RBI Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 28 September – 4 October 2026

Factory output measured by the Index of Industrial Production rose at that rate in August 2026 over the same month a year earlier, helped by manufacturing and by a strong showing from electricity and gas supply.

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released the sub-sectoral trial Index of Services Production for the month in respect of nineteen broad sub-sectors, computed on the base year 2024-25.

The memorandum institutionalises a mechanism for sharing relevant data so that this register can be developed and strengthened, with unit-wise Udyam Registration data flowing to the statistics ministry through a two-way application programming interface to feed the National Statistical Business Register.

The survey for the year ending March 2025 counted that many registered manufacturing establishments, and the sector grew by 2.64 per cent on this measure.

The new Act carries the same name with the new year and takes the place of the colonial-era statute, which was framed at a time when banking systems were entirely paper-based.

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.

It was the only one of the four sectors to shrink during the month, falling 5.6 per cent, and its index stood at 85.7, the lowest of the four.

The correct answer is administrative and support services, which posted the fastest growth of the nineteen sub-sectors against the same month a year earlier.

Under the MoU its unit-wise data will be shared with the statistics ministry through application programming interfaces, and the two-way API will supply data for preparing the National Statistical Business Register.

Gross value added rose from Rs 2,458.3 thousand crore to Rs 2,694.2 thousand crore, which works out to that rate of growth.

The backgrounder states plainly that the Act comes into force on that date and replaces the older law of the same name from then.

The Institute was founded by Professor V.K.R.V. Rao in 1952; N. K. Singh is President of its Board of Trustees, Dr Michael Debabrata Patra is Chairman of its Board of Governors and Professor Sabyasachi Kar is its Director.

These were kept outside the general ceiling and given a limit twice as large, because Kolkata draws sugar from Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka and forwards it to eastern India including the North-East, while the higher figure for Assam reflects the geography of the region, the logistics of moving goods…

In the second round of the survey it took slightly more than half of the provisional aggregate capital expenditure for that year, a share of 50.17 per cent, worth Rs 5,73,900 crore, which is far ahead of every other activity category.

Both the Koot-Kapran Limestone Block and the Wantrag Limestone Block lie in Anantnag district of the Union Territory, and the first of them is located more precisely in Koot and Kapran villages of Dooru Tehsil.

NABKISAN Finance Limited is a NABARD subsidiary, and the listing of the WASH bond was described as a step that strengthens the commitment of both NABARD and NABKISAN to new financing routes for rural development.

Capital goods cover machinery and equipment used to produce other goods, so the rate is read as a sign of investment demand.

The correct answer is air transport, whose index stood at 87.8 after a fall of 8.4 per cent over July 2025, the only sub-sector in the release reading below hundred, which means activity was below its own base-year level.

The register is a central and regularly updated database of registered statistical units engaged in economic activity within a defined geographical territory, capturing businesses, enterprises and establishments, their key characteristics and the relationships between units.

The correct answer is Tamil Nadu, with 41,221 establishments, the largest count of any state in this round.

The Act allows the contents of a banker's book to be proved by a certified copy without producing the original, so an officer is not ordinarily compelled to appear, and it protects officers from routine appearance where the bank is not a party.

The inaugural session will examine how economic policy can build resilience without giving up growth, openness or the credibility of institutions.

Average retail sugar prices have come down by this much from the peak they touched in August, and a further easing is expected as cheaper mill prices pass down the supply chain.

That protection is why unit-level data from this survey are never released and why care is taken that published results cannot identify the firm that supplied a figure.

The Wantrag Limestone Block covers 5.36 hectares and carries that estimated limestone resource, and it has been explored up to the G-3 stage, a stage reached with 159 metres of drilling.

The bond that NABKISAN listed on the National Stock Exchange in Mumbai runs for five years and pays this rate to its holders until it is redeemed in September 2031.