NDA Current Affairs Quiz: 24 September 2026

Sanda is the full-contact fighting format of wushu and its bouts are decided in weight categories, which is why the weight appears in the name of the event itself.

Keep it apart from the other money figure in the same announcement, the total approved cost of the project, which is far larger; a question will often place the two side by side to see whether a candidate has confused the support with the whole outlay.

The Ministry of Defence announcement names the edition explicitly, and it is the single most asked detail about a recurring exercise, because the number records how far back the series goes and distinguishes this year's round from every earlier one.

DRDO signed the agreement for an indigenous 20 mK dilution refrigerator with the start-up Zero mK India Private Limited under the TDF scheme, and it is the first high-value deep tech project agreement the scheme has supported.

What the Prime Minister called noteworthy was not the single silver alone but the run behind it: medals at three Asian Games one after another, a record of turning up at the top of the sport over many years rather than in one good season.

This is the approved cost of the whole project, of which the Technology Development Board is supporting a part from the Research Development and Innovation Fund, the rest being borne by the company.

VARUNA is the naval exercise that India holds with the French Navy, and the supporting detail in this announcement points the same way, since the Indian ship has berthed at Toulon, a French port on the Mediterranean, for the harbour and sea phases of the exercise.

The release places Zero mK India Private Limited at Alwar in Rajasthan, and the agreement itself was signed in New Delhi between the Director of the Technology Development Fund and the start-up.

The name of a rowing event tells you both the size of the crew and the way the oars are held: sculling means each rower works a pair of oars, and double means the boat carries two of them.

The two are put on one platform because their weaknesses do not overlap: optical imaging gives rich visual detail but is defeated by cloud cover and by darkness, while radar works irrespective of daylight and can image through cloud.

What it does list are professional engagements in harbour and at sea of three kinds: cross-deck visits, in which sailors of one navy go aboard the other's ship; operational interactions, in which the two crews compare their drills and procedures; and sporting engagements between the ships' companies.

A dilution refrigerator of the 20 mK class produces the ultra-cold millikelvin environment in which quantum computing platforms and related quantum technologies are operated and tested, so building one in India directly serves the quantum mission and strengthens capability in quantum technology, advanced cryogenics and strategic technologies.

Technology Readiness Level is a scale for how far a technology has travelled from an idea towards routine use, and the stretch named here is the late one: a system already demonstrated in conditions close to the real environment has to be engineered, tested and validated until it is proven…