UPSC Current Affairs Quiz: 19 October 2026

The four notified coldwater fisheries clusters are Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand, Kullu in Himachal Pradesh, Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir, and Kargil in Ladakh.

Surveys have marked 320 pumped storage sites in India whose capacities add up to that figure, spread over all five regions of the country and at every stage of development, including schemes already running.

India will host the 61st CIML Meeting from 26 to 28 October 2026, the first time the country has been given this meeting, and the Department of Consumer Affairs is organising it with the International Organization of Legal Metrology.

Under the agreement every one of the Ministry's premier research institutes has been recognised as an AcSIR Associated Research Institute, and all of them are already taking part in the academy's current PhD enrolment cycle.

It ran the online quiz with MyGov from 1 September to 10 October 2026 in the run-up to its own Foundation Day, and announced the ten winners on 19 October 2026.

She won the gold medal in the women's 10m air rifle standing SH1 event at the Asian Para Games 2026, and the outstanding score she shot also set a new Asian Para Games record in that event.

Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan formally launched this revamped portal on the Navami day of Navratri, so that scheme information, financial assistance and farming advice reach farmers directly on their mobile phones instead of through visits to offices or through intermediaries.

Under the first pillar of the Swachhata Hi Seva 2026 campaign, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and its organisations transformed 9,845 cleanliness target units, and 99,548 people took part in that effort.

Trout production in India has risen six-fold over the past decade and now stands at nearly 5,000 MT a year, built on the raceways, hatcheries and feed systems sanctioned in the hilly states under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana.

The Central Electricity Authority credits that lead to the landform of the region and the steep gradients of rivers that rise in the Western Ghats, which give engineers the height difference a pumped storage scheme needs.

The OIML was founded in that year as an intergovernmental organisation whose purpose is to bring legal metrology procedures in different countries into line with one another.

The Memorandum of Understanding itself had been executed earlier, on 21 August 2026, so the ceremony was the formal declaration and exchange of documents rather than the signing.

That is the number of entries actually submitted, and they came from every State and Union Territory of the country.

Avani Lekhara shot an impressive score in the women's 10m air rifle standing SH1 final at the Asian Para Games 2026 and finished second, which gave her the silver medal.

The DBIM and GIGW standards, in their 3.0 versions, are the government’s norms for the look, the security and the accessibility of official websites, and the new portal has been built to follow them.

The ministry, its central public sector enterprises and its attached offices took part in the campaign across this fortnight, which began with a pledge-taking ceremony administered by the Secretary (Petroleum and Natural Gas) at Kartavya Bhawan-3 in New Delhi on the opening day and closed on Swachh Bharat Diwas.

Uttarakhand recorded its first international export of trout in June 2026, when a consignment went to Nepal, and ICAR-DCFR Bhimtal was credited both for introducing rainbow trout at Munsiyari and for supporting this historic shipment.

As solar and wind capacity grows, electricity has to be stored when generation runs ahead of demand and returned when it falls short, so the Central Electricity Authority projects a storage requirement of that size by 2031-32.

That seminar is set for 26 October 2026 and will bring experts from different countries together to trade experience and good practice on modernising legal metrology systems.

A student selected under the academy's PhD programme carries out the research at a Ministry of Earth Sciences institute under the supervision of Ministry scientists who have been recognised as AcSIR faculty, but the degree itself is awarded by the academy, and the certificate explicitly names the host institute.

The quiz sought to engage participants in learning about human rights, about that Act and about the functions, powers and duties of the National Human Rights Commission in promoting and protecting human rights across the country.

Mona Agarwal’s score in the women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 event was high enough to establish a fresh Asian Para Games mark in that event, and the record came along with the gold medal on India’s opening day at the Games.

The minister said a dedicated training drive would be run through the Krishi Vigyan Kendras across the country so that farmers become skilled in using the portal and other digital tools, and he asked that the language and the process be kept simple enough for small and marginal farmers with…

Recognising the contribution of sanitation workers, the ministry's organisations conducted 234 Safai Mitra Suraksha Evam Samman Shivir, and 7,098 sanitation workers took part in these camps.

That is the investment made in the hilly states under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana to strengthen raceways, hatcheries, feed systems, cold storages and post-harvest infrastructure for coldwater fisheries.