IBPS GK Questions 2026

In 1976 the government merged the Press Trust of India, United News of India, Hindustan Samachar and Samachar Bharati into one agency called Samachar, a step widely seen as part of the control of the press during the Emergency.

Yonhap News Agency works from Seoul and is the main wire service of the Republic of Korea, widely quoted abroad for reports on the Korean peninsula.

Xinhua, whose name means new China, was set up in 1931 as the Red China News Agency, took its present name in 1937 and works from Beijing as the state news agency of the People's Republic of China.

Paul Julius Reuter, who had earlier worked for Havas in Paris and had used carrier pigeons to carry stock prices between Aachen and Brussels, moved to London and founded his telegraph news office there in 1851, close to the Stock Exchange.

Charles-Louis Havas opened Agence Havas in Paris in 1835 to translate and sell foreign news, which makes it the first news agency in the world; the business was reorganised in 1944 and has been known since then as Agence France-Presse.

The three word motto, faster, higher, stronger, was coined by Father Henri Didon and taken up by Pierre de Coubertin for the modern games; in 2021 the International Olympic Committee added the fourth word so that the motto now reads faster, higher, stronger, together, to stress solidarity along with individual…

The ILO was set up in 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles, became the first specialised agency of the United Nations in 1946, has its headquarters at Geneva and works on a tripartite basis with governments, employers and workers.

The phrase, for the good of the many and the happiness of the many, comes from Buddhist usage and fits a broadcaster that reaches almost the whole population in many languages; All India Radio took its present name in 1936 and Akashvani was adopted in 1957.

Its motto, meaning the true, the auspicious and the beautiful, is the line that accompanied its familiar logo for decades.

The DRDO was formed in 1958 and works under the Ministry of Defence, developing missiles, radars, armoured vehicles, torpedoes and other defence systems, and its crest carries this Sanskrit line about science being the root of strength.

The service was raised in 1978 and works under the Ministry of Defence, guarding the maritime zones, enforcing fisheries and anti smuggling law and running search and rescue at sea, so the plain promise of Vayam Rakshamah, we protect, is apt.

The line comes from the Mahabharata and appears on the emblem of the Court, which shows the wheel of dharma with the lions of the Ashoka capital.

Sam No Varunah is a Sanskrit prayer from the Taittiriya Upanishad that Varuna, the lord of the waters, be auspicious unto us, which is the natural choice for a sea service, and it is written on the naval crest under the anchor.

The phrase is drawn from the eleventh chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, where the cosmic form touches the sky, and it suits an air arm exactly; it appears on the Air Force crest below the Himalayan eagle.

The line declares that truth alone triumphs, and it was chosen as the motto of the Republic and inscribed in the Devanagari script on the abacus of the State Emblem of India.

Section 8(1) lists ten categories of information that a public authority is not obliged to disclose, among them information affecting the sovereignty and integrity of India, strategic and security interests, foreign relations, commercial confidence and trade secrets, information held in a fiduciary relationship, and personal information with no relation to…

Under the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 the Chairperson and members of the Lokpal are appointed by the President on the recommendation of a selection committee consisting of the Prime Minister as chairperson, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, the Chief…

The Committee on Prevention of Corruption, chaired by K. Santhanam, reported in 1964, and the Central Vigilance Commission was created in the same year by a government resolution as the apex body for vigilance in the Union administration.

Section 12 of the RTI Act provides that the Central Information Commission shall consist of the Chief Information Commissioner and such number of Central Information Commissioners, not exceeding ten, as may be deemed necessary.

The Constitution nowhere uses the words right to information, but the Supreme Court has held that the freedom of speech and expression guaranteed by Article 19(1)(a) is meaningless unless a citizen can know how the government works.