Uttar Pradesh Current Affairs Quiz: 14 October 2026

The Government of India constituted the committee under his chairmanship to examine the issues raised by sugarcane farmers and to recommend suitable measures.

The campaign was launched by the Defence Minister in New Delhi and is the largest fundraising effort ever undertaken by any Indian Institute of Technology.

The ministry decided against a uniform nationwide drive and instead identified the judicial districts where the number of pending cases is largest, settling on one hundred of them.

The committee was constituted following the decisions taken during a meeting in which representatives of sugarcane farmers from these two States met the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare together with the Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.

The Defence Minister said the proposal to set up a National Military Drone Technology Hub at IIT Kanpur, in collaboration with the Ministry of Defence, has made significant progress and that its approval process is nearing completion.

The ministry stated that this many matters are awaiting decision in courts across the country and that the majority of them lie in the district and subordinate judiciary rather than in the constitutional courts.

The committee has been asked to examine the demand for revising this price in the light of the cost of producing sugar, what mills actually realise in the market, and the financial viability of the mills themselves.

While describing how the institutes have grown into engines of innovation and enterprise, the Defence Minister said the IIT ecosystem has supported over 6,000 start-ups, produced 56 unicorns and generated nearly 5,000 patents.

The Chief Justice of India is wrong because this was an executive initiative of the Ministry of Law and Justice and not a judicial conference.

The meeting was convened with the Vice Chancellors of nineteen National Law Universities spread across sixteen states, and all of them assured the ministry of active participation in the pendency mission.