Bihar Current Affairs Quiz: October 2026

The Government of India created the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library in that year, bringing CSIR and the Ministry of AYUSH together for the purpose, and it was the first database of its kind anywhere in the world.

The consignment of popped phool makhana left Purnea in Bihar for Greece, sailing from Mundra Port in India to the Piraeus Port at the Greek end.

That many Special Gram Sabhas were scheduled across the country on the GPDP Portal and the Panchayat NIRNAY Portal for Gandhi Jayanti, and they were attended by residents, elected representatives, Panchayat functionaries and officials.

The Ministry of Rural Development has notified a Schedule of Permissible Works allowing that many works under the new rural works framework of the VB-G RAM G Act.

The correct answer is the Union Jal Shakti Minister, C. R. Paatil, who presided over the meeting in New Delhi.

The Commission, led by Chairperson Justice V. Ramasubramanian along with Members Justice (Dr.) Bidyut Ranjan Sarangi and Smt. Vijaya Bharathi Sayani, took up more than seventy alleged cases of human rights violation in the presence of the victims and the officers answerable for them, with the State Chief Secretary and…

The correct answer is Gaya in Bihar, which secured first position among the best-performing districts when the scheme completed its first year.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the upgradation of this length of the Muzaffarpur-Sitamarhi-Sonbarsa section of National Highway-22 to four lanes in August 2026, at a total capital cost of Rs 3,590.73 crore on the Hybrid Annuity Mode.

The Regional Connectivity Scheme, named UDAN for Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik, was launched on that day, and its promise of affordable yet commercially viable regional flying came out of the National Civil Aviation Policy adopted the same year.

The cluster is spread over about 1,670 acres in Dobhi block of Gaya district, and the Union government approved it on 28 August 2024 at a total cost of ₹1,339 crore including the cost of land.

Cabinet Secretary Dr. T. V. Somanathan chaired its meeting to review how prepared the Centre and the coastal States were for the approaching cyclone, with Chief Secretaries of the affected States, the Union Home Secretary and the heads of the NDRF, the IMD and the Coast Guard taking part.

Two disputes between its management and its employees organisations were settled on 22 and 23 October 2026 through the conciliation efforts of the Assistant Labour Commissioner (Central), Patna, working under the Office of the Chief Labour Commissioner (Central) in the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

The ICAR-Mahatma Gandhi Integrated Farming Research Institute is situated at Motihari and functions under the Department of Agricultural Research and Education; it organised the farmer awareness and field interaction programme at Kothia Hariram village in the Mehsi block of East Champaran district.

The series was played there under the 100 Years of Unity through Sport initiative, which marks a century of sporting ties between India and New Zealand, and the closing day was attended by the Chief Minister of Bihar and the Union Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports.

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.

The Ganga Flood Control Board is chaired by the Union Minister of Jal Shakti, and its 19th meeting was accordingly presided over by C. R. Patil at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on 27 October 2026.

The Commission acted on its own motion on a media report that the police had walked three men through a Kolkata locality in a semi-nude state with ropes tied round their waists, and it issued a notice to the Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, seeking a detailed report within two weeks.

The Secretary of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj said at the workshop that the People's Plan Campaign has been run by the Ministry since 2018 under this theme, and that it has grown into a framework for preparing Gram, Block and District Panchayat Development Plans, localising the Sustainable Development Goals…

Nalanda University has been established at Rajgir in Nalanda district of Bihar as an international university of national importance, and it functions under the aegis of the Ministry of External Affairs.

Cultivation in the state is spread across more than thirty-five thousand hectares in ten districts.

The correct answer is Sabki Yojana, Sabka Vikas, the title of the People's Plan Campaign for the year, under which Panchayats will prepare their Panchayat Development Plans for the financial year that follows.

It covers check dams, gully plugs, underground dykes, recharge shafts, injection wells, the revival of rivers and nallahs, the reclaiming of waterlogged land, drip irrigation, sprinklers, rooftop rainwater harvesting and even ice-stupas and artificial glaciers.

The correct answer is 527 projects worth 43,266 crore rupees, the position as of August 2026, with 368 projects already completed.

The correct answer is Justice V. Ramasubramanian, the Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission, who led the two-day Bihar open hearing and camp sitting at Patna and heard the bonded labour matters on the second day himself.

The scheme was designed for one hundred districts selected on three measures: low agricultural productivity, low cropping intensity and limited disbursement of agricultural credit.

This is the model under which the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs cleared the upgradation of the 82.57-km stretch at a total capital cost of Rs 3,590.73 crore.

That is the number of regional routes put into service across the country in the ten years since the scheme began, and it sits alongside the other headline totals of the decade: more than 3.68 lakh flights and 1.72 crore passengers.

Those agreements were signed with prospective investors for roughly 300 acres of industrial land at the Gaya cluster, and the employment potential attached to them was estimated at 16,095.

The India Meteorological Department told the Committee that the storm would travel west-north-westwards and then turn north-westwards, crossing the Andhra Pradesh and Yanam coasts between these two points as a very severe cyclonic storm by the forenoon of 28 October 2026.

The option of Rs 10.52 crore is the benefit under the second settlement alone, signed on 23 October 2026 with the Bihar Gramin Bank Workers Organisation for around 2,500 employees, so it is a part and not the whole.

The programme was built around balanced fertilisation, soil health, nutrient recycling, crop diversification and the sustainable management of mango and litchi orchards, and the institute described its aim as strengthening climate-resilient livelihoods in the mango and litchi growing areas of East Champaran in Bihar.

The series at Rajgir formed part of this initiative, which marks a century of sporting ties between India and New Zealand and uses sport to strengthen cultural and diplomatic links between the two countries.

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.

The Government of India set up the Ganga Flood Control Board on this date so that measures against floods, bank erosion and drainage problems in the Ganga Basin could be planned and implemented in a coordinated way instead of being left to individual states.

Having taken cognizance of the news report on its own motion, the Commission served the notice on the head of the city police and fixed a fortnight as the period for a detailed report on the matter.

The agreement allows electric vehicle charging and battery swapping stations to be set up on Panchayat land across states and Union Territories, including suitable sites along State and National Highways, serving two-wheelers, three-wheelers, four-wheelers and medium and heavy vehicles.

The Traditional Knowledge Digital Library is at present open to that many international patent offices, and each of them gets access through a non-disclosure agreement, so the knowledge is used for examining patent claims without being published.

The correct answer is Mundra Port, from which the shipment moves to the Piraeus Port in Greece.

This is the amount the Sixteenth Finance Commission has recommended for Rural Local Bodies for the award period 2026-31, and it marks an increase of nearly 84 per cent over what the Fifteenth Finance Commission provided, with the annual per capita grant rising from about Rs 400 to nearly Rs…

The Ministry of Rural Development notified the Schedule of Permissible Works under the Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act of that year, and the Schedule itself was put out on 6 October 2026.

The correct answer is Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh, the source area of the Gomti whose master plan for rejuvenation and integrated development was approved at the 68th Executive Committee meeting of the National Mission for Clean Ganga held in December 2025.

In the case concerning the rape and murder of a ten-year-old girl in the Maner area of Patna district, the Commission recommended payment of Rs 5 lakh as relief to the next of kin of the victim.

The campaign is to be organised across all states from 22 October to 30 November 2026, and the minister asked state governments and the authorities concerned to take part actively so that it reaches farmers.

Among the seven major bridges in the project is a 340-metre structure over the perennial Bagmati river, which the corridor must cross on its way from Muzaffarpur towards the border.

The correct answer is Rs 28,840 crore, the total provision for the next phase of the scheme launched on 4 July 2026 and running from FY 2026-27 to FY 2035-36.

BIMCGL was incorporated on 6 January 2025 as the dedicated implementing agency for the Gaya cluster and will handle coordinated planning, infrastructure work, statutory clearances, utility connectivity and investor facilitation.

That is the intensity the India Meteorological Department expected when the system crossed the Andhra Pradesh and Yanam coasts by the forenoon of 28 October 2026.

The two disputes were resolved amicably through that officer conciliation efforts rather than through adjudication. The Banking Ombudsman handles customer complaints against banks and has no role in a dispute between a bank and its employees, so that option is wrong.

The scientist leading the session explained that fertiliser applied indiscriminately pushes up the cost of cultivation and causes nutrient imbalances, whereas application decided by soil-test results, the requirement of the crop and the condition of the orchard improves nutrient-use efficiency and supports production that can be sustained.

The programme had four Rugby Sevens matches in all, and two of them were mixed-team fixtures in which national players from India and New Zealand played alongside one another as teammates rather than as opponents.