RRB Group D Current Affairs Quiz: 29 September 2026

The two newly sanctioned MEMU services both begin or end at Meerut City: one pair links it with Khurja and runs as Train No. 64573/64574, and the other links it with Saharanpur and runs as Train No. 64580/64579.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has identified 50 model cities under PRAGATI-50 to demonstrate a higher benchmark of Swachhata, and the Union Minister stated at the launch that these cities are spread across 24 states.

The Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation dedicated the Barapullah Elevated Road Phase-3, built at that cost, to the people of Delhi.

She won the bronze medal in the women's high jump at the Asian Games 2026, and the medal carries extra weight because it is India's first in that event at the Asian Games in more than two decades.

In the pair sanctioned for the Khurja section, Train No. 64573 runs from Khurja to Meerut City, leaving Khurja at 13:15 hrs and arriving at Meerut City at 17:20 hrs, a journey of 4 hours 5 minutes.

The Ministry set up the Swachh Bharat Test Bed and Innovation Centre at Durgapur in collaboration with CSIR-CMERI, and it is meant to serve as a national facility for research, product development, testing, validation, certification and capacity building in sanitation technologies.

The Home Minister stated that the newly dedicated phase of the Barapullah corridor would give signal-free connectivity between the eastern and the southern parts of the capital, so that commuting becomes smoother, motorists get relief from traffic jams and travel time is saved.

Gulveer Singh finished on the podium in this distance race, and the Prime Minister described the result as a remarkable hat-trick of podium finishes for him at these Games, praising his consistency, endurance and determination.

That leg, run by Train No. 64580, covers the distance in 2 hours 20 minutes, departing Saharanpur at 05:50 hrs and arriving at Meerut City at 08:10 hrs, making it the quickest of the four legs approved.

The Ministry launched the third cohort of startups working on sanitation and waste management in collaboration with the Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre at IIT Kanpur.

Along with dedicating the completed elevated road, the Union Home Minister laid the foundation stones of these two works, which together with the road make up the package of projects worth more than Rs 1,941 crore.

He won his bronze in the men's 5000m, an individual distance race, and was not a member of the relay squad.

As part of Swachhata Hi Seva 2026 the Union Minister inaugurated a Reduce, Reuse and Recycle Centre at Sankalp Bhawan in New Delhi, and it has been described as the first such centre in a Union Ministry office.