IBPS Current Affairs Quiz: 15 October 2026

The Captive Employer CXO Meet at the Rajasthan International Centre in Jaipur was held by the Ministry of Rural Development along with the Rajasthan Skill and Livelihoods Development Corporation, and its subject was the Captive Employment window of DDU-GKY 2.0.

The Digital India BHASHINI Division signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Manipur at the Manipur Chapter of the BHASHINI Rajyam Workshop, held in Imphal on 14 October 2026.

Its Secretary, Smt. Nivedita Shukla Verma, chaired the third review meeting with the campaign's nodal officers, and its Additional Secretary, Shri Puneet Yadav, presented the progress made.

For women aged 15 years and above the Labour Force Participation Rate reached that level in 2025.

The correct answer is the Vice-President of India, Shri C. P. Radhakrishnan, who opened the conference in New Delhi and used the address to call for stronger scientific research into Ayurveda so that the efficacy of traditional practices is established and their acceptance abroad grows.

The curtain-raiser announced that the second edition of the Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave will be held there, and that this edition is being organised by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

It organised the workshop at the IIT Madras Research Park in Chennai to commemorate National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day, and about 150 delegates from academia, research institutes and industry attended.

For telecom licensing the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are grouped with West Bengal, and the drive test across South Andaman district and the coastal route from Port Blair to Havelock was conducted under that service area during August 2026, supervised by the regulator regional office at Kolkata.

That is the number of rural young people trained under the scheme to date, as disclosed at the Captive Employer CXO Meet held in Jaipur on 15 October 2026.

The Digital India BHASHINI Division works under the Digital India Corporation, which comes under that ministry, and it is advancing what the government calls a Language-First Digital Public Infrastructure for the country.

The campaign has two phases: the preparatory phase, which was completed at the end of September, and the implementation phase, which began on 2 October and runs to the end of that month.

The scheme, which began in 2015, seeks to widen access to collateral-free credit up to that amount for micro and small enterprises in non-corporate and non-farm income generating activities.

The theme of the third edition was Shaping the Future of Child Health: Global Perspectives, Research Innovations, and Clinical Frontiers in Kaumarabhritya, and the Vice-President said it reflected a shared duty to let every child grow up healthy and well nurtured.

Professor Abhay Karandikar, Member of NITI Aayog and the Chief Guest at the curtain-raiser, called the theme apt because it speaks of the creative minds that work on scientific innovations and then turn them into technologies that serve society.

The correct answer is the IIT Madras Research Park in Chennai, where the 9th Workshop on Recent Advancements in Hydrogen Value Chain was held on 13 October 2026.

The correct answer is RJIL, which averaged 297.95 Mbps on its 5G and 4G networks in parts of Kolkata city and the Howrah and Hooghly districts.

The Ministry of Rural Development has reserved that share of the targets of DDU-GKY 2.0 for Captive Employers, under whom a company trains rural candidates and absorbs them into its own workforce.

The platform supports 36 Indian languages for text, and that figure should be kept apart from the other language counts given for it.

The Department of Defence is wrong: it set up the e-Chhawani Helpdesk for grievance redressal, which is a different initiative from the same campaign.

The scheme was framed to strengthen credit delivery to micro and small enterprises and to reach entrepreneurs who are unserved or underserved, and within it women-led units receive guarantee cover at that higher level together with a concession of 10 per cent on the guarantee fee.

At the inaugural ceremony the Vice-President inaugurated the AYUSH Start-up Portal, the AIIA-iCAINE website and the Ayurveda Digital Innovation and Venture Acceleration Facility, known by its short name AyuDIVA, and he launched the Vamana App together with the Panchakarma Assessment App.

The DST Secretary, Professor Umesh Waghmare, said the department has set up that many Technology Innovation Hubs under the mission, and named TiHAN at IIT Hyderabad, IHFC at IIT Delhi and ARTPARK at IISc Bengaluru as examples.

Professor R. R. Sonde of IIT Delhi-Abu Dhabi, the Guest of Honour, outlined five sovereign commitments covering energy independence, economic development, net-zero emissions and industrial decarbonisation, universal energy access, and a clean environment.

During an Independent Drive Test the regulator captures coverage gap, which is the share of samples with signal strength below the prescribed minimum for the technology in use, and for voice it records Call Setup Success Rate, Drop Call Rate, call setup time, call silence rate and speech quality on…

Payment to a Project Implementing Agency, which may itself be an eligible captive employer, is structured this way under DDU-GKY 2.0, and each instalment is linked to a milestone settled in advance.