IBPS Current Affairs Quiz: 25 October 2026

India reached this figure on 15 October 2026, when Sukhna Wetland in Chandigarh and Sauj Jheel in Uttar Pradesh were added to the list of Wetlands of International Importance.

The Indian contingent of para-athletes closed the Asian Para Games 2026 with that number of medals, which is a record for the country at the event and the best-ever performance it has managed there.

Mann Ki Baat is the monthly radio address of the Prime Minister, and the edition broadcast on 25 October 2026 was its 139th.

The purpose of the campaign is to settle the habit of cleanliness in government offices and to bring down the stock of pending matters, and offices are scored on space management, scrap disposal, record management, best practices, improvement of premises, environment-friendly working and citizen-centric steps.

Addressing the closing session of the 2nd National Urban Conclave, Rajiv Gauba, Member of NITI Aayog, said that nearly half of all Indians are expected to be living in urban areas by 2050, and that the urban population would therefore climb from roughly 50 crore at present to 85 crore.

Sukhna Wetland lies in Chandigarh and is a rain-fed reservoir created in 1958 at the foot of the Shivalik hills; it shelters threatened species such as the Pallas's fish eagle, the common pochard and the black pond turtle, and migratory birds of the Central Asian Flyway winter there.

The contingent gathered a record 114 medals at the 2026 edition, which no earlier Indian team at the event had matched.

The Prime Minister inaugurated the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre there during his visit to Chennai earlier in the month, and he spoke about it in the 139th episode of Mann Ki Baat.

This edition of the campaign places a dedicated emphasis on handling institutional electronic waste in an environment-friendly way, and the work is done in keeping with the E-Waste Management Rules, 2022.

Drawing on the report Moving Towards Effective City Governance, prepared jointly by NITI Aayog and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Rajiv Gauba said States must devolve all 18 functions to urban local bodies in line with the 74th Amendment, naming master planning, water supply, fire services and traffic…

The treaty takes its name from Ramsar, the Iranian town where it was adopted on 2 February 1971, and it entered into force in 1975.

India recorded 114 medals at the 2026 edition of this competition, the largest haul the country has ever managed there, and the Games had just concluded when Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the contingent.

Narinder Singh Kapany is known across the world as the Father of Fiber Optics, and his 100th birth anniversary falls on 31 October.

Reporting the position as on 23 October 2026, the company said it had taken up 180 campaign sites for cleanliness against a target of 145, cleared 24,96,193 square feet of space against the 24,15,786 square feet proposed, and disposed of 1,272 metric tonnes of scrap against a target of 1,266.22…

Setting out NITI Aayog's Growth Hub initiative, Rajiv Gauba pointed to the Urban Challenge Fund of 1 lakh crore rupees announced in the budget of 2025-26, meant to develop cities as hubs of growth.

The correct answer is Tamil Nadu, which accounts for 20 of the Ramsar Sites in the country, the highest for any State.

His 150th birth anniversary falls on 4 November. His ideals drew heavily on his close association with the Arya Samaj, for whose work he travelled to South Africa in the opening years of the twentieth century and met Mahatma Gandhi there; he also worked among the Girmitiya community in Guyana…

The first option names the preparatory phase instead, which ran from 15 to 30 September 2026 and was used to map targets across units, regional offices and joint ventures, so it is a close distractor rather than the answer.

Rajiv Gauba referred to Moving Towards Effective City Governance as a report developed jointly by NITI Aayog and that ministry, and he used its recommendations as the backbone of his address: directly elected mayors with terms of five years, a Mayor-in-Council system, municipal elections held on time, and the devolution…