RRB JE Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 12–18 October 2026

The partnership begins by adopting 25 clinical trial sites in emerging research geographies, assessing what each can do, and then giving the staff targeted training and mentoring while tightening documentation and the processes around ethics, safety and trial feasibility.

This was the declared theme under which the Central Electricity Authority held its international conference cum exhibition at the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi, the first of its two days falling on 14 October 2026.

The curtain-raiser announced that the second edition of the Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave will be held there, and that this edition is being organised by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

From that date the requirement of independent verification applies to every new highway project awarded under the Engineering, Procurement and Construction model, the Hybrid Annuity Model and the Build-Operate-Transfer model, and also to projects in which design verification or proof checking had not yet begun.

The correct answer is the 12th session, held at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi and organised by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.

The dispute arose from the six-laning of the Chittorgarh-Udaipur section of this highway in Rajasthan, a stretch of 93.5 km.

It carries the USBRL across the Chenab river in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir and is the world’s highest railway arch bridge.

It is described as the central government's flagship initiative for building a stronger biopharma ecosystem, and among its goals is the creation of a thousand clinical trial sites across the country; the partnership between NIPER Raebareli and AstraZeneca India directly serves that objective.

Alongside the portal, the authority released the CEA Manual on Transmission Planning Criteria, 2026, and distributed the CEA Employee Awards for outstanding performance and exceptional contribution by its staff.

Professor Abhay Karandikar, Member of NITI Aayog and the Chief Guest at the curtain-raiser, called the theme apt because it speaks of the creative minds that work on scientific innovations and then turn them into technologies that serve society.

That is the threshold of design discharge at which a major river bridge is drawn into the new verification regime.

Their presence is logical rather than ceremonial, because a highway alignment, a railway corridor and a power transmission line often compete for the same land and the same clearances, so decisions taken on one affect the others.

The tribunal that examined the claims and counter-claims flowing from the concession agreement for the Chittorgarh-Udaipur six-laning project was constituted under SAROD and had three members.

That is the length and the cost of the Udhampur–Srinagar–Baramulla Rail Link, which was inaugurated in June 2025 and spreads over the districts of Udhampur, Reasi, Ramban, Srinagar, Anantnag, Pulwama, Budgam and Baramulla.

As Director of NIPER Raebareli she said the proposed Centre of Excellence would serve as a dedicated platform for structured training and certification in clinical research, and that bringing academic and industry expertise together would produce a model capable of being repeated in other regions and therapeutic areas.

The authority told the conference that it had already put together a team of that many artificial intelligence enthusiasts, who would also act as brand ambassadors and take the agenda forward across every area of the power sector.

The DST Secretary, Professor Umesh Waghmare, said the department has set up that many Technology Innovation Hubs under the mission, and named TiHAN at IIT Hyderabad, IHFC at IIT Delhi and ARTPARK at IISc Bengaluru as examples.

Under the procedure, three such institutions or firms are proposed from the authority panel and one or more is selected according to the needs of the project; the selected body examines the design on its own and submits observations and recommendations, which the contractor must act on before the authority…

The vision of Viksit Bharat @2047, articulated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, envisages India as a developed nation by the hundredth year of its Independence, and the session on roads was explicitly aligned with it through the goals of supporting economic growth, improving connectivity, strengthening logistics efficiency and widening access…

This is the length of the Chittorgarh-Udaipur stretch of NH-76 in Rajasthan that was to be widened to six lanes under the concession agreement with Uchit Expressway Private Limited.

Tunnel T50 is a rail tunnel of 12.77 km driven under the USBRL project between those two points in Jammu and Kashmir, and it is India’s longest transport tunnel.

Bharat Mandapam, Vigyan Bhawan and Yashobhoomi are all genuine venues in or near the capital that host large national events, which makes them effective distractors, but none of them hosted this particular conference.

The correct answer is the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, usually written as CSIR, which is organising this year edition of the conclave.

The tribunal allowed the counter-claims of the National Highways Authority of India to this extent as principal.

Indian Railways has marked 1,340 stations across the country for redevelopment under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme, and four of them stand in Jammu and Kashmir: Budgam, Jammu Tawi, Martyr Captain Tushar Mahajan at Udhampur, and Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra.