RBI Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 19–25 October 2026

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.

DFS is the department of the Ministry of Finance that handles banks, insurance and pension schemes, so the financial inclusion drive sits with it, and its Joint Secretary for financial inclusion chaired the preparatory meeting with the senior management of banks and the State Level Bankers Committee.

Among the nine core industries, iron ore posted the fastest year-on-year growth in September 2026 at 18.4 per cent.

The release on the customs memorandum states that the India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement entered into force from that date, and that the memorandum itself was concluded under the agreement.

The modified sampling design, the changed estimation procedure and the revised schedule all take effect from that month, when fresh samples for the two-year period 2027-2028, known as Panel 6, will be drawn from an updated sampling frame.

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing is an autonomous scientific society under that ministry, and its Secretary, S. Krishnan, was present when the memorandum with Bank of India was exchanged.

The Ministry of Steel says that under its Green Steel Initiative, Green Steel Certificates have been issued to 104 distinct steel producers across the lists put out up to October 2026.

Commerce Secretary Shri Rajesh Agrawal said in his keynote address that India’s combined exports of goods and services grew by 14 per cent year-on-year to this level during April-September of 2026-27, which he cited as evidence that exports had stayed resilient despite global uncertainty.

The Council took note of the strategy and expects its implementation to strengthen the resilience of the Indian financial sector, along with better protection of Critical Information Infrastructure and improved cyber security preparedness in Regional Rural Banks.

As on 30 September 2026 the corporation had disbursed this amount, and more than half of what it had sanctioned was still to be drawn as the projects behind the sanctions advanced.

The Prime Minister named him as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India while greeting the guests on the dais at Bhubaneswar.

The camps will run awareness sessions on financial inclusion schemes, on digital frauds and on this drive, which concerns financial assets lying unclaimed with banks and other institutions.

The provisional index for September 2026 and the final index for August 2026 were both published with the base year 2022-23, which the release states in its title.

The memorandum deals with how the two customs administrations will share, in advance and in electronic form, the data that establishes where goods were produced, since a certificate of origin is what decides whether a consignment can claim the lower duties available under a trade agreement.

A new Second Stage Stratum based on digital platform work is being introduced because experience showed that the earlier arrangement did not capture an adequate number of such workers, while the rest of the stratum structure and composition is retained.

This is the named focus of the partnership, meant to prepare banking systems both for the opportunities that quantum technology brings and for the security problems it creates, which is why the two sides will study quantum-inspired and quantum-safe methods.

Manganese ore is a key raw material for the steel industry, and the Ministry of Steel says the milestone strengthens its domestic availability.

Speaking at the Chintan Shivir, he said the engineering sector was on track to surpass the export numbers of the previous financial year, that the medium and long-term growth outlook remained positive, and that engineering exports were expected to cross US$140 billion in the current financial year.

The Council noted the success of this campaign at the district level in returning unclaimed financial assets, and guided ministries and regulators to make further efforts for timely refunds.

The correct answer is SBI Ventures Limited, which has been appointed the official Fund Manager for the Maritime Investment Fund component and brings professional management to the fund.

The Prime Minister said that this scheme made 13 crore people entrepreneurs for the first time, as part of a wider point that a borrower with nothing to offer as security can now raise a cheap and easy loan to start work.