RRB JE Current Affairs Quiz: 8 October 2026

The correct answer is Reliance Jio, which averaged 271.44 Mbps on download in the Fazilka drive test. Option A, Airtel, came second at 204.39 Mbps, so it is a close but wrong choice; Airtel did, however, top the upload table at 23.52 Mbps. Option D, Vodafone Idea, averaged 17.19 Mbps on download and 15.10 Mbps on upload. Option B, BSNL, was lowest on download at 15.59 Mbps and on upload at 6.39 Mbps, and also recorded the highest packet loss, at 2.68 per cent on the downlink and 2.90 per cent on the uplink. Candidates should remember that the exercise was an Independent Drive Test in the Punjab Licensed Service Area, carried out from 5 to 7 August 2026 and supervised by the regulator’s regional office at Jaipur, with the findings published in October.

The correct answer is about Rs 19,700 crore. The document brought out by the National Highways Authority of India records that this amount has gone into wildlife mitigation infrastructure and related environmental protection measures across National Highway projects over the past five years. The spending is aimed at habitat fragmentation, the barrier effect of roads and collisions between wildlife and vehicles, while keeping traffic moving safely. Options A, C and D are near-miss figures built by changing the leading digits, the commonest way such questions are set, so the exact number must be memorised. It helps to anchor it against the item-wise split, in which viaducts account for the largest share at about Rs 8,300 crore, followed by animal underpasses at about Rs 4,600 crore, tunnels at about Rs 2,800 crore and major bridges at about Rs 2,500 crore.

The correct answer is the third edition. Union Minister for Communications and Development of North Eastern Region Jyotiraditya M. Scindia inaugurated the 3rd International Bharat 6G Symposium 2026, organised by the Bharat 6G Alliance at Yashobhoomi, Dwarka, in New Delhi, with sessions running from 7 to 9 October 2026. Option A, the first edition, is wrong because the symposium has been held earlier as well. Option B, the second edition, is the trap most worth noticing: the earlier edition is the one at which the New Delhi Declaration on 6G principles was endorsed, in 2025, and the report released this year marks one year since that endorsement. Option D, the fifth edition, is too far ahead of the actual count. A clean way to hold this together is the pairing of the edition with its year, that is the third edition in 2026 and the Declaration endorsed at the symposium held in 2025.

The correct answer is 184.6 km. Along with the city drive, the appointed agency carried out a walk test of 1.9 km and tested six hotspot locations across Fazilka city and the areas adjoining it, all between 5 and 7 August 2026. Options A, B and D give distances that were not reported. The route took in Abohar, Jalalabad, Khui Khera, Ghubhaya, Ladhuka and several other settlements besides Fazilka town. During such a test, live voice and data sessions are established on the SIM cards of every service provider over 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G networks using multiple advanced handsets, and the sessions are monitored and analysed in real time. The parameters measured include coverage gap, call setup success rate, call drop rate, call silence instances, speech quality, latency, jitter, packet loss and download and upload throughput.

The correct answer is Nitin Gadkari, at a Chintan Shivir in Ekta Nagar, Gujarat. He is the Minister for Road Transport and Highways, and the document was released by him at that Chintan Shivir; the Authority then put it out to mark National Wildlife Week, observed from 2 to 8 October 2026. Option A is wrong because the Environment Ministry and the National Board for Wildlife had no part in this release, even though wildlife falls in that ministry’s domain, which is what makes the option tempting. Option C is wrong as no press conference by the Authority’s chairman is involved. Option D is wrong because no such conference at Gandhinagar features here; the Gujarat link in the news is Ekta Nagar, where the Chintan Shivir was held. Note also that the document is published on the NHAI website as a reference framework.

The correct answer is nine. The Bharat 6G Alliance released nine Working Group white papers, reflecting the technical contributions of its industry, academic and research members. Their subjects run from a 6G technology landscape survey and a research roadmap for India, through Integrated Sensing and Communication, fixed wireless access and optical technologies, to spectrum readiness, sustainable networks designed for a carbon net zero future, cellular and Wi-Fi synergy, captive non-public networks and security for 6G. Option A, five, is the number of fresh Memoranda of Understanding exchanged at the same ceremony, with GSMA, the one6G Association, GTI Alliance Ltd, the 6G Industry Forum and VoICE, so it belongs to a different count. Option D, seventeen, is the Alliance total number of collaborations after the new agreements were added to the ten global and two domestic ones it already held. Option B, seven, matches nothing announced.

The correct answer is Airtel and Reliance Jio. Airtel dropped none of the 279 calls it successfully set up and Jio dropped none of its 278, while BSNL recorded three drops out of 281 calls and Vodafone Idea three out of 248, which rules out options A, C and D. On the related measure of coverage gap, counted as samples of poor signal strength out of all samples gathered in auto-selection mode, Airtel showed the fewest weak samples at 178 out of 31329, ahead of Jio at 295 out of 30439, Vodafone Idea at 820 out of 31163 and BSNL at 1575 out of 31183. Call silence instances lasting more than three seconds were lowest for Airtel at one out of 268 calls and highest for Vodafone Idea at six out of 272.

The correct answer is viaducts, which take about Rs 8,300 crore, the biggest single item in the structural break-up. Option A, animal underpasses, comes next at about Rs 4,600 crore, so a candidate who assumes the structure named after animals must cost the most gets the question wrong. Option D, tunnels, accounts for about Rs 2,800 crore. Option B, animal overpasses, is the smallest of these at about Rs 650 crore, with major bridges at about Rs 2,500 crore and minor bridges at about Rs 500 crore completing the list. Together these structures let animals cross highway corridors safely and keep habitats connected on either side. The total of more than 2,150 structures built or proposed, and the figure of over 300 km of guide fencing and noise barriers, are the other numbers worth carrying into the exam hall.

The correct answer is seventeen. Before the symposium the Bharat 6G Alliance already held ten global and two domestic collaborations, and at the inaugural ceremony it exchanged five more Memoranda of Understanding, with GSMA, the one6G Association, GTI Alliance Ltd, the 6G Industry Forum and VoICE. Adding the five fresh agreements to the twelve it already had takes the partnership network to seventeen in all, which is the figure to remember. Option A, twelve, is only the earlier tally of global and domestic collaborations, before the new signings. Option B, fifteen, and option D, twenty-two, do not match either stage of the count. The arithmetic itself is worth memorising rather than the single number, since questions on this item can be framed either as the earlier total, the number added, or the new combined figure.

The correct answer is the International Bharat 6G Symposium held in 2025. The joint report released at this year ceremony, titled Progress towards the 6G Principles of the New Delhi Declaration: Actions, Outcomes and Outlook, First Edition, October 2026, marks the completion of one year since the Declaration was endorsed at that symposium, and records the actions and outcomes reported by the partner bodies which signed it. The Declaration itself sets out a common framework for building 6G as a secure, resilient, open, interoperable, inclusive and sustainable ecosystem, with emphasis on international cooperation in research, innovation and standardisation. Option A names a different telecom event. Option D shifts the year and so breaks the one-year link that the progress report is built around. Option C names a standards assembly that was not the forum where the Declaration was endorsed.