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The current affairs for 29 September 2026 cover 30 stories and 101 practice questions. The edition covers Reports & Indices, Environment, Awards & Honours, National, Government Schemes, Defence, Economy, Sports, Science & Technology, International, Summits & Conferences. Every fact is drawn from an official government release, and each article cites the release it came from. Candidates preparing for SSC, Banking, UPSC, Railway and State exams can use the one-liners below for a quick revision of the day.
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Colour vision in human eyes is the function of photoreceptor cells named
Cones are the photoreceptor cells of the retina that respond to colour in bright light. The human retina carries two kinds of photoreceptors.
Read the full explanation →Water boils at a lower temperature at high altitudes, because
A liquid boils when its vapour pressure equals the pressure of the air pressing on its surface, so lower air pressure means a lower boiling point.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following groups is called 'amphibians of plant kingdom'?
Bryophytes live on land but still need water to complete reproduction, so they are called the amphibians of the plant kingdom.
Read the full explanation →Neutrons were discovered by
Chadwick discovered the neutron in 1932 and won the Nobel Prize in Physics for it in 1935. He bombarded beryllium with alpha particles and found that the radiation given off was not affected by electric or magnetic fields, yet could knock protons out of paraffin.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following continents accounts for the maximum share in exports from India?
Asia takes the largest share of India’s exports, close to half of the total, far ahead of any other continent.
Read the full explanation →The temperature at which solid melts to become a liquid at the atmospheric pressure is called its melting point. The melting point of a solid is an indication of
Melting means breaking the particles free of the forces holding them in a fixed lattice, so a higher melting point means stronger forces of attraction.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is the chemical name for baking soda?
Baking soda is sodium hydrogen carbonate, NaHCO3, a mild base made by the Solvay process from brine, ammonia and carbon dioxide.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following had organised, in 1904, a secret society of revolutionaries named Abhinav Bharat?
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar founded Abhinav Bharat at Nashik in 1904, together with his brother Ganesh. It grew out of an earlier group called Mitra Mela and took its name from Mazzini’s Young Italy, whose biography Savarkar translated into Marathi.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following statements about the Ilbert Bill is correct?
The Ilbert Bill of 1883 sought to remove the rule that European British subjects could be tried only by European judges.
Read the full explanation →The genetic material of bacteria is found in
Bacteria are prokaryotes, so their DNA lies free in the cytoplasm instead of being packed inside a nucleus. The single circular chromosome sits in a region of the cytoplasm called the nucleoid, which has no nuclear membrane around it.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following statements about the Suez Canal is not correct?
It is a sea level canal: the Mediterranean and the Red Sea stand at almost the same height, so ships sail straight through without being raised or lowered.
Read the full explanation →Of the following, which does not belong to a nuclear reactor?
A nuclear reactor splits heavy atoms; it burns no fuel, so it releases no carbon dioxide and needs no equipment to cut such emissions.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following optical phenomena supports that the light is a transverse wave?
Only a transverse wave can be polarised, so the polarisation of light proves that its vibrations are at right angles to the direction of travel.
Read the full explanation →The Constituent Assembly was recognised by Section ______ of the Indian Independence Act, 1947.
Section 8(1) of the Indian Independence Act, 1947 gave the Constituent Assembly of each new Dominion the powers of its legislature.
Read the full explanation →Hot local wind that flows over north India in summer is known as:
The Loo is the hot, dry, dusty wind that blows over the plains of north India in summer.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following composers won the Grammy in 2015 for his album 'Winds of Samsara' – a collaboration with South African flautist Wouter Kellerman?
Ricky Kej won the Grammy for Best New Age Album at the 57th Grammy Awards in 2015 for Winds of Samsara, made with the South African flautist Wouter Kellerman.
Read the full explanation →Kolathunadu, Valluvanad and Thekkumkoor were ancient small-time kingdoms in which state of India?
Kolathunadu, Valluvanad and Thekkumkoor were small medieval kingdoms, or swaroopams, of Kerala.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following revolts was led by Kanhu and Sidhu?
The Santhal rebellion, called the Hool, was led by the brothers Sidhu and Kanhu Murmu.
Read the full explanation →After the death of Shri Guru Gobind Singh, the Sikhs revolted against the _______ under the leadership of Banda Bahadur.
After Guru Gobind Singh died at Nanded in 1708, Banda Singh Bahadur led the Sikhs in revolt against Mughal rule in Punjab.
Read the full explanation →Choose the CORRECT statements about the Kaleshwaram Irrigation Project.
1. This project was inaugurated recently in Telangana. 2. It is the world's largest multi-stage, multi-purpose lift irrigation. 3. It is being built across the Krishna River.
Which of the statements given above is/are CORRECT?
Statement 3 is wrong because the Kaleshwaram project is built on the Godavari, not the Krishna. The scheme takes its name from Kaleshwaram in Telangana, near the point where the Pranhita joins the Godavari, and it was inaugurated in June 2019, which makes statement 1 correct.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following places is famous for a copper mine?
Khetri, in the Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, is famous for its copper mines. The Khetri belt runs along the Aravalli range, and its ore is mined and processed by Hindustan Copper Limited, which set up the Khetri Copper Complex there.
Read the full explanation →Who founded the Tattvabodhini Sabha that was set up to explore spiritual truth?
Debendranath Tagore founded the Tattvabodhini Sabha in Calcutta in 1839 to study the Upanishads and Vedanta and to spread the rational religion that Rammohun Roy had preached.
Read the full explanation →Match the industrial plant with its location.
Name of Industrial Plant: 1. BALCO, 2. IISCO, 3. NFL, 4. ICF
Related Location: A) Burnpur, B) Chennai, C) Korba, D) Bhatinda
BALCO, the Bharat Aluminium Company, has its smelter at Korba in Chhattisgarh, where cheap thermal power and nearby bauxite made aluminium smelting possible.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following was the President of the Indian National Congress during the 1915 session?
The 1915 session of the Indian National Congress, held at Bombay, was presided over by Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, later Lord Sinha of Raipur.
Read the full explanation →Indian Mughal paintings flourished during the rule of which Mughal Emperor?
Mughal painting reached its peak under Jahangir, who ruled from 1605 to 1627.
Read the full explanation →The Comptroller and Auditor General of India is a ____________.
Article 148 of the Constitution provides for one Comptroller and Auditor General of India, so the office is held by a single person and not by a panel.
Read the full explanation →According to census 2011, the child sex ratio was ______ females per 1000 males.
The final figures of Census 2011 put the child sex ratio, counted for the age group 0 to 6 years, at 919 females per 1000 males.
Read the full explanation →In what form is the energy derived from the food that we eat is stored in our body?
The carbohydrates in our food are broken down into glucose, and the glucose that the body does not need at once is stored as glycogen, a branched chain of glucose units kept mainly in the liver and the skeletal muscles.
Read the full explanation →Acidic nature of soil is shown by high concentration of ______.
Soil acidity is measured on the pH scale, and pH depends on the concentration of hydrogen ions in the soil water.
Read the full explanation →The unit of sound is
The loudness or intensity level of sound is measured in decibels (dB), a unit named after Alexander Graham Bell.
Read the full explanation →Among the symbols associated with occasions related to Buddha, the 'Stupa' symbolizes:
In early Buddhist art the Buddha was never shown in human form, so the events of his life were carved as symbols, and the stupa stands for his mahaparinirvana, that is his death at Kushinagar.
Read the full explanation →To take the longest possible jump, an athlete should make an angle of _____
Once the athlete's feet leave the ground they move as a projectile, and the horizontal distance covered, called the range, is given by R equal to u squared into sin 2 theta divided by g. The range is largest when sin 2 theta has its greatest value of one, which…
Read the full explanation →This author/writer now writes in Italian instead of English?
Jhumpa Lahiri, born in London to Bengali parents and brought up in the United States, moved to Rome and began writing in Italian rather than in English.
Read the full explanation →Which is not an official language of Jammu and Kashmir?
The Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Act, 2020 gives the union territory five official languages: Kashmiri, Dogri, Urdu, Hindi and English.
Read the full explanation →The magnetic effect of current was discovered by
In 1820 the Danish scientist Hans Christian Oersted saw that a compass needle kept near a wire swung aside the moment a current flowed through the wire, and swung the other way when the current was reversed.
Read the full explanation →In which case(s) did the Supreme Court of India give for the first time the doctrine of 'basic structure' of the Constitution?
In this case of 1973 a bench of thirteen judges, the largest the Supreme Court has ever assembled, held by seven votes to six that Parliament may amend any part of the Constitution but may not damage or destroy its basic structure.
Read the full explanation →In C.G.S unit, dynamic viscosity is expressed as:
Dynamic viscosity measures how strongly a fluid resists flowing, and in the centimetre gram second system it is measured in poise, a unit named after the French physician Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille, who studied the flow of blood in narrow tubes.
Read the full explanation →The linear momentum of a system of rigid bodies will be conserved, if
The law of conservation of linear momentum follows straight from Newton's second law: the rate of change of the momentum of a system equals the net external force acting on it, so when that force is zero the total momentum stays the same in size and in direction.
Read the full explanation →The main tribe found in Tamil Nadu is
The Irula, also written Irular, are one of the main tribal communities of Tamil Nadu and live mostly in the Nilgiri hills and in the districts along the border with Kerala.
Read the full explanation →At present the foreign direct investment limit for railway infrastructure is _______.
India allows foreign direct investment of up to 100 per cent through the automatic route in railway infrastructure.
Read the full explanation →If a wire is placed parallel to the lines of force in a magnetic field and a current flows in the wire, then
The force on a current carrying conductor kept in a magnetic field is given by F equal to B I L sin theta, where theta is the angle between the direction of the current and the direction of the field.
Read the full explanation →A cylinder of mass m rolls down an inclined plane from a height h above a horizontal level. If the velocity of the axis of the cylinder is v when it reaches the lower level, then
A body that slides down a smooth slope turns all of its potential energy mgh into translational kinetic energy and reaches the bottom with a speed equal to the square root of 2gh.
Read the full explanation →In which of the following processes is oxygen released into the air?
Green plants give out oxygen only during photosynthesis, the process in which they use light energy to make their own food.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following methods prevents or reduces wind erosion of soil in open areas?
A line of trees or tall shrubs works as a windbreak: it slows the wind close to the ground so the moving air can no longer lift loose soil.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was added to the list of official languages of India in 1967?
Sindhi was added to the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution by the 21st Constitutional Amendment Act of 1967. The Eighth Schedule is the list of languages the Constitution recognises, and a candidate may take the civil services examination in any of them.
Read the full explanation →As of April 2022, how much FDI is permitted in railways under automatic route in construction, operation, and maintenance of Rail Infrastructure projects?
India allows 100 per cent foreign direct investment through the automatic route in the construction, operation and maintenance of rail infrastructure projects.
Read the full explanation →A plant that does NOT grow through vegetative propagation is ________.
Papaya is raised from seed, so it is not multiplied by vegetative propagation the way the other three plants are.
Read the full explanation →The capillaries of collenchyma tissue become thick due to the deposit of _____.
Collenchyma cells lay down extra cellulose and pectin at the corners of their walls, which makes the tissue strong and yet flexible.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following can be produced by regeneration and budding?
Hydra is the one animal in the list that reproduces both by budding and by regeneration. In budding, a bulge grows out from the body wall of the parent Hydra, develops a mouth and tentacles, and then breaks off as a small independent Hydra.
Read the full explanation →Kolar Gold Field is located in-
The Kolar Gold Fields lie in the Kolar district of Karnataka, on the Dharwar rocks of the peninsular plateau. Kolar was for a long time India's main source of gold and one of the deepest mines in the world, going down about three kilometres.
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