Banking Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 26 October – 1 November 2026

Two disputes between its management and its employees organisations were settled on 22 and 23 October 2026 through the conciliation efforts of the Assistant Labour Commissioner (Central), Patna, working under the Office of the Chief Labour Commissioner (Central) in the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

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 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…

DigiDukaan is ONDC's effort to build digital infrastructure for India's general trade in retail by digitising kirana shops as buyers, while strengthening rather than replacing the existing distributor network.

Mr. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won the presidential election in Brazil, and the Prime Minister of India sent him his heartiest congratulations on 26 October 2026, calling the result a remarkable re-election victory.

ESTIC 2026 is a flagship national platform organised by CSIR under the guidance of the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, and it is scheduled for 27 to 29 October 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.

That is the total number of artificial recharge and storage structures built under the Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari initiative taken as a whole.

The allocation is meant to set up Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics Content Creator Labs in 15,000 secondary schools and 500 colleges across the country, and the Indian Institute of Creative Technologies in Mumbai will plan, coordinate and implement the initiative as the nodal agency.

The Forum in question is the twelfth edition of the BRICS Parliamentary Forum, and the Lok Sabha Speaker has written about the part it plays in strengthening parliamentary dialogue and cooperation among the grouping's member and partner countries.

The Technology Development Board, which functions under the Department of Science and Technology, signed an agreement with Manastu Space Technologies Private Limited of Navi Mumbai for financial support of Rs 116 crore drawn from the Research Development and Innovation Fund, and this money is being routed as Optionally Convertible Debt.

The Department of Commerce has carried forward the timelines of Component II of RELIEF, the time-bound intervention that sits under the Export Promotion Mission, up to the close of March 2027, and the change was notified through Notification No. 37/2026-27 issued on 30 September 2026.

The correct answer is Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and of Rural Development, who is to deliver the sixty seventh lecture in the series at the Rang Bhawan Auditorium of Akashvani in New Delhi.

Cabinet Secretary Dr. T. V. Somanathan chaired its meeting to review how prepared the Centre and the coastal States were for the approaching cyclone, with Chief Secretaries of the affected States, the Union Home Secretary and the heads of the NDRF, the IMD and the Coast Guard taking part.

That is the headline figure of the Monthly Flash Report for September 2026, covering projects of Rs 150 crore and above spread over 17 central Ministries and Departments and tracked on the PAIMANA platform.

TRAI adopted this label because the services it examined aggregate scheduled linear television channels and deliver them to viewers over the public internet or other IP-based networks through apps, websites or similar interfaces, whether the app comes pre-loaded on a television set, is downloaded by the viewer, or runs in…

The storefront draws its catalogue from ten State and Central handloom and handicraft emporiums, among them COTTAGE of the Central Cottage Industries Emporium, KHADI INDIA of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission, Garvi Gurjari of Gujarat, Himcrafts of Himachal Pradesh, Jharcraft of Jharkhand, Cauvery of Karnataka, Mrignayani of Madhya Pradesh…

The Ministry of Rural Development is holding the Mela there with the State government and with support from NABARD, NIRDPR and Kudumbashree, and this is the first National SARAS Mela to move out of Delhi-NCR.

The service is named the Jaipur (Khatipura)-Tatanagar-Santragachi Express, and it was flagged off by the Union Railway Minister, who joined through video conferencing, together with the Chief Minister of West Bengal.

Under the Vision Document on Narcotic Control for the period 2026 to 2029, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has been entrusted with building the capacity of this many service providers, including medical and allied healthcare personnel engaged in de-addiction services, by March 2029.

The Ministry notified amendments to these rules so that vehicles capable of running on E85 and other high ethanol fuels can be certified and brought into use.

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…

India is hosting the 61st Meeting of the International Committee of Legal Metrology at New Delhi, and the sittings run from 26 to 28 October 2026.

The theme set for the week is 'Satyanishtha se Samriddhi', which the government renders in English as Probity for Prosperity, and it treats honesty, integrity and openness as the pillars that hold up good governance and public trust in institutions.

Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan addressed its 40th anniversary, called the Ruby Jubilee, in Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh, released a souvenir on the university's forty-year journey and asked its researchers to aim for global recognition in medical science.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, which runs the Shilp Samagam Mela to give marketing support to artisans and beneficiaries attached to its three national corporations.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, which runs the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan and has opened this quiz under it.

He is Minister of State with independent charge for Science and Technology and Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office and for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions as well as the Department of Space and Atomic Energy, and the chairmanship of the institute goes with the personnel portfolio.

The sixth edition of the Centre’s special campaign on cleanliness in government offices and the clearing of pending matters began on 2 October 2026 and ends on 31 October 2026, with the targets fixed earlier in a preparatory phase.

He holds the Dutch portfolio of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, and he chaired the India-Netherlands Business Forum jointly with India's Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal during the visit of 26 October 2026.

It is the nodal ministry for the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana and handles policy formulation, funding, monitoring and overall implementation through its Department of Social Justice and Empowerment.