IBPS GK Questions 2026

A benami transfer records land in the name of a relative, a servant or a fictitious person while the real owner keeps control, and it was the commonest device used to stay within the family ceiling on paper while holding far more land in fact, which is one reason so…

These states made consolidation compulsory and completed it over most of their cultivated area, exchanging a farmer's scattered strips for one compact block, which made tube wells, tractors and field channels worth installing and so fed into the green revolution.

Land, rights in and over land, land tenures, the relation of landlord and tenant, and the collection of rent are entries of List II of the Seventh Schedule, which is why zamindari abolition, tenancy law and ceilings were enacted state by state and why their record varies so much.

Walking through the villages of the Telangana region in 1951 he asked landowners to treat the landless as their own kin and to gift a share of their land, and the first such gift at Pochampally began the Bhoodan or land gift movement, later extended as Gramdan, the gift of…

From 1978 the state government ran a campaign to enter the names of sharecroppers, known there as bargadars, in official records, which gave them a permanent and heritable right to cultivate and a legally fixed share of the crop, and it is quoted as the most effective tenancy reform in…

Courts had begun to strike down zamindari abolition laws as a breach of the right to property, so Parliament inserted Articles 31A and 31B and created the Ninth Schedule, in which a law can be placed to put it beyond challenge on the ground that it takes away a fundamental…

Working with Alexander Read in the ceded districts and later as Governor of Madras, Munro settled the revenue directly with each cultivator, the ryot, who was recognised as the owner of his field so long as he paid, with the demand revised every twenty or thirty years.

In 1793 he settled the land revenue of Bengal, Bihar and Odisha permanently with the zamindars, who were recognised as proprietors so long as they paid a demand fixed for ever, and the cultivator was left without any recorded right in the land.

The summit was held there over two days, and the Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Shri Chanchal Kumar, addressed its inaugural session before also opening the WAVES Global Investor and Investee Meet in the same city.

The white paper released by the Confederation of Indian Industry outlines a roadmap for India's media and entertainment sector to reach that size by the early 2030s, and it argues that faster reforms, stronger regional markets and measurable implementation are what would get the sector there.

The white paper was released at the CII Big Picture Summit held in Mumbai, and it lays out a roadmap for the Indian media and entertainment sector along with calls for quicker reform, stronger regional markets and implementation that can be measured.

In her statement the Finance Minister encouraged stronger collaboration among these three arms and pressed for the World Bank Group Guarantee Platform to be operationalised faster, pointing out that developing economies are constrained by a shortage of risk capital and that guarantees and risk mitigation instruments are among the most…

That was the stated agenda of the plenary, and India's intervention was delivered on precisely this topic, arguing that productive and better paid employment is the most effective pathway to cutting poverty and spreading prosperity.

The meeting of the Development Committee Plenary was held in Bangkok in Thailand, and the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, took part in it there as India's Governor of the World Bank.

CBLO was a short-term borrowing and lending instrument backed by government securities, which places it in the money market. The money market deals in funds lent for short periods, from overnight up to one year, through instruments such as call money, treasury bills, commercial paper, certificates of deposit and repos.

BHIM can send money to anyone who has a UPI-linked bank account, but a chip-and-PIN debit card does not use four factors of authentication.

The vision of Viksit Bharat @2047, articulated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, envisages India as a developed nation by the hundredth year of its Independence, and the session on roads was explicitly aligned with it through the goals of supporting economic growth, improving connectivity, strengthening logistics efficiency and widening access…

Their presence is logical rather than ceremonial, because a highway alignment, a railway corridor and a power transmission line often compete for the same land and the same clearances, so decisions taken on one affect the others.

The correct answer is the 12th session, held at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi and organised by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.

In a computed tomography machine the X-ray source turns around the patient while detectors record the radiation that passes through, and software then assembles those readings into cross-sectional pictures of the structures inside the body.