Railway Current Affairs Quiz: 12 October 2026

The correct answer is 18.205 MT. The Ministry of Coal placed the stock at domestic coal-based power plants at 18.205 MT on 10 October 2026, which is why the ministry could say that the level has not fallen below 18 MT at any time since 29 September 2026, when the reading was 18.932 MT. Option A is wrong because a figure of 16.418 MT would sit well under the 18 MT mark that the ministry said has been held without a break, and no such dip was reported during the period. Option C is wrong because 19.932 MT is not the figure for 10 October; the 29 September reading was 18.932 MT, and stock drifted down from there rather than up. Option D is wrong because a level of 21.640 MT would mean a large build-up, whereas the first ten days of October saw a modest net fall of about 0.56 MT.

The correct answer is Peptris Technologies Private Limited, Bengaluru. The Technology Development Board, which works under the Department of Science and Technology, signed its agreement with this Bengaluru company in Karnataka and committed Rs 86 crore from the Research Development and Innovation Fund towards the VIGOR programme, whose full cost is Rs 172 crore. The support is being routed as Optionally Convertible Debt. Option A, Biocon Limited, is not the firm named in the agreement, even though it too is based in Bengaluru, so the city alone cannot settle the question. Option C, Bharat Biotech International of Hyderabad, has no part in this arrangement; the announcement names neither that company nor the city of Hyderabad. Option D, Serum Institute of India of Pune, is similarly outside this agreement. Only Peptris Technologies is described as holding the artificial-intelligence platform on which the four candidates PEPR111, PEPRX101, PEPR202 and PEPR112 were discovered, and only that company will carry them from Technology Readiness Level four to Technology Readiness Level six.

The correct answer is 1,469 locations. The programmes were spread over that many places in thirty-four States on a single day, and more than three and a half lakh young people and other citizens joined them. Option A inverts two digits of the right figure and is the trap a hurried reader falls into. Option C reverses the order of the digits altogether and matches nothing reported about the day. Option D is tempting for a different reason: the participation figure for the day was over 3.65 lakh, and a candidate who confuses the count of people with the count of places will pick it. Keeping the two apart is the point of the question, since examiners like pairing a spread figure with a participation figure. Also worth holding on to are the four thousand five hundred and fifty-two activities conducted and the four thousand five hundred and sixty-eight slogans collected, which belong to the same day and the same campaign.

The correct answer is the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, abbreviated as IGNFA, which is conducting the nineteenth Phase-III course from the twelfth of October to the sixth of November in 2026 for sixty-eight officers drawn from eighteen cadres. Option A names the academy that trains civil servants of the administrative service and is not the body running this forestry course. Option C, the Forest Research Institute, is a research body and not the training academy named for this programme. Option D, the Wildlife Institute of India, works on wildlife research and training of a different kind, and while wildlife management is one of the themes of the visits planned under this course, the organiser is still the academy. Rajendra Prasad Khajuria is its Director and was present when the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change interacted with the participants in New Delhi.

The correct answer is 469 rakes. Loading for the power sector averaged 469 rakes a day over the first ten days of October 2026, and it is this heavier movement that lifted daily coal supply and slowed the drawdown of stock. Option A is wrong because 426 rakes a day was the average for September 2026, the month against which October’s improvement of about 10 per cent is being measured. Options B and D are wrong because 447 and 482 rakes are the lowest and highest daily loading figures recorded during October, that is, the two ends of the range within which the day-to-day numbers moved, and neither is the average for the period. A question of this kind turns on separating an average from the band around it, so the figures for the floor, the ceiling and the previous month all have to be kept apart.

The correct answer is Rs 172 crore. The project titled VIGOR: Advancing AI-Discovered Molecules from Bench to Clinic has been costed at that figure in full, and the Technology Development Board is carrying Rs 86 crore of it from the Research Development and Innovation Fund, which works out to exactly half the outlay. A candidate who remembers only the board's share will be tempted by a smaller total, which is why options A and B are offered: neither Rs 108 crore nor Rs 145 crore matches the cost stated for the project, and neither is double the board's contribution. Option D, Rs 250 crore, overstates the project and would leave the board's share well under half. The arithmetic relationship is worth fixing in memory, since examiners often ask for the sponsor's share and the project cost in the same question. The support reaches the company as Optionally Convertible Debt, and the work is spread over three years.

The correct answer is the Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat Abhiyan. The parliaments and the melas were organised as a part of this campaign, and specifically under the leg of it called the 100 Weeks Campaign, with the stated aim of turning young people into active workers against substance abuse in their own localities. Option A names a fitness drive and has nothing to do with the activities described, which centred on pledges, debates, signature drives and street plays against drug abuse. Option C points to a sporting programme, and although both come from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, the day in question was not a sporting event. Option D is a cleanliness-flavoured name offered to catch candidates who associate every youth drive with sanitation. The platform that ran the programmes was MY Bharat, and the parliaments themselves were organised at the block level so that they stayed close to the neighbourhoods they addressed.

The correct answer is 68 officers from 18 cadres. The course has that many participants, and the officers have come from eighteen different State cadres, which is why the ministry described the group as carrying a mix of field and policy experience ranging from wildlife conservation governance to climate-resilient forestry, habitat restoration and the working of environmental policy. Option A reduces both figures and matches nothing reported. Option C reverses the digits of the participant count and raises the cadre figure, a trap for a candidate who recalls the shape of the number but not its order. Option D is higher on both counts. It is also worth remembering the service bracket, since the course is designed for officers who have completed between seven and nine years of service, and the schedule, which runs from the twelfth of October to the sixth of November in 2026.

The correct answer is 2.49 MT a day, above the plan. Coal actually delivered to the power sector averaged 2.49 MT a day in October 2026 while the plan for the month provided for 2.37 MT a day, so supply ran ahead of the programme and bettered it on nine of the first ten days. Option A is wrong because 2.21 MT a day was the September 2026 average, and the October figure is higher, not lower. Option B is wrong because 2.37 MT a day is the planned quantity itself, and actual supply exceeded it rather than merely matching it. Option D is wrong because 2.65 MT a day overstates the delivery; the reported average is 2.49 MT a day. The pairing of the actual figure with the plan figure is the part examiners test, since both numbers appear together in the ministry’s statement.

The correct answer is TRL-4 to TRL-6. Every one of the four molecules, PEPR111 for neuromuscular disorders and oncology, PEPRX101 for alopecia, PEPR202 for neuropathy and PEPR112 for DMD, stands at Technology Readiness Level four today, and the stated purpose of the money is to carry each of them up to Technology Readiness Level six. That stretch covers advanced preclinical work, the studies that enable an investigational new drug filing, formulation development and the preparation needed before a trial on human volunteers can begin. Option A, the first three levels, describes work already completed before this agreement was reached. Option C begins where the project ends, so it would describe a later phase of clinical development rather than this one. Option D stretches the span far wider than the agreement provides and would take the molecules through to a marketed product. The climb is planned over three years with global contract research organisation networks assisting on validation.

The correct answer is six, one Member of Parliament and five MLAs. The ministry recorded the presence of exactly six elected representatives at the programmes, and gave their break-up as a single Member of Parliament together with five Members of Legislative Assemblies. Option A drops the Member of Parliament and reduces the count, so it fails on both the total and the composition. Option C and option D raise the total and alter the mix, and option D in particular reverses the balance by putting as many parliamentarians as legislators, which the report does not support. The break-up is the sort of detail that distinguishes a careful reading from a casual one, so it is worth tying to the other numbers of the day: one thousand four hundred and sixty-nine locations, thirty-four States, over three point six five lakh participants, four thousand five hundred and fifty-two activities and four thousand five hundred and sixty-eight slogans.

The correct answer is Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam. Speaking to the officers, the minister pointed to initiatives that draw citizens into conservation work, and named this tree-planting drive alongside MISHTI, the Aravalli Green Wall and Nagar Van Yojana while listing India's gains in forest and tree cover, carbon sequestration, woodland and wetland conservation and the restoration of landscapes. Option A refers to a river rejuvenation programme and was not among the initiatives listed on this occasion. Option C is a groundwater programme and option D is a drinking water programme, and although both involve community participation, neither was named here. Keeping the four forestry initiatives together is the safest way to answer such a question, and they should be tied to the vision of Viksit Bharat@2047, which the minister said must bring economic development and ecological security into one frame.

The correct answer is 7.28 MT. Stock at power plants fell by about 7.28 MT over the whole of September 2026, which works out to an average draw of roughly 0.24 MT a day and explains why the easing seen in October was treated as a notable change. Option A is wrong because 0.56 MT is the much smaller total fall recorded across the first ten days of October 2026, an average of about 0.06 MT a day. Option B is wrong because 3.14 MT does not correspond to any reported drawdown for either month. Option D is wrong because 12.90 MT would be a far steeper fall than the one reported, and a decline of that size would have pushed the stock below the 18 MT level that the ministry said has been maintained since 29 September 2026.