Current Affairs Quiz: 27 September 2026

The correct answer is 138th. The September edition of the monthly radio address, broadcast on 27 September 2026, was its 138th episode, and in it the Prime Minister looked back at ten years of the surgical strike carried out on the night of 28-29 September 2016, appealed to households to enter their own census details online, and marked the birth centenary of Ashok Singhal. Option A, the 136th, and option B, the 137th, are the numbers of earlier editions and do not match the September 2026 broadcast. Option D, the 139th, is the edition that would follow this one in a later month, so it cannot be the episode aired on this date. Aspirants are advised to note both the episode number and the date together, because questions are often framed on the pairing of the two rather than on either alone.

The correct answer is 343 tonnes. The plant in Uttar Pradesh takes in that quantity of organic waste each day and yields about twenty-one tonnes of bio-CNG, along with twenty-eight tonnes of good quality compost that goes to farmers nearby. Its multi-feedstock design accepts wet waste, paddy straw, cattle dung and poultry litter, which is what lets it give crop residue a paying use instead of leaving it to be burnt. Options A at 143 tonnes, B at 243 tonnes and D at 443 tonnes are near misses built by changing the leading digit, a trap that catches a candidate who remembers only the last two digits of the figure. Aspirants should also hold on to the linked numbers for this plant: daily wet-waste supply has risen from seven or eight tonnes to about 125 tonnes, piped gas is expected to reach roughly 45,000 households, and annual emissions are expected to fall by about 57,000 tonnes.

The correct answer is Rs 13,906.50 crore, which is roughly USD 1.5 billion. This is the total value of risk the pool is able to write, and it makes the pool the first domestic maritime insurance arrangement of that size in India. Option B, Rs 12,980 crore, is the tempting distractor because that figure does belong to the scheme, but it is the sovereign guarantee the government has extended to stand behind the pool, not the underwriting capacity itself; the two numbers are deliberately different, with the guarantee a little smaller than the capacity. Option A, Rs 9,500 crore, and option D, Rs 20,000 crore, are simply invented amounts and appear nowhere in the description of the pool. Aspirants should remember the pair together: capacity Rs 13,906.50 crore, guarantee Rs 12,980 crore.

The correct answer is Rs 38,424 crore, a record figure for Indian defence exports in 2025-26, and a very steep rise from Rs 686 crore in 2013-14. Supplies went to more than 100 countries, which is why the Defence Minister described the country as moving from being an importer to a trusted global supplier. Option B, Rs 30,000 crore, is the export target that had been fixed and achieved in the previous year, so it is a genuine number but not the actual export value for 2025-26. Option D, Rs 50,000 crore, is the fresh target set for 2029 and therefore lies in the future. Option A, Rs 21,083 crore, is an invented amount. Remember the three numbers as a set, the achieved target, the record value and the next target.

The correct answer is 2030. The state's annual exports stand at roughly Rs 2 lakh crore at present, and the stated goal is to take that figure to Rs 5 lakh crore by 2030, which means more than doubling the value of goods sold abroad. The Union Commerce and Industry Minister spelt out the target while addressing the UP International Trade Show at Greater Noida, linking it to the wider market access that India's free trade agreements are creating for exporters. Options A and B, 2027 and 2028, are too early and no such deadline was announced for them. Option D, 2035, is a later round year that is often attached to other plans and is wrong here. Candidates should store the pair of numbers together, the present export value and the target value, along with the deadline year.

The correct answer is 28-29 September 2016. Indian Army soldiers crossed the Line of Control on that night and hit terrorist launch pads, and the action is described as a decisive break in the way India answers cross-border terrorism, followed later by the Balakot air strike and Operation Sindoor. Option A, 26-27 September 2015, carries the wrong year altogether. Option C, 13-14 September 2008, mixes up the strike with the serial blasts in Delhi of 13 September 2008, which took many innocent lives and were followed weeks later by the Mumbai attack. Option D, 11-12 September 2019, is invented and matches no event in the address. A useful memory hook is that the tenth anniversary of the strike falls in the same month as the broadcast itself.

The correct answer is Gwalior, in Madhya Pradesh. Adarsh Gaushala stands at Laltipara and is the city's largest cowshed, home to more than ten thousand cattle. Its compressed bio-gas plant of 100 tonnes per day opened in October 2024, spread over five acres, cost 31 crore rupees and was developed with Indian Oil Corporation. It is also the state's first such plant designed to take vegetable and fruit waste from markets and homes along with dung, and it converts 100 tonnes of dung a day into two tonnes of gas and ten to fifteen tonnes of dry bio-manure. Option A, Bhopal, is the state capital but not the site. Option C, Indore, is widely known for cleanliness rankings, which is exactly why it tempts a guess here. Option D, Jabalpur, is another large city of the same state and has no link to this facility.

The correct answer is the General Insurance Corporation of India, better known as GIC Re, which has taken charge as Pool Manager and Administrator and handles the pool's day-to-day running, its performance reporting and its operational systems. Option D, New India Assurance, is the strongest distractor: it is a member insurer that actually issued several of the early policies, including the first hull and machinery war policy and the first protection and indemnity policy, but issuing policies is not the same as administering the pool. Option B, the Life Insurance Corporation of India, deals in life insurance and has no role in marine risk. Option C, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India, is the sector's regulator and does not administer individual pools. Two other structures matter here as well: a Governing Body supervises the pool and an Underwriting Committee evaluates the risks it accepts.

The correct answer is 2029. After the earlier goal of Rs 30,000 crore in annual defence exports was met in the previous year, the government fixed a higher goal of Rs 50,000 crore to be reached by 2029. The rest of the options are years that sound plausible but carry no such commitment. Option A, 2027, is the financial year in which the current defence allocation of Rs 7.85 lakh crore has been provided, so it is easy to confuse with the export deadline. Option C and option D, 2030 and 2035, are round years often attached to other national missions and are wrong here. The reason the target is considered reachable is the demand abroad for Indian missiles, radars, ammunition and platforms, which the Minister said reflects confidence in Indian technology, quality and delivery.

The correct answer is Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh, where the UP International Trade Show was held with six partner countries taking part alongside hundreds of delegates and exhibitors, and with buyer-seller meetings arranged to connect producers from the state with overseas buyers. Greater Noida also figures in the speech for another reason worth remembering, the expansion of a large robotics manufacturing facility there, which the Minister offered as an illustration of modern industrial growth in the state. Option A, Lucknow, is the state capital and a frequent venue for investor summits, which makes it the most tempting wrong choice. Option C, Kanpur, is an old industrial centre of the state, and option D, Varanasi, hosts many national events, but neither is the venue of this trade show.

The correct answer is se.census.gov.in. A household logs in with its mobile number, gives its location, fills in the family details and submits the form; nothing has to be uploaded, the whole process runs to about fifteen to twenty minutes, and a special identity number comes back that is shown to the enumerator when the visit takes place. The facility works in Hindi along with sixteen other languages. Options B and C are plausible-looking addresses but neither was named as the census facility. Option D, mybharat.gov.in, belongs to the MY Bharat youth platform on which anthem, slogan and street play contests for the Nasha Mukt Yuva Abhiyan were held, so it has nothing to do with the population count. Also remember the progress figures: more than thirty-two crore families on record and over two crore sixty lakh self-entries.

The correct answer is Hyderabad. At the Bowenpally Vegetable Market roughly ten tonnes of vegetable and fruit waste is collected each day, and since an on-site biogas plant came up almost all of it is used rather than sent to landfill. The plant makes about 400 to 500 units of electricity and 30 kg of biofuel daily, which run the streetlights, stalls, administrative building and water supply network, while the biofuel goes to the market's kitchen and to a generator that works wholly on biogas. The power bill has come down by about half from roughly three lakh rupees a month, and five more plants have been funded at Gudimalkapur, Gaddiannaram, Erragadda, Alwal and Saroornagar. Options A, B and D are large cities in other states and none of them was named for this model, so they only test whether the candidate has tied the market's name to the right city.

The correct answer is USD 100 million. Claims up to that level are met from the pool's accumulated reserves together with its reinsurance recoveries, and the government's guarantee is activated only once those reserves have been completely used up. This layered design is the point of the structure: ordinary losses are absorbed commercially, and the sovereign backing is kept as a last resort so that dependence on it stays minimal. Option D, USD 1.5 billion, is the pool's total underwriting capacity rather than the claim threshold, which makes it a plausible trap. Option A, USD 50 million, and option C, USD 500 million, are invented figures. Candidates should link three numbers in memory: the claim threshold met from reserves, the sovereign guarantee behind the pool, and the overall capacity the pool can write.

The correct answer is Rs 7.85 lakh crore, the defence allocation for 2026-27. The comparison the Minister drew is the part worth memorising: the same allocation stood at around Rs 2.53 lakh crore in 2013-14, which makes option A a real figure but from the wrong year, and therefore the most attractive distractor in the set. Options B and C, Rs 5.94 lakh crore and Rs 6.81 lakh crore, are invented amounts. One more figure belongs with this answer. About 75 per cent of the capital acquisition budget, which works out to Rs 1.39 lakh crore, has been earmarked for purchases from Indian defence industry, so that spending strengthens domestic manufacturing and the MSME supply chains attached to it rather than flowing abroad.

The correct answer is a one trillion dollar economy. Expanding exports, drawing in investment and gaining easier access to markets abroad were all described as contributions towards that goal for Uttar Pradesh. Option D, a five trillion dollar economy, is the strongest distractor because that figure is widely associated with the national economy rather than with a single state, and candidates often mix the two up. Option A, 500 billion dollars, and option C, two trillion dollars, are invented sizes. The supporting facts to hold alongside this are the export path from about Rs 2 lakh crore a year to Rs 5 lakh crore by 2030, the six partner countries at the trade show, and the state's build-up in defence, semiconductors, electronics and robotics backed by expressways, airports and industrial parks.

The correct answer is Modhera in Gujarat, which runs entirely on solar energy and is held up as a model of sustainability. Modhera is better known for its Sun Temple, raised by King Bhimdev the First in 1025 and attacked the very next year, when Mahmud of Ghazni also pulled down the Somnath temple; it hosts a dance festival every January after Makar Sankranti. Option A, Mana in Chamoli, is the village called the country's first village, where the census count in Uttarakhand began with 83-year-old Purnima Rawat. Option D, Bagori in Uttarkashi, is where a homestay owner filed his own census details digitally. Option C, Jharkhali in the Sundarbans, is where widowed women raise mangrove forests that protect their villages and earn them a living. Each of the three is a real place from the same address, which is exactly why they work as distractors.

The correct answer is October 2014. Scientific management of municipal solid waste has been a core objective of the mission since that launch, and as the mission grew, organic waste came to be treated as a resource for clean energy rather than as rubbish. The waste-to-energy work described at Prayagraj, Gwalior, Hyderabad and Gandhinagar all falls under the urban arm of the mission in its second phase. Option B, August 2014, is close enough in the same year to catch a hasty reader, but it is the wrong month. Option C, October 2015, keeps the right month and moves the year by one, the commonest form of trap in date questions. Option D, April 2016, matches neither. A helpful anchor is that cleanliness is tied to the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, which falls on the second of October, so the month of the launch is easy to fix in memory.

The correct answer is 1,668 million metric tonnes, the cargo moved through India's ports during 2025-26, and the figure is expected to keep climbing as trade expands. India works 12 major ports and 217 non-major ports, so the total covers both categories together. Options A, B and D, at 950, 1,200 and 2,400 million metric tonnes, are invented volumes and none of them belongs to the port sector's record for that year. Around this figure sit several other numbers worth memorising: a coastline of 11,098 kilometres, an exclusive economic zone of 2.4 million square kilometres, inland waterways of more than 14,500 kilometres, livelihoods for over 30 million people, and an Indian-flag fleet of 1,609 ships with 14.33 million gross tonnage in mid-2026.

The correct answer is option A. The decision announced was that technologies for conventional missile systems developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation will be handed over to eligible Indian industries, so that qualifying private companies can manufacture them. The purpose is twofold: the armed forces get their missiles delivered on time, and DRDO is freed to concentrate on research and development while industry takes up the production load. Option B reverses the intent, because the move takes production outward to industry rather than concentrating it inside government establishments. Option C contradicts the whole thrust of the speech, which was self-reliance and the country's shift from importer to exporter. Option D is the opposite of the announcement, since private participation is being widened, not restricted; the ecosystem already includes startups and more than 16,000 MSMEs.