UPSC Civil Services Current Affairs Quiz: 14 September 2026

The Department of Official Language, which functions under the Ministry of Home Affairs, held the sixth edition of the All India Official Language Conference there together with the Hindi Diwas programme, and the sittings were spread over 14 and 15 September 2026.

This is the provisional year on year rate for August 2026 compared with August 2025, worked out on the Consumer Price Index whose base year is 2024 equals 100.

That is the provisional year on year wholesale inflation rate announced for August 2026 on the base year 2022-23, and the index for all commodities stood at 110.8 in the same month.

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 Vice Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, opened the first edition of Dronathon there, and the same range hosted the live demonstration of the indigenous traffic management system Vayu UTtaM on the opening day.

Exercise Samudra Laksamana is conducted between the Indian Navy and the Royal Malaysian Navy, and its fourth edition was held at Lumut in Malaysia from 9 to 12 September 2026 with INS Mysore taking part as part of an operational deployment.

Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav inaugurated the Soft Release Centre for the bird at the facility in Naliya, in the Kachchh district of Gujarat, and the centre carries infrastructure meant to support conservation, monitoring and the gradual adaptation of these birds to the natural environment.

The Home Minister told the conference that Hindi Shabd Sindhu has now grown to that size, and that it is expected to become the largest dictionary anywhere in the world by 2029.

In August 2026 villages saw prices rise faster than cities, and the release gives these two figures against a combined headline rate of 4.82 per cent.

The figure is far above every other group and had itself risen from 20.05 per cent in July 2026, which is why mineral oils containing petroleum products are listed first among the drivers of the month's wholesale inflation.

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

Vayu UTtaM is described as an indigenously developed multi mode system, and during its real time demonstration at the Pokhran range it detected and tracked both military and civil unmanned aircraft.

The ship was deployed as part of the Indian Navy's operational deployment and took part in the fourth edition of the exercise at Lumut in Malaysia.

The Minister flagged off that many new patrolling and rescue vehicles, and they are to be used across various divisions under the Kachchh Forest Circle for forest protection, forest development, wildlife protection, field patrolling, monitoring and quick response work.

It was placed first under Rajbhasha Kirti for the year 2025-26 in the category meant for ministries and departments having fewer than 300 employees, and the citation praised its effective use and innovative handling of official Hindi.

The correct answer is silver jewellery, which stood first among the key items with high inflation in August 2026.

The WPI Food Index is not a major group on its own; it is built by taking Food Articles out of the Primary Articles group and the manufacture of food products out of the Manufactured Products group, and putting them together.

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

The officer holding that post is Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, and he both opened the event and put out the roadmap, which is meant to give Indian industry a clearer view of the capability priorities of the Air Force.

In the harbour phase the personnel of the two navies held professional exchanges and interactions, which let them share experience and build mutual understanding.

The Sayara Van Kavach has been developed over a site of 9.46 square kilometres and holds more than 10,000 saplings across 47 native species chosen to suit the saline, low water conditions of Kachchh.