CDS Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 28 September – 4 October 2026

KAZIND takes its name from the two partners, Kazakhstan and India, and the ninth edition of the exercise is being held at Oskemen in Kazakhstan from 28 September to 11 October 2026.

The correct answer is Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, where the two sides met to discuss military training, exercises, medical cooperation, peacekeeping and defence industries.

The second edition of the Indian Navy's Commanders' Conference for the year is being held there over three days, from 29 September to 1 October 2026.

The second meeting of the bilateral Joint Working Group between India and Fiji was held in the Indian capital on 28 September 2026, where the two sides went through military training and capacity building, service-to-service engagement, maritime security, cyber training and collaboration in the defence industry.

Addressing the Naval Commanders' Conference, the Defence Minister described 2026 as a historic year for the Navy because the induction or commissioning of eighteen warships is planned, which would be the largest addition of ships in a single year in the force's history.

These three shooters made up the Indian side that finished second in the women's Trap team competition at the Asian Games, and the Prime Minister congratulated them by name on the silver, praising their precision, focus and teamwork.

The Joint Committee Meeting between India and the Republic of Korea on defence industries and logistics cooperation reached its tenth edition at the New Delhi round, where the two sides reviewed existing defence ties and discussed ways to widen cooperation in defence production and logistics.

The Ministry of Defence stated that the second edition of the conference commenced there, bringing together the senior leadership of the Indian Navy, including Operational and Area Commanders, for deliberations on operational preparedness, maritime security and future capability development.

The encounter took place at Gurwatkalan, which falls in the area of the Khansahib police station in Budgam district.

The second edition of the ASEAN-India Maritime Exercise began at Subic Bay on 28 September 2026, and the opening ceremony there was graced by Harsh Kumar Jain, India's Ambassador to the Philippines, as Guest of Honour.

The ceremony marking the culmination of a year-long commemoration of the Military Nursing Service was held there, and Raksha Rajya Mantri Sanjay Seth attended it.

The correct answer is 364, the total across the two mega camps of the valley.

Varuna is the annual bilateral maritime exercise between the Indian Navy and the French Navy, and in its twenty-fourth edition the Indian warship Trishul sailed to the French port of Toulon to take part.

That is how the ship has been described in the announcement of her visit to the Kenyan port, and a frigate of this class is a general purpose warship built with a reduced radar signature so that it is harder to detect at sea.

HQ IDS was established in New Delhi on that date, and the day is observed every year as Tri-Service Day; the organisation therefore completed 25 years and celebrated its Silver Jubilee under the theme of future readiness through jointness and integration.

The Raksha Mantri launched the department’s publications and digital initiatives at this celebration held at DRDO Bhawan in New Delhi, and he congratulated the department on nearly three centuries of service to the nation, which fits an edition in the high two hundreds.

Ankush won the gold medal in the men's 80 kg boxing event at the Asian Games with an emphatic victory in the final, and the weight division is the detail that decides this question.

The second edition of the Naval Commanders' Conference 2026 was conducted in New Delhi over three days, from 29 September to 1 October 2026, and it was at this apex-level sitting that the Navy's operational and materiel preparedness was reviewed.

The Assembly and the meetings held around it are taking place at Arusha, a city in that country, from 5 to 9 October 2026, and the Indian Parliamentary Delegation left for Arusha for this purpose.

That is the span over which the country's first free-space Quantum Key Distribution link was established, between the BISAG-N campus and IIT Gandhinagar, in a field trial run on the night of 27 and 28 September.

The ASEAN-India Maritime Exercise was conducted there, with INS Sahyadri and INS Kulish representing the Indian Navy through both the Harbour Phase and the Sea Phase.

The Ministry of Defence described KAZIND-2026 as the ninth edition of the joint military exercise between the two countries, conducted at Oskemen in Kazakhstan from 28 September to 11 October 2026.

The correct answer is February 2025, when the defence ministers of the two countries signed the Defence Cooperation Memorandum of Understanding that set up the standing mechanism for these consultations.

The Navy's apex leadership is assessing its overall preparedness against these three foundational pillars, whose initials form the acronym JAI, with the object of optimising force levels and raising combat readiness.

As part of the effort to widen specialised military training cooperation, the delegation from Fiji is scheduled to be in Kochi on 29 and 30 September 2026 and will inspect facilities there, with the aim of formalising advanced naval training cooperation and professional aviation training modules.

The Raksha Mantri called it an outstanding achievement that Indian-flagged merchant vessels, LPG tankers in particular, were given safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz under this operation during the crisis in West Asia.

Trap is one of the shotgun events in competitive shooting: the athlete fires at clay targets that are flung away from the firing stand at speed, and the discipline rewards quick reaction, steady aim and concentration held over a long series of shots.

DAPA is the Republic of Korea's government body responsible for defence acquisition and for overseeing the Korean defence industry, and its Vice Minister Kim Il Dong co-chaired the Joint Committee Meeting in New Delhi alongside Additional Secretary (Defence Production) Dinesh Mahur.

Referring to the situation in West Asia, Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh highlighted the Navy’s conduct of this operation and its contribution to safeguarding India’s energy security, in an address that also stressed Aatmanirbharta, indigenous capability development and technology absorption.

The correct answer is Operation Sheruwali, a long-sustained operation that began in May 2026 and of which this encounter was a part.