UPSC CAPF Current Affairs Quiz: 29 September 2026

The correct answer is the Foreigners Division. 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. That is the wing of the Home Ministry through which foreign contribution registration files pass, which is why both men were in a position to offer an association that its pending application would be pushed along. Option B deals with matters of internal security and not with registration of associations receiving funds from abroad. Option C looks after the management of the country’s borders, a different subject altogether. Option D is concerned with modernising police forces. Aspirants should tie the subject to the ministry and then to the division, because papers often test the second step after testing the first.

The correct answer is Brij Kishore Singh. 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 brigand Veerappan. Option A names the Director General of Forests and Special Secretary in the environment ministry, who attended the event but was not the awardee. Option C names a former Secretary General of the National Human Rights Commission, also present among the guests rather than among those honoured. Option D names the President of the Indian Forest Service Association, the body that organises the awards, which again is a different role from that of the recipient. Only option B matches the citation.

The correct answer is the State Support Mission, abbreviated as SSM. 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. Option A names the programme that works on improving outcomes in districts lagging on development indicators, which is a separate initiative of the same institution. Option C names the mission that promotes innovation and entrepreneurship, including tinkering laboratories in schools, and it has no connection with panchayat planning. Option D names a farming programme run under the agriculture ministry rather than a NITI Aayog mission. Candidates should associate the State Support Mission with NITI Aayog's work alongside state governments.

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. Option B is a wing that investigates economic offences at the state level, but it was not the unit named in this action. Option C works on smuggling and customs-related intelligence and had no part in the case. Option D guards railway property and passengers and is unconnected with it. The two men held are a Senior Accountant and an Accountant, and they are alleged to have approached an association and demanded money for facilitating its pending registration. The ministry has said that legal as well as departmental action is being taken and that further investigation is still in progress.

The correct answer is the Indian Forest Service Association, usually written as IFSA. 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. Option B, the Wildlife Institute of India, is a research and training institution in the wildlife field, not the organiser of these awards. Option C, the Botanical Survey of India, is the body that surveys the country's plant resources, a different mandate altogether. Option D is the research and education council for forestry, which conducts and coordinates forestry research rather than running this award programme. Candidates should link the Eco Warrior Awards firmly with IFSA and with Indian Masterminds.

The correct answer is the 73rd Amendment. 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. Option A names the amendment that made sweeping changes to the Constitution during the emergency period, which is unrelated to rural local bodies. Option C names the amendment dealing with urban local bodies, that is municipalities, and it is the companion to the correct answer but applies to towns and cities rather than villages. Option D names the amendment on the right to education. Remember the pairing: rural bodies with the earlier number, urban bodies with the later one.

The correct answer is that the services are delivered online through the FCRA portal, and that no intermediary, agent or individual has been authorised to facilitate any such service. 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. Option A is the exact opposite of the ministry’s statement, since no private agent has any authority in the matter. Option C is wrong because the process is not run through district offices and does not require a personal visit. Option D is wrong because the subject rests with the Union Home Ministry and its Foreigners Division, not with state home departments. Remembering the online-only route is also the practical protection an applicant has against a demand for money.

The correct answer is Project Elephant and the Great Indian Bustard conservation project. 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. Option A names two well known conservation programmes, but neither was the recipient of this particular recognition. Option C names two more recent programmes in the same field, which again were not cited here. Option D names older species specific programmes, and they too were not among the projects recognised at this event. Since several conservation projects carry similar names, it is worth memorising the exact pairing recognised at each edition of an award, because questions are frequently framed on precisely that detail.

The correct answer is Dr R. Balasubramaniam, Member of NITI Aayog. 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. Option A names the state minister for panchayat and rural development, who inaugurated the workshop as the Chief Guest, a distinct designation from the one being asked about. Option B names the Chief Secretary of the state, who was present at the inaugural session but not in either of those two roles. Option D names the Secretary of the rural development department, who likewise attended without holding that designation. Questions of this type turn on the exact title, so each name should be memorised with its role.

The correct answer is 15. 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 honours were spread across categories covering protected area management, wildlife protection and conservation, environment conservation, community connect, the best use of technology and a special jury citation, with two officers recognised in each of those categories. Options A, B and D give figures that do not match the count announced at the ceremony. For the examination it helps to remember the number alongside the edition of the award and the year, since a question may combine all three details in a single statement to be judged true or false.

The correct answer is the Panchayat Advancement Index. 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. Option B names a measure of deprivation across several dimensions, which is used to track poverty rather than to plan at the panchayat level. Option C names an index on water resource management by states, a different subject from village planning. Option D names a measure of the regulatory environment for business, again unrelated to the planning tools discussed here. The three names to remember together are the development plan process, the digital platform for panchayat accounts and governance, and the advancement index.