviations that IBPS papers use. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what you retained, and come back to the notes for the facts you missed.
Which one among the following computer languages is the oldest?
Released by IBM in 1957, Fortran is the oldest of the four and is often called the first widely used high-level programming language.
Read the full explanation →BHARAT-TULIP, promoted at the Shilp Samagam Mela, stands for which programme?
It is an initiative of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment aimed at selling the goods made by artisans of the target groups, namely the Scheduled Castes, the Other Backward Classes, Safai Mitras and Denotified Tribes, through physical outlets as well as e-commerce platforms, so that a craftsperson reaches…
Read the full explanation →How many artisans are participating in the Guwahati edition of the Shilp Samagam Mela 2026, and how many of them are women?
The ministry put the participation at that level for the Guwahati leg, and between them the craftspeople are showing about forty varieties of handloom and handicraft products, drawn from the North-Eastern states as well as other regions of the country.
Read the full explanation →The Shilp Samagam Mela 2026 that began on 21 October is being held in which city?
The correct answer is Guwahati, the capital of Assam, where the eight-day fair opened at Farm Gate in Khanapara and will run until the twenty-eighth of the month.
Read the full explanation →Which structure was identified as the cause of the varying secondary emission lines in Centaurus X-3?
The team worked out that the structure responsible had to be rotating together with the pulsar, and the stream fits that description: as it swings between the pulsar and the observing satellite, the direct radiation from the pulsar weakens while the light re-emitted by the stream strengthens, producing the variation…
Read the full explanation →Why is the finding about Centaurus X-3 considered unusual?
In such pairs the companion is a massive star that sheds a strong wind, and the pulsar ordinarily feeds on that wind as it passes, so an orderly disk of matter is not expected.
Read the full explanation →Scientists of which institute found that the X-ray pulsar Centaurus X-3 accretes matter through an accretion disk?
The group examined four secondary emission lines from the system and concluded that the structure causing those lines to vary must be turning along with the pulsar, which pointed them to the accretion stream and therefore to a disk feeding it.
Read the full explanation →What made Rohit Kumar's bronze in the men's 100m breaststroke SB4 at the Asian Para Games 2026 particularly notable?
Rohit Kumar swam the men's 100m breaststroke SB4 with an impressive timing and finished third, and the fact that a medal arrived on a debut is what was singled out in the congratulations sent to him.
Read the full explanation →Shailesh Kumar won a bronze medal at the Asian Para Games 2026 in which event, and with what mark?
Shailesh Kumar reached that distance in the final and finished third, and the event name carries three class codes because athletes from three classification groups were ranked together in one competition.
Read the full explanation →Which Indian swimmer won the silver medal in the men's 100m backstroke S13 at the Asian Para Games 2026?
He finished second in the men's 100m backstroke S13 and his was the only silver among the Indian results announced in the evening hours of that day, the rest of the group being bronze medals.
Read the full explanation →Which body takes the decision to invoke a stage of the Graded Response Action Plan in Delhi-NCR?
The Sub-Committee met on 21 October 2026, reviewed the air quality of Delhi and the region along with the forecasts placed before it, and decided to bring Stage-I of the plan into force with immediate effect.
Read the full explanation →How many action points were brought into force when CAQM invoked Stage-I of the GRAP in the NCR on 21 October 2026?
The Sub-Committee on GRAP decided to invoke all the action points listed under Stage-I of the plan then in force, and that list runs to twenty-five items, applying across the whole National Capital Region with immediate effect.
Read the full explanation →Stage-I of the Graded Response Action Plan is invoked when Delhi's air quality falls in which category?
Stage-I of the Graded Response Action Plan is the stage meant for poor air, and it was invoked across the National Capital Region after Delhi's daily average index was recorded at 244 at 2 PM and then at 245 by 4 PM, both of which sit inside that band.
Read the full explanation →Which Indian Navy ship represented India in IBSAMAR IX 2026?
The ship took part in the ninth edition of the India-Brazil-South Africa Maritime Exercise, and its Commanding Officer spoke at the closing ceremony at Simon's Town, where he described such exercises as a platform that turns long-standing diplomatic ties into usable naval cooperation.
Read the full explanation →Where did the ninth edition of the IBSAMAR exercise conclude in October 2026?
The closing ceremony of IBSAMAR IX was held there on 20 October 2026, rounding off ten days of joint activity in a harbour phase and a sea phase.
Read the full explanation →The IBSAMAR naval exercise is conducted between which three countries?
IBSAMAR stands for the India-Brazil-South Africa Maritime Exercise, and the ninth edition brought the navies of these three countries together before concluding at Simon's Town in South Africa.
Read the full explanation →Which of these was released at the opening of the AgriVoltaics World Conference 2026?
Three knowledge resources were formally brought out at the opening of the conference: a Decision-Making Tool developed by the India Agrivoltaics Alliance, a Book of Abstracts prepared by the International Water Management Institute, and the AgriPV Policy Handbook of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
Read the full explanation →Which ministry hosted the AgriVoltaics World Conference 2026, and which country supported it?
The conference was hosted by that ministry with support from Germany's Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, known by its initials BMUV, and was organised in partnership with Conexio-PSE.
Read the full explanation →What is the theme of the 7th AgriVoltaics World Conference 2026 held in New Delhi?
The seventh edition of the AgriVoltaics World Conference, which opened at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, was organised under that theme by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in partnership with Conexio-PSE.
Read the full explanation →How many silver and bronze medals did India collect at the Asian Para Games 2026 on 21 October 2026?
The silver medallists were Manjeet in the men's javelin throw F12/F13, Bhagyashree Jadhav in the women's shot put F34, Mohd Yasser in the men's shot put F46, Banti in the men's high jump T64, Mohammad Basil M in the men's 100m T47, Preeti Pal in the women's 100m T35 and…
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