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September 2026 Current Affairs: Important Events, MCQs & PDF

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September 2026 current affairs for competitive exams, gathered in one place. Every story published this month is listed below by category and by date, and each links to its full article with key facts, the exam point of view and practice MCQs drawn from the official release. Every day of the month also has its own quiz. Candidates preparing for SSC, Banking, UPSC, Railway, Defence and State exams can use this page for a month-end revision.

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Top MCQs of September 2026

Q2.Summits & ConferencesMedium

In India's vision for the SCO, what do the letters S, C and O stand for?

  1. A.Stability, Commerce and Order
  2. B.Security, Connectivity and Opportunity
  3. C.Solidarity, Culture and Outreach
  4. D.Sovereignty, Cooperation and Openness
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Correct answer: B. Security, Connectivity and Opportunity

In his statement at Bishkek the Prime Minister recalled that at the previous summit he had set out three main pillars of India's thinking on the grouping, and that their initials spell the organisation's own short name: S for Security, C for Connectivity and O for Opportunity.

Q3.Summits & ConferencesMedium

Which SCO forum, proposed by India, will hold its first edition in India?

  1. A.SCO Start-up Forum
  2. B.SCO Young Scientists Forum
  3. C.SCO Civilisational Dialogue Forum
  4. D.SCO Young Authors Conclave
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Correct answer: C. SCO Civilisational Dialogue Forum

The Prime Minister said India would be glad to host the first edition of this forum later this year, and described it as an Indian flagship proposal meant to build civilisational exchanges among member states.

Q4.Summits & ConferencesHard

Consider the 26th SCO Summit. Which statement is correct?

  1. A.It marked the 15th anniversary of the SCO
  2. B.It adopted the Bishkek Declaration along with four MoUs
  3. C.It was chaired by Afghanistan
  4. D.It removed English from the SCO Charter
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Correct answer: B. It adopted the Bishkek Declaration along with four MoUs

Besides the declaration and the four memoranda, the meeting also adopted more than twenty decisions and statements in fields such as climate, nuclear safety, energy conservation and the fight against drug addiction.

Q7.EconomyMedium

Which expenditure component of real GDP recorded 11.9 per cent growth in the quarter?

  1. A.Private Final Consumption Expenditure
  2. B.Gross Fixed Capital Formation
  3. C.Government Final Consumption Expenditure
  4. D.Imports of goods and services
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Correct answer: B. Gross Fixed Capital Formation

It grew 11.9 per cent in the first quarter of 2026-27 against 5.8 per cent in the same quarter of the previous year, and that jump is the sharpest change among the expenditure components listed.

Q8.EconomyHard

Which statement about the revised national accounts estimates is correct?

  1. A.The new base year for price and production indices is 2022-23
  2. B.Growth for the three previous years was revised downwards
  3. C.The revision dropped the Output Producer Price Index
  4. D.Real GDP growth for 2025-26 was revised to 7.1 per cent
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Correct answer: A. The new base year for price and production indices is 2022-23

The annual revised estimates use new price and production indices on that base, including an Output Producer Price Index and a Banking Services Price Index, along with updated administrative data drawn from several sources.

Q9.DefenceEasy

Who became the first woman officer (non-medical) to attain a two-star rank in the Indian defence forces?

  1. A.Air Vice Marshal Shakti Sharma
  2. B.Air Marshal Sadhna Saxena Nair
  3. C.Surgeon Vice Admiral Arti Sarin
  4. D.Air Vice Marshal Padma Bandopadhyay
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Correct answer: A. Air Vice Marshal Shakti Sharma

The Ministry of Defence release says that she became the first woman officer outside the medical stream in the Indian defence forces to attain the rank of Air Vice Marshal or an equivalent rank, and that on 1 September 2026 she assumed the appointment of Assistant Chief of the Air…

Q10.DefenceMedium

Which appointment did Air Vice Marshal Shakti Sharma assume on 1 September 2026?

  1. A.Director General of Medical Services (Air)
  2. B.Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Education)
  3. C.Air Officer-in-Charge Maintenance
  4. D.Principal, Sainik School, Kapurthala
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Correct answer: B. Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Education)

She took it over on 1 September 2026, and it is with this appointment that she became the first woman officer outside the medical stream to hold a two-star rank in the Indian defence forces.

Q11.DefenceHard

At which institutions did she lead the setting up of Indian Air Force Chairs of Excellence?

  1. A.IIT Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University
  2. B.IIT Kanpur and Pune University
  3. C.IIT Madras and Osmania University
  4. D.IIT Bombay and Panjab University
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Correct answer: B. IIT Kanpur and Pune University

Among the institutional initiatives she led during her career, the release singles out the establishment of Indian Air Force Chairs of Excellence at these two places, created to carry forward academic work and strategic collaboration in the field of defence.

Q15.Banking & FinanceHard

Under which ministry is India Post Payments Bank set up?

  1. A.Ministry of Finance
  2. B.Ministry of Communications
  3. C.Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
  4. D.Ministry of Corporate Affairs
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Correct answer: B. Ministry of Communications

India Post Payments Bank has been established under the Department of Posts, which sits in that ministry, and the entire equity of the bank is owned by the Government of India.

Q21.NationalEasy

Kavach is best described as which kind of system?

  1. A.An indigenous Automatic Train Protection system
  2. B.A ticketing and reservation platform
  3. C.A satellite-based cargo tracking service
  4. D.A rolling stock maintenance depot
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Correct answer: A. An indigenous Automatic Train Protection system

The release sets out four things it does, and each of them is worth remembering separately because questions are framed on them.

Q23.NationalMedium

Which work was sanctioned at a cost of ₹233 crore?

  1. A.Kavach 4.0 in Moradabad Division
  2. B.Electronic Interlocking at 21 stations of Samastipur Division
  3. C.The Adra-Joychandipahar bypass line
  4. D.Bhavnagar Para yard remodelling
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Correct answer: B. Electronic Interlocking at 21 stations of Samastipur Division

The work replaces existing panel interlocking with Electronic Interlocking, which is computer-based signalling in place of ageing relay-based systems, giving higher reliability, quicker fault diagnosis, easier maintenance and greater operational flexibility, besides supporting the roll-out of Kavach.

Q25.EnvironmentMedium

Which ministry runs the Swachh Sagar, Surakshit Sagar campaign?

  1. A.Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
  2. B.Ministry of Earth Sciences
  3. C.Ministry of Jal Shakti
  4. D.Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
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Correct answer: B. Ministry of Earth Sciences

The campaign is spearheaded by that ministry, and the minister who launched it, Dr Jitendra Singh, holds Earth Sciences as Minister of State with Independent Charge.

Q27.EnvironmentHard

What is the length of India's coastline as quoted by the Minister at the launch?

  1. A.Over 7,500 km
  2. B.Over 9,000 km
  3. C.Over 11,000 km
  4. D.Over 15,000 km
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Correct answer: C. Over 11,000 km

In his video message the Minister said India has one of the longest stretches of coastal area in the world, spanning more than that distance and extending from the eastern to the western parts of the country, and he used the figure to explain why a week-long national drive is…

Q28.Science & TechnologyEasy

What is the corpus of the Research, Development and Innovation Fund?

  1. A.₹10,000 crore
  2. B.₹50,000 crore
  3. C.₹1 lakh crore
  4. D.₹2 lakh crore
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Correct answer: C. ₹1 lakh crore

The release refers throughout to the ₹1 lakh crore Research, Development and Innovation Fund, and it is the size of that corpus that makes the Minister's appeal for outreach necessary: thousands of applications are arriving, some from applicants who do not appear to understand what the fund is for.

Q29.Science & TechnologyMedium

Dr Jitendra Singh spoke about the RDI Fund at the Foundation Day of which body?

  1. A.Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
  2. B.Technology Development Board
  3. C.Department of Science and Technology
  4. D.Science and Engineering Research Board
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Correct answer: B. Technology Development Board

The board was created so that technologies would not remain confined to laboratories but would be translated into products, solutions and enterprises that bring ease of living, provide livelihoods and add to the economy of the country.

Q33.EconomyMedium

Under double deflation, which two items are deflated separately to arrive at real Gross Value Added?

  1. A.Output and intermediate consumption
  2. B.Exports and imports
  3. C.Wages and profits
  4. D.Government spending and private consumption
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Correct answer: A. Output and intermediate consumption

Double deflation is a production-side technique: gross output is deflated with one price index and intermediate consumption with another, and real Gross Value Added is what remains after subtracting the second from the first.

Q35.EconomyHard

Why did the mining and quarrying sector show real GVA growth of -2.4 per cent but nominal GVA growth of 22.3 per cent?

  1. A.Because mining output rose sharply in volume terms
  2. B.Because mineral prices, especially crude petroleum and natural gas, rose steeply
  3. C.Because the sector was moved out of the GDP series
  4. D.Because coal production was excluded from the estimates
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Correct answer: B. Because mineral prices, especially crude petroleum and natural gas, rose steeply

Constant-price estimates for mining are built from the Index of Industrial Production, which grew -3.8 per cent in April, -1.4 per cent in May and 1.6 per cent in June, broadly matching real GVA growth of -2.4 per cent.

Q39.EconomyMedium

Which reform did JCR credit with strengthening the asset quality of India's banking sector?

  1. A.The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code
  2. B.The Companies Act
  3. C.The Competition Act
  4. D.The Foreign Trade Policy
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Correct answer: A. The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

JCR pointed to three things behind the better asset quality of Indian banks: the establishment of this Code, the capital the Government infused into banks, and stronger supervision by the Reserve Bank of India.

Q40.Banking & FinanceMedium

How much had IFSC Banking Units at GIFT City sanctioned under the RBI's FCNR(B) swap facility as on 31 August 2026?

  1. A.USD 28.60 billion
  2. B.USD 37.26 billion
  3. C.USD 54.02 billion
  4. D.USD 62.40 billion
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Correct answer: C. USD 54.02 billion

That is the figure twenty IFSC Banking Units had sanctioned under the Reserve Bank's special swap facility for FCNR(B) deposits as on 31 August 2026, and about USD 52.82 billion of it had already been disbursed.

Q41.Banking & FinanceEasy

Under which law was the International Financial Services Centres Authority established?

  1. A.The SEBI Act, 1992
  2. B.The IFSCA Act, 2019
  3. C.The Banking Regulation Act, 1949
  4. D.The FEMA, 1999
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Correct answer: B. The IFSCA Act, 2019

The release describes IFSCA as the unified regulatory authority set up by the Government of India under an Act of Parliament for the development and regulation of financial products, financial services and financial institutions in India's International Financial Services Centres.

Q43.Banking & FinanceMedium

Who is the Chairperson of IFSCA, as named in the release?

  1. A.K. Rajaraman
  2. B.Shaktikanta Das
  3. C.Tuhin Kanta Pandey
  4. D.Mia Oka
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Correct answer: A. K. Rajaraman

He is quoted in the release saying that the rapid scale-up of banking activity at GIFT-IFSC shows the depth and growing international orientation of India's International Financial Services Centre, and that the centre is serving as an effective bridge between global pools of capital and India's financing needs.

Q49.Awards & HonoursMedium

Which of these is NOT a category of the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards?

  1. A.Land Adventure
  2. B.Water Adventure
  3. C.Air Adventure
  4. D.Polar Adventure
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Correct answer: D. Polar Adventure

The award has exactly four categories and that is not one of them. Three of the four are defined by where the feat takes place, namely Land Adventure, Water Adventure and Air Adventure, and the fourth is Lifetime Achievement, which recognises a career rather than a single exploit.

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