RRB Group D Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 28 September – 4 October 2026

The correct answer is North Eastern Railway. The Varanasi division, abbreviated BSB, belongs to this zone, and the sanction of 223 crore rupees extends Kavach 4.0 across the balance sections of that division, a total of 614.75 route kilometres. Option A is wrong because Northern Railway is a separate zone and the division named in this approval does not sit under it. Option C is wrong because North Central Railway, although it operates in the same broad region of the country, is not the zone to which the Varanasi division reports. Option D is wrong for the same reason: East Central Railway is headquartered elsewhere and the approval does not concern it. Kavach itself is an Automatic Train Protection system developed within the country, and its job is to stop a train from passing a signal at danger and to apply the brakes when the driver does not.

The correct answer is the women's 25m pistol individual event. Esha Singh finished with the silver medal in this competition at the Asian Games 2026, and the Prime Minister congratulated her the same day, saying that she had put up a great score and had shown immense precision and composure on the range. Option A names the air pistol discipline, which is a separate event in the shooting programme and not the one in which this medal was won. Option C refers to a rifle event, and rifle and pistol are distinct branches of the sport with their own medals. Option D names a shotgun event, which is different again. For examinations the safe habit is to store the athlete, the medal colour and the exact discipline as one unit, because a question will usually change only one of the three to create a wrong option.

The correct answer is Meerut City. 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. Both trains will have commercial stoppages at every station on their route, so the benefit is spread across the whole section rather than the end points alone. Ghaziabad is wrong because no new service in this approval starts or terminates there, even though it lies in the same region of western Uttar Pradesh. Moradabad is wrong for the same reason: it is not one of the three stations named in the approval. Bareilly is wrong as well, since neither of the two pairs touches it; the stations named are Meerut City, Khurja and Saharanpur only.

The correct answer is 50 cities across 24 states. 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 list was framed to include major cities, places of cultural importance, leading tourism destinations and economic centres. Option A understates both figures. Option C uses the startup target of the Mission rather than the number of cities, which makes it a plausible trap. Option D doubles the number of cities while keeping the correct number of states, so it too is wrong. The initiative takes its name from the number of cities chosen, which is a useful memory aid.

The correct answer is Rs 1,635 crore. The Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation dedicated the Barapullah Elevated Road Phase-3, built at that cost, to the people of Delhi. Option C is the most attractive distractor because it is the value of the whole package of projects inaugurated and begun on the occasion, which stands at more than that amount and includes the elevated road as well as the two works whose foundation stones were laid. Candidates must therefore separate the single project cost from the total package. Options A and D name figures that were not mentioned in connection with either the road or the package. A safe way to remember the pair is that the elevated road accounts for the larger part of the total, with the remainder going to the flyover and the underpass.

The correct answer is Pooja. 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. The Prime Minister called it a memorable achievement and wished her well for the future. Option B, Vithya Ramraj, is a track athlete associated with relay and hurdles events rather than the high jump, so she is not the answer. Option C, Neeru Dhanda, is a shooter and not a field athlete, which rules her out. Option D, Manisha Keer, is also from shooting and not from athletics, so she is incorrect as well. Aspirants should link Pooja with the high jump and with the fact that her medal ended a drought of over twenty years for India in this field event.

The correct answer is Neeru and Kynan Chenai, who took the top place in the Trap Mixed Team event at the Asian Games 2026 and set an Asian Record in the final while doing it. The other three options name pairs from other shooting disciplines, which is exactly the confusion a paper setter would build in. Option A pairs two pistol shooters, so it cannot be a trap result. Option C names two rifle shooters, again a different weapon family altogether: rifle and pistol events are fired at fixed paper or electronic targets, while trap is a shotgun event fired at moving clay targets. Option D likewise belongs to pistol shooting. Only trap shooters can win a trap event, and the pair that did it here, taking India’s first Asian Games gold in this event, is Neeru and Kynan Chenai.

The correct answer is Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Prithika Pradeep and Chikitha Taniparthi, the trio whose shooting won the women’s compound team gold at the Asian Games 2026 and equalled the World Record in the process. Option A names recurve archers, and recurve is a different division from compound, with a different bow and different scoring, so that team cannot win a compound event. Option C is the trap most likely to catch a hurried candidate, because it keeps the one famous name, Jyothi Surekha Vennam, and replaces her two team-mates with archers who were not in this team. Option D mixes divisions in the same way. The safest approach is to learn the three names as a set, since a question can drop any one of them and ask which archer does not belong to the gold-winning team.

The correct answer is Kushal Dalal, Sahil Rajesh Jadhav and Ganesh Maniratnam Thirumuru. These three archers won the men's compound team gold at the Asian Games after a final that went to the closing arrows, and the Prime Minister congratulated them on the result. Option B names an all-women line-up and is wrong for a men's event. Option C mixes shooters with an archer and so cannot be the compound archery team. Option D is a mixed list drawn from different events and disciplines, which is exactly the trap set in team-event questions. The lesson for candidates is that a team medal must be learnt as a complete line-up, because the paper setter will change one name in the list and leave the rest intact.

The correct answer is Paranur Toll Plaza. It lies on the Tambaram-Tindivanam section of NH-179B and has become the first location in Tamil Nadu where the National Highways Authority of India charges toll without a boom barrier, letting vehicles roll through while cameras and FASTag settle the fee. Option A, Chorayasi, is wrong because that plaza is on the Surat-Bharuch section of NH-48 and lies in Gujarat, not Tamil Nadu. Option B, Gharaunda, is wrong because it sits on the Panipat-Jalandhar section of National Highway-44 in Haryana. Option D, Manoharpura, is wrong because it is one of the three plazas on the Delhi-Jaipur section of NH-48 in Rajasthan, the others being Shahjahanpur and Daulatpura. All three of these were converted to free-flow tolling earlier, but none of them is in Tamil Nadu, so only Paranur answers the question asked here.

The correct answer is five years. The revised framework of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways ties the validity of an exempted FASTag to the percentage of disability on record, and the higher slab of 70 to 100 per cent carries a validity of five years. Option A is wrong because yearly renewal was the earlier practice that this revision does away with; it is no longer the rule for any slab. Option B is wrong because three years is the validity for the lower slab, that is a recorded disability of 40 to less than 70 per cent, so the figure is real but attached to the wrong group. Option D is wrong because no slab under these guidelines runs for ten years. After the validity ends the tag may be renewed, provided the holder is still eligible and the conditions of the National Highways Fee Rules, 2008 are satisfied.

The correct answer is 3,69,469, about 3.69 lakh beneficiaries. Every other option is a real figure from the same Shivir attached to the wrong service, which is exactly how such a question is set. Option A is the number of personal protective equipment kits distributed among SafaiMitras, about 1.28 lakh. Option B is the number of NAMASTE Cards downloaded by beneficiaries, about 2.24 lakh. Option C is the number of health check-ups facilitated, about 3.02 lakh, and it is the closest distractor because it sits just below the attendance figure. Two more numbers from the same event are worth keeping separate: 57,967 Ayushman Cards distributed and 1,53,253 registrations under various government schemes. The Shivir spread across 3,870 urban local bodies, so D is the attendance figure being asked for.

The correct answer is Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma. The two sailed together in the women's skiff event at the Asian Games and finished third for the bronze medal, and the Prime Minister congratulated both by name while noting that they had bettered India's previous performance in the event. Option A is wrong because Ankita Bhakat and Kirti are archers who were part of the Indian trio that won the women's recurve team gold on the same day. Option C is wrong because it replaces Harshita Tomar with Kumkum Anil Mohod, an archer who won both a team gold and a mixed team silver that day. Option D is wrong because it keeps one sailor and brings in an archer in place of the other. The day's medals are easiest to hold apart by sport, so attach the two sailing names to the skiff and the archery names to the recurve events.

The correct answer is women's 75 kg. Lovlina Borgohain won the gold medal in the women's 75 kg boxing event at the Asian Games, and the weight division is the single detail most likely to be tested, because several Indian boxers compete in neighbouring classes. Option A is wrong because the gold on record for her is not in the lighter 57 kg division. Option B is wrong for the same reason; the figure has been nudged close to the correct one so that a candidate who half-remembers the result is caught out. Option D is wrong because her title bout was not in a heavier division either. The clean way to hold the fact is as a triplet: Lovlina Borgohain, women's 75 kg boxing, gold, with the final won by a 5-0 margin.

The correct answer is Majigam in Navsari district, Gujarat. Union Minister of Jal Shakti Shri C. R. Patil attended the Special Gram Sabha there, in Chikhli Block, on Swachh Bharat Diwas. He honoured sanitation workers, viewed the Waste to Art display and planted a sapling under the Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam drive. The other three options name villages where Special Gram Sabhas were also held, but they were attended by officers of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, not by the Union Minister. Option A, Sayli in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, was visited by a Deputy Secretary, who also saw a sewage treatment plant. Option D, Pindarkom in Ranchi district of Jharkhand, was covered by another Deputy Secretary, and option C, Ratipur in Palwal district of Haryana, saw an inspection of the waste segregation shed. Aspirants should link the Minister's name with the village, the block, the district and the state.

The correct answer is the men's cricket team. The Prime Minister congratulated the Indian men's cricket side on retaining its gold medal at the Asian Games, called the result a joyous occasion for the nation and wished the players well for their future endeavours. Option A is wrong because the greeting was addressed to the men's team; cricket at the Games is played by women's teams as well, which is exactly why a paper setter offers the women's side as a distractor. Option C is wrong because hockey, although a sport in which India competes strongly at the Games, is not the sport named in this message. Option D is wrong for the same reason: kabaddi is another discipline in which India has a strong Asian Games record, but the medal referred to here belongs to cricket. The pairing to remember is the men's cricket team with a retained gold medal.

The correct answer is men's 57 kg freestyle. The wrestler won the gold medal in that weight category, and it was recorded as the first time India has won an Asian Games gold in this event, which is precisely what makes the category worth memorising along with the name. Option B, the 65 kg class, is wrong because it is a different and heavier weight category and is not the event in which this first was set. Option C, the 74 kg class, is wrong for the same reason; weight classes in freestyle wrestling are distinct competitions, and a title in one says nothing about another. Option D, the 97 kg class, is wrong here as well, and candidates should be careful because India's medal in that heavier class at the same Games was of a different colour. The safe way to revise such results is as a set of three linked details: the athlete's name, the exact weight category in kilograms, and the colour of the medal won.

The correct answer is men's 97 kg freestyle wrestling. The bronze medal was won in that weight category after a fiercely contested bout, and the result was described as bringing India back on to the podium in the event after six decades. Option A, the 57 kg class, is wrong because that is the lightest men's freestyle category and a different wrestler took India's medal there at the same Games, so candidates must keep the two results apart. Option B, the 86 kg class, is wrong because it is a separate weight division altogether and was not the event in question. Option D, the 125 kg class, is wrong because it is the heaviest men's freestyle category and is not the one named here. In revision, the safest method with wrestling results is to write the weight in kilograms next to the athlete's name, since several Indian wrestlers often win medals at the same Games in neighbouring weight classes and examination papers exploit exactly that confusion.

The correct answer is 53 kg. Antim Panghal finished second in the women's 53 kg freestyle wrestling event at the Asian Games, and the Prime Minister congratulated her on that silver medal, calling it exemplary. Options A, C and D name other weight classes in women's wrestling, and each is wrong here because the medal in the news belonged to the 53 kg category and no other. This is the commonest trap in wrestling questions, since the weight classes sit close together and a reader who remembers only the name of the wrestler is left guessing between them. The safe method is to store the athlete and the number as one unit, Antim Panghal and 53 kg, and to add the colour of the medal, silver, so that all three facts are recalled together in the examination hall.

The correct answer is more than 150. MY Bharat and its partner organisations spread the Walk for Nasha Mukt Yuva across more than 150 locations in the country on that single day, and over one lakh youth and citizens joined in at those venues. That spread is what made the march a nationwide event rather than a city programme, and it is the figure an examiner would set a question on. More than 50 understates the reach badly, because a drive on that scale would not have brought out a crowd of more than one lakh people. More than 100 is closer but still short of the number recorded for the day. More than 250 overstates it: no such count was reported for this walk, and inflating the number would misstate the size of the mobilisation.

The correct answer is the Energy, Mineral and Cement Corridor, under which Indian Railways has identified this section. The stretch is only 6 km long but it carries high-grade iron ore and pellets from the Bolani mines of SAIL and from private sidings towards steel plants and ports, and the doubling has been cleared at a completion cost of 122 crore rupees. Option B is wrong because the Golden Quadrilateral is a highway network connecting the four large metropolitan cities and is not the frame used for this railway project. Option C is wrong because the dedicated freight corridors are separate purpose-built lines and this approval is a doubling of an existing single-line section, not a new corridor. Option D is wrong because no such corridor is named in the approval. After commissioning, the doubling is expected to move an additional 8.9 MTPA of freight and to reduce delays to goods trains.

The correct answer is kurash. Pinkcy Balhara secured the bronze medal in the women's 78kg class of this sport at the Asian Games, and the Prime Minister said she had displayed tremendous grit and resolve throughout the competition, wishing that she would continue to scale new heights. Options A, B and D name other combat sports that also appear at major multi-sport events, but the medal in question was won in kurash, which is a grappling sport carried on the Asian Games programme. Candidates often confuse these disciplines because the weight classes look similar, so the name of the sport should be memorised along with the weight category of 78kg and the colour of the medal. On the same day India also took a silver in shooting through Esha Singh in the women's 25m pistol individual event.

The correct answer is 64573. 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. Option A is wrong because 64579 is the Meerut City to Saharanpur service, which leaves Meerut City at 17:45 hrs and reaches Saharanpur at 20:40 hrs. Option B is wrong because 64580 is the Saharanpur to Meerut City service in the morning, leaving at 05:50 hrs and arriving at 08:10 hrs. Option D is wrong because no such number appears in the approval; the four numbers announced are 64573, 64574, 64580 and 64579. Note also that the return leg of the Khurja service is 64574, which leaves Meerut City at 11:25 hrs and reaches Khurja at 16:00 hrs.

The correct answer is Durgapur. 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. Option B, Kanpur, is a plausible distractor because the third cohort of Swachhata startups was launched with the Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre at IIT Kanpur, but that is a separate activity from the Test Bed. Option C, Indore, is widely associated with urban cleanliness rankings but was not named as the Test Bed site. Option D, Pune, was not mentioned at all. The centre was created because the Mission has consistently placed research and innovation at the heart of its Swachhata work. Hence option A is correct.

The correct answer is East Delhi and South Delhi. 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. A signal-free corridor achieves this by carrying traffic over intersections on an elevated deck instead of stopping it at traffic lights. Options A, C and D pair other parts of the city; while Delhi has several corridors linking those areas, none of them is the connection described for this phase. The point to note for examinations is the specific pair of directions named, since a question may change just one of the two.

The correct answer is the men's 5000m. 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. Option A, the men's 800m, is a middle-distance race and not the event in which this bronze was won, so it is wrong. Option B, the men's 1500m, is another middle-distance event and is likewise not the correct discipline here. Option D, the men's marathon, is a road race over a far longer distance and does not match the event named, so it is incorrect too. For the examination hall the useful habit is to store the athlete and the distance together, since questions on the Asian Games very often test exactly that pairing rather than the medal colour alone.

The correct answer is that the pair set an Asian Record in the final and that the medal is India’s first ever Asian Games gold in the Trap Mixed Team event. Both firsts belong to the same result, which is why the Prime Minister described it as a memorable achievement for Indian shooting. Option A moves the record to the wrong level and the wrong round: it was an Asian Record, not a World Record, and it came in the final rather than in qualification. Option C overstates the claim badly, because Indian shooters have been winning medals at the Asian Games for decades; what was new here was a gold in this particular event. Option D describes a perfect score, which is not what was reported. So only option B states the two firsts correctly.

The correct answer is that the trio equalled the World Record. The Prime Minister specifically noted that their performance matched the world mark, and said this was what made the gold even more special. Option A, broke it, is the usual wrong choice, because a reader who remembers only that a record was involved will assume it fell; the record was levelled, not bettered. Option C, missed it by one point, describes the opposite of what happened and would not have drawn any mention of a record at all. Option D swaps the level of the record: an Asian Record is a continental mark, while what the team touched here was the World Record, the best score shot anywhere. The distinction between equalling and breaking a record is a favourite of paper setters, so it is worth fixing firmly.

The correct answer is compound. The gold won by Kushal Dalal, Sahil Rajesh Jadhav and Ganesh Maniratnam Thirumuru came in the men's compound team event, not in any other archery category. Option A, recurve, is the other discipline contested at multi-sport games, and because both compound and recurve medals are often won at the same Games it is the distractor most likely to be picked by a hurried candidate. Options C and D, barebow and longbow, are archery categories that do not feature in this programme and can be set aside. Whenever an archery medal is reported, note the discipline and whether the medal came in the team, individual or mixed team competition, since all three are contested and all three are asked.

The correct answer is Automatic Number Plate Recognition, usually shortened to ANPR. Cameras at the plaza read the registration plate of every vehicle that crosses, and the FASTag-based Electronic Toll Collection system then debits the user fee from the account linked to that vehicle. Option B is wrong because the free-flow system described for Paranur rests on plate reading and FASTag, not on satellite tracking of individual vehicles. Option C is wrong because no chassis number is broadcast anywhere in this arrangement; the chassis number is a manufacturing identity and plays no part in charging toll. Option D is wrong because the whole purpose of the change is the opposite: free-flow tolling is meant to cut human intervention in collection, so staff do not type registration numbers for passing traffic. Together, ANPR and FASTag allow charging without any halt.