Current Affairs Quiz: 2 October 2026

The correct answer is 28. The Centre, acting in consultation with the Union Territory of Ladakh, settled standard place and feature names for twenty-eight locations and had them marked on the official map of Ladakh issued by the Survey of India. The announcement came from the Ministry of Home Affairs on 2 October 2026, and the stated purpose was to make each of these spots easier to identify correctly and to spread awareness of the region's geography among ordinary readers. Option A, eighteen, is short of the figure in the announcement. Option B, twenty-four, is likewise lower than the number actually named and matches nothing in the list. Option D, thirty-two, overshoots the count; the map carries other places and features too, but only twenty-eight were formally identified in this exercise. Counting the entries by type confirms the total, since ten peaks, seven land areas, three mountains, two passes, two glaciers, one valley, one river, one lake and one water body add up to exactly twenty-eight.

The correct answer is 2 October to 31 October 2026. Both the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the Ministry of Steel said on the opening day that the implementation phase of the campaign would run through that month. Option A is the preparatory phase rather than the implementation phase; the steel ministry and its public sector enterprises completed their preparations and set their targets between those September dates, which is why the choice is tempting but wrong. Option C moves the campaign into the following month, which no part of either announcement supports. Option D stretches the window by two days beyond the stated closing date of 31 October. During the month the ministries work on cleanliness at campaign sites, disposal of pending matters, records and space management, process simplification and the removal of redundant items and furniture, with nodal officers reporting progress on the monitoring portal.

The correct answer is Arjun Ram Meghwal. He is the Union Minister of State with Independent Charge for Law and Justice, and in that capacity he led the tree plantation drive on the campus of the India International Arbitration Centre at Vasant Kunj in New Delhi. Option B, Rajiv Mani, is the Secretary of the Legislative Department and of the Department of Legal Affairs and serves as Chairperson of the arbitration centre, so he is a senior official rather than the minister. Option C, Navin Kumar Singh, is the Chief Executive Officer of the centre and thanked the dignitaries at the close of the programme. Option D names someone who did not figure in this event at all. Addressing the gathering, the minister said cleanliness cannot stop at streets and public spaces and must begin with a clean mind, pure thought and a sense of duty towards society.

The correct answer is 31 December 2026. The Department of Commerce has carried the RoDTEP scheme forward to that date, and the benefit is available for exports made by Domestic Tariff Area units, Advance Authorisation holders, Special Economic Zone units and Export Oriented Units in the meantime. Option A, 30 September 2026, is the date of the notification itself and of the rate schedule that is being continued, not the closing date of the scheme, so it is wrong. Options C and D, 31 March 2027 and 30 June 2027, look plausible because Indian fiscal measures often end on a quarter boundary or with the financial year, but neither figure appears in the decision taken by the Department of Commerce. Aspirants should separate three dates in this item: the date the notification carries, the date on which the existing rates were frozen, and the new end date of the scheme. Only the last of these is 31 December 2026.

The correct answer is Resilience and Logistics Intervention for Export Facilitation. RELIEF is a time-bound intervention under the Export Promotion Mission and was launched on 19 March 2026 to support exporters struck by extraordinary freight escalation, higher insurance premia and war-related export risks arising on the Gulf and the wider West Asian maritime corridor. Option B mixes up the scheme with remission-type measures such as the duty and tax refund scheme for exported products, which works on a wholly different principle. Option C invents a farmer-facing reimbursement that does not exist in this measure. Option D sounds like an infrastructure fund, whereas RELIEF is an insurance and logistics cushion rather than a capital expenditure programme. Candidates should pin the expansion to the parent mission as well: RELIEF is not standalone, it sits inside the Export Promotion Mission.

The correct answer is Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry joined the concluding day of the G20 Trade Ministers Meeting under the United States Presidency. Options A, C and D name other large cities of the American Midwest, close enough geographically to be tempting, but the meeting was not held in any of them. Candidates should fix two further markers along with the city. First, the host of the current G20 Presidency is the United States, and India extended full support to the United Kingdom for the Presidency that follows in 2027. Second, the Indian minister spoke in four sessions at the meeting: on structural excess capacity and production, on updating the Most-Favoured-Nation principle, on ending forced labour in global supply chains, and in the closing session. Pairing the venue with the host country and the next host is the safest way to answer whichever form the question takes.

The correct answer is Greece. The consignment of popped phool makhana left Purnea in Bihar for Greece, sailing from Mundra Port in India to the Piraeus Port at the Greek end. Options B and D name other Mediterranean countries of Europe and option C a North American destination, all plausible markets for Indian processed food but none of them the buyer in this shipment. Candidates should note why the item is newsworthy beyond the destination: the price realised on the export was higher than the rate the same material was fetching in the domestic market, which is the basic case for linking a traditional crop to overseas buyers. Note also that makhana exports are now widening into European markets, so the arrival of a European destination is itself part of the story and a likely hook for a question.

The correct answer is the State Support Mission, the initiative under which NITI Aayog works with states on planning and budgeting, and under which this workshop was held with the Government of West Bengal and technical support from the United Nations Development Programme. Option A names the programme that tracks development indicators in selected districts, a different vehicle altogether. Option C is the innovation and entrepreneurship arm of NITI Aayog and has no part in budget tagging. Option D is the evaluation office within the body, which assesses programmes rather than running state support engagements. Candidates should remember the three-part arrangement here: NITI Aayog as organiser, the state government as host and partner, and UNDP as the source of technical support. The venue was Kolkata and the date was the twenty-ninth of September in the year 2026.

The correct answer is 2 October 2014, the date from which the mission counts the twelve years it now completes. Option A names Independence Day of the same year, a date often associated with the announcement of national programmes, which makes it the most attractive wrong choice. Options C and D shift the year forward and would put the anniversary out by a full twelve months. The mission began by getting cities to build toilets, raise awareness and work towards Open Defecation Free status, after which many went further and achieved ODF plus and ODF double plus grades. Its urban arm later added a quality goal through the Toilets two point zero initiative, and a user can now locate the nearest community or public facility through the toilet locator on the Swachhata application. Linking the launch date to the Gandhi Jayanti of that year is the easiest way to retain it.

The correct answer is Ankita Bhakat, Kumkum Anil Mohod and Kirti. The three of them shot together in the women's recurve team event at the Asian Games and brought India the gold medal, the country's first ever in that event, and the Prime Minister congratulated all three by name. Option B is wrong because Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma are not archers in this story at all; the pair won their medal in the women's skiff, a sailing event, on the same day. Option C is wrong because Dhiraj Bommadevara is a male archer and cannot be part of a women's team; he shot in the recurve mixed team event instead. Option D is wrong because it drops Kirti and brings in Shital Verma, who again belongs to the sailing medal and not to the archery squad. The safe way to hold this item in memory is to keep the three archery names as one block, since a recurve team is made up of three archers whose scores are added together.

The correct answer is Dhiraj Bommadevara and Kumkum Anil Mohod. The two shot together in the recurve mixed team event at the Asian Games and finished with the silver medal, which is India's first in that event at these Games, and the Prime Minister congratulated both by name. Option A is wrong because the woman in the pair was Kumkum Anil Mohod and not Ankita Bhakat, although Ankita Bhakat did win gold in the women's recurve team event on the same day. Option C is wrong because Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma are not archers; the two took bronze in the women's skiff, a sailing event, on that date. Option D is wrong on two counts, since a mixed team must have one man and one woman, and a pair of two women cannot enter the event at all. Fix the male archer's name first, because the mixed team question is usually set around him.

The correct answer is Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma. The two sailed together in the women's skiff event at the Asian Games and finished third for the bronze medal, and the Prime Minister congratulated both by name while noting that they had bettered India's previous performance in the event. Option A is wrong because Ankita Bhakat and Kirti are archers who were part of the Indian trio that won the women's recurve team gold on the same day. Option C is wrong because it replaces Harshita Tomar with Kumkum Anil Mohod, an archer who won both a team gold and a mixed team silver that day. Option D is wrong because it keeps one sailor and brings in an archer in place of the other. The day's medals are easiest to hold apart by sport, so attach the two sailing names to the skiff and the archery names to the recurve events.

The correct answer is Valmiki Tiger Reserve, Bihar. The tigress, identified as T138, was moved from Valmiki in Bihar to Buxa in West Bengal after ecological, veterinary and management parameters had been assessed and the laid-down protocols followed, and the Environment Minister thanked the Bihar Chief Minister for the state's support in the translocation. Option A, Manas Tiger Reserve in Assam, is a plausible distractor because a tiger photographed at Buxa by camera traps was matched with a Manas animal, but that was evidence of natural movement across the landscape and not the source of this release. Option C, the Sundarbans, lies in the same state as Buxa and is not mentioned as the source at all. Option D, Kanha, is a well-known reserve of Madhya Pradesh that has no part in this programme. The pairing to remember is Valmiki in Bihar as the source and Buxa in West Bengal as the destination.

The correct answer is Namami Gange. Gifts and artefacts presented to the Prime Minister are catalogued and offered for public bidding, and whatever the sale earns is placed at the service of the Namami Gange project, the programme devoted to the cleaning and conservation of the Ganga. This is stated twice in the announcement of the eighth edition, which is a sign of how central the detail is. Option B, the Swachh Bharat Mission, is a sanitation programme and is not the recipient of these proceeds. Option C is a scheme for the girl child and has no link with the auction. Option D, the Smart Cities Mission, concerns urban infrastructure and is likewise unconnected. Candidates should note the chain of facts in one line: gifts to the Prime Minister go to a public auction conducted by the Ministry of Culture, and the money raised goes to Namami Gange.

The correct answer is Canada. The consignment of frozen food products was flagged off from Sonipat in Haryana for the Canadian market, it was exported by Aterna Foods Producer Company Limited, and the Chairman of APEDA said at the event that he expected exports to Canada to grow further. Option A, Greece, is the destination of a different Indian agricultural shipment and is the kind of distractor that catches a candidate who remembers the produce but not the market. Option C, Australia, and option D, the United Arab Emirates, are both large buyers of Indian processed food but have no part in this particular consignment. The pairing to carry into the examination hall is simple: frozen vegetables and snacks, Sonipat in Haryana, and Canada as the destination, with APEDA facilitating the shipment under its support scheme.

The correct answer is Vijay Ghat. On the birth anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri, both the Prime Minister and the Vice-President went to Vijay Ghat to lay flowers at the memorial of the former Prime Minister. Option A, Rajghat, is wrong because Rajghat is the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, and that is where the tributes of the day for the Father of the Nation were offered; the two memorials are distinct and candidates should not mix them up. Option C, Shanti Van, is wrong because it is a different memorial in the same stretch of Delhi and no tribute to Shastri was offered there on this occasion. Option D, Shakti Sthal, is wrong for the same reason, as it is another memorial site and did not figure in the tributes of the day. The pairing to memorise is simple: Mahatma Gandhi with Rajghat, and Lal Bahadur Shastri with Vijay Ghat.

The correct answer is 17 September 2026. The campaign opened on that date with the taking of the Swachhata pledge and ran as a fortnight-long drive that ended on 2 October 2026, the day observed as Swachh Bharat Diwas. Through the fortnight offices held cleanliness drives, door-to-door awareness visits, drawing competitions, walkathons, plantation under Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam and cultural activities such as Nukkad Natak and slogan writing. Option A is wrong because the campaign had not started at the beginning of September. Option C is wrong because that date fell in the last stretch of the drive rather than at its start, when officials joined sweeping work on the eve of Swachh Bharat Diwas. Option D is wrong because it falls in the middle of the fortnight, after the pledge had already been taken. The pair of dates to memorise is 17 September to 2 October.

The correct answer is 2 October 2014. The mission was launched on that date and grew into one of the largest government-led sanitation movements in the country, working through two components, one for rural areas and one for urban areas. Option B is wrong because that date is Independence Day of the same year, when the idea was spoken of but the mission itself had not been rolled out. Option C is wrong because that date marks the declaration of rural India as free of open defecation and the anniversary set as the original target, not the launch. Option D is wrong because it names the start of a financial year and has no link with the launch. A simple way to hold the dates together is that the mission started on a Gandhi Jayanti and reported its rural milestone on another Gandhi Jayanti five years later.

The correct answer is Ghaziabad. The municipal corporation of this city in Uttar Pradesh has registered for an international carbon credit project verified by the United Nations and has been accredited under the Verified Carbon Standard, which is supported by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Following Indore in Madhya Pradesh, it is set to become the first urban local body in its own state and the second in the country to convert waste into a new source of value. Options A, C and D name other large cities of the same state, but none of them is the body described as taking this step. Candidates should hold two names together for this fact, Indore as the first and Ghaziabad as the second, along with the standard under which the accreditation was granted.

The correct answer is the NDPS Act, 1985, that is, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. The destruction of the seized stock followed the procedure laid down in that law, and the authorised disposal was carried out under the watch of the Drug Disposal Committee with a representative of the state pollution control board present, so that the material was incinerated safely and could not slip back into the illicit trade. Option A is wrong because the customs law deals with import and export duties and smuggling of goods generally, not with the disposal of narcotic substances. Option C is wrong because the money laundering law deals with the proceeds of crime rather than the contraband itself. Option D is wrong because the older opium law has been replaced by the present statute for these purposes. The same law was cited for both the fresh seizures reported by the bureau.

The correct answer is the Survey of India. The twenty-eight places and features were marked with their standard names on the Survey of India's official map of the Union Territory of Ladakh, and that map, along with further places and features, can be seen in the state maps section of the Survey of India website. Option A, the Geological Survey of India, is a different body and had no part in this naming exercise as announced. Option C, the Indian Space Research Organisation, is the national space agency and was not named in the announcement at all. Option D, the National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation, also produces maps, but the announcement is specific that the official map in question is the Survey of India's map of the Union Territory. The naming itself was done by the Centre in consultation with the Union Territory of Ladakh, and the Ministry of Home Affairs made it public.

The correct answer is the effective collection, segregation and disposal of e-waste. The campaign retains its older aims of cleanliness and clearing pendency, but electronic waste is the subject singled out for this round, and a standard operating procedure for scientific disposal of such waste has been sent to every subordinate office, autonomous organisation and regional office. Option A, digitisation of land records, belongs to a different programme and is nowhere in the campaign guidelines described here. Option C, phasing out single-use plastic, is a separate environmental commitment and not this campaign's theme. Option D, energy audits of government buildings, is likewise unrelated to the announced focus. The environment ministry has already listed the items it will send for disposal, which include information technology and telecommunication equipment, consumer electronics with photovoltaic panels, laboratory instruments and medical devices.

The correct answer is Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam. The Department of Legal Affairs of the Ministry of Law and Justice organised the drive under that theme on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti, and it formed part of Special Campaign 6 as well as Swachhata Hi Seva 2026. Options A, C and D are plausible-sounding names for plantation or greening drives, but none of them is the theme named for this event. The minister, the law secretary who chairs the centre, and senior officers of the department and the centre planted saplings on the campus together. The programme ended with a pledge to carry on cleanliness work and to promote a greener and more sustainable environment, and the centre's leadership tied that pledge to the wider aims of the Swachh Bharat Mission.

The correct answer is Notification No. 41/2026-27, which the Department of Commerce issued on 30 September 2026 to continue the RoDTEP scheme up to 31 December 2026. Option A names the notification that extended the timelines under Component II of the RELIEF intervention for exporters facing West Asia logistics disruptions, a separate measure of the same department issued on the same day, which makes it the strongest distractor here. Options B and D carry serial numbers that were never attached to this decision. Questions of this kind reward candidates who note the notification number together with its date, because a department commonly issues several notifications in one sitting and examiners pair the wrong number with the right scheme. Remember the combination: RoDTEP extension to 31 December 2026 by Notification No. 41/2026-27 of 30 September 2026.

The correct answer is the ECGC, with 95 per cent risk coverage. Component II nudges an exporter into taking Export Credit Guarantee Corporation cover for upcoming shipments to the specified regions, and that cover carries ninety-five per cent risk coverage, available on a Stand Alone Policy or a Whole Turnover Policy obtained on or after 16 March 2026. Option A names the Export-Import Bank, which lends and guarantees for export finance but is not the credit insurer in this component. Option C names the Directorate General of Foreign Trade, which frames and notifies trade policy rather than selling insurance cover. Option D names the small industries lender, which has no role here. The second protection in Component II is equally examinable: the premium an exporter pays cannot be pushed above the level that held before the disruption, for the whole of the eligible period.