Banking Current Affairs Quiz: 28 October 2026

He inaugurated ESTIC 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on the conclave's opening day and used his address to ask scientists, researchers and young innovators for outcomes that are concrete, measurable and able to be scaled, within an operating horizon of three years.

The Ministry of Tourism is holding the 14th International Tourism Mart from 29 to 31 October 2026 at Hotel Vivanta in Tawang, together with the Government of Arunachal Pradesh and the other North Eastern States.

The Terms of Reference signed on 28 October 2026 formally launch negotiations for a Preferential Trade Agreement between India and Mexico, and they lay down the framework, scope, modalities and roadmap that the negotiators will follow.

The application was developed by BISAG-N in collaboration with the National Water Mission under the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation in the Ministry of Jal Shakti, and it was launched by the Union Jal Shakti Minister to support scientific groundwater recharge planning.

The Commission addressed the advisory to nine Union Ministries, to the Chief Secretaries and Administrators of all States and Union Territories, and to their Directors General of Police, and it has asked them to report back on implementation.

Officers of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence intercepted two containers of a Nepal-bound transshipment consignment there and recovered about 55,000 e-cigarettes, mis-declared as water glass and ceramic mugs, worth roughly Rs 13.50 crore.

The Union Cabinet approved the Mission in January 2023 with that outlay, and set the goal of making India a global hub for green hydrogen and its derivatives, with production capacity of at least 5 MMT a year by 2030.

Its two satellites docked for the first time on 16 January 2025, then repeated the manoeuvre with full autonomy from an inter-satellite distance of 15 m on 20 April 2025, and the following day power was transferred between the docked spacecraft.

Prof. Ajay K. Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, described the 12 core thematic priority domains around which the conclave is built, and called for closer alignment of research, industry and policy across them.

The Mart at Tawang is expected to see participation from 43 international buyers representing 22 countries, among them Japan, Australia, Bhutan, Russia, Singapore, Germany, Thailand, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The Prime Minister of India and the President of Mexico met on the sidelines of that summit in June 2025 and agreed to strengthen and deepen the partnership between the two countries; the Terms of Reference signed later are the direct result of that understanding.

The application allows a user to identify potential artificial recharge zones within a radial distance of up to three kilometres from a chosen point, and then to explore which recharge structures would suit the conditions prevailing there.

The Commission urged all the authorities concerned to implement the recommendations contained in the advisory and to furnish an Action Taken Report within that period, so that it stays informed of the progress being made.

This law bans the production, manufacture, import, export, transport, sale, distribution, storage and advertisement of electronic cigarettes and of every Electronic Nicotine Delivery System, and it was enacted in the interest of public health and to protect people from harm.

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy notified the Standard in August 2023, and the ceiling applies on a well-to-gate basis, measured as an average over twelve months; with it India became one of the first few countries to define green hydrogen formally.

The Union Cabinet approved the development of the vehicle in September 2024, and the amount covers development costs, three developmental flights, the essential facilities, programme management and the launch campaign.

His plenary covered cryo-electron microscopy for target discovery and drug design, including the computational and mathematical frameworks used in high-resolution single-particle work and the three-dimensional visualisation of macromolecular complexes.

It is to be held on 30 October 2026 on the sidelines of the Mart at Tawang and will be chaired by the Union Minister for Tourism and Culture, giving the States a forum to discuss how tourism in the region can be strengthened and how they can cooperate better.

The discussions on bilateral relations and on widening trade and investment flows were held during his visit, and the Mexican side was represented by Luis Rosendo Gutierrez Romano, Undersecretary of Foreign Trade, who took part on behalf of Secretary of Economy Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon.

These are the geospatial layers the platform works on to mark out areas where water can usefully be sent back into the ground and to plan the right interventions there.

The advisory went to nine Union Ministries, and alongside them to the Chief Secretaries and Administrators of all States and Union Territories as well as their Directors General of Police, because the subjects it covers run across prisons, health, women and child welfare, law and social justice.

Around 55,000 e-cigarettes were seized together with the cover cargo, and this was the value placed on them, with the first container holding 40,000 devices of one brand and the second about 15,000 of several others.

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has recognised three ports as green hydrogen hubs, namely Deendayal Port at Kandla in Gujarat, V.O.

This is the target set by the Department of Space, and emerging technologies such as reusable launch vehicles, air-breathing propulsion, electric propulsion and in-space docking are expected to support that growth.

Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, cited the growth of the startup ecosystem from roughly 400 startups in 2014 to more than 2.3 lakh today, and added that an estimated 50 to 60 per cent of them are based in…