Banking Current Affairs Quiz: 2 October 2026

The correct answer is 2 October to 31 October 2026. Both the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the Ministry of Steel said on the opening day that the implementation phase of the campaign would run through that month. Option A is the preparatory phase rather than the implementation phase; the steel ministry and its public sector enterprises completed their preparations and set their targets between those September dates, which is why the choice is tempting but wrong. Option C moves the campaign into the following month, which no part of either announcement supports. Option D stretches the window by two days beyond the stated closing date of 31 October. During the month the ministries work on cleanliness at campaign sites, disposal of pending matters, records and space management, process simplification and the removal of redundant items and furniture, with nodal officers reporting progress on the monitoring portal.

The correct answer is Arjun Ram Meghwal. He is the Union Minister of State with Independent Charge for Law and Justice, and in that capacity he led the tree plantation drive on the campus of the India International Arbitration Centre at Vasant Kunj in New Delhi. Option B, Rajiv Mani, is the Secretary of the Legislative Department and of the Department of Legal Affairs and serves as Chairperson of the arbitration centre, so he is a senior official rather than the minister. Option C, Navin Kumar Singh, is the Chief Executive Officer of the centre and thanked the dignitaries at the close of the programme. Option D names someone who did not figure in this event at all. Addressing the gathering, the minister said cleanliness cannot stop at streets and public spaces and must begin with a clean mind, pure thought and a sense of duty towards society.

The correct answer is 31 December 2026. The Department of Commerce has carried the RoDTEP scheme forward to that date, and the benefit is available for exports made by Domestic Tariff Area units, Advance Authorisation holders, Special Economic Zone units and Export Oriented Units in the meantime. Option A, 30 September 2026, is the date of the notification itself and of the rate schedule that is being continued, not the closing date of the scheme, so it is wrong. Options C and D, 31 March 2027 and 30 June 2027, look plausible because Indian fiscal measures often end on a quarter boundary or with the financial year, but neither figure appears in the decision taken by the Department of Commerce. Aspirants should separate three dates in this item: the date the notification carries, the date on which the existing rates were frozen, and the new end date of the scheme. Only the last of these is 31 December 2026.

The correct answer is Resilience and Logistics Intervention for Export Facilitation. RELIEF is a time-bound intervention under the Export Promotion Mission and was launched on 19 March 2026 to support exporters struck by extraordinary freight escalation, higher insurance premia and war-related export risks arising on the Gulf and the wider West Asian maritime corridor. Option B mixes up the scheme with remission-type measures such as the duty and tax refund scheme for exported products, which works on a wholly different principle. Option C invents a farmer-facing reimbursement that does not exist in this measure. Option D sounds like an infrastructure fund, whereas RELIEF is an insurance and logistics cushion rather than a capital expenditure programme. Candidates should pin the expansion to the parent mission as well: RELIEF is not standalone, it sits inside the Export Promotion Mission.

The correct answer is Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry joined the concluding day of the G20 Trade Ministers Meeting under the United States Presidency. Options A, C and D name other large cities of the American Midwest, close enough geographically to be tempting, but the meeting was not held in any of them. Candidates should fix two further markers along with the city. First, the host of the current G20 Presidency is the United States, and India extended full support to the United Kingdom for the Presidency that follows in 2027. Second, the Indian minister spoke in four sessions at the meeting: on structural excess capacity and production, on updating the Most-Favoured-Nation principle, on ending forced labour in global supply chains, and in the closing session. Pairing the venue with the host country and the next host is the safest way to answer whichever form the question takes.

The correct answer is Greece. The consignment of popped phool makhana left Purnea in Bihar for Greece, sailing from Mundra Port in India to the Piraeus Port at the Greek end. Options B and D name other Mediterranean countries of Europe and option C a North American destination, all plausible markets for Indian processed food but none of them the buyer in this shipment. Candidates should note why the item is newsworthy beyond the destination: the price realised on the export was higher than the rate the same material was fetching in the domestic market, which is the basic case for linking a traditional crop to overseas buyers. Note also that makhana exports are now widening into European markets, so the arrival of a European destination is itself part of the story and a likely hook for a question.

The correct answer is the State Support Mission, the initiative under which NITI Aayog works with states on planning and budgeting, and under which this workshop was held with the Government of West Bengal and technical support from the United Nations Development Programme. Option A names the programme that tracks development indicators in selected districts, a different vehicle altogether. Option C is the innovation and entrepreneurship arm of NITI Aayog and has no part in budget tagging. Option D is the evaluation office within the body, which assesses programmes rather than running state support engagements. Candidates should remember the three-part arrangement here: NITI Aayog as organiser, the state government as host and partner, and UNDP as the source of technical support. The venue was Kolkata and the date was the twenty-ninth of September in the year 2026.

The correct answer is 2 October 2014, the date from which the mission counts the twelve years it now completes. Option A names Independence Day of the same year, a date often associated with the announcement of national programmes, which makes it the most attractive wrong choice. Options C and D shift the year forward and would put the anniversary out by a full twelve months. The mission began by getting cities to build toilets, raise awareness and work towards Open Defecation Free status, after which many went further and achieved ODF plus and ODF double plus grades. Its urban arm later added a quality goal through the Toilets two point zero initiative, and a user can now locate the nearest community or public facility through the toilet locator on the Swachhata application. Linking the launch date to the Gandhi Jayanti of that year is the easiest way to retain it.

The correct answer is Ankita Bhakat, Kumkum Anil Mohod and Kirti. The three of them shot together in the women's recurve team event at the Asian Games and brought India the gold medal, the country's first ever in that event, and the Prime Minister congratulated all three by name. Option B is wrong because Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma are not archers in this story at all; the pair won their medal in the women's skiff, a sailing event, on the same day. Option C is wrong because Dhiraj Bommadevara is a male archer and cannot be part of a women's team; he shot in the recurve mixed team event instead. Option D is wrong because it drops Kirti and brings in Shital Verma, who again belongs to the sailing medal and not to the archery squad. The safe way to hold this item in memory is to keep the three archery names as one block, since a recurve team is made up of three archers whose scores are added together.

The correct answer is Dhiraj Bommadevara and Kumkum Anil Mohod. The two shot together in the recurve mixed team event at the Asian Games and finished with the silver medal, which is India's first in that event at these Games, and the Prime Minister congratulated both by name. Option A is wrong because the woman in the pair was Kumkum Anil Mohod and not Ankita Bhakat, although Ankita Bhakat did win gold in the women's recurve team event on the same day. Option C is wrong because Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma are not archers; the two took bronze in the women's skiff, a sailing event, on that date. Option D is wrong on two counts, since a mixed team must have one man and one woman, and a pair of two women cannot enter the event at all. Fix the male archer's name first, because the mixed team question is usually set around him.

The correct answer is Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma. The two sailed together in the women's skiff event at the Asian Games and finished third for the bronze medal, and the Prime Minister congratulated both by name while noting that they had bettered India's previous performance in the event. Option A is wrong because Ankita Bhakat and Kirti are archers who were part of the Indian trio that won the women's recurve team gold on the same day. Option C is wrong because it replaces Harshita Tomar with Kumkum Anil Mohod, an archer who won both a team gold and a mixed team silver that day. Option D is wrong because it keeps one sailor and brings in an archer in place of the other. The day's medals are easiest to hold apart by sport, so attach the two sailing names to the skiff and the archery names to the recurve events.

The correct answer is Valmiki Tiger Reserve, Bihar. The tigress, identified as T138, was moved from Valmiki in Bihar to Buxa in West Bengal after ecological, veterinary and management parameters had been assessed and the laid-down protocols followed, and the Environment Minister thanked the Bihar Chief Minister for the state's support in the translocation. Option A, Manas Tiger Reserve in Assam, is a plausible distractor because a tiger photographed at Buxa by camera traps was matched with a Manas animal, but that was evidence of natural movement across the landscape and not the source of this release. Option C, the Sundarbans, lies in the same state as Buxa and is not mentioned as the source at all. Option D, Kanha, is a well-known reserve of Madhya Pradesh that has no part in this programme. The pairing to remember is Valmiki in Bihar as the source and Buxa in West Bengal as the destination.

The correct answer is Namami Gange. Gifts and artefacts presented to the Prime Minister are catalogued and offered for public bidding, and whatever the sale earns is placed at the service of the Namami Gange project, the programme devoted to the cleaning and conservation of the Ganga. This is stated twice in the announcement of the eighth edition, which is a sign of how central the detail is. Option B, the Swachh Bharat Mission, is a sanitation programme and is not the recipient of these proceeds. Option C is a scheme for the girl child and has no link with the auction. Option D, the Smart Cities Mission, concerns urban infrastructure and is likewise unconnected. Candidates should note the chain of facts in one line: gifts to the Prime Minister go to a public auction conducted by the Ministry of Culture, and the money raised goes to Namami Gange.

The correct answer is Canada. The consignment of frozen food products was flagged off from Sonipat in Haryana for the Canadian market, it was exported by Aterna Foods Producer Company Limited, and the Chairman of APEDA said at the event that he expected exports to Canada to grow further. Option A, Greece, is the destination of a different Indian agricultural shipment and is the kind of distractor that catches a candidate who remembers the produce but not the market. Option C, Australia, and option D, the United Arab Emirates, are both large buyers of Indian processed food but have no part in this particular consignment. The pairing to carry into the examination hall is simple: frozen vegetables and snacks, Sonipat in Haryana, and Canada as the destination, with APEDA facilitating the shipment under its support scheme.

The correct answer is the effective collection, segregation and disposal of e-waste. The campaign retains its older aims of cleanliness and clearing pendency, but electronic waste is the subject singled out for this round, and a standard operating procedure for scientific disposal of such waste has been sent to every subordinate office, autonomous organisation and regional office. Option A, digitisation of land records, belongs to a different programme and is nowhere in the campaign guidelines described here. Option C, phasing out single-use plastic, is a separate environmental commitment and not this campaign's theme. Option D, energy audits of government buildings, is likewise unrelated to the announced focus. The environment ministry has already listed the items it will send for disposal, which include information technology and telecommunication equipment, consumer electronics with photovoltaic panels, laboratory instruments and medical devices.

The correct answer is Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam. The Department of Legal Affairs of the Ministry of Law and Justice organised the drive under that theme on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti, and it formed part of Special Campaign 6 as well as Swachhata Hi Seva 2026. Options A, C and D are plausible-sounding names for plantation or greening drives, but none of them is the theme named for this event. The minister, the law secretary who chairs the centre, and senior officers of the department and the centre planted saplings on the campus together. The programme ended with a pledge to carry on cleanliness work and to promote a greener and more sustainable environment, and the centre's leadership tied that pledge to the wider aims of the Swachh Bharat Mission.

The correct answer is Notification No. 41/2026-27, which the Department of Commerce issued on 30 September 2026 to continue the RoDTEP scheme up to 31 December 2026. Option A names the notification that extended the timelines under Component II of the RELIEF intervention for exporters facing West Asia logistics disruptions, a separate measure of the same department issued on the same day, which makes it the strongest distractor here. Options B and D carry serial numbers that were never attached to this decision. Questions of this kind reward candidates who note the notification number together with its date, because a department commonly issues several notifications in one sitting and examiners pair the wrong number with the right scheme. Remember the combination: RoDTEP extension to 31 December 2026 by Notification No. 41/2026-27 of 30 September 2026.

The correct answer is the ECGC, with 95 per cent risk coverage. Component II nudges an exporter into taking Export Credit Guarantee Corporation cover for upcoming shipments to the specified regions, and that cover carries ninety-five per cent risk coverage, available on a Stand Alone Policy or a Whole Turnover Policy obtained on or after 16 March 2026. Option A names the Export-Import Bank, which lends and guarantees for export finance but is not the credit insurer in this component. Option C names the Directorate General of Foreign Trade, which frames and notifies trade policy rather than selling insurance cover. Option D names the small industries lender, which has no role here. The second protection in Component II is equally examinable: the premium an exporter pays cannot be pushed above the level that held before the disruption, for the whole of the eligible period.

The correct answer is Article 23. Speaking on ending forced labour in global supply chains, the minister said India commitment to eliminating forced labour is absolute and unconditional, and that the Constitution forbids forced labour as a fundamental right enforceable by the Supreme Court. Option A, Article 19, carries the freedoms of speech, assembly, association, movement, residence and profession, not this prohibition. Option B, Article 21, protects life and personal liberty. Option D, Article 32, is the right to move the Supreme Court for enforcement of fundamental rights, which is the route by which the prohibition is enforced rather than the prohibition itself, and that proximity makes it the strongest distractor. Alongside the Article, remember the two international instruments the minister named, the forced labour conventions of the International Labour Organization numbered twenty-nine and one hundred and five, both ratified by India.

The correct answer is Bihar, which contributes about eighty to eighty-five per cent of the national output, with India itself the global leader in makhana production. Cultivation in the state is spread across more than thirty-five thousand hectares in ten districts. Options A, B and D name states with wetlands and pond-based farming where the crop is also grown or could be grown, which makes them reasonable distractors, but none carries anything near the Bihar share. Two institutions give the crop its scientific backing and are worth remembering with the state: Bihar Agricultural University at Sabour, and the National Research Centre for Makhana run by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research at Darbhanga. A question may ask for either the share, the area, the district count, or the research centre, so all four should be learnt as one cluster.

The correct answer is thirty-two. Alongside these participants, the workshop drew senior officials from NITI Aayog, the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, the Controller General of Accounts, the Department of Public Enterprises and the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, as well as the United Nations Resident Coordinator Office and development partners. Representatives of FICCI, CII, SEBI, the Tata Steel Foundation, Intellecap and GIZ were also present, which is why the organisers described the gathering as a whole of government and whole of society approach to localising the Goals. The other options are plausible counts of Indian states and union territories, which is exactly the trap: the figure asked for is the number that took part, not the number that exists.

The correct answer is Bengaluru, in Karnataka, where an old vehicle at the Majestic terminal of the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation was converted into a facility for women alone. It holds three Indian-style and two Western-style commodes, a sanitary napkin vending machine and an incinerator for menstrual hygiene, and a dedicated space where mothers can feed babies and change nappies, while its sensor lights run on solar power the facility itself generates. The three wrong options are the other cities in the same account, each with a different innovation: Bhopal runs the Freshrooms smart lounges at a market, Navi Mumbai built toilets out of recycled plastic at Koparkhairane, and Tirupati maintains large complexes for pilgrims. Matching each city to its own innovation is the surest way to answer whichever pairing the question asks for.

The correct answer is Women's Recurve Team. India had never taken the gold in this archery event at the Asian Games before, and Ankita Bhakat, Kumkum Anil Mohod and Kirti ended that wait, which is why the Prime Minister described the win as historic and as a landmark for the sport. Option A, the women's compound team, is a different archery discipline shot with a compound bow and is not the event in which this particular first was recorded. Option B, the recurve mixed team, is the event in which Dhiraj Bommadevara and Kumkum Anil Mohod took a silver medal, not a gold. Option D, the women's skiff, is a sailing event in which Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma finished with the bronze medal. Candidates should note that the day brought India medals of three different colours in three different events, so the colour and the event have to be matched carefully.

The correct answer is silver. Dhiraj Bommadevara and Kumkum Anil Mohod finished second in the recurve mixed team event, and the Prime Minister noted that the pair had given the country its first ever silver in this event at the Asian Games. Option A, gold, belongs to a different event of the same day, the women's recurve team, in which Ankita Bhakat, Kumkum Anil Mohod and Kirti stood on the top step. Option C, bronze, was the colour of the medal India won in the women's skiff sailing event through Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma. Option D is plainly wrong because a medal was in fact won. The trap in this item is that one archer, Kumkum Anil Mohod, appears in both the gold and the silver of the same day, so the colour has to be matched to the event rather than to the athlete.

The correct answer is sailing. A skiff is a light and fast sailing boat driven by the wind in its sails and handled by a crew of two, so every skiff class event belongs to sailing. Option A, rowing, is wrong because a rowing boat is moved by oars worked against the water and its events are named by the number of rowers, such as the single sculls or the coxless pair. Option B, canoeing, is wrong because a canoe is paddled with a single-bladed paddle by an athlete who kneels, and its events are named with the letter C. Option D, kayaking, is wrong for a similar reason, since a kayaker sits and uses a double-bladed paddle in events marked with the letter K. For revision, remember that the skiff belongs to sailing and that the Indian pair in it finished with the bronze medal.