NDA Current Affairs Quiz: 25 September 2026

The correct answer is Silver. The Prime Minister's message congratulated Manu TS, Poovamma MR, Vishal TK and Vithya Ramraj specifically on taking the silver medal in the mixed 4x400m relay at the Asian Games, so option B is the one supported by the release. Option A, gold, is wrong because the team placed second rather than first in the final; the message speaks of a silver medal throughout and nowhere describes the run as a winning one. Option C, bronze, is wrong for the same reason, as bronze goes to the third team home and would not match the description given. Option D is wrong because a fourth place carries no medal at all, yet the whole point of the message was to mark a medal-winning run and to call it a proud moment for athletics in the country. Aspirants should tie the event, the medal colour and the four names together, since relay questions are usually set on exactly that combination.

The correct answer is 22. The fourth edition of the International Strategic Engagement Programme has 38 delegates in all, and of these 25 are international delegates who have come from 22 countries, among them Sri Lanka, Seychelles, Mongolia, Nepal, Mauritius, Maldives, Oman, Guyana, Chile, Argentina, the Philippines, Thailand, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, Myanmar, Uzbekistan and Brazil. Option C gives the number of international delegates rather than the number of countries, and option D gives the total strength of the programme including participants from India, so both are true figures attached to the wrong question. Option A does not belong to this programme at all. Three numbers travel together in this story and an examiner can ask for any one of them, so fix in mind that 38 is the total, 25 the international delegates and 22 the countries.

The correct answer is ICGS Shaunak. Shaunak is the Indian Coast Guard ship that left Chennai on 25 September 2026 for Perth in Australia as India's contribution to the QUAD-at-Sea Ship Observer Mission, carrying six Sea Riders drawn from the four QUAD countries. Options A, B and D name other Coast Guard vessels, none of which was deployed for this particular mission; they are placed here because ship names of this class are easy to confuse in an examination hall. Candidates should link three details together when they revise this item: the ship is Shaunak, the port of departure is Chennai, and the destination is Perth on Australia's west coast. Remember also that the QUAD grouping consists of India, Australia, Japan and the United States, and that the sailing is presented as an expression of India's maritime vision, MAHASAGAR.

The correct answer is 220. Surgeons of the Armed Forces Medical Services completed 220 sight-restoring surgeries during the two-day mega eye surgical camp at Tangdhar in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, held on 24 and 25 September 2026 under Operation Drishti. Most of these were cataract procedures, and the team also performed selected retinal procedures and minimally invasive glaucoma surgery. Options A, B and D are wrong because none of them matches the figure announced for this camp; they are placed as near-miss numbers of the kind that trip up a candidate who has read the item quickly. It is worth separating this figure from the totals for the whole series, where more than 3,500 surgeries have been performed across 10 cities and over 1.50 lakh patients have been screened.

The correct answer is four athletes, two men and two women. The name of the discipline itself carries the answer: the figure before the multiplication sign gives the number of runners and the figure after it gives the lap each of them covers, so a mixed 4x400m relay is run by four athletes who each complete a lap of 400 metres. The word mixed tells us the four are split evenly between men and women, and each team may choose the order in which they are sent out. Option A is wrong because two runners would make the event a relay in name only and would not match the four in the title of the discipline. Option B is wrong both on the count and on the balance, since an odd number cannot be split evenly between men and women. Option D is wrong because six runners belong to no standard relay format on an athletics programme. India's silver-winning team at the Asian Games was accordingly a group of four, namely Manu TS, Poovamma MR, Vishal TK and Vithya Ramraj.

The correct answer is the National Security Council Secretariat. The programme is put together by the two ministries along with that secretariat, and it is conducted in association with the National Defence College, which is where such strategic courses are run. NITI Aayog is the government's policy think tank and works on development planning, not on a strategic engagement programme of this kind, so option A is wrong. The Indian Council of World Affairs is a research body on international relations and is not named among the organisers, which rules out option C. The Ministry of Home Affairs handles internal security and has no part in convening this programme, so option D is wrong as well. The Vice-President specifically thanked the secretariat and the two ministries for bringing the delegates together.

The correct answer is six. The officers who boarded the ship for the passage are called Sea Riders, and the split is worth memorising because a paper setter can ask about it directly: India and Japan contributed two officers each, while Australia and the United States contributed one officer each, which adds up to six in all. Option A is wrong because four would leave out one of the pairs; option C and option D are wrong because no additional officers were embarked beyond the six named. On board, these officers take part in shipboard activities and professional exchanges meant to improve coordination between the maritime forces of the four countries and to build trust, so that joint responses at sea become easier when a real situation arises.

The correct answer is Kupwara. Tangdhar lies in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, a shelling-prone area close to the Line of Control, and the camp there had to be run from an underground operation theatre for that reason. Options A, C and D name other districts of the union territory that also lie near the Line of Control, which is exactly why they work as distractors, but the camp described here was not held in any of them. Patients came from Khawarpora, Tangdar, Tadd, Bagbela, Yangdar and neighbouring hamlets after screening and after the camp was announced on Radio Rooh-e-Karnah, with the Indian Army guiding each patient from arrival to recovery. Remember also that the next camp in the series moves to Srinagar.

The correct answer is the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. The release was issued by the Prime Minister's Office and carried his words praising the pace of the team, the understanding between the runners and their determination, which he said had made the race an exciting one and a proud moment for athletics in the country. He also wished the four of them greater heights in the years ahead, and the Prime Minister's Office shared the message on the platform X. Option A is wrong because the release names no message from the President on this result. Option C is wrong because, although the sports ministry is the nodal ministry for athletes, the document in question came from the Prime Minister's Office and quoted the Prime Minister alone. Option D is wrong for the same reason, as no association official is quoted anywhere in it. For the examination hall, remember the pairing of the Prime Minister's Office with the quartet of Manu TS, Poovamma MR, Vishal TK and Vithya Ramraj.

The correct answer is think globally, engage strategically, act in cohesion. The Vice-President offered these three ideas as the philosophy behind the programme while urging countries of the Global South to respond together to challenges that cut across technology, cyberspace, artificial intelligence, energy and maritime security, climate change and supply chains. The other options are slogans associated with other contexts and were not the message delivered here, so they are wrong. In the same address he described corruption as a major challenge before Global South countries and asked delegates to build corruption-free systems at every level, and he recalled Vaccine Maitri while saying that scientific advances should benefit all of humanity, in the spirit of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam. Questions on this story usually ask either for the motto or for the participation figures.

The correct answer is Mutual and Holistic Advancement for Security and Growth Across Regions. MAHASAGAR is the name given to India's maritime vision, and the QUAD-at-Sea Ship Observer Mission is described as an expression of it, alongside the Indian Coast Guard's own commitment to collective engagement and a secure maritime environment in the Indo-Pacific. Options A, C and D are all invented expansions that borrow familiar words such as maritime, shipping, harbour and security but do not match the official full form. Aspirants are frequently tested on exact expansions of this kind, so it helps to fix the order of words in memory: mutual first, then holistic advancement, then security and growth, and finally across regions. Pair this with the mission's other facts, namely ICG Ship Shaunak sailing from Chennai to Perth on 25 September 2026.

The correct answer is Brigadier Sanjay Kumar Mishra, Head of Ophthalmology at the Army Hospital (Research and Referral), Delhi Cantonment, whose team carried advanced phacoemulsification, vitreoretinal and glaucoma equipment across mountainous terrain to reach Tangdhar. Option A is wrong because Air Marshal Sandeep Thareja is the Director General of the Armed Forces Medical Services; he visited the camp and appreciated the surgeons and the local team, but did not lead the surgical team. Option B is wrong because General Dhiraj Seth is the Chief of the Army Staff, who visited the camp, interacted with patients and distributed medicines and gifts. Option D is wrong because Manoj Sinha is the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, who is to attend the closing ceremony of the next camp. Distinguishing these four roles is the whole point of the question.