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

The Council has been placed under the administrative control of the Ministry of Steel and its Secretary has been made its Chairman, with senior officers of the Ministry and the chief executives of integrated steel producers sitting as members.

The Technology Development Board, which works under the Department of Science and Technology, signed the agreement extending that amount as financial support under the Research Development and Innovation Fund, and the money will be routed through Optionally Convertible Debt.

The Civil Aviation Minister announced while unveiling the curtain raiser that the route development event will take place there from the sixteenth to the eighteenth of March in the year twenty twenty seven, bringing together more than one hundred and fifteen airlines and representatives from over fifty five countries.

The Accelerator Programme gave this amount as grant-in-aid for ten technologies, with the stated objective of moving them from Technology Readiness Level 3 to Level 9, that is, from an early laboratory stage to a product ready for the market.

The venue and the three dates were both stated at the India Mining: Global Connect outreach meeting, where the Minister of State invited dignitaries to the opening on 15 November.

Both the blocks auctioned in the Union Territory are limestone blocks, named the Koot-Kapran Limestone Block and the Wantrag Limestone Block, and both lie in Anantnag district.

That is the span over which the country's first free-space Quantum Key Distribution link was established, between the BISAG-N campus and IIT Gandhinagar, in a field trial run on the night of 27 and 28 September.

It is being established alongside the Council to supply technical and professional expertise in areas such as process safety, blast furnaces, steel melting, rolling mills, coke ovens, refractory systems, electrical and mechanical safety, occupational health, fire engineering and disaster management.

The stated objective of the project is to advance the Platform MEMS and AFE SoC Multi-Gas Sensor from TRL-4, where the design has been validated in a laboratory environment, all the way to TRL-9, where the technology is proven in its actual operating environment and ready for deployment.

India formally assumed hosting responsibilities at the closing ceremony of the previous Routes Asia held in Xi'an in China during April of the year twenty twenty six, and it was the Airports Authority of India that received the hosting baton from the China West Airport Group.

The objective of the grant-in-aid was to support the progression of ten technologies from Technology Readiness Level 3, an early stage where a concept has been proved in the laboratory, to Level 9, where a technology is proven in its operating environment and can be sold.

Representatives of diplomatic missions from nineteen countries joined the outreach interaction, among them Malawi, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, Algeria, the United States of America, Chile, Bhutan, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Russia, Iraq, Morocco, Venezuela, Spain, Poland, Mongolia, Zambia, France and Ghana, and the US Chamber of Commerce attended alongside them.

Both the Koot-Kapran Limestone Block and the Wantrag Limestone Block lie in Anantnag district of the Union Territory, and the first of them is located more precisely in Koot and Kapran villages of Dooru Tehsil.

QNu Labs supplied the hardware QKD device Armos, BISAG-N contributed the post-quantum cryptography platform Vedic Kavach along with one end of the link, and IIT Gandhinagar hosted the other end and provided the field setting.

That body regulates the securities market and has nothing to do with industrial safety in steel plants, so it does not figure in the composition of the new Council.

The agreement was signed with Multi Nano Sense Technologies Private Limited of Nagpur, Maharashtra, which is developing an indigenous MEMS TCDIR gas sensor along with a CMOS analogue front-end system-on-chip platform for compact multi-gas sensing.

The Minister said India's aviation sector is expanding quickly, with that many airports already in operation and plans to develop a hundred more over the coming decade.

Speaking at the event, H. D. Kumaraswamy underlined the role of institutions such as ARAI in bridging the gap between developing a technology, validating it and getting industry to adopt it, a role that fits naturally with the mobility focus of the supported technologies.

That pairing is also reflected in who hosted the outreach: Satish Chandra Dubey holds charge as Minister of State for Coal and Mines, and Rupinder Brar is Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Coal.

The Wantrag Limestone Block covers 5.36 hectares and carries that estimated limestone resource, and it has been explored up to the G-3 stage, a stage reached with 159 metres of drilling.

Both numbers describe the quality of the link: the key rate is how fast fresh secret material can be produced for encryption, and the error rate measures how often a photon is read wrongly, which in quantum key distribution also signals whether anyone has interfered with the channel.

The platform is being designed around high sensitivity, low power consumption, a miniaturised form and intelligent signal processing, and among its stated design targets is a response time below 200 milliseconds so that it suits applications requiring rapid detection and monitoring, such as leak detection in refineries and piped natural…

The Government of Jammu & Kashmir entrusted the auction of its mineral blocks to the Ministry of Mines, which carried out the process under the Central Government mineral auction route and announced the successful result.

The correct answer is Vedic Kavach, the post-quantum cryptography platform built by BISAG-N. The keys produced by the quantum link were integrated with it, and test messages were then encrypted and decrypted from end to end.