UPSC CAPF Current Affairs Quiz: October 2026

The correct answer is Milwaukee, in the state of Wisconsin, and the meeting is hosted under the United States G20 Presidency.

Ankush won the gold medal in the men's 80 kg boxing event at the Asian Games with an emphatic victory in the final, and the weight division is the detail that decides this question.

Navpreet Singh, named by the Ministry of Home Affairs as a hardened kingpin of the narcotics trade, had settled in Türkiye and taken Turkish nationality under the invented identity of Navab Virk.

The 17th Pension Adalat is being held under the chairmanship of the Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Dr. Jitendra Singh, at the T. N. Chaturvedi Memorial Hall of the Indian Institute of Public Administration in New Delhi on 5 October 2026.

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence seized this cumulative quantity of amphetamine, cocaine and heroin in three separate intelligence-led operations carried out on 29 and 30 September 2026, and five persons were arrested under the NDPS Act, 1985.

UCIL is described as a public sector enterprise working under the Department of Atomic Energy, and it supplies the uranium that feeds the country's nuclear power programme.

The correct answer is Justice Vikram Nath, Judge of the Supreme Court of India and Executive Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority, who delivered the memorial lecture on the theme of judging with compassion and argued that a humane approach to justice must stay anchored in the principles of…

The waiver of proof and testing charges for this set of projects is the central financial relief in the revised Standard Operating Procedure, and the stated reason is the promotion of self-reliance in defence.

The Commission, led by Chairperson Justice V. Ramasubramanian along with Members Justice (Dr.) Bidyut Ranjan Sarangi and Smt. Vijaya Bharathi Sayani, took up more than seventy alleged cases of human rights violation in the presence of the victims and the officers answerable for them, with the State Chief Secretary and…

The Centre for Trade and Investment Law is housed there, and its Head, Prof. James J. Nedumpara, also holds the WTO India Chair.

The Commission was set up on 12 October 1993, so its Foundation Day falls on that date every year, and the 33rd edition will be held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi in 2026.

He was declared elected President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union on 9 October 2026, the last day of the 153rd Assembly held in Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania.

The Mangalore Regional Unit of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence intercepted an Indian national travelling by train from Delhi to Bengaluru and recovered three packets of a white crystalline substance of that weight, suspected to be methamphetamine, from the passenger’s trolley bag.

The seminar was held on 9 October 2026 at the Air Force Auditorium, Subroto Park, New Delhi, while this multinational flying exercise was under way, so the participating teams moved from flying sorties to a conceptual discussion on doctrine.

During the ice-breaking session of the capacity building programme on urban service delivery, the Digital India BHASHINI Division deployed Shrutlekh to translate speech as it was spoken, working in both directions between English and Spanish so that delegates from Spanish-speaking countries could take part without a language barrier.

As Chairman of the committee he launched its dedicated digital web portal in New Delhi, a portal that is now fully operational for public access, stakeholder submissions and data interaction.

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research worked with the New, Emerging and Strategic Technologies Division of the MEA to run the first edition of the programme, which was held on 14 October 2026 and designed to deepen India's scientific links with countries of the Global South.

The society works on the environment and development of the Himalaya and falls within his ministry's charge, which is why the other options are wrong.

Programmes under the Seva Sankalp Abhiyan are being held across the country to mark the completion of 25 years of service and dedication by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, first as the Chief Minister of a State and afterwards as Prime Minister of India.

The court set up the High Powered Enquiry Committee to enquire into all aspects of the incidents of violence at Jantar Mantar in Delhi and at places outside Delhi during July 2026, and the Committee has now opened a portal so that affected persons, including affected police personnel, can send…

That is the gross weight of crystal methamphetamine the agency recovered from a coastal village in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu, in what is described as one of the biggest narcotics seizures in the state's coastal region in recent years.

Amphetamine is a psychotropic substance and cocaine is a narcotic drug, so all three consignments, the one recovered at the Bengaluru airport, the one taken from a backpack near Nagpur and the one found at Terminal 3 of the Delhi airport, were seized under this Act and the arrests were…

Gold brought into the country without declaration and without payment of duty is smuggled goods, so the three arrests in this case, which covered dealings in 13.017 kg of foreign-origin gold valued at about Rs 19.41 crore, were made under that Act.

On 21 October 1959 an Indian police patrol was ambushed there by heavily armed Chinese troops and ten policemen were killed.

Speaking at the Vijayadashami festival in Ludhiana on 20 October 2026, the Union Home Minister said the resolve taken that day was to free the whole of Punjab from the drug trade by that date and to make the state drug-free, and he described it as the greatest tribute possible…

The correct answer is Strengthening Parliaments for People-Centric Development, the overarching theme announced by the Lok Sabha Speaker for the forum in the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan.

The group examined four secondary emission lines from the system and concluded that the structure causing those lines to vary must be turning along with the pulsar, which pointed them to the accretion stream and therefore to a disk feeding it.

That is the quantity of waste processed as on date across the waste streams that now carry their own rules, and the minister cited it as evidence that policy intent is being translated into measurable action.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has said that in the first phase a total of 600 Civil Defence Master Trainers, 50 from each participating State or Union Territory, are proposed to be trained by the second week of November 2026 through a three-day specialised programme at designated Indian Army training…

The bureau planned the operation and led it in the early hours of 23 October 2026, working under a single command with Mizoram Police and the Enforcement Directorate.

The National Human Rights Commission built its advisory around eight areas of action: raising awareness about women's safety and sexual harassment, infrastructure, encouraging bystander intervention, the role of the police, support for survivors, cybercrime against women, long-term reforms, and other measures.

Its second edition was held on 27 and 28 October 2026 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, organised by ICLEI South Asia along with the National Institute of Urban Affairs and supported by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

The Commission acted on its own motion on a media report that the police had walked three men through a Kolkata locality in a semi-nude state with ropes tied round their waists, and it issued a notice to the Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, seeking a detailed report within two weeks.

The nineteenth session of the Joint Economic Commission between India and the Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union met in Luxembourg on 29 October 2026, and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced the outcome the next day.

The Ministry of Home Affairs announces this medal on 31 October every year, and that date is observed as the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

Speaking after flagging off the Run for Unity in New Delhi on Rashtriya Ekta Diwas, the Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Amit Shah, said a target has been set to free the country from drugs completely by that date, and that the creation of a drug-free India is…

The ministers reached consensus on this document and expressed their intent to carry the cooperation forward.

The Prime Minister used exactly this framing, which marks the medal as the closing result of the country's boxing effort at these Games, and he separately called the boxer's passion and dedication noteworthy.

That was the false name under which the narco-trafficking kingpin secured citizenship of Türkiye, and behind it he continued sending heroin and methamphetamine into India from Afghanistan.

The 17th Pension Adalat is thematic and lists 897 long-pending grievances belonging only to super-senior pensioners and family pensioners. These complaints relate to 24 ministries and departments and were lodged on the CPENGRAMS portal, the online grievance system for central government pensioners.

Acting on precise intelligence, officers there stopped an Indian passenger who had arrived from Doha. Seven chocolate tubes in his cabin baggage were heavier than their marked weight, and on being opened they were found to hold 207 pale-yellow oval capsules packed with a white powder.

The Diamond Jubilee Year celebrations of Uranium Corporation of India Limited were held at Jaduguda, bringing together senior officials, scientists, engineers, technical personnel, employees and media professionals.

The lecture, organised by the Dr. Ambedkar International Centre with the Commonwealth Legal Education Association, brought together judges, legal academics and practitioners to reflect on the human dimension of the judicial process and on the place of compassion, empathy and sensitivity in the delivery of justice.

The earlier procedure routed disagreements into arbitration, and the revised version replaces that with a simpler, industry-friendly conciliation clause so that problems faced by domestic manufacturers are settled faster, which the Ministry links to ease of doing business.

The correct answer is Justice V. Ramasubramanian, the Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission, who led the two-day Bihar open hearing and camp sitting at Patna and heard the bonded labour matters on the second day himself.

Prof. James J. Nedumpara, Head of the Centre for Trade and Investment Law and WTO India Chair, said the centre had provided that many legal opinions, had participated in negotiations concerning nearly ten free trade agreements, and had contributed to negotiations, submissions, notifications and dispute settlement at the World Trade…

The correct answer is Chief Justice of India, Justice Surya Kant, who will address the function as chief guest.

The 153rd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union was held in Arusha in the United Republic of Tanzania, and the election of the new President took place there on the closing day.

Acting on intelligence, officers of that unit stopped a passenger travelling by train from Delhi to Bengaluru and recovered 5.753 kg of suspected methamphetamine from the trolley bag being carried.

CAPSS was set up in that year as an autonomous research and analysis body working on national security, nuclear and aerospace questions, which is why the year 2026 marks its Silver Jubilee.