Railway Current Affairs Quiz: 25 September 2026

The correct answer is 2,532 km. The new service approved by Indian Railways connects Bhuj in Gujarat with Barauni in Bihar and covers that distance while passing through Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, which makes it one of the longer runs given to a train of the Amrit Bharat class. The train runs as number 19427 from Bhuj, departing at 17:30 and reaching Barauni at 04:05, and as number 19428 in the return direction, leaving Barauni at 23:55 and arriving at Bhuj at 13:15. The other three options are near-miss figures of the kind an examiner places to catch a candidate who half remembers the number, since the digits are the same but rearranged. Note also that the service is tri-weekly, running three days a week in each direction rather than daily.

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 about 70,000. The Ministry of Rural Development has said that roughly that many rural young people, organised into 2,015 batches across 24 States and Union Territories, are expected to start their training in the opening month of the rollout. Option A is simply a smaller figure with nothing in the announcement to support it. Option D confuses two different numbers: the larger figure refers to the targets that 24 States and Union Territories have already allotted to Project Implementation Agencies over more than 1,200 projects, which is a target for allocation and not the count of trainees walking into a classroom in the first month. Option C is likewise unsupported by anything in the ministry's statement. The distinction between a target allotted on paper and a batch actually commencing is exactly the sort of fine point that examiners like to test, so keep the trainee figure, the batch count and the number of States and Union Territories together in memory as one set.

The correct answer is the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. The Digital Connectivity Rating Platform was launched by the telecom regulator, which functions under the Ministry of Communications, and the launch was announced on 25 September 2026. The regulator framed the rules for rating properties in the first place, registers the agencies that carry out an assessment and publishes the ratings, so the platform sits with it alone. The Department of Telecommunications is the executive arm of the ministry, handling licensing and spectrum, and it did not launch this platform. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is a state-owned service provider with no regulatory or rating role in the exercise. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology looks after electronics manufacturing and information technology policy, which is an altogether separate subject. Aspirants should tie the platform to the regulator, to its chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti and to the Ministry of Communications.

The correct answer is Rs 6,940 crore. The bulk drugs scheme, which covers key starting materials, drug intermediates and active pharmaceutical ingredients, was approved in 2020 with that outlay and it works on 41 critical products where imports dominated. Rs 3,420 crore is the outlay of a different scheme, the one for domestic manufacturing of medical devices, also approved in 2020, so option A confuses two schemes of the same year. Rs 15,000 crore belongs to the pharmaceuticals scheme approved in 2021, which supports complex generics, biopharmaceuticals and other high-value products, so option C is wrong. Rs 17,275 crore is not an outlay at all; it is the targeted investment under the pharmaceuticals scheme, a figure that actual investment has crossed. Keep outlay, target and actual investment separate while revising, because questions are set on exactly this distinction.

The correct answer is the faint envelope of gas surrounding a galaxy beyond its disc. The study describes the circumgalactic medium as a diffuse, ghostly reservoir of gas that lies past the edge of the stellar disc and spreads out to between ten and twenty times the size of the galaxy, and this reservoir supplies the fuel from which stars are eventually made. Option A describes the crowded central region of a galaxy, which is a different thing altogether. Option C refers to the dust in the spiral arms, which lies within the visible disc and not outside it. Option D describes the region bounded by the event horizon of a black hole, a region from which nothing escapes, and it has nothing to do with this outer gas. The whole point of the study is that a jet from the central black hole reaches out into this envelope.

The correct answer is Vanijya Bhawan, New Delhi, which houses the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and where the board met in hybrid mode, with some members present and others joining online. The board functions under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade of that ministry, so its meeting place follows naturally. Udyog Bhawan houses other ministries and was not the venue, which makes option A wrong. Vigyan Bhawan is the government's large conference venue used for conferences and summits rather than for a board meeting of this kind, so option C is wrong. Krishi Bhawan is associated with agriculture and allied departments and has no connection with this board, so option D is wrong too. The meeting was chaired by Sunil J. Singhi and opened by the DPIIT Director, Yuvraj Ravindra Patil.

The correct answer is Mathura. Indian Railways approved the extension of trains 11901 and 11902 up to Mathura station, which lifts the run of the service from 217 km to 270 km and brings Jhansi, Agra and Mathura together on one train. On the newly added stretch, commercial halts have been given at Raja ki Mandi, Runkuta, Deen Dayal Dham and Baad, so passengers at these four stations gain a service they did not have earlier. Gwalior lies on the other side of Jhansi on the Delhi-Bhopal route and is not part of this extension, so option A is wrong. Bharatpur and Hathras are stations on the route of the new Bhuj-Barauni Amrit Bharat Express and belong to a separate announcement, which is why options C and D are wrong here.

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 Ministry of Rural Development. The announcement on the rollout of DDU-GKY 2.0 came from that ministry, which is also the body pressing States and Union Territories to allot targets to their implementing agencies and holding review meetings with them in phases. DDU-GKY is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme offering placement-linked skill training to poor rural youth, and its rural focus is the reason it sits with the rural development ministry rather than elsewhere. Option A is a plausible distractor because skilling is that ministry's broad remit, but this particular scheme is not run by it. Option B is wrong because employment policy and labour welfare, not the delivery of this training programme, fall to that ministry. Option D is wrong because school and higher education are outside the scope of a placement-linked vocational scheme of this kind. Candidates should also note the course length of 3 months to 12 months and the requirement that courses be aligned with the National Skill Qualification Framework.

The correct answer is 2024. The platform carries out the framework prescribed by the regulator's rules of 2024 on the rating of properties for digital connectivity. Those rules were later amended by a notification issued on 13 May 2026, and the process now followed is the one written into the Rating Manual of 2026, which was brought out on 9 June 2026. So three dates hang together in this story: the parent rules, the amendment and the manual. The other options are years in which no such rating framework was notified by the regulator, and none of them figures in the launch. A careless reading often mixes up the year of the parent regulations with the year of the amendment; remember that the parent rules came first and the amendment and the manual both belong to 2026.

The correct answer is 57. Production of 57 unique medical devices has begun under the scheme, and the list runs from magnetic resonance imaging machines, computed tomography scanners, cath labs and linear accelerators to C-arms, mammography machines, ultrasound systems, anaesthesia machines and heart valves, most of which were earlier brought in from outside. The other three options are all numbers from the bulk drugs scheme and are placed here precisely to test whether the two schemes have been mixed up: 48 projects were approved under that scheme, 39 of them have been commissioned, and those commissioned projects make 28 ingredients. Keeping a small table of scheme, year, outlay and the headline count is the safest way to hold these figures apart in the examination hall.

The correct answer is the Raman Research Institute, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology, whose scientists worked with colleagues at Arizona State University in the United States. The lead author of the paper, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, is Namrata Roy, an assistant professor in the astronomy and astrophysics division of that institute, and a co-author quoted on the finding is Sanchayeeta Borthakur of the American university. The other three names in the options are all genuine and well-known Indian research institutions working in astronomy and physics, which makes them plausible distractors, but none of them is credited with this particular study. In current affairs, always tie a discovery to the exact institute, the lead researcher and the journal, because a question can be set on any of the three.

The correct answer is 40,000. The chairman of the board cited the Jan Vishwas Act as a reform that has rationalised that many compliances, and placed it alongside the ease of doing business measures and the creation of state level traders' welfare boards as the main steps taken for the trading community. The other three options are figures of a similar shape, offered to test whether the number has been memorised exactly rather than approximately, and none of them was mentioned. A related figure worth holding on to from the same meeting is that DigiDukaan, an initiative of the open network for digital commerce, has more than nineteen thousand retailers live in Hyderabad and Jaipur, while the board also asked for a single loan portal that would decide applications within a month.

The correct answer is Maharashtra. The new service links Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, and Maharashtra does not figure on the route at all. The train starts from Bhuj in the Kutch region of Gujarat, touches Samakhiali and Ahmedabad, moves through Ratlam and then into Rajasthan at Kota, Sawai Madhopur, Gangapur City and Bharatpur, enters Uttar Pradesh at Mathura and continues through Hathras, Bareilly, Izzatnagar, Pilibhit, Lakhimpur, Gonda and Gorakhpur before reaching Bihar at Siwan, Chhapra, Hajipur, Muzaffarpur and Samastipur on its way to Barauni. Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are therefore all on the route, which rules out options A, B and D. Memorising the terminals and the four states is usually enough for objective questions on a new train service.

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 31 October 2026. The Ministry of Rural Development has fixed that day as the outer limit by which States and Union Territories are to finish allotting targets to their Project Implementation Agencies, so that batches can actually begin. Option A is wrong because it falls before the month in which training is itself meant to open, which would leave no room for the allocations the ministry is still chasing. Options C and D are wrong because both push the deadline well past the start of training and would defeat the purpose of the ministry's push for speed; it has called this a crucial phase for action by the States and is holding review meetings in phases precisely to avoid such slippage. For the examination, link the deadline with the two other dates in this story, namely the month in which batches open and the two-year cycle of 2026-28 for which more than 9 lakh targets have been allocated across all 31 participating States and Union Territories.

The correct answer is carpet area and the number of parking slots. The rating framework is about how well a building is wired and covered for communication, so its yardsticks are fibre readiness, whether a mobile network is available inside, the connectivity solutions built into the structure and the Wi-Fi the property offers, with benchmarks that differ from one category of property to another. Carpet area and parking belong to real-estate description and have nothing to do with the connectivity assessment. Fibre readiness, mobile network availability and Wi-Fi infrastructure are all part of the framework, which is why options A, B and D are wrong choices for a question that asks what is left out. The purpose of the exercise is to make connectivity a visible and verifiable attribute of a property, so buyers can compare buildings on it.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. The Department of Pharmaceuticals sits in that ministry and runs all three schemes, the one for bulk drugs, the one for pharmaceuticals and the one for medical devices. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare deals with hospitals, public health programmes and the regulation of drugs through its own bodies, but it does not run these incentive schemes, so option A is wrong. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry handles trade policy and industrial promotion in general and is not the implementing ministry here, which rules out option C. The Ministry of Science and Technology funds research through its departments and has no role in disbursing these incentives, so option D is also wrong. The schemes are aligned with the Make in India and Atmanirbhar Bharat goals of cutting import dependence.

The correct answer is that the jet energises the gas only along its own direction and suppresses star formation. When the team averaged their measurements over all directions around the galaxies they picked up no signal, but when they probed along the direction of the jet they found a strong one, which showed that the jet illuminates only the gas in its path. The signal was strongest where the jet first meets the outer gas at the rim of the stellar disc, and again at the outer boundary of the envelope where the slowed jet strikes once more, depositing energy at both places. Because cool gas is needed for gas to clump into stars, this heating keeps the galaxy quiet and passive, so option A is the opposite of the finding. Options C and D are ruled out for the same reason, since the study shows an effect reaching far beyond the centre.

The correct answer is 1 January 2027. Members of the board were told about forthcoming reforms, and among them was this bill, which is proposed to take effect from the first day of that year and is aimed at making life easier for consumers and for those who deal with them. Option A places the date at the start of a financial year, which is a natural guess but not the date mentioned here. Option C falls in the current year and option D pushes the date a full year further, so neither matches. In the same briefing the board was informed about the next generation of goods and services tax reforms and about integration with the open network for digital commerce, and it separately discussed the trade agreement being negotiated with the United Kingdom with a view to promoting exports.