SBI GK Questions 2026

The Commission's clearance notes that the acquirer, MIH Payments Holdings B.V., is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Prosus N.V., and that the acquirer itself carries on no business activity beyond holding investments in portfolio companies which have business activities in India.

Both companies operate franchise outlets of these two brands in India, and that overlap is the reason a merger between them is a matter for competition review rather than a routine corporate step.

The Competition Commission of India approved the merger of Sapphire Foods India Limited with and into Devyani International Limited, along with certain related transactions placed before it as one proposed combination.

Solenergi Power Private Limited is described as a holding company registered in Mauritius with no business of its own apart from holding investments, and its link with India runs through certain downstream holding entities and through firms that generate electricity from solar and wind energy.

The Competition Commission of India approved the sale by that firm of the whole issued share capital of Solenergi Power Private Limited to Aditya Birla Renewables Limited.

The Competition Commission of India cleared its purchase of the entire equity share capital of IntelliSmart Infrastructure Private Limited, a company that works in advanced metering infrastructure for electricity and also puts up smart gas meters.

CRISIL, CARE and ICRA are all credit rating agencies registered with SEBI, which regulates such agencies under its Credit Rating Agencies Regulations of 1999.

Hot money is foreign capital that flows in quickly to earn short-term returns and can leave just as quickly, and in India this describes portfolio investment in shares and bonds.

It convened the Bharat Commerce Chintan Shivir with the Open Network for Digital Commerce at Vanijya Bhawan in New Delhi, and the roundtable was chaired by Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal.

That is the reach of DigiDukaan across Hyderabad, Jaipur and Mumbai, and it marks a rise from over 12,000 retailers in the previous quarter.

DigiDukaan is ONDC's effort to build digital infrastructure for India's general trade in retail by digitising kirana shops as buyers, while strengthening rather than replacing the existing distributor network.

The partnership for Singapore was announced on 9 September 2026, and the step was significant because the Singapore market welcomed 1.2 million Indian visitors in 2025.

A commercial agreement to bring UPI to that country was announced on 30 August 2026, during the visit of the Prime Minister of India to Uzbekistan, which places it next in line after the ten countries where the payment system already works.

NPCI International Payments Limited enabled UPI there in partnership with NEOPAY and Emaar Entertainment, and this is the first attraction anywhere in the Emirates to take UPI for online commerce rather than only for scanning a merchant code.

Money from selling the government's stake in public sector enterprises reduces its assets, so it is a capital receipt, not a revenue receipt.

It notified the guidelines for the drive in an office memorandum dated 13 August 2026 and it is running the fifth edition from 1 to 30 November 2026.

The campaign carries two numbers that are easy to confuse. The overall target is 2.30 crore digital life certificates, and within that total 1.50 crore are to be produced through face authentication technology.

The Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare will open camps in 2000 cities and districts during the fifth nationwide Digital Life Certificate campaign, which runs from 1 to 30 November 2026.

The asset valuer added value for the disputed tax demands, and those demands were indemnified because the qualified bidders had asked for it in common, the purpose being to nudge the offer upwards.

The clarification notes that IDBI was a government owned banking company until that year and became a government controlled banking company once LIC acquired majority stakes in it.