Uttar Pradesh Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 12–18 October 2026

A team of seventeen climbers of the Indian Coast Guard reached the summit of Mount Mukut at that height on 7 October 2026, working through extreme weather on the way up.

The 53rd monthly CPGRAMS report brought out by DARPG for September 2026 puts the number of grievances closed by Central Ministries and Departments at 2,38,579 for the month.

The Ministry of Jal Shakti review records that compliance among grossly polluting industries in the Ganga basin climbed from 39% in 2017 to 86% in 2025, a steady gain produced by annual inspection, independent technical assessment and sector charters.

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 Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Bhupender Yadav, announced on 15 October 2026 that the national tally of Ramsar sites had reached 103 once Sukhna Wetland in Chandigarh and Sauj Jheel in Uttar Pradesh were taken into the list.

The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, written short as DDWS, is a department of that ministry, and it ran the thirteenth edition of the District Collectors' Peyjal Samvad over video conferencing, with Secretary Ashok K.K.

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment stated that this many villages had been declared Adarsh Grams under the scheme by that date, reflecting its work on infrastructure, basic services and quality of life in Scheduled Caste-majority villages.

Its scientists traced past environmental conditions at Karela Lake using stable isotopes, vegetation changes and archaeological and sedimentary records, and built a record stretching back about four thousand six hundred years.

At the 10th meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee, held in New Delhi on 16 October 2026 under the chairmanship of Urban Development Secretary Satendra Singh, over 1.93 lakh additional houses were cleared under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Urban 2.0.

It is a science and technology organisation under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, and it held the conclave on AI for Health and Assistive Technologies jointly with the Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship of IIT (BHU) on the institute's campus at Varanasi.

The Namo Bharat regional rapid rail corridor runs from Delhi to Meerut through Ghaziabad and measures 82 km end to end.

The Department of School Education and Literacy has fixed that day for a drive in schools across the country to raise awareness about electronic waste and to collect it, as part of Special Campaign 6.

The seventeen-member Coast Guard team climbed Mount Mukut under the expert guidance of that institute, and the climb formed the fifth and final phase of a preparatory programme that ran for eighteen months.

The 50th CPGRAMS report on States and Union Territories records that Uttar Pradesh closed the largest number of cases in September 2026 at 45,970, far ahead of every other State.

The 2025 inspection cycle covered 3,703 grossly polluting industries in all, spread over 113 districts in six states and one Union Territory, with the potential to discharge into 46 tributaries and sub-tributaries of the Ganga and Yamuna.

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.

Announcing the new designations, Union Environment Minister Shri Bhupender Yadav named Sukhna Wetland, better known as Sukhna Lake, as a site in Chandigarh, and he congratulated Chandigarh along with Uttar Pradesh on the recognition.

Its District Magistrate and Collector, Aditya Goyal, described a three-stage approach of execution, commissioning and then operation and maintenance, and said large multi-village schemes had carried round-the-clock piped water to IIM Sambalpur.

PM-AJAY is run by this ministry and aims at the socio-economic and educational empowerment of Scheduled Caste communities through village infrastructure, livelihood promotion, education and better access to basic services.

Karela Lake is an oxbow lake at Hulas Khera in Mohanlal Ganj, near Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, and lies in the Central Ganga Plain.

Of the houses cleared at this meeting, Uttar Pradesh received 73,182, the biggest single share among the 11 participating states.

Shri S. Krishnan spoke in that capacity, holding that artificial intelligence can make health care easier to reach, strengthen clinical decision-making and improve the delivery of services, particularly for communities with little access to health facilities.

On that day the Prime Minister dedicated the full Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut corridor to the nation, and Meerut Metro was handed over at the same time.

The school level work under Special Campaign 6 is carried out under their aegis. Schools across the country have taken up cleaning drives on their campuses so that classrooms and grounds stay hygienic, and have run e-waste awareness and collection drives aimed at both pupils and teachers.

The correct answer is that the Everest attempt is planned during the force's Swarnim Jayanti, the golden jubilee, in the year given in option A. The Mount Mukut climb was the fifth and concluding phase of an eighteen-month preparatory programme built around that goal, and the operational experience and lessons…

The 50th CPGRAMS report on States and Union Territories states that 1,312 training courses were completed under the Sevottam Scheme over the last five financial years, training roughly 43,738 officers in grievance handling and service delivery.