State Exams Current Affairs Quiz: 26 October 2026

Mr. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won the presidential election in Brazil, and the Prime Minister of India sent him his heartiest congratulations on 26 October 2026, calling the result a remarkable re-election victory.

ESTIC 2026 is a flagship national platform organised by CSIR under the guidance of the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, and it is scheduled for 27 to 29 October 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.

That is the total number of artificial recharge and storage structures built under the Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari initiative taken as a whole.

The allocation is meant to set up Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics Content Creator Labs in 15,000 secondary schools and 500 colleges across the country, and the Indian Institute of Creative Technologies in Mumbai will plan, coordinate and implement the initiative as the nodal agency.

The Forum in question is the twelfth edition of the BRICS Parliamentary Forum, and the Lok Sabha Speaker has written about the part it plays in strengthening parliamentary dialogue and cooperation among the grouping's member and partner countries.

The Technology Development Board, which functions under the Department of Science and Technology, signed an agreement with Manastu Space Technologies Private Limited of Navi Mumbai for financial support of Rs 116 crore drawn from the Research Development and Innovation Fund, and this money is being routed as Optionally Convertible Debt.

The Department of Commerce has carried forward the timelines of Component II of RELIEF, the time-bound intervention that sits under the Export Promotion Mission, up to the close of March 2027, and the change was notified through Notification No. 37/2026-27 issued on 30 September 2026.

The thirteenth edition of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus is being held at Cebu in the Philippines, which also holds the chair of the forum for the current year, and the Indian delegation to it is being led by Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh.

The seminar carries exactly this theme, and the phrase itself captures the idea behind the whole exercise, namely that equipment already held by the Army should be reworked into advanced and future-ready combat systems rather than simply replaced.

The Central Board of Secondary Education, in association with the Sahodaya School Complexes of Delhi and the National Capital Region, is holding the fourth National Summit on Facilitating School-to-Work Transition in New Delhi across two days, the twenty sixth and twenty seventh of October 2026.

The correct answer is Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and of Rural Development, who is to deliver the sixty seventh lecture in the series at the Rang Bhawan Auditorium of Akashvani in New Delhi.

The Prime Minister said he looked forward to working closely with President Lula to further deepen and expand the multifaceted India-Brazil Strategic Partnership, and that phrase is the one the message itself uses for the relationship.

He graced the curtain raiser as Chief Guest, spoke of India's growing scientific capabilities and the potential of biotechnology to drive national development, and cited the development of COVID-19 vaccines as an instance of basic biological research leading to life-saving innovation.

Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain was launched on 22 March 2021, which falls on World Water Day, and its guiding slogan was 'Catch the Rain, Where It Falls, When It Falls'.

Extended Reality is the umbrella term for technologies that combine real and digital environments through computer systems and wearable devices, and it has three members.

The subjects before the Forum are institutional resilience, AI governance, South-South cooperation and sustainability, and all four are guided by the four pillars of India's BRICS Chairship.

The system is described as a green propulsion solution that uses a hydrogen peroxide based propellant with additives, supported by an integrated engine and catalyst assembly that includes an ultra-high-temperature ceramic catalyst meant to survive demanding conditions.

Component II of the initiative is designed to push exporters towards taking cover from the Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India for their coming shipments to the notified regions, and the inducement it offers is risk coverage at the level of ninety five per cent.

India entered the ASEAN framework as a dialogue partner in that year, and the relationship has since widened into the defence domain through the ADMM-Plus mechanism.

The correct answer is Chandimandir Military Station, which is the headquarters station of Western Command and the chosen venue for the two-day seminar in December 2026.

Of the four priorities set out at the summit by the Secretary of the Department of School Education and Literacy, the third is the recognition of skills across education systems, and the instrument named for it is the National Credit Framework.

Akashvani has organised the annual Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Lecture from that year onwards, in memory of independent India’s first Deputy Prime Minister, who also held the Information and Broadcasting portfolio and is remembered as the architect of national integration and as the Iron Man of India.

The Prime Minister wrote that the two nations would continue to strengthen their cooperation across diverse sectors, advance the shared priorities of the Global South, and work towards a more inclusive, equitable and sustainable world.

The conclave covers twelve key thematic areas, which include System and Synthetic Biology, advanced manufacturing, energy technologies, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and advanced healthcare, and the whole exercise is tied to the vision of Viksit Bharat 2047.

Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari 1.0, which ran from 1 April 2024 to 31 May 2025, followed these three principles while strengthening public participation in water conservation, and it also mobilised convergence with running government schemes to speed the work up.