SBI GK Questions 2026

The Finance Ministry's clarification explains that DIPAM has no internal procedure for the situation in which the highest financial bid comes in below the reserve price, and that the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, in its meeting of 16 August 2017, approved a note on the procedure and mechanism for…

Air transport was the weakest of the 19 sub-sectors in August 2026 on both measures that the index offers: it contracted 9.6 per cent against August 2025, and its reading was the only one in the whole series below the level of the base year 2024-25.

The correct answer is retail trade, which expanded faster than any other sub-sector over August 2025 and also carried the second highest index reading in the series.

Every reading in the Index of Services Production is measured against output in that base year, so a sub-sector standing above the base-year level has grown since then and one standing below it has not recovered to where it was.

MoSPI compiles and publishes the Index of Services Production, and it released the figures for August 2026 covering 19 broad sub-sectors on the base year 2024-25.

IPPB was incorporated as a public limited company, but its two pilot branches opened at Raipur and Ranchi, not at Hyderabad and Varanasi.

Items such as switchgear and circuit breakers, uninterruptible power supplies and solid-state drives, and end-face connectors for optical fibres pushed the group up, which tells a story about demand from power distribution and data networks.

On this base the general index for the month under review reads above the hundred mark, which simply means output is higher than it was in the base year.

The correct answer is electricity and gas supply, which grew at the fastest rate among the four sectors that make up the index.

The correct answer is 6.7 per cent, the year on year growth recorded by the quick estimates for September 2026.

The Cabinet decision records that the scheme for container manufacturing had been announced in that budget, and the approval of 28 October 2026 is the step that turned the announcement into a sanctioned scheme with components and amounts.

The Interest Subvention Assistance component, for which 859 crore rupees has been provided, lowers the interest cost on eligible term loans by three percentage points a year.

The scheme envisages raising annual domestic container manufacturing capacity by roughly ten times, up to that level.

The correct answer is 10,000 crore rupees, the full outlay sanctioned for the scheme and available up to the financial year 2039-40.

EFTA is made up of Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, so options A, B and C are all members.

That is the investment aim written into the India-EFTA Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement, and it is paired with the facilitation of a million direct jobs in India.

The India-EFTA Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement entered into force on that date, a point Commerce and Industry Minister Shri Piyush Goyal made while calling on Hereditary Prince Alois of Liechtenstein.

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India was set up on 1 October 2016 under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.

During the meeting with the President of the Korea Marine Equipment Research Institute, the minister described the centre as a national platform for exactly these functions, adding that testing and certification carried out within India, with Korean technical expertise, would help Indian-made marine equipment meet international standards and prepare Indian…

The aim set out during the Busan meetings is to make India a globally competitive hub for shipbuilding, shipping and maritime services by that year, which also marks a century of independence.