UPSC CAPF Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 19–25 October 2026

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.

A passenger who arrived there from Delhi was intercepted, his baggage was examined and 5.166 kg of amphetamine was recovered, which is the biggest single haul among the three cases.

After the gold reached India it was handed over to handlers outside the airports, routed through intermediaries and taken to an illegal melting facility in that city; the melted metal was then supplied to a jewellery shop in Ahmedabad and sold against cash.

The National Police Memorial at Chanakyapuri in New Delhi was dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Police Commemoration Day that year, in recognition of the sacrifices of police personnel and their role in preserving national security and integrity.

The effigy burnt by Amit Shah at Ludhiana on 20 October 2026 was described as the symbolic Ravana of chitta, which let the festival’s central idea, the victory of good over evil, carry a message about the drug trade in Punjab.

The forum opens there on 26 October 2026 and closes on 27 October.

In such pairs the companion is a massive star that sheds a strong wind, and the pulsar ordinarily feeds on that wind as it passes, so an orderly disk of matter is not expected.

Under the EPR framework the registered recyclers number that much, while the registered producers are far more numerous.

The announcement states that this directorate of the Ministry of Home Affairs, working in coordination with the Indian Army, is undertaking the pilot initiative to strengthen Civil Defence preparedness through specialised training of Master Trainers.

The teams moved on city hubs and border stretches in these three States: Aizawl and Champhai in Mizoram, the Indo-Myanmar border trading town of Zokhawthar, operative bases at Churachandpur in Manipur, and the Cachar transit corridor in Assam.

The passenger intercepted at Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi had arrived from Ghana, and a careful examination of his baggage produced six transparent packets of white powder weighing 3.134 kg together, which field tests confirmed to be cocaine.

The investigation found that the carriers drew the metal into thin wires and gave them a rhodium coating, which hides the colour of gold, and the same passengers also fitted gold into the inner linings of their trolley bags and carried gold paste inside the inner shells of those bags.

The Union Home Minister flags off a motorcycle rally on this theme at the National Police Memorial, with about 90 riders drawn from the police of Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, from the Central Armed Police Forces such as the CRPF…

The correct answer is that he asked people to report the drug trade on the Narcotics Control Bureau’s toll-free helpline, saying that the government would act on the information the public provided.

The four high-level sessions announced for the forum are Resilience, on the role of parliaments in strengthening institutions for a better future; Innovation, on promoting human-centred innovation in artificial intelligence and digital technologies through parliaments; Cooperation, on ensuring a more representative system of global governance through parliamentary cooperation; and Sustainability…

The team worked out that the structure responsible had to be rotating together with the pulsar, and the stream fits that description: as it swings between the pulsar and the observing satellite, the direct radiation from the pulsar weakens while the light re-emitted by the stream strengthens, producing the variation…

The minister raised it precisely to make the point that regulation on its own cannot build a circular economy, because the demand side depends on how individuals choose to consume, and LiFE asks for deliberate and mindful use of resources instead of destructive consumption.

Under the structured Master Trainer model, every Master Trainer who completes the Army course will go back and train 100 Civil Defence Volunteers in their own State or Union Territory.

The operation was presented as proof of India's resolve to wipe out every drug network by that date, the horizon fixed in the Vision Document on Narcotics Control, whose period runs from 2026 to 2029.

The correct answer is 25 October 2026, the day before the forum opens, when the Secretaries of the delegations will meet to finalise the Joint Statement.