IBPS Current Affairs Quiz: 27 October 2026

He holds the Dutch portfolio of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, and he chaired the India-Netherlands Business Forum jointly with India's Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal during the visit of 26 October 2026.

It is the nodal ministry for the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana and handles policy formulation, funding, monitoring and overall implementation through its Department of Social Justice and Empowerment.

It also runs the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme, the Fund of Funds for Startups and the Credit Guarantee Scheme for Startups.

The scheme for carbon capture, utilisation and storage was announced in February 2026 and the Ministry of Finance set aside that sum over five years for five industrial sectors, namely power, steel, cement, refineries and chemicals.

That is the theme chosen by the Central Vigilance Commission for the week observed from 26 October to 1 November 2026, and it connects honesty in public office with national prosperity.

Two disputes between its management and its employees organisations were settled on 22 and 23 October 2026 through the conciliation efforts of the Assistant Labour Commissioner (Central), Patna, working under the Office of the Chief Labour Commissioner (Central) in the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

The Ministry of Education announced that the Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025 had been certified by Guinness World Records under exactly this category, on the strength of 2,87,967 project entries sent in by school pupils from across the country through the Idea Track and the Prototype Track.

The 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity met at Yerevan, and the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change thanked the Government of Armenia for hosting the seventeenth meeting of the Convention.

The National Human Rights Commission built its advisory around eight areas of action: raising awareness about women's safety and sexual harassment, infrastructure, encouraging bystander intervention, the role of the police, support for survivors, cybercrime against women, long-term reforms, and other measures.

Ministries run Special Campaign 6 under its guidance, and it has set up the web portal on which each ministry uploads progress so that the drive can be monitored centrally.

The India-Netherlands Business Forum held during the engagements of 26 October 2026 drew roughly that many participants, and the gathering was made up largely of leading representatives of Indian and Dutch companies rather than of officials alone.

That is the amount released as grant-in-aid to 755 projects under the Integrated Programme for Senior Citizens, a component of the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana, for the quarter that ended on 30 September 2026 in financial year 2026-27.

India drew that much foreign direct investment over the twelve financial years from FY 2014-15 to FY 2025-26, which is 169 per cent more than in the twelve years before it.

The first integrated CCUS Field Laboratory was inaugurated there in May 2026 and brings capture, utilisation and permanent geological storage together on one pilot scale platform.

The Central Vigilance Commission is observing the week across those seven days, and the integrity pledge was administered to the Commission officers and staff on 27 October 2026 at Satarkata Bhawan in New Delhi.

The option of Rs 10.52 crore is the benefit under the second settlement alone, signed on 23 October 2026 with the Bihar Gramin Bank Workers Organisation for around 2,500 employees, so it is a part and not the whole.

This is the count of project submissions the Buildathon received from schools across India, taking the Idea Track and the Prototype Track together, and it is the figure on which the Guinness World Records certification as the Largest Innovation Solution Competition rests.

India's minister told the High-Level Segment that the country's updated National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan converts the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework into 23 National Biodiversity Targets, and that progress against them is measured through 142 indicators.

The commission quoted the Periodic Labour Force Participation Survey to show that women's participation in the labour force stood at this level in September 2026, and set it beside the roughly 4.4 lakh cases of crimes against women in the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau.

The ministry completed the review of every physical file it had identified for the purpose, and that total was 5,593, one of the parameters it reported as fully finished in the progress up to 25 October 2026.

Arthur van Dijk holds that provincial office, through which the Dutch crown is represented in North Holland, and he was among the leaders Piyush Goyal met in the Netherlands on 26 October 2026.

India had 10.38 crore people aged 60 and above at the Census of 2011, split into 5.11 crore men and 5.27 crore women, and the elderly population is projected to rise to 23 crore by 2036.

Twenty-nine central labour laws have been merged into four Labour Codes, and the exercise came with a set of threshold changes that are easy to ask about.

It is organising the second edition of the Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave, ESTIC-2026, from 27 to 29 October 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, on the theme Creative Minds, Catalyzing Science, Empowering Technologies.

The Central Vigilance Commission has advised all ministries, departments and organisations of the Central Government to run a preventive vigilance campaign of three months, from 17 August to 16 November 2026, and it named five focus areas: disposal of pending complaints, disposal of pending cases, capacity building programmes, digital initiatives…