NDA Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 19–25 October 2026

The fifth edition of Swavlamban, the Navy's annual NIIO seminar on innovation and indigenisation, is scheduled there on 26 and 27 October 2026, as announced at the curtain raiser press conference chaired by Vice Admiral Ajay Kochhar, Vice Chief of the Naval Staff.

AUSTRAHIND is the joint military exercise of the Indian Army and the Australian Army, and its name joins the two countries.

The distinction matters because exam papers often test which office performed an act.

The Union Public Service Commission declared the written result of the Combined Defence Services Examination (II) 2026 and named 8,956 candidates as qualified for the interview conducted by the Service Selection Board of the Ministry of Defence.

Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh said the country's atomic ambitions have to be read against its longer development goals and its clean energy commitments, and named this figure as the nuclear power capacity India is targeting by 2047.

Manish Narwal finished second in that event at the Asian Para Games 2026 on 20 October 2026, and the Prime Minister called it an impressive performance, adding that the shooter kept setting himself apart through his focus and his commitment.

Pranav Soorma won the Men’s Discus Throw F51/52/53 gold at the Asian Para Games 2026 on 20 October 2026, and the Prime Minister described the achievement as historic precisely because the winning throw went past the best mark previously recorded in the continent in that class.

A key highlight of the conference is its release by the Raksha Mantri, and the document is intended to give the Indian Army an overarching framework for meeting the challenges created by the changing character of warfare and by future conflicts.

The Ministry of Defence signed the contract with BEL to procure the Improved Low Level Light Weight Radar for the Indian Army at a cost of about Rs 770 crore, in the presence of the Defence Secretary in New Delhi.

SIMBEX is the short name of the Singapore-India Maritime Bilateral Exercise, and the two forces that take part are the Indian Navy and the Republic of Singapore Navy, abbreviated RSN.

The roadmap was released there on 14 September 2026, and the Industry Outreach Programme of 21 October 2026 at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi was built on it, with the roadmap booklet distributed to industry partners on that day.

The Defence Secretary opened it on 22 October 2026 as part of Special Campaign 6 of the Ministry of Defence, with the aim of promoting Hindi books and literature, encouraging the use of Hindi in official work and strengthening the culture of working in Hindi under the Rajbhasha policy.

IBSAMAR stands for the India-Brazil-South Africa Maritime Exercise, and the ninth edition brought the navies of these three countries together before concluding at Simon's Town in South Africa.

The First Training Squadron that arrived off Male consisted of INS Tir, INS Sujata and the Indian Coast Guard Ship Sarathi, and the three reached the Maldives on 21 October 2026 on a Long Range Training Deployment.

The Indian Navy will hold the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue in New Delhi from 3 to 5 November 2026 on this theme, with the National Maritime Foundation as the principal organiser, and experts from 18 countries of the region taking part.

The Ministry of Defence said that Indian Naval Ship Sahyadri departed Vladivostok in the Russian Federation on 20 October 2026 after the bilateral naval exercise INDRA 2026 between the Indian Navy and the Russian Federation Navy was completed, so Sahyadri is the Indian warship tied to this edition of the…

Its Numerical and Theoretical Astrophysics Group built the computer simulation of viscous accretion flows used in the work, which was led by Mr Sanit Debnath and Dr Indranil Chattopadhyay, with scientists from the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center in Poland and MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly.

The Raksha Mantri released it at the Army Commanders' Conference in New Delhi, and it provides an overarching framework to prepare the Indian Army for the evolving character of warfare and for future conflicts, which is why it was issued to the Army's senior leadership rather than to a joint…

Mona Agarwal won the gold in this shooting event at the Asian Para Games, and her winning performance stood as a new world record as well as a new Asian Para Games record.

The Setting to Work Phase-2 activity of this module was inaugurated on 24 October 2026 at the AM Naik Heavy Engineering Complex of Larsen and Toubro at Hazira in Gujarat, and the system rests on hydrogen and fuel cell technology.

Swavlamban is the Navy’s own Naval Innovation and Indigenisation Seminar, and the name of the event itself points to naval innovation.

The NAUSETU Interface Standards will be released at Swavlamban 2026 together with the Swavlamban 5.0 Document and the Compendium on Technology Imperatives.

The Indian contingent at this edition is built around troops of the Garhwal Rifles, with personnel from other arms and services joining them, while the Australian contingent is drawn from 13 Brigade.

The ministry has put the content of the relaunched websites in that many Indian official languages, and it gives wider outreach and improved accessibility as the reason.

The Indian Military Academy at Dehradun starts its 163rd Direct Entry Course in July 2027, and the qualifiers of the Combined Defence Services Examination (II) 2026 are interviewed for admission to it.

The correct answer is 2070, the year Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh named for India's Net Zero emissions commitment while explaining why nuclear power matters to the country's energy plans.

Shrishti Arora secured the bronze in the Women’s 10m Air Pistol SH1 event on 20 October 2026 while competing at the Games for the first time, and the Prime Minister described the medal as a wonderful beginning, saying he was confident she would continue to make the nation proud.

He took the silver in the Men’s Discus Throw F51/52/53 event at the Asian Para Games 2026 on 20 October 2026, with Pranav Soorma winning the gold in the same final, so India claimed both the top places in that class group.

The conference is the apex-level biannual forum of the Indian Army and is chaired by the COAS, who also confers the Green Military Stations and Aviation Flight Safety awards during the event.

The radar is able to detect and track targets of fighter aircraft size as well as mini and micro drones, and it can also prioritise aerial targets, which together allow the Army to counter the threat posed by unmanned aerial systems.