Uttar Pradesh Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 19–25 October 2026

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence seized 591.3 kg of ganja from a truck in Uttar Pradesh in an operation carried out during 17 and 18 October 2026.

Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh said the country's atomic ambitions have to be read against its longer development goals and its clean energy commitments, and named this figure as the nuclear power capacity India is targeting by 2047.

The Namami Gange Programme was launched in that year as an integrated conservation mission with the twin objectives of effective abatement of pollution and the conservation and rejuvenation of the National River Ganga.

The fifth edition of the programme, to be held from 28 November to 12 December 2026, is designed around that classical Tamil text and aims to bring its ethical and moral wisdom closer to students and young learners through classroom engagement, multilingual resources and public outreach.

Stage-I of the Graded Response Action Plan is the stage meant for poor air, and it was invoked across the National Capital Region after Delhi's daily average index was recorded at 244 at 2 PM and then at 245 by 4 PM, both of which sit inside that band.

Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah attended the ceremony at which 10 Yamuna rejuvenation projects were inaugurated and foundation stones were laid for 33 more, and the schemes together carry this total cost.

The Centre for Development of Telematics signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi to establish its sixth Centre of Excellence, and the signing was followed by the formal opening of the centre on the campus.

Shram Samvad is a 90-day outreach initiative through which the Ministry of Labour and Employment is undertaking district-level engagement across 316 districts in all 36 States and Union Territories, with special attention to industrial clusters.

The intelligence that set off the operation said the truck carrying ganja from Nepal would come into Uttar Pradesh through Sonauli, so officers of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence at Gorakhpur built their surveillance around that crossing, helped by teams at Lucknow, Patna and Varanasi.

The correct answer is 2070, the year Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh named for India's Net Zero emissions commitment while explaining why nuclear power matters to the country's energy plans.

The plant was therefore raised vertically, and its land need works out to far less per unit of capacity than the conventional alternative.

Each of the seven groups will carry roughly 200 participants from Tamil Nadu, and every group follows an eight-day itinerary made up of four days of travel and four days of visits and structured programmes in Varanasi, Prayagraj and Ayodhya.

The Sub-Committee on GRAP decided to invoke all the action points listed under Stage-I of the plan then in force, and that list runs to twenty-five items, applying across the whole National Capital Region with immediate effect.

The Home Minister said that time-bound roadmaps had been prepared jointly for Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi, with the Centre and these state governments working together, and that the Yamuna would be made clean by that year.

The Centre for Development of Telematics, or C-DOT, is the research and development centre of the Department of Telecommunications, which is a department of the Ministry of Communications, and it is in that capacity that it signed the agreement for a Centre of Excellence at IIT (BHU), Varanasi.

The correct answer is the Code on Wages, which belongs to 2019.

Ganja is a narcotic drug, so the 591.3 kg recovered in Uttar Pradesh and the truck in which it travelled were both seized under that statute, which governs narcotic and psychotropic offences in India and allows the conveyance used in the crime to be taken as well.

The correct answer is Dr. Homi Bhabha, whom Dr. Jitendra Singh recalled as the architect of India's nuclear programme, saying that his vision continues to guide a journey built around peaceful application and national development.

This technology was brought to India through the programme and improves upon the activated sludge process and the sequential batch reactor by adding fixed artificial media and plant roots, which gives it a smaller footprint, lower power use and nutrient removal.

The itinerary for each group covers these three cities with cultural, academic, domain-specific and spiritual engagements spread over four programme days, after four days of travel.

The Sub-Committee met on 21 October 2026, reviewed the air quality of Delhi and the region along with the forecasts placed before it, and decided to bring Stage-I of the plan into force with immediate effect.

The Home Minister said that 10 projects were inaugurated at the function and 33 projects were started with the laying of foundation stones, and that the schemes begun carry a total cost of Rs 8,941 crore.

The Centre of Excellence at IIT (BHU), Varanasi has been given a brief in communication technology: wireless communications, quantum technologies, cybersecurity and communication systems driven by artificial intelligence, with advanced research in 5G Advanced and 6G technologies, very large-scale Multiple-Input Multiple-Output systems, sensing merged with communication, AI-native networks and devices…

The correct answer is Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, where the Ministry of Labour and Employment is holding the two-day state-level capacity-building and awareness programme on Labour Codes, labour welfare and social protection in collaboration with the Government of Uttar Pradesh.

The correct answer is the Bloomberg Economy Forum 2026, on the sidelines of which the Union Minister spoke in an exclusive conversation about the peaceful character of India's nuclear programme and the power needs of an economy turning towards artificial intelligence.