RBI Current Affairs Quiz: October 2026

The correct answer is Resilience in an Age of Flux, the theme announced by the Ministry of Finance for the fifth edition of the Conclave, to be held in New Delhi from 3 to 5 October 2026.

Under the revised norms a dealer may not hold more than this quantity at any time or at any place in the country, and the rule runs from 15 October 2026 to 30 November 2026.

The correct answer is the National Statistics Office, which works under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and is running this round as CAPEX 2026, its third such exercise, between October and December.

Both the blocks auctioned in the Union Territory are limestone blocks, named the Koot-Kapran Limestone Block and the Wantrag Limestone Block, and both lie in Anantnag district.

NABKISAN Finance Limited, a subsidiary of NABARD, placed India's first social bond meant only for water, sanitation and hygiene work, and investors bid for 1.8 times the paper on offer.

Coal India lifted 384.2 MT in the first six months of the financial year 2026-27, an increase of 27.2 MT or 7.6 per cent over the same months of the previous year.

The Steel Industry Safety Council is being created as an apex body for the whole steel industry, with the mandate of strengthening safety standards, preventing accidents and building a safety culture, and the Secretary of the ministry will head it.

The correct answer is the Secretary, Department of Financial Services, Sanjay Lohiya, who took the review in New Delhi with the heads of all public sector banks and the Executive Directors of major private sector banks, assisted by senior officers of his department.

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation began a monthly compilation of the Index of Services Production for the formal sector on a trial basis in July 2026, and that is the base year it adopted for the exercise.

These are the four member states of the European Free Trade Association, and leaders of all four were in New Delhi to mark the first year of the agreement with India.

The fourth round of the India-UK Financial Markets Dialogue took place in London on 29 September 2026, and the joint statement adopted after it was put out on 7 October 2026.

The Commerce and Industry Minister gave both figures at the curtain raiser of the 31st CII Partnership Summit and pointed out that moving from one to the other means growth of close to 16 per cent, in a year when world trade is expected to grow only about 2.5 to…

The correct answer is the World Bank Group, which brings out the World Development Report every year; the latest edition carries the subtitle "The Promise of Artificial Intelligence" and was launched in India by Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

The Ministry of Coal said that daily supplies of coal to the power sector have climbed roughly 36% from the low point reached in September, and that the October average is around 9% higher than the September average.

The National Statistics Office has prepared the draft guideline for compiling Gross State Domestic Product estimates from the expenditure side with 2022-23 as the base year, and the whole framework is described as working under the revised base year arrangement.

The backgrounder states that the process reforms covering registration, return filing, refunds, input tax credit and dispute resolution were recommended at the 57th meeting of the GST Council, held in October 2026.

This was the theme chosen for the fifth edition of the Kautilya Economic Conclave, held across three days from 3 to 5 October 2026 in New Delhi by the Institute of Economic Growth together with the Union Ministry of Finance.

The correct answer is 5.54 per cent, the provisional year-on-year rate for September 2026 measured against September 2025 at the all-India combined level.

The report for the quarter ending June 2026 records this as the total of wireless and wireline connections, a rise of 1.31 per cent over the previous quarter and of 10.65 per cent over the same quarter a year earlier.

Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman called on him during her visit from 8 to 11 October 2026 and also attended a luncheon he hosted along with the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.

Union Minister for Development of North Eastern Region and Communications Jyotiraditya M. Scindia inaugurated the conclave there, with Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma, State Minister Prof. Lalnilawma, MDoNER Secretary Srinivas Katikithala and NEC Secretary Satinder Kumar Bhalla present.

Wholesale price inflation for September 2026 was measured at 11.39 per cent on a year-on-year basis, a clear step up from the previous month.

The third edition of the conclave was held there, and Dr Sukanta Majumdar, Union Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region and for Education, addressed it on 13 October 2026, asking banks to widen their reach and lend more readily in the region.

It was brought out by the National Statistical Systems Training Academy, which works under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.

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

The document was drafted with inputs from industry, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the Ministry of Power and the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade.

The overall unemployment rate for persons aged 15 years and above stayed at this level in September 2026, the same as in the previous month, and it was 0.2 percentage points lower than in September 2025.

The meeting of the Development Committee Plenary was held in Bangkok in Thailand, and the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, took part in it there as India's Governor of the World Bank.

PAIMANA, which expands to Project Assessment, Infrastructure Monitoring and Analytics for Nation-building, is that ministry's dashboard for tracking the performance of infrastructure sub-sectors through a standard set of indicators, and it is updated every quarter.

The Finance Ministry's clarification records that while the Union Budget of 2003 was being discussed and Parliament was debating this repeal legislation, an amendment was moved that sought to limit any reduction of the Government's holding in IDBI.

This is the estimated cumulative figure for merchandise and services exports taken together during the first six months of the financial year.

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 provisional Index of Core Industries for September 2026 grew by 7.9 per cent compared with September of the previous year, and this was the headline number in the release issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

The memorandum concerning the electronic exchange of origin data on trade in goods was signed by the CBIC on behalf of India and by the New Zealand Customs Service on the other side, with CBIC Chairman Vivek Chaturvedi and NZCS Comptroller and Chief Executive Christine Stevenson putting their names to…

That office has been conducting the Periodic Labour Force Survey since 2017, and the survey has steadily widened to meet the demand for labour market statistics that arrive sooner and can be broken down further.

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing signed the memorandum with Bank of India on 22 October 2026 to work on quantum financial innovation and the adoption of emerging technologies in banking.

The Ministry of Steel has prepared a draft National Steel Policy, Vision 2047, and it targets crude steel capacity of 604 MT by the year 2047.

The Chintan Shivir for the engineering sector was convened by the Department of Commerce along with EEPC India to chart a strategy for total engineering goods exports of US$250 billion by 2030, together with deeper market access through free trade agreements and the long-term availability of key raw materials.

Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, chaired the 30th meeting of the FSDC in New Delhi, which fits the Council's design: the Finance Minister heads it and the heads of the financial sector regulators sit on it.

Inaugurating the corporate office of SMFCL in New Delhi, the Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways described the company as India's first dedicated Non Banking Financial Company in the maritime sector, set up to mobilise long term finance for port-led development, shipbuilding and coastal connectivity.

The Prime Minister inaugurated exactly these two units of the Reserve Bank of India at Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha, and called the occasion an important one for the state and for the country.

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has proposed moving the Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises from the calendar-year cycle it has followed so far to the financial year, so that its reference period matches that of other enterprise surveys such as the Annual Survey of Industries and the…

The correct answer is 6.7 per cent, the year on year growth recorded by the quick estimates for September 2026.

MoSPI compiles and publishes the Index of Services Production, and it released the figures for August 2026 covering 19 broad sub-sectors on the base year 2024-25.

The Commerce and Industry Minister said the nine free trade and bilateral agreements concluded by the government have opened preferential market opportunities in economies whose combined output comes to that figure.

The Finance Ministry's clarification explains that DIPAM has no internal procedure for the situation in which the highest financial bid comes in below the reserve price, and that the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, in its meeting of 16 August 2017, approved a note on the procedure and mechanism for…

This amount is made up of tax revenue net to the Centre, non-tax revenue and non-debt capital receipts.

He is a former Central Vigilance Commissioner, and the Government has named him Chairman of the newly constituted High Level Committee on Banking for Viksit Bharat, the panel that will recommend structural, institutional, regulatory and legislative reform of the banking sector.

Social protection coverage in India has moved up from 19% in 2015 to 68.4% in 2026, and this widening has brought more than one billion people inside the social protection framework.

The exemption from customs duty on cotton brought into the country now runs up to the end of December.