UPSC CAPF Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 12–18 October 2026

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.

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.

BHASHINI, which serves as India's Language Digital Public Infrastructure, has had its language technologies built into that many government platforms, and these include more than 800 government websites, so option D names only the websites and not the full count of platforms.

The portal address itself carries the clue, since it sits on the ministry’s own domain.

The first edition brought together thirty-three Ambassadors and senior embassy officials who between them represented twenty-nine nations, most of them in the Global South.

The volumes released at the meeting deal with biodiversity and its conservation practices in the Bhagirathi Eco-sensitive Zone, with the Gangotri Glaciated System, with e-PBR governance for the Indian Himalayan Region, and with the Ramsar wetlands of the Indian Himalayan Region.

The camp at Jagdalpur ran from 5 to 7 October 2026 and benefited that many persons with disabilities, and more than 1,570 of the beneficiaries were from Bastar alone, a figure the Home Minister described as a measure of what the district has endured.

The Committee has been asked to enquire into every aspect of the incidents relating to violence at Jantar Mantar in Delhi, and also at places outside Delhi, during July 2026.

The intelligence that set off the operation said the narcotics had been brought to a coastal location in Nagapattinam for storage and onward smuggling, and the handover was to take place at sea rather than at any port.

That session treated air power as an instrument of national power and covered deterrence, coercion, escalation control and human capital development.

The National Centre for Good Governance works under this department and organises the Capacity Building Programme on Urban Service Delivery for Civil Servants of Multiple Countries, held at Mussoorie from 12 to 23 October 2026.

The portal is fully operational and open for public access, stakeholder submissions and data interaction, which is why options A, B and D, each of which narrows the list, are wrong.

Ecofix is a steel slag-based mix developed for quick repair of road surfaces and was shown working at the CSIR-Central Road Research Institute, where the delegation also saw a driving simulator, a cyclic load test facility, a steel slag laboratory, a three-dimensional model of bio-binder technology and drone models.

The minister told the meeting that there has been a concerted focus on a policy framework which holds ecological security together with sustainable socio-economic growth in the Indian Himalayan Region by that year, which is the hundredth year of independence and the horizon the government uses for its long-term goals.

The Home Minister said more than 500 security camps were established in the region and that over 200 of them will be turned into these service centres, so that officials of the Central and Chhattisgarh governments will now sit where security personnel once sat to protect the people, laying the…

Nothing of that kind falls within the reference to this Committee, which is confined to the incidents of violence under enquiry.

Crystal methamphetamine is a banned synthetic drug, and both the seizure of the consignment and the arrest of the four accused were made under the provisions of that statute; all four were remanded to judicial custody.

The pairing was deliberate: one laboratory showcased sustainable infrastructure and the other healthcare and genomics, the two themes the programme wished to place before Global South partners.

Along with that total the Home Minister listed the rehabilitation work that followed: bank accounts were opened for 7,328 surrendered Naxalites who had none, 1,620 people received reward money, 7,882 got incentives, 455 were given jobs and 129 were allotted land.