Railway GK Questions 2026

The Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act was passed in 2002.

The Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India, and it insures the deposits held in banks.

NABARD was set up in 1982 on the recommendation of the committee headed by B Sivaraman, and its head office is at Mumbai.

Under the asset classification norms of the Reserve Bank of India, a term loan becomes a Non Performing Asset when interest or an instalment of principal stays overdue for more than ninety days.

CASA is the combined balance a bank holds in the current accounts and the savings accounts of its customers. These are the cheapest deposits a bank can have, because a current account pays no interest at all and a savings account pays very little, unlike a fixed deposit.

RTGS was designed for large value payments, so the Reserve Bank of India fixed a floor of two lakh rupees for a single transaction and set no ceiling at all.

The Indian Financial System Code is an eleven character alphanumeric code that identifies a particular bank branch taking part in the electronic payment systems of the Reserve Bank of India.

SWIFT is the international messaging network over which banks send payment and guarantee instructions across borders.

The tools of the Reserve Bank are divided into quantitative tools, which change the total amount of credit in the system, and qualitative or selective tools, which change the direction in which that credit flows.

All three belong to the monetary policy toolkit of the Reserve Bank of India. SLR, the Statutory Liquidity Ratio, is the part of its deposits that a bank must keep with itself in cash, gold or approved securities, and raising or lowering it changes how much a bank can lend.

RTGS is the system in which a transfer instruction is settled singly and immediately, rather than being held and netted off with others.

He began the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque at Delhi in 1192 after the second battle of Tarain, using the carved pillars and stones of temples that stood on the site, which is why its courtyard colonnade carries Indian bells, chains and foliage.

Tughlaq building is the most austere phase of the Sultanate style. It uses local grey sandstone or rubble, keeps ornament to a minimum and gives its walls a pronounced batter, that is a slope inward as they rise, which makes even a tomb look like a fort.

The Sidi Sayyid mosque in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, was built in 1573 in the last years of the Gujarat Sultanate.

Nur Jahan built it at Agra between 1622 and 1628 for her father Mirza Ghiyas Beg, who held the title Itmad-ud-Daulah.

Built between 1565 and 1572 by his widow Hamida Banu Begum and designed by the Persian architect Mirak Mirza Ghiyas, it is the first tomb in India set in the middle of a charbagh, a square garden cut into four quarters by walkways and water channels.

The Alai Darwaza was added in 1311 as the southern gateway to the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque in the Qutub complex at Delhi.

The Shalimar Bagh on the bank of the Dal lake in Srinagar was laid out by Jahangir in 1619 for his queen Nur Jahan.

The Buland Darwaza, the lofty gateway on the south side of the Jama Masjid at Fatehpur Sikri, was raised by Akbar in 1575 to mark his conquest of Gujarat.

The Qutub Minar in Mehrauli, Delhi, rises to about 72.5 metres, which is taken as 73 metres in answer keys.