Current Affairs October 2026 — MCQs with Answers (Set 3)

They levied service charge automatically. Under CCPA rules, service charge is voluntary and at the consumer’s choice.

S. Janaki was called the Nightingale of South India. ‘Nightingale of India’ refers to Sarojini Naidu. Janaki recorded about 48,000 songs in 17 languages.

Clean sources met over 50% of demand, about 50.2%. It was the second year running that India crossed the half-way mark.

The group works under UNCTAD, now called UN Trade and Development. The session in Geneva launched the UN Principles for Consumer Product Safety.

It was held in Geneva, Switzerland. New Delhi had hosted a stakeholder consultation earlier, during the AI Impact Summit in February 2026.

Teejan Bai was the best-known Pandavani artist. Pandavani is Chhattisgarh’s folk ballad form based on the Mahabharata. She performed in the standing Kapalik style.

Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich signed it with Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi on 8 September 2025. Gideon Sa’ar is Israel’s Foreign Minister.

Exports were ₹686 crore in 2013-14. Over ₹38,000 crore is almost 57 times that figure.

Akash Tarang is an anti-UAV electronic warfare system. It protects Army formations from hostile drones. The pseudo satellite in the same package was for the Air Force.

UNCTAD data show India ranked first in 2025 with a 35.4% share of global ship recycling. Its share was 30.1% in 2024.

These auctions are held under the MMDR Act, 1957 and the Mineral (Auction) Rules, 2015. By June 2026, 56 critical and strategic blocks had been sold.

VIDHI-Sanjeevani is the new component of DISHA 2.0 (2026-31). It adds a central digital platform and the AI-powered Nyaya Setu chatbot.

Section 38 of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 lets the Centre, in consultation with the State, notify threatened species. The NBA’s June 2026 SOP guides States on this process.

The 11th BRICS Energy Ministers’ Meeting was held in Gurugram, Haryana, on 25 June 2026. A BRICS Digital Centre of Excellence for Smart Grids and Energy Storage was launched there.

Netra is India’s indigenous Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) system, developed by DRDO. It got Initial Operational Clearance in 2017 and Final Operational Clearance on 25 June 2026.

UPI went live in Greece on 30 June 2026 through a Eurobank–NIPL partnership. Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal watched the launch at Eurobank’s Athens headquarters.

The boards approved merging REC into PFC. REC shareholders get 88 PFC shares for every 100 REC shares. The combined loan book will be over ₹11 lakh crore.

General Dhiraj Seth was commissioned into the Armoured Corps in December 1986. He succeeded General Upendra Dwivedi on 30 June 2026.

Statistics Day honours P.C. Mahalanobis, the architect of India’s modern statistical system. The 20th Statistics Day in 2026 had the theme ‘Unlocking the Potential of Administrative Data’.

The Government of India holds 49% of NIIF. In June 2026 the Cabinet raised its total commitment to NIIF to ₹60,000 crore.

Seychelles joined the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) during the visit. Modi also received Seychelles’ first ‘Guardian of the Blue Horizon’ distinction.

The facility uses the Copper-Chlorine thermochemical cycle, developed by BARC. Heat comes from the Fast Breeder Test Reactor at Kalpakkam.

INS Mahendragiri is a Project 17A stealth frigate. Project 15B builds destroyers and Project 75 builds submarines.

IIM Bangalore will set up its first overseas campus in the Singhasari SEZ in East Java.

PM Modi said 1,000 biogas and organic fertiliser plants will be set up in India under the initiative.