IBPS Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 19–25 October 2026

Surveys have marked 320 pumped storage sites in India whose capacities add up to that figure, spread over all five regions of the country and at every stage of development, including schemes already running.

India will host the 61st CIML Meeting from 26 to 28 October 2026, the first time the country has been given this meeting, and the Department of Consumer Affairs is organising it with the International Organization of Legal Metrology.

It ran the online quiz with MyGov from 1 September to 10 October 2026 in the run-up to its own Foundation Day, and announced the ten winners on 19 October 2026.

She won the gold medal in the women's 10m air rifle standing SH1 event at the Asian Para Games 2026, and the outstanding score she shot also set a new Asian Para Games record in that event.

Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan formally launched this revamped portal on the Navami day of Navratri, so that scheme information, financial assistance and farming advice reach farmers directly on their mobile phones instead of through visits to offices or through intermediaries.

The four notified coldwater fisheries clusters are Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand, Kullu in Himachal Pradesh, Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir, and Kargil in Ladakh.

Under the first pillar of the Swachhata Hi Seva 2026 campaign, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and its organisations transformed 9,845 cleanliness target units, and 99,548 people took part in that effort.

The seven online marketplaces together furnished the details of that many sellers and listing entries offering regulated explosive substances, and all of those entries were taken down from the platforms.

Gold brought into the country without declaration and without payment of duty is smuggled goods, so the three arrests in this case, which covered dealings in 13.017 kg of foreign-origin gold valued at about Rs 19.41 crore, were made under that Act.

The fifth edition of Swavlamban, the Navy's annual NIIO seminar on innovation and indigenisation, is scheduled there on 26 and 27 October 2026, as announced at the curtain raiser press conference chaired by Vice Admiral Ajay Kochhar, Vice Chief of the Naval Staff.

That is the amount earned through the disposal of scrap under Special Swachhata Campaign 6.0 up to 19 October 2026, as reported at the mid-campaign review taken by Dr Jitendra Singh.

The National Highways Authority of India has added the Toll Plaza Feedback option to this mobile app so that users of national highways can report their experience at a toll plaza.

MY Bharat held that many programmes on 17 October 2026, spread over 36 states and union territories, in the fifth week of the 100 Weeks Campaign under the Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat Abhiyan.

The National Fellowship for Scheduled Caste Students, or NFSC, is that ministry's scheme and gives financial assistance to eligible Scheduled Caste students pursuing advanced education and research.

The commerce ministers of the two countries announced jointly that the trade pact would take effect on this date, which fell on Vijay Dashmi, a day read as a mark of victory and fresh beginnings.

The Department of Financial Services fixed this window for the countrywide drive, which reaches every gram panchayat and urban local body and asks banks to hold camps through the period.

The correct answer is the Secretary, Ministry of Power, Pankaj Agarwal, who held the virtual bilateral meeting with his Saudi counterpart to review progress on the proposed cross-border link.

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence seized 591.3 kg of ganja from a truck in Uttar Pradesh in an operation carried out during 17 and 18 October 2026.

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence put that value on the 43.2 lakh foreign-origin cigarette sticks it seized in Mizoram, a haul of 432 cases of the Patron brand recovered from a truck.

He won the gold medal in the men's javelin throw F46 class at the Asian Para Games 2026, and the throw that won it measured 65.11 metres, the best distance he had produced all season.

She won the women's 1500m T12/13 title at the Asian Para Games 2026, and she did it on her first appearance at the Games while also running a personal best over the distance.

He won the men's long jump T47 gold medal at the Asian Para Games 2026 with what was described as an outstanding jump, and the Prime Minister noted that the title arrived on his debut in the event, which made it even more special.

She finished second in the women's J2 -52kg judo event at the Asian Para Games 2026 and took the silver medal, and her result was notable because she had won a bronze at the previous edition of the Games and has now moved up the podium while competing in a…

The Regional Connectivity Scheme, named UDAN for Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik, was launched on that day, and its promise of affordable yet commercially viable regional flying came out of the National Civil Aviation Policy adopted the same year.

The campaign was launched by this centre of WWF-India, working with the support of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and it runs from 20 October to 8 November 2026.

The correct answer is Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, where the 25th Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation was held, with the Raksha Mantri speaking for India.

The nine-day fair of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment ran at that ground in Mysuru in Karnataka and closed on 20 October 2026, drawing thousands of visitors to the handicraft and handloom goods on sale.

Bhavina Patel took bronze in that class at the Asian Para Games 2026 on 20 October 2026, and the medal was described as another milestone in a career that has produced several.

Deepthi Jeevanji won the gold medal in that event at the Asian Para Games 2026 on 20 October 2026, and in doing so she retained the title she already held.

Prachi Pandey took bronze there on 20 October 2026 and became the first Indian ever to win a medal in that class at the Asian Para Games, which is why the Prime Minister described it as a historic first for Indian para table tennis and a pathbreaking achievement.