NDA Current Affairs Quiz: 10 October 2026

The correct answer is the Indian Air Force. Tarang Shakti is an air exercise, and the second edition was hosted by the Indian Air Force from 26 September to 12 October 2026, with the Defence Minister addressing the participants at Air Force Station Jodhpur. Option A, the Indian Army, is wrong because the exercise was built around flying operations — combat jets, transport aircraft, surveillance platforms and air-to-air refuelling tankers — and around joint mission planning between air forces, not around ground manoeuvres. Option B, the Indian Navy, is wrong for the same reason; the Navy Chief, Admiral Krishna Swaminathan, was present at the event as a dignitary, but the exercise was not a naval one. Option D, the Indian Coast Guard, is wrong because the Coast Guard is a maritime law-enforcement and search-and-rescue service and had no role of this kind here. The clue in such questions is usually the kind of platform named: Tejas and Prachand are an aircraft and a helicopter, which point to the air arm.

The correct answer is Deoghar, Jharkhand. The mela, named Sainya Sampark Mela - Sadaiv Aapke Saath, was held at Deoghar and was organised by the Indian Army together with the Deoghar district administration. It served ex-servicemen, Veer Naris and their dependents from across the Santhal Pargana region, which is why the venue was placed there rather than in the State capital. Option A names Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand, which is not where this mela was held. Option C names Dumka, another town of the Santhal Pargana region, but the event was not located there. Option D names Bokaro, an industrial centre of the State, which also does not match. Candidates should fix the pairing of the mela with Deoghar, and remember that the Vice-President, C. P. Radhakrishnan, is a former Governor of Jharkhand.

The correct answer is Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Kolkata, where Shreyas, carrying the yard number 3040, was launched. Option A, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders in Mumbai, builds destroyers and submarines for the Navy but had no part in this launch. Option C, Cochin Shipyard in Kochi, is the yard associated with the indigenous aircraft carrier, not with this class of patrol vessels. Option D, Hindustan Shipyard in Visakhapatnam, is another defence yard that is not involved in this programme. The point to remember is that the Next Generation Offshore Patrol Vessels are being built at two yards at the same time, Goa Shipyard Limited in Goa and GRSE in Kolkata, and this particular hull came from the Kolkata yard.

The correct answer is seven. The air forces that brought aircraft to the exercise were those of Australia, Bangladesh, France, Germany, Sri Lanka, the United Arab Emirates and the United States of America — seven friendly foreign countries in all. Separately, a much larger group of countries attended only to watch the flying, and that group numbered thirty-two observer nations, so a candidate must be careful not to mix the two figures. Option A, five, is too few and matches none of the groupings at the exercise. Option C, twelve, is wrong; no set of twelve participants is recorded, and the number is probably confused with the closing date of the exercise. Option D, eighteen, is wrong as well and corresponds to nothing in the exercise. For the examination the safest way to hold the fact is as a pair: seven air forces flying, thirty-two nations observing.

The correct answer is Always with You; for ex-servicemen, Veer Naris and their dependents. Sadaiv Aapke Saath translates as Always with You, and the Vice-President asked that it become a continuing national commitment rather than the slogan of one event. The mela itself was arranged to deliver welfare services and grievance redressal to ex-servicemen, to Veer Naris and to their dependents in the Santhal Pargana region. Option B gives a different motto and limits the beneficiaries to serving soldiers, which is not the case here. Option C misreads the theme and narrows it to NCC cadets, although NCC activities were only one of the stalls at the venue. Option D again gives a wrong meaning and wrongly restricts the event to families of serving officers.

The correct answer is 'best' or 'most excellent', which is what Shreyas means in Sanskrit. Ships of this class are named from India's rich heritage, and this vessel's name was chosen in that spirit. Option A is wrong because courage and valour are the sense of other Sanskrit warship names, not of Shreyas. Option C is wrong because no such meaning was given for this name, although guarding the seas does describe the vessel's duties of maritime surveillance and protection of offshore assets. Option D is wrong for the same reason; invincibility is a common theme in naval naming but is not the meaning here. Candidates should remember both the name and its meaning, since questions often pair a warship with the sense of its name.

The correct answer is Jodhpur. Air Force Station Jodhpur, in Rajasthan, was where the Defence Minister spoke to the aircrews and ground teams of the second edition of Tarang Shakti. Option B, Jamnagar, is a well-known Indian Air Force base in Gujarat but was not the venue for this address. Option C, Sulur, in Tamil Nadu, is closely linked with Tejas squadrons and so is a tempting distractor, yet the Minister's address took place at Jodhpur. Option D, Hindan, near Delhi, is one of the busiest transport bases of the Indian Air Force and hosts many ceremonial events, but not this one. Candidates should also fix the exercise window in memory, 26 September to 12 October 2026, and the fact that this was the second edition, the first having been conducted in 2024.

The correct answer is the Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme, known by its short form ECHS. Its services were set up at the mela along with displays of weapons and military equipment, disaster relief facilities, medical screening and blood donation camps, women's health awareness work, NCC activities and pension-related counters. The Vice-President praised this single-window arrangement, under which pension assistance, medical facilities, documentation and grievance redressal came together on one platform, and he described it as a meaningful example of last-mile delivery. Option A is a digital health records mission and not a veterans' scheme. Option B serves central government employees and pensioners, not ex-servicemen specifically. Option D covers organised sector workers through insurance contributions. Only ECHS is the health scheme meant for ex-servicemen and their dependents.

The correct answer is Goa Shipyard Limited and GRSE Kolkata. Construction of the Next Generation Offshore Patrol Vessels is being carried out at these two yards at the same time, and the ships are both designed and built in India. Options B, C and D each pair one correct or plausible yard with one that is not part of this programme, which is what makes them attractive but wrong. Mazagon Dock, Cochin Shipyard and Hindustan Shipyard are all important Indian builders with other orders, yet none of them is listed for this class. These vessels will supplement the existing Offshore Patrol Vessels and Naval Offshore Patrol Vessels of the fleet, and the programme is tied to the goals of Aatmanirbhar Bharat and Make in India in warship construction.

The correct answer is Lance Naik Albert Ekka. While recalling his tenure as Governor of Jharkhand and speaking of the State's proud tradition of military service and sacrifice, the Vice-President paid tribute to this Param Vir Chakra awardee, and in the same breath recalled the tribal freedom fighters of the region, among them Bhagwan Birsa Munda, Tilka Manjhi, Sidhu and Kanhu, and Nilambar and Pitambar. He said the spirit of patriotism and national service continues to inspire the people of Jharkhand. Options B, C and D name other recipients of the Param Vir Chakra, all of them well known, but none of them was the awardee honoured in this address. The connection to hold on to is Jharkhand with Albert Ekka, which is a frequent pairing in examination questions on gallantry awards.