RRB Group D Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 26 October – 1 November 2026

The service is named the Jaipur (Khatipura)-Tatanagar-Santragachi Express, and it was flagged off by the Union Railway Minister, who joined through video conferencing, together with the Chief Minister of West Bengal.

Ministries run Special Campaign 6 under its guidance, and it has set up the web portal on which each ministry uploads progress so that the drive can be monitored centrally.

That is the board-wise total of Station Master vacancies notified under Centralised Employment Notice No. 08/2026, spread over the various Railway Recruitment Boards and zones of Indian Railways.

It was after this cyclone that the Union Minister of Home Affairs and of Cooperation, Amit Shah, telephoned the Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry, Odisha and Chhattisgarh and assured the three states and the Union Territory of every assistance to ease the hardship caused by the disaster.

Indian Railways held Rail Jan Samvaad on 22 October 2026 at that many stations across the country, so that staff could speak to passengers at the station itself and take their feedback and suggestions on cleanliness, passenger amenities and service delivery.

The fair is organised by that Ministry to give traditional craftspeople a platform to display their heritage, build direct links with customers and strengthen their socio-economic self-reliance.

The special souvenir sheet carrying two commemorative postage stamps on breast cancer awareness, together with a set of picture postcards, was released there by Director General Postal Services Manisha Sinha in the presence of Punya Salila Srivastava, Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, with senior officials of…

The Ministry of Rural Development has approved 45 road works for Mizoram in Batch-1 of the financial year 2026-27 under the fourth phase of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana.

The Ministry of Ayush promoted Yoga for Unity on National Unity Day 2026 and folded the effort into Yoga 365, its initiative that asks citizens to practise yoga on every day of the year instead of on a single occasion.

The Union Railway Minister flagged off the service between SMVT Bengaluru and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in Mumbai, joining the country's hub of information technology and startups with its financial and commercial capital.

While flagging off the new express train, the Railway Minister said that this many stations in Jharkhand are being rebuilt under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme, and that work has already been finished at several of them, among them Godda, Govindpur Road, Lohardaga, Madhupur and Muri.

The ministry completed the review of every physical file it had identified for the purpose, and that total was 5,593, one of the parameters it reported as fully finished in the progress up to 25 October 2026.

The correct answer is Mumbai, whose Railway Recruitment Board carries 177 of the posts, the largest share of any board in this round.

The Home Minister spoke to the Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Chhattisgarh and of the Union Territory of Puducherry, so options A, B and D were all on the list and Tamil Nadu was not.

Those three were the stated subjects on which Indian Railways sought feedback and suggestions from passengers at 5,884 stations on 22 October 2026.

BHARAT-TULIP was a key focus of the Shilp Samagam Mela held at Guwahati, and its work is to open market access for artisans through physical outlets as well as e-commerce platforms, so that inherited skills reach the channels where buyers shop today.

Under the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases, that is the total of screenings carried out across the country for oral, breast and cervical cancers.

That is the total estimated cost of the 45 road works, covering 509.54 km, cleared for Mizoram under PMGSY-IV in Batch-1 of the financial year 2026-27.

The ministry promoted the message of Yoga for Unity on National Unity Day, which falls on the 151st birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, and spoke of the part yoga plays in national integration, social harmony and collective well being.

The Bengaluru-Mumbai train belongs to the same family and was described as a further expansion of overnight travel on modern trains.

Chief Minister Shri Suvendu Adhikari, speaking at the flagging-off ceremony, said the annual average railway allocation for West Bengal during the years from 2009 to 2014 was Rs 4,380 crore, and that it has risen to the figure in option C for the current year.

The ministry highlighted the contribution of the National Handloom Development Corporation Limited at Noida, whose offices held cleanliness drives, competitions and a tree plantation under Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam between 2 and 23 October 2026.

The Railway Board has decided that Station Master recruitment will no longer ride along with other graduate-level posts in a combined notice, so candidates now get a dedicated document setting out the eligibility conditions, the examination procedure and the board-wise distribution of vacancies for this post alone.

The Home Minister said such teams would be sent soon after Cyclone Arnab to assess the impact of the disaster and to determine the further assistance the affected states and the Union Territory require.

As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Railway Board he took part in Rail Jan Samvaad at New Delhi on 22 October 2026 and met stakeholders there, while the Secretary of the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances attended the same programme at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in…

The Guwahati fair was described as the second event in the Shilp Samagam series for the financial year 2026-27, following the opening edition at Mysuru in Karnataka, which concluded on 19 October.

She released the souvenir sheet of two commemorative stamps on breast cancer awareness at Dak Bhawan, New Delhi, in the presence of Union Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava and other senior officials of both ministries.

The 45 road works approved for Mizoram, totalling 509.54 km, are intended to provide all-weather road connectivity to 48 habitations that have not had such a link before.

As Secretary in the Ministry of Ayush he said that yoga offers a simple and accessible means of improving physical and mental well being while building a sense of connection among individuals and communities, and that the Yoga 365 initiative encourages practice through the year so that preventive healthcare becomes…

While speaking at the flag-off, the Union Minister said that spending on railway infrastructure had produced both expansion and better safety, and that the number of accidents had dropped from one hundred and thirty-five to sixteen after the Kavach train protection system was introduced, with the stated institutional goal of…