SBI GK Questions 2026

An equity share has no maturity date at all; it represents ownership of a company for as long as the company exists, so it is the classic capital market instrument, issued in the primary market and traded on stock exchanges under SEBI's regulation.

Following the Vaghul Committee's recommendations on the money market, the Reserve Bank allowed scheduled commercial banks to issue negotiable certificates of deposit in 1989, and commercial paper followed a year later in 1990.

Call money is the overnight, unsecured borrowing between banks and primary dealers that lets a bank square its cash reserve position at the end of the day; the interest on it is the call rate, the most sensitive interest rate in the system.

These are the three tenors of treasury bills auctioned by the Reserve Bank, with the 91-day bill auctioned most frequently.

A treasury bill is an instrument of the government's short-term borrowing, and the Reserve Bank of India, as banker and debt manager to the government, issues it on the government's behalf through auctions.

By definition the money market is the market for short-term funds, and the dividing line drawn in India and everywhere else is a maturity of one year; anything longer belongs to the capital market.

M3, called broad money or aggregate monetary resources, is the measure the Reserve Bank watches most closely, and it adds the time deposits of the banking system to narrow money.

Statement I is right: commercial paper is an unsecured money market instrument issued in the form of a promissory note, so it is backed only by the credit standing of the issuer and not by any security.

The roundtable on implementing standards of the International Telecommunication Union against fraudulent communications was held on the sidelines of that Congress, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally inaugurated on 8 October 2026 at Yashobhoomi in New Delhi.

The Digital Intelligence Platform is the intelligence-sharing layer of India’s approach and links more than 1,600 organisations, among them telecom operators, banks and law-enforcement agencies.

Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani cited this figure for losses suffered by Indians in 2024 to organised, cross-border fraud, which includes impersonation, digital arrest scams, voice cloning generated by artificial intelligence and deepfakes.

ASTR is described as the artificial-intelligence based tool of C-DOT and forms one layer of India’s defence against fraudulent communications; it has helped disconnect over 82 lakh fraudulent mobile connections.

Registration, the technical bid and the earnest money or bank guarantee have all to reach the corporation by that date, after which the technical bids are opened on 20 November 2026.

The parcel carries an industrial land use and is being offered for outright sale through an e-tender followed by an e-auction.

NLMC was set up to help central public sector enterprises and other government entities monetise surplus land and non-core assets, and it sits in that department.

That is the floor below which the freehold parcel at Najafgarh Industrial Area will not be sold, and every bid in the electronic auction has to start from it.

GIC, the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, and Temasek Holdings are the two Singaporean institutional investors named as having significant investments spread across the Indian economy, and the Union Finance Minister is to hold separate meetings with the chief executives of both.

During her official visit the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs is to call on him as part of a set of high level engagements with the country’s leadership.

That is the cumulative figure for foreign direct investment flowing from Singapore into India over the period from April 2000 to March 2026, and it is the number behind the description of Singapore as India’s single largest source of such investment.

The city state is India’s largest source of foreign direct investment, with cumulative inflows of roughly USD 194.68 billion between April 2000 and March 2026, and its institutional investors, among them GIC and Temasek, hold significant positions across the Indian economy.