Delhi Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 28 September – 4 October 2026

The Union Environment Minister asked that Jan Bhagidari events be organised at all thirty-seven identified hotspots in the capital by October 10, with relevant stakeholders taking part, and that a set of action points be drawn up for each one and its implementation watched closely.

The revised GRAP schedule cleared by the Commission for Air Quality Management carries 25 actions in Stage-I, 8 actions in Stage-II, 10 actions in Stage-III and 5 actions in Stage-IV, which adds up to 48 actions in all.

The Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation dedicated the Barapullah Elevated Road Phase-3, built at that cost, to the people of Delhi.

The correct answer is Rs 1,789.52 crore, the estimated cost inclusive of taxes for the project the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs cleared for implementation by Delhi Police.

The Environment Ministry placed the September average for Delhi at 102, and set it against 105 in 2025, 105 in 2024, 108 in 2023 and 104 in 2022, which makes it the lowest September reading across those five years.

He is the Union Minister of State with Independent Charge for Law and Justice, and in that capacity he led the tree plantation drive on the campus of the India International Arbitration Centre at Vasant Kunj in New Delhi.

Gifts and artefacts presented to the Prime Minister are catalogued and offered for public bidding, and whatever the sale earns is placed at the service of the Namami Gange project, the programme devoted to the cleaning and conservation of the Ganga.

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.

Four flying squad teams set up by the Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas inspected twenty five road stretches of the Inner and Outer Ring Road, together covering about thirty five kilometres, all of them under the Public Works Department of Delhi.

The rule denies fuel to a vehicle that has no valid pollution under control certificate, and it is to be applied in mission mode through a city-wide awareness and enforcement campaign at every fuel station equipped with automatic number plate recognition, of which there are five hundred.

Under the revised schedule the bar on running BS-III petrol and BS-IV diesel or older four-wheelers has been extended to Sonipat, over and above the high vehicular density districts where it already applied, namely Gurugram, Faridabad, Ghaziabad and Gautam Budh Nagar.

The Home Minister stated that the newly dedicated phase of the Barapullah corridor would give signal-free connectivity between the eastern and the southern parts of the capital, so that commuting becomes smoother, motorists get relief from traffic jams and travel time is saved.

The project takes in that many identified traffic corridors of the capital.

A daily average below 200 falls in the moderate category, and the nine months of the current year gave 194 such days, the most in the five-year comparison.

The Department of Legal Affairs of the Ministry of Law and Justice organised the drive under that theme on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti, and it formed part of Special Campaign 6 as well as Swachhata Hi Seva 2026.

The edition puts up thirty mementos chosen to show the many dimensions of the capital, and the lots bear this out: a framed artwork of St. Stephen's College, a crystal memento of the Old Secretariat building, a textile artwork of the New Parliament Building, two Delhi Metro models, a painting…

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.

The drive assessed visible road dust and the effectiveness of road cleaning and sweeping along the Ring Road.

Delhi's bus fleet has grown to six thousand eight hundred and forty vehicles in all, and of these five thousand and eighty-eight run on electricity, which makes electric buses the larger part of the fleet.

The Commission shifted the actions dealing with diesel generator sets and with the entry of buses of BS-IV standard and below coming from the National Capital Region and the adjoining states out of Stage-II and into Stage-I. Because GRAP stages are triggered in ascending order as air quality worsens, moving…

Along with dedicating the completed elevated road, the Union Home Minister laid the foundation stones of these two works, which together with the road make up the package of projects worth more than Rs 1,941 crore.

It will provide technical support as Project Management Consultant, which covers technical scrutiny, monitoring, validation and acceptance both while the system is being installed and later during operation and maintenance.

The correct answer is the Commission for Air Quality Management, usually written as CAQM, which the ministry named as the body coordinating work with the agencies concerned.

Speaking at the plantation drive, the minister recalled Gandhi's stay in Champaran in that year and highlighted how Gandhi began efforts towards sanitation and hygiene there, how those efforts became part of a wider mass movement, and how they contributed to addressing the grievances of indigo farmers.

The correct answer is Yogesh Kathuniya, described in the announcement as a Paralympic silver medallist whose discus is part of the collection and stands for sporting achievement and perseverance.

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.

The Commission said that inspection drives will continue under this operation across Delhi and the National Capital Region, to see how the various air pollution abatement measures are being implemented on the ground, to identify gaps in compliance and to make the agencies concerned take timely corrective action.

While approving the amendment that widens web portal based registration and monitoring of dust control measures to construction and demolition projects lying beyond municipal limits, in controlled areas, development and industrial development areas, industrial zones and highway corridor zones, the Commission specifically kept the existing plot area threshold of 500…

That is the number of Adaptive Traffic Control System installations the project will put in place.

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.