SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

Under the Regional Rural Banks Act, 1976 the issued capital of an RRB is shared in the proportion of 50 per cent by the Central Government, 35 per cent by the sponsor commercial bank and 15 per cent by the State Government concerned.

A payments bank is a differentiated bank licensed on the lines suggested by the Nachiket Mor Committee to carry payments and small savings to people the branch network had not reached.

A bank is placed in that Schedule once it has the prescribed paid-up capital and reserves and satisfies the Reserve Bank that its affairs are not conducted in a manner harmful to depositors.

The Reserve Bank is banker to banks: every scheduled bank keeps an account with it, holds its cash reserve ratio there, settles payments with other banks through those accounts and can borrow from it when short of funds.

Women of the Self-Employed Women's Association at Ahmedabad, who worked as vendors, headloaders and home-based workers, pooled their own share capital and registered a cooperative bank of their own in 1974 because ordinary banks would not deal with borrowers who had no collateral and no paperwork.

It was founded in 1908 by Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, nationalised in the first round of July 1969, and the Government of India still holds the majority of its shares, which is what makes a bank a public sector bank.

A commercial bank exists to gather savings from those who have a surplus and lend them to those who need funds, and it earns from the gap between the interest it pays depositors and the interest it charges borrowers.

Vatican City is an independent state of well under half a square kilometre lying entirely inside the city of Rome, and it is the smallest country in the world by both area and population.

The Bay of Bengal is the north-eastern arm of the Indian Ocean, bounded by India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka, and it is the largest bay in the world.

The Andes run down the whole western edge of South America, through seven countries from Venezuela to the southern tip of Chile and Argentina, and form the longest mountain range above sea level.

Baikal lies in southern Siberia in Russia, fills a deep rift in the earth's crust and is the deepest lake in the world.

Greenland lies between the Arctic and the Atlantic, is covered almost entirely by an ice sheet and is an autonomous territory of Denmark.

Angel Falls drops 979 metres from the edge of a flat-topped table mountain called Auyan Tepui in the Guiana highlands of Venezuela, and is the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world.

The Sahara stretches across northern Africa from the Atlantic to the Red Sea and is the largest hot desert in the world.

The Nile flows north through north-eastern Africa for about 6,650 kilometres to the Mediterranean and is the river taken as the longest in the world in almost every textbook and examination.

The Mariana Trench lies in the western Pacific, east of the Mariana Islands, and its deepest part, the Challenger Deep, is close to eleven kilometres below sea level.

The Pacific covers a greater area than all the land on earth put together and is also the deepest ocean, holding the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest known point on the planet.

The Jama Masjid was built under Shah Jahan in the seventeenth century in red sandstone and white marble, opposite the Red Fort in Shahjahanabad, and its vast courtyard makes it the largest mosque in India.

NH 44 runs roughly north to south from Srinagar to Kanyakumari, about 3,745 kilometres, and is the longest national highway in India.

Hemis lies in eastern Ladakh, in high cold desert country, and is the largest national park in India by area.