Daily Current Affairs Quiz- 01/10/2026: Topics Covered

1 October Context: International Day of Older Persons (established by the UN General Assembly in 1990).

Uttar Pradesh Exclusives: Moradabad ODOP (Metal Craft/Brassware – Pital Nagari), the Sarsai Nawar Jheel Ramsar site in Etawah protecting the Sarus Crane, the premier Indian Institute of Pulses Research (IIPR) located in Kanpur, and the stunning architecture of the Bara Imambara in Lucknow.

Polity: Article 143 (Advisory Jurisdiction allowing the President to seek the Supreme Court’s opinion) and Article 312 (The exclusive power of the Rajya Sabha to authorize the creation of new All-India Services).

Economy: The Pigouvian Tax (taxing negative externalities like carbon pollution) and MCLR (Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate introduced by the RBI).

UPSC Environment: Agenda 21 (Adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio) and the global headquarters of the IUCN in Gland, Switzerland.

Science & Tech: NASA’s Voyager 1 becoming the first human-made object to cross the heliopause into interstellar space, and the defining property of a Qubit (superposition) in quantum computing.

UPSC Defence & IR: The LCA Tejas designed by ADA, BrahMos missile (portmanteau of Brahmaputra and Moskva rivers), the G7 bloc explicitly excluding China, and the highly strategic Suez Canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas.

Sports & Awards: The historic 48-team 2026 FIFA World Cup (co-hosted by USA, Canada, and Mexico), and Badminton duo Chirag & Satwik winning the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna 2023.

Government Schemes: The ABHA Card under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (generating a 14-digit unique health identifier).