Current Affairs August 2026 — MCQs with Answers (Set 6)

Messi first matched Klose’s record with a hat-trick against Algeria, then broke it with two goals against Austria.

Messi broke Germany’s Miroslav Klose’s record of 16 career World Cup goals, a mark Klose had held since 2014.

Messi reached 18 career goals when he broke Klose’s 16-goal record in the 2026 group stage. He held the outright record only briefly — Kylian Mbappé passed him later in the same tournament.

Sejal Kamble won gold in the women’s 10m air pistol event at the ISSF Junior World Championship 2026.

India’s medal split was 7 gold, 8 silver, and 10 bronze, for a total of 25 medals.

India topped the medal tally at the ISSF Junior World Championship 2026, held in Suhl, Germany.

Srikanth’s runner-up finish at the US Open 2026 extended his BWF title drought; his last title came at the French Open in 2017.

After a line official wrongly ruled a point in his favour, Srikanth deliberately netted the next shuttle to hand the point back.

Chang’e-7 targets a site near Shackleton Crater, at the lunar south pole, and carries a rocket-propelled hopping probe to reach terrain no rover can. Von Karman crater was the landing site of an earlier mission, Chang’e-4, not Chang’e-7.

Chang’e-7 is scheduled to launch from the Wenchang Space Launch Site, where the spacecraft arrived in April 2026.

The DMK fell to 59 seats, a loss of 74 seats from its 2021 tally.

TVK won 108 of the Assembly’s 234 seats. This was the largest party tally, but below a full-house majority of 118. The other offered numbers are not TVK’s election tally.

Results were declared on 4 May 2026. Voting itself took place across two phases, 23 and 29 April, with one seat repolled on 21 May.

Indira Gandhi’s tenure as PM was not continuous, which is why this specific ‘longest continuous elected tenure’ record doesn’t belong to her.

Nehru’s record stood at 4,398 consecutive days as an elected PM, between 1952 and 1964.

Modi first took the oath of office on 26 May 2014, and his tenure has run unbroken since, through the 2019 and 2024 elections.

Modi completed 4,399 consecutive days in office, one more than Nehru’s previous record of 4,398 days.

PM Modi cited nearly 70 crore Indians under the age of 25 as part of India’s demographic dividend.

This was the first time Chief Ministers of all 28 states attended a NITI Aayog Governing Council Meeting together.

The Kishau Dam will generate 660 MW of hydropower. The other figures are the project’s drinking water (517 million cubic metres) and irrigation area (97,000 hectares) figures, not power output.

The Centre funds 90% of the water component’s cost, with the six states sharing the remaining 10%.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired the meeting that secured consensus among the six states.

The new codes align with existing Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) databases. SVAMITVA is a separate, real scheme used for the underlying village mapping.

The Ministry of Panchayati Raj proposed this system to code and grade every village road.