State Exams GK Questions 2026

The fiftieth session of the Indian National Congress met in December 1936 at Faizpur in the Khandesh region of what is now Maharashtra, and it was the first session of the Congress held in a village rather than in a city.

On the day of Baisakhi in 1919 a crowd gathered in the walled garden of Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar to protest against the Rowlatt Act and the arrest of Saifuddin Kitchlew and Satyapal, and Brigadier General Reginald Dyer ordered his troops to fire without warning on the closed enclosure.

The annual session of the Indian National Congress in December 1920 met at Nagpur under the presidency of C. Vijayaraghavachariar, and it confirmed the programme of non cooperation that a special session at Calcutta had approved in September of that year.

Taking the four in the order they appear in history: Wood's Despatch came first, in 1854, and is called the Magna Carta of English education in India because it laid down a graded system of schools and universities.

In the First Battle of Panipat, Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the last Sultan of the Lodi dynasty, and the victory ended the Delhi Sultanate and founded the Mughal empire in India.

That section is the provision under which the Reserve Bank grants a licence to carry on banking business in India, and both differentiated categories are licensed under it; once the Reserve Bank is satisfied, they are also included in the second schedule of the Reserve Bank of India Act of…

It was launched on the first of September 2018, is wholly owned by the Government of India and operates under the Department of Posts, using the post office network and postal staff to reach customers, which makes it the payments bank with the widest physical reach in the country.

The Reserve Bank set up the Committee on Comprehensive Financial Services for Small Businesses and Low Income Households under Nachiket Mor in September 2013, and its report recommended differentiated bank licences, including payments banks, as a faster route to financial inclusion than waiting for full service banks to expand.

At least a quarter of the banking outlets of a small finance bank must be in unbanked rural centres, which the guidelines define as centres with a population of up to 9,999 according to the latest census, the same definition used for universal banks; the requirement exists so that a…

The guidelines require that at least half of a small finance bank's loan portfolio be made up of loans and advances of up to twenty five lakh rupees each, and the purpose is to keep the bank lending small even as it grows, so that it does not drift towards…

A small finance bank exists to serve small borrowers, and the guidelines enforce that purpose by requiring seventy five per cent of its adjusted net bank credit to go to the sectors eligible as priority sector lending, which include agriculture, micro and small enterprises, education, housing and weaker sections.

Since a payments bank cannot lend, the guidelines direct where its deposits must go: at least seventy five per cent of demand deposit balances must be invested in government securities and treasury bills eligible for the statutory liquidity ratio, with a maturity of up to one year, and not more…

The licence of a payments bank excludes credit altogether: it may not lend to anyone and may not issue credit cards, and this single prohibition is what separates it from every other kind of bank in India.

A payments bank may accept demand deposits, that is savings and current accounts, but the total balance of an individual customer with the bank cannot exceed two lakh rupees at the end of the day.

The Reserve Bank released the final guidelines for licensing both payments banks and small finance banks on the twenty seventh of November 2014, acting on the report of the Nachiket Mor Committee on Comprehensive Financial Services for Small Businesses and Low Income Households.

The Param Vir Chakra is the highest wartime gallantry decoration of the Indian armed forces, given for the most conspicuous bravery in the presence of the enemy, and its peacetime equivalent is the Ashoka Chakra; neither belongs to the civilian order of precedence.

Sri Lankabhimanya, which means the pride of Sri Lanka, is the highest national honour of that country and is awarded for exceptional and outstanding service to the nation; the name itself carries the clue, since the country is named in the award.

The Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum is the senior order of Japan, and the chrysanthemum is the emblem of the imperial house, which is why the flower gives the order its name and why the Japanese throne is called the Chrysanthemum Throne.

Until December 2011 the Bharat Ratna could be given only for exceptional service in art, literature and science or for public service of the highest order, and sport was outside its scope.

The rules of the Bharat Ratna provide that not more than three awards may be made in a particular year, and there is no obligation to make any award at all in a given year, which is why several years have passed with none.