IBPS Current Affairs Quiz: 29 October 2026

The Employees' State Insurance Corporation began running the New Amnesty Scheme, 2025 from 1 October 2025, and the window was originally set to shut on 30 September 2026.

Its support price was raised by the largest rupee amount among the mandated rabi crops, Rs 675 a quintal, when the rates for Rabi Marketing Season 2027-28 were cleared on 30 September 2026.

The Secretary of the Department of Science and Technology told the session on autonomous systems at the conclave that technology innovation hubs under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems have been established at twenty-five leading academic institutions spread across the country.

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy placed the firm and signed green hydrogen offtake commitments of Indian companies at this level as of October 2026, which is the largest such order book anywhere in the world and works out to roughly 11 per cent of the National Green Hydrogen…

MeghRaj 2.0, the second generation of the Government of India's national cloud computing initiative, had been adopted by that many government departments by September 2026.

The two Memorandums of Settlement signed on 14 October 2026 between the management of UltraTech, Bathinda and the workers' unions are expected to extend financial benefits of approximately Rs 3.36 crore to this many workers over the next five years.

Eligibility under the New Amnesty Scheme, 2025 is decided by the date on which the litigation began: only those court cases instituted up to 31 March 2025 may be taken up for settlement under it.

Minimum Support Prices are declared every year for 22 mandated crops on the recommendations of this commission, which also takes into account the views of state governments and central ministries and departments.

The Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave of 2026, in short ESTIC 2026, was held there from the twenty-seventh to the twenty-ninth of October 2026, bringing together people from science, technology, research and industry to discuss emerging technologies and innovation.

The Cabinet approved the National Green Hydrogen Mission with this initial outlay, which runs up to the year 2029-30.

The IndiaAI Mission was approved with this outlay and its purpose is to widen access to computing power for artificial intelligence work.

The management of UltraTech at Bathinda signed one Memorandum of Settlement with each of these two unions on 14 October 2026, and together the agreements are expected to deliver benefits of about Rs 3.36 crore to 217 workers over five years.

One of the three reliefs built into the New Amnesty Scheme, 2025 is meant for employers who have already cleared the contribution dues demanded of them but whose cases are still being heard.

When the higher support prices for all mandated rabi crops of Marketing Season 2027-28 were approved on 30 September 2026, the payment to farmers was estimated at that figure for 324 lakh metric tonnes of produce.

Speaking at the session, he said physical artificial intelligence is not merely an artificial intelligence problem but also a systems engineering problem, since an intelligent physical system works only when reliable sensors, efficient actuators, real-time computing, robust control algorithms, low-latency communication and energy-efficient hardware all hold together.

Its long-term supply and purchase agreement with Samsung C&T Corporation of South Korea is valued at more than USD 3 billion, making it one of the largest green ammonia offtake contracts in the world, and deliveries under it are expected to begin by 2028.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology reported in February 2026 that the BHASHINI language platform had been moved to an Indian cloud operated by Yotta Data Services, which keeps its language datasets, AI models and citizen interactions within India's own jurisdiction and therefore supports data sovereignty.

The office of the Chief Labour Commissioner (Central) works under this ministry, and the Assistant Labour Commissioner (Central) at Jalandhar, whose conciliation produced the settlements at UltraTech, Bathinda, functions under that office.

Where the Corporation had raised a demand on an ad-hoc or estimated basis, the New Amnesty Scheme, 2025 allows the employer to close the matter by paying the contribution that was genuinely owed together with the interest on it, and the claim to damages is given up altogether.

That is the support price fixed for wheat for the rabi crop that will be marketed in the 2027-28 season, and it is Rs 25 above the rate of the preceding season.