SBI Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 12–18 October 2026

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.

The Bloomberg New Economy Forum, which gathers business leaders, policymakers and delegates from many countries for discussions on the economy, technology, energy and global affairs, was held in India for the first time, and the Prime Minister addressed the gathering in the national capital.

The amnesty was made available for a period of six months counted from the date on which the Employees' Provident Fund Scheme, 2026 was notified, and that notification was issued on 29 June 2026.

As the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan completed five years, the government stated that the platform integrates more than 1,800 data layers covering 58 Central Ministries and Departments and all 36 States and Union Territories, along with more than 65 software modules and tools and over 100 mobile and web…

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.

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.

For telecom licensing the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are grouped with West Bengal, and the drive test across South Andaman district and the coastal route from Port Blair to Havelock was conducted under that service area during August 2026, supervised by the regulator regional office at Kolkata.

The correct answer is 80.75 billion dollars, the estimate for merchandise and services exports taken together in the month, which works out to growth of 10.99 per cent over the same month of the previous year.

At the 10th meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee, held in New Delhi on 16 October 2026 under the chairmanship of Urban Development Secretary Satendra Singh, over 1.93 lakh additional houses were cleared under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Urban 2.0.

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.

During the Union Finance Minister’s visit, the two sides exchanged views on strengthening India-ASEAN cooperation and regional economic ties in the run-up to Singapore’s ASEAN Chairmanship, which falls in that year.

Under the Paris Agreement, India committed in 2015 to meeting 40 per cent of its installed electricity capacity from non-fossil sources by 2030, and the Prime Minister told the forum that the country touched that level in November 2021 itself, nine years ahead of the deadline, becoming the first G20…

Section 17 of this Act is the provision under which a formal exemption order is granted to a Provident Fund Trust; the comparable provision in the newer law is section 143 of the Code on Social Security, 2020.

The NPG evaluates infrastructure projects against PM GatiShakti principles and has appraised over 400 projects worth about 20.23 lakh crore rupees, with the count standing at 421 projects in 2026.

Mr Scindia used this figure to argue that financial inclusion in the region has not yet turned into economic inclusion: deposits are being collected, but lending lags behind.

The minister said that out of the 9,479 villages identified for coverage in the Northeast, 6,905 now have either a bank branch or an India Post Payments Bank point, which comes to roughly 73 per cent.

The correct answer is RJIL, which averaged 297.95 Mbps on its 5G and 4G networks in parts of Kolkata city and the Howrah and Hooghly districts.

This was the steepest rise among the major commodity groups and made electronics the single biggest driver of merchandise export growth.

Of the houses cleared at this meeting, Uttar Pradesh received 73,182, the biggest single share among the 11 participating states.

According to the clarification, the association of IDBI officers took the shareholding question to the Delhi High Court, which decided the case on 17 December 2018 and dismissed the writ petition.

The Department of Commerce organised the outreach programme in the Rajasthan capital to build awareness of the benefits available under India free trade agreements and to help exporters use them in practice.

The engagements in Singapore gave the two sides an opportunity to review progress in advancing the outcomes of that roundtable and to explore avenues for deepening the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between India and Singapore.

Speaking at the forum, the Prime Minister said India's growth rate in the April-June quarter of this year stood at that level, and he described the growth as resting on a strong base.

That recognition is not waived at all; it is the very qualification a trust must already possess to be eligible, since the scheme is aimed at trusts recognised under the Income Tax Act, 1961 that nevertheless lack a formal exemption order.

The government has decided to set it up so that the full potential of PM GatiShakti can be used for integrated long term transport planning, and the Union Cabinet has approved it.

Lowering the population floor lets banks open branches in smaller habitations, which matters in a region where settlements are scattered across hills.

That is the national credit-deposit ratio quoted at the conclave, and among the Northeastern states Manipur and Assam stand at or above it while Mizoram and several others fall short.

During an Independent Drive Test the regulator captures coverage gap, which is the share of samples with signal strength below the prescribed minimum for the technology in use, and for voice it records Call Setup Success Rate, Drop Call Rate, call setup time, call silence rate and speech quality on…

The correct answer is 476.20 billion dollars, the estimate for merchandise and services exports together over the first six months of the financial year, a growth of 13.84 per cent.