SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

After the microfinance crisis in Andhra Pradesh in 2010, the Reserve Bank appointed a sub-committee of its central board under Y. H. Malegam to study the lending practices of microfinance institutions, and its report of January 2011 led to the NBFC-MFI being carved out as a distinct category with its…

A non-deposit-taking NBFC of that size is classified as systemically important, written as NBFC-ND-SI, and becomes subject to prudential norms on capital adequacy, exposure and disclosure that smaller companies escape.

The layers are the Base Layer, the Middle Layer, the Upper Layer and the Top Layer, and the regulation becomes stricter as a company moves up, so that supervision matches the risk a company poses to the system.

The Reserve Bank uses what the industry calls the fifty-fifty test: both conditions must hold, so financial assets must be more than half of total assets and the income from those assets must be more than half of gross income.

An NBFC cannot accept demand deposits, cannot issue cheques drawn on itself, is not part of the payment and settlement system, and its depositors do not have the cover of the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation.

The section was inserted by the Reserve Bank of India (Amendment) Act of 1997 and requires an NBFC to hold a certificate of registration from the Reserve Bank and to maintain the prescribed minimum net owned fund before it can carry on business.

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was instituted in 1969 to mark the birth centenary of Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who made Raja Harishchandra in 1913, and the actress Devika Rani received it first.

The medal is given at IFFI by the International Council for Film, Television and Audiovisual Communication, based in Paris and associated with UNESCO, to a film that reflects the ideals of peace, tolerance and non-violence that Mahatma Gandhi stood for.

The Golden Peacock, or Swarna Mayur, goes to the best film of the international competition at IFFI, and the cash prize is shared between the director and the producer; Silver Peacock awards go to the best director, the best actor and the best actress.

The thirty-fifth edition of 2004 was the first held in Goa, and the state has been the permanent venue since then, with the festival normally taking place in the last week of November.

The first edition was organised on behalf of the Government of India and travelled through Bombay, Madras, Delhi, Calcutta and Trivandrum, which made it the first international film festival held anywhere in Asia.

She received the first Filmfare Award for Best Actress for Baiju Bawra, and the first Best Actor award of the same year went to Dilip Kumar for Daag.

Bimal Roy's film about a farmer who goes to Calcutta to pull a rickshaw took the first Filmfare Award for Best Film, and Bimal Roy took the first award for Best Direction for the same film.

At their start in 1954 the awards carried the name of Clare Mendonca, a critic associated with The Times of India, and only later did they come to be called the Filmfare Awards after the magazine.

The Filmfare statuette, designed by the sculptor N. G. Pansare, shows a female figure and the dark finish gave it its popular name, which the magazine itself uses.

The magazine Filmfare, published by The Times Group, held its first award ceremony in 1954 for the films released in 1953, which makes these the oldest film awards in India.

The national academy for music, dance and drama is the nodal office for intangible cultural heritage under the Ministry of Culture, prepares India's nominations and maintains the national inventory of intangible heritage.

The General Conference of UNESCO adopted the Convention in 2003; it entered into force in 2006 and India ratified it in 2005.

Sankirtana is the Vaishnava practice of the Meitei people, performed in the temple courtyard, in which narrative singing is accompanied by the pung drum and cymbals and the performance moves from song into dance; it was inscribed in 2013.

Jandiala Guru is a town near Amritsar where the Thathera community beats sheets of brass and copper into utensils entirely by hand, heating and hammering the metal in a sequence that has been passed down within families; the craft was inscribed in 2014.