UPSC CAPF Current Affairs Quiz: 30 September 2026

The correct answer is 1926. India’s first Public Service Commission was constituted on 1 October 1926 as an advisory body, and the Commission therefore dates its own history from that year and completes a hundred years on 1 October 2026. Option A, 1919, is the year of the Government of India Act that merely provided for such a Commission; it created the legal opening, not the body itself. Option B, 1924, is the year the Lee Commission recommended that a statutory Public Service Commission be established at once, which is again a recommendation and not the establishment. Option D, 1935, is the year of the Government of India Act that transferred the power of appointment to the Governor-General and provided for a Federal Public Service Commission with Provincial Commissions, a later stage in the same story. Only 1926 marks the actual constitution of the body.

The correct answer is Budgam. The encounter took place at Gurwatkalan, which falls in the area of the Khansahib police station in Budgam district. Options A, C and D name other districts of the union territory and are wrong, though each has seen counter-terrorism operations at other times, which is exactly why they make plausible distractors. Security forces had been pursuing Musa for a long stretch, and a plan involving every stakeholder was put together once technical and human intelligence reached them about where he was and how he was moving. The encounter was not a standalone action but part of a long-sustained effort named Operation Sheruwali, which had begun in May 2026 and was still running when Musa was neutralised.

The correct answer is Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, where the Congress is being held and where the Indian minister also met the UAE Justice Minister on the sidelines. Option A, Doha, hosted an earlier edition of the same Congress and is therefore the most tempting wrong answer for a candidate who remembers the series but not the current host. Option C, Vienna, is the headquarters of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, which services this Congress, so it is a natural confusion between where a body sits and where a conference meets. Option D, Kyoto, hosted a previous edition as well. The safe way to remember is to attach the edition to the city: the 15th Congress goes with Abu Dhabi, and India was represented there by the Minister of State for Law and Justice.

The correct answer is Part XIV, Articles 315 to 323. Dr B. R. Ambedkar moved these draft articles in the Constituent Assembly in 1949, and they became the constitutional charter of the Public Service Commissions. Article 315 provides for a Commission for the Union and one for each State, Article 316 leaves the appointment of the chairman and members to the President, Article 317 allows removal only by the President after an inquiry by the Supreme Court, Article 320 lists the functions, and Article 322 charges the expenses on the Consolidated Fund of India. Option A, Part XII with Articles 264 to 300, covers finance, property and contracts. Option B, Part XIII with Articles 301 to 307, covers trade, commerce and intercourse within India. Option D, Part XV with Articles 324 to 329, covers elections and the Election Commission, not the service commissions.

The correct answer is Operation Sheruwali, a long-sustained operation that began in May 2026 and of which this encounter was a part. Option A, Operation Mahadev, is wrong because that was the operation in which another commander of the same group, Suleman, was neutralised on 28 July 2025. Option B, Operation Asdhar, is wrong for a similar reason: Yasir was neutralised in it on 4 September 2026. Option D is wrong because no such name belongs to this sequence. Keeping the three names tied to the right commanders is the trick with this question, and the fourth member of the group, Junaid Bhat, was neutralised at Dachigam on 3 December 2024. Together these four had been active in the union territory since 2022.

The correct answer is the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, the three laws the minister described as built around technology, faster justice, forensic investigation and digital-first procedures. Option A names the older codes that these three replaced, so it is the direct opposite of what was presented. Option C invents titles that sound plausible but do not exist. Option D is the trickiest wrong answer because it swaps the suffixes: the word Sanhita goes with Nyaya and with Nagarik Suraksha, while Adhiniyam goes with Sakshya. Candidates should learn the pairing of each subject with its suffix, since examiners test precisely this swap. Along with the codes, remember the two cybercrime institutions the minister named, the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre and the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal.

The correct answer is Rose Millian Bathew Kharbuli, who headed the Commission in 1992 and was the first woman to do so. Option A, Kiran Bedi, is linked to the Commission in a different way: she was the first woman it selected for the Indian Police Service, in 1972, and was the only woman among the vacancies filled that year, but she never chaired the body. Option C, Pratibha Devisingh Patil, was the President who inaugurated the Commission’s Foundation Day Lecture series on governance and public service, and she is remembered as the first woman President of India, not as a UPSC chairperson. Option D, Suman Sharma, is one of the eight Members serving under the present Chairman, Dr Ajay Kumar, three of whom are women, but she is a Member and not the first woman head.

The correct answer is four. With Musa gone, the entire group of four senior commanders of the outfit who had been operating in the union territory since 2022 has been neutralised. Option A is wrong and option B is the likelier trap, since three of the four had already been neutralised before this encounter, in separate actions against Junaid Bhat, Suleman and Yasir; Musa was the fourth and last. Option D is wrong because no such number is attached to this group. The group was held responsible for a series of attacks over four years, among them the Kandi attack of May 2023, the Halan attack of August 2023, the DKG attack of December 2023, the Shahsitar attack of May 2024, the Shiv Khori attack of June 2024 and the Baisaran attack of April 2025.

The correct answer is Monika Juma, named as the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, met by the minister to discuss cooperation against narcotics and organised crime and stronger legal and judicial partnerships. Option B, Ghada Waly, held the same post earlier and is the strongest distractor for anyone revising from older notes. Option C, Amina Mohammed, is associated with the office of the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General rather than this agency. Option D, Rebeca Grynspan, heads the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, which deals with trade and development questions and not crime. A question of this kind rewards a candidate who keeps a running list of who heads which United Nations body, because such names change and only the current holder is marked correct.

The correct answer is Junaid Bhat, who was neutralised at Dachigam on 3 December 2024, the first of the four commanders of this group to be accounted for. Option B, Suleman, is wrong because he was neutralised on 28 July 2025 in Operation Mahadev. Option C, Yasir, is wrong because he was neutralised on 4 September 2026 in Operation Asdhar. Option D is wrong because Asif Fauji is another name for Musa himself, the commander neutralised at Gurwatkalan in Budgam district, and the question asks about a different member of the group. The Ministry of Home Affairs credited these results to counter-terrorism work carried out in close coordination by the Jammu and Kashmir Police, the Indian Army and the Central Armed Police Forces.