UPSC CAPF Current Affairs Quiz: 29 September 2026

One of the two officials apprehended is presently posted there, and the other, now working in a Pay and Accounts Office, had served in the same division at an earlier point.

He is an Indian Forest Service officer of the 1976 batch from the Karnataka cadre, and the Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to him by the Union Environment Minister in recognition of decades of work in forest and wildlife conservation, including efforts against sandalwood smuggling and against the activities of…

The workshop on connecting people, places, resources and opportunities through stronger panchayats was an initiative under this mission, and it was conducted in collaboration with the state institute of panchayat and rural development of the Government of Assam.

The correct answer is the Special Cell of the Delhi Police, which acted in coordination with central agencies after receiving specific information from the Ministry of Home Affairs and apprehended the two officials in New Delhi.

It organises the Eco Warrior Awards and the Eco Warrior Conclave jointly with Indian Masterminds, and the fourth edition was held in New Delhi under the chairmanship of the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

Participants at the workshop discussed the constitutional foundation of panchayati raj under this amendment and under Part IX of the Constitution, which together give village level bodies their status, and the deliberations moved on from there to activity mapping, financial resources, staffing, decision-making powers, Gram Sabha participation and institutional accountability.

The ministry made this point while announcing the action against the two officials, because the pair had allegedly offered an association that it could get a pending registration cleared for a payment.

The Special Projects Recognition at the fourth edition of the awards went to these two efforts for their contribution to the conservation of species and of habitat, the bustard project being the one running in Rajasthan.

He attended the inaugural session as the Guest of Honour and used his remarks to call for a move away from sector-wise planning towards a spatial approach, with greater weight given to human and social capital and to the building of local economic clusters.

That is the number of forest officers honoured at the fourth edition of the Eco Warrior Awards for exemplary contribution to environmental conservation, in addition to the Lifetime Achievement Award presented separately to a senior officer of the service.

The workshop highlighted the integration of spatial information with the Gram Panchayat Development Plan process, with the eGramSwaraj platform and with this index as a means of making planning evidence-based and oriented towards convergence between departments and schemes.