UPSC CAPF Current Affairs Quiz: September 2026

The International Mobile Equipment Identity is described as a unique number of that length which identifies a mobile device on a telecom network, and the first eight of those digits make up the Type Allocation Code that identifies the model or type of the handset.

The Ministry of Home Affairs is a participant, not the organiser, and its role is to run the campaign within its own divisions, attached offices and field formations.

The scheme was designed to speed up agricultural development in districts identified on three counts: low agricultural productivity, low cropping intensity and low disbursement of agricultural credit.

The release refers throughout to the ₹1 lakh crore Research, Development and Innovation Fund, and it is the size of that corpus that makes the Minister's appeal for outreach necessary: thousands of applications are arriving, some from applicants who do not appear to understand what the fund is for.

The joint statement records that Bart De Wever, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Belgium, was on an official visit to India at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The Ministry of Defence release describes INS Sudarshini in exactly these words and records that she set sail from Livorno in Italy after completing a successful port call.

The Protocol provides that a Certificate of Origin issued in electronic form will carry the same legal validity and value as one issued on paper, provided it is issued and signed electronically by duly authorised entities and officials under each side's own domestic law.

The Ministry of Home Affairs used this law on 16 September 2026 to declare the Shahzad Bhatti Network a terrorist organisation, and Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced the step.

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change organised the national celebration of the 32nd World Ozone Day in Mumbai on 16 September 2026 under this theme, with Minister of State Kirti Vardhan Singh presiding and Maharashtra's Environment Minister Pankaja Munde also present.

The release repeats this figure three times, once for the coverage of the programme, once for the cities that took part in the ranking exercise, and once for the cities whose air quality management is tracked on the PRANA portal, so it is the single number a candidate must carry…

The fourth edition of the International Strategic Engagement Programme has 38 delegates in all, and of these 25 are international delegates who have come from 22 countries, among them Sri Lanka, Seychelles, Mongolia, Nepal, Mauritius, Maldives, Oman, Guyana, Chile, Argentina, the Philippines, Thailand, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, Myanmar, Uzbekistan and Brazil.

The correct answer is Union Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava, who spoke for India at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 25 September and reaffirmed the commitment of the country to global health security.

At the PRAHAAR conference in New Delhi the Union Home Minister launched this portal, whose purpose is to bring together and quicken the effort of returning fugitives who have fled abroad.

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.

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.

The encounter took place at Gurwatkalan, which falls in the area of the Khansahib police station in Budgam district.

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.

The backgrounder says it oversees the worldwide allocation of the Type Allocation Code, handing codes to manufacturers and brand owners, who then assign unique device identities to individual handsets.

The campaign is split in two, and this is the second and longer part, in which the work actually happens across offices.

The average score of the 100 districts across the six objectives of the scheme stood at 22.54 in April 2026 and reached 38.85 in July 2026.

The board was created so that technologies would not remain confined to laboratories but would be translated into products, solutions and enterprises that bring ease of living, provide livelihoods and add to the economy of the country.

The two leaders noted that Belgium was among the first European countries to establish diplomatic ties with India, and the statement fixes that year as 1947.

The release states this expansion while describing how INS Sudarshini carries forward the spirit of maritime partnership as she continues her voyage under the Lokayan 2026 expedition.

Candidates must keep two dates apart here, because both appear in the same sentence of the release.

Amit Shah, who is Union Home Minister and also Minister of Cooperation, announced that the Ministry of Home Affairs had declared the Shahzad Bhatti Network a terrorist organisation under the UAPA.

Union Minister of State Kirti Vardhan Singh launched both in Mumbai on the occasion of World Ozone Day.

The correct answer is the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies, on which the ministry held Swachh Vayu Diwas and gave away the fifth round of Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan awards.

The programme is put together by the two ministries along with that secretariat, and it is conducted in association with the National Defence College, which is where such strategic courses are run.

India argued that the agreement will be judged by whether this system is fair, so that a country which shares pathogens or biological resources receives vaccines, diagnostics, therapeutics and other technologies in return, within a reasonable time and with its sovereignty intact.

Speaking at the counter-terrorism conference in New Delhi, the Union Home Minister said that over the years from 2019 to 2026 the government succeeded in bringing 288 fugitive criminals back to India, and that these returns came from 36 different countries.

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.

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.

The correct answer is Operation Sheruwali, a long-sustained operation that began in May 2026 and of which this encounter was a part.

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.

The prohibition itself sits in Section 42(3)(c) of the Act, which bars tampering with telecommunication identifiers, while the neighbouring clause covers obtaining SIMs or identifiers through fraud, cheating or impersonation.

That is the count of public grievances the Ministry reported as disposed of over the period named in the release, and it is listed alongside the other results of its earlier round of the campaign.

The correct answer is 36 schemes of 11 ministries and departments, working along with state schemes and participation from the private sector.

The Minister said start-ups are not confined to Bengaluru or Hyderabad and that more than 50 per cent of them come from smaller towns, a figure he used while asking for prevailing myths about entrepreneurship to be dispelled.

The joint statement sets out a straight exchange of support: India will contest a non-permanent seat on the Security Council for the 2028-29 term, and Belgium for the 2037-2038 term, with each backing the other.

The release is headed with the name of this expedition and records that INS Sudarshini continues her voyage as part of it.

The correct answer is Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agarwal, who signed for the Government of India.

That charge was not part of the grounds cited when the Ministry of Home Affairs declared the network a terrorist organisation, which is what makes it the odd one out in this list.

The announcement was made at the World Ozone Day function in Mumbai, where 12 refrigeration and air-conditioning manufacturers agreed to adopt that many Industrial Training Institutes.

The ministry set out the record on PM10 for the year 2025-26 against the base of the financial year 2017-18 in four steps, and every one of those steps appears among the options here, which is what makes the question worth practising.

The Vice-President offered these three ideas as the philosophy behind the programme while urging countries of the Global South to respond together to challenges that cut across technology, cyberspace, artificial intelligence, energy and maritime security, climate change and supply chains.

India cited this supply, along with medical assistance to more than 150 countries, as proof of the principle of One Earth, One Health and of its commitment to the Global South.