SBI Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 5–11 October 2026

The NSO, which works under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, carried out the first all-India National Household Travel Survey between July 2025 and June 2026 and released its key indicators through a factsheet.

TRAI's annual report records overall tele-density rising to that level at the end of March 2026 from 85.04 per cent a year earlier, which is why option A is wrong, as it is the figure for the end of March 2025 and not the one being asked.

The conference, organised by the School of Business Environment of the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, is being held on 6 and 7 October 2026 at The Ashok in New Delhi, and has drawn over 550 delegates from across the country.

The council met for the first time at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi under her chairpersonship, and in her address she stressed that textiles and apparel are among the largest employment generators and export earners for the country and called for a whole-of-value-chain approach to production, innovation and global market…

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved an aggregate commitment of this size by the Government of India towards setting up the SME Growth Fund, and the money will be placed in an Alternative Investment Fund raised under the fund framework.

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 release from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry records that he held a series of meetings with senior leaders of leading United States companies in New York during the week, to discuss ways of strengthening India-United States trade and to invite those companies to explore investment in India.

The Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting gave this figure while addressing the fifth meeting of the Live Events Development Cell, adding that around thirty-four thousand events were held across the country and that the sector now supports more than one crore livelihoods.

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.

It is the department of the Finance Ministry that deals with banks, insurance and the financial inclusion schemes, and it is the body that issued the directions to convenors of State Level Bankers Committees and their Union Territory counterparts after the National Commission for Scheduled Castes raised the gap.

It is the statutory authority that examines proposed combinations, meaning mergers, amalgamations and acquisitions above the prescribed thresholds, to see whether they would cause an appreciable adverse effect on competition in India, and it cleared this internal restructuring of the JSW Group along with three other combinations the same day.

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 minister described this as the current size of the space economy and said it could reach USD 45 to 46 billion over the next 8 to 10 years if the present momentum continues, crediting the expansion to the opening of the sector and the entry of a wider set…

The city state is India’s largest source of foreign direct investment, with cumulative inflows of roughly USD 194.68 billion between April 2000 and March 2026, and its institutional investors, among them GIC and Temasek, hold significant positions across the Indian economy.

That is the floor below which the freehold parcel at Najafgarh Industrial Area will not be sold, and every bid in the electronic auction has to start from it.

ASTR is described as the artificial-intelligence based tool of C-DOT and forms one layer of India’s defence against fraudulent communications; it has helped disconnect over 82 lakh fraudulent mobile connections.

NCCSR 2026 was organised by IICA, specifically by its School of Business Environment, under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, and was held at The Ashok in New Delhi on 6 and 7 October 2026.

The survey found the two-wheeler to be the single largest primary mode for work trips across the country, with a share of 52.3% in urban areas and 37.1% in rural areas.

The report puts total telephone subscribers, that is wireless and wireline taken together, at that number at the end of March 2026, a growth of 10.81 per cent over the year.

The observance of CSR Day draws on a suggestion he made as President of India at the National CSR Awards in 2019, that 2 October be set apart for corporate social responsibility.

The Development Council for Textile Industry held its first meeting there on 6 October 2026, chaired by the Secretary of the Ministry of Textiles, with senior officers of the ministry, industry associations, export promotion councils, research associations, state governments and sector experts in attendance.

Under the approved scheme the Government of India will provide its aggregate commitment of Rs 10,000 crore to an Alternative Investment Fund established within the SME Growth Fund framework, and that fund will take direct equity positions in small and medium enterprises.

The Secretary of the Department of Financial Services urged banks to take part wholeheartedly in the saturation drive running between those two dates and to give greater thrust to serving the weaker sections of society and meeting their banking needs.

The Minister met its Non-Executive Chairman, Mark Tucker, and the discussion turned on the group's engagement in India and the openings in the insurance and financial services sectors, expressly in the context of India's vision of Insurance for All by 2047.

The meeting reviewed how the single window clearances facility for the live event industry on this platform is being implemented, and States and Union Territories were asked to designate Nodal Officers, nominate authorised officers from departments, integrate departmental and local licensing systems with it, route the complete licence lifecycle through…

The joint statement records that the two sides reflected on a strengthened relationship, particularly in the light of the launch of Vision 2035, and underlined the importance of driving the implementation of the UK-India Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, which entered into force on 15 July 2026.

The Commission told the Department of Financial Services that the absence of Scheduled Caste beneficiary figures in bankers committee reports was hindering the constitutional mandate this clause gives it, namely to evaluate the progress of socio-economic development of the Scheduled Castes.

JSW Projects Limited, an unlisted company of the JSW Group based in Mumbai, holds that share of the equity in BMM Ispat Limited at present, and the proposed combination is meant to convert this majority interest into full ownership by amalgamating BMM into JSW Steel Limited.

The curtain raiser for the summit was held in New Delhi on 8 October 2026, which makes option C a tempting distractor, but the capital hosted only the preview and not the summit itself.

The minister referred to this target together with the opening of the nuclear sector to private participation, and described nuclear power as an important clean-energy source for future requirements, among them the demand created by artificial intelligence and data centres.