Daily Current Affairs Quiz- 07/10/2026: Topics Covered

07 October Context: World Cotton Day (Initiated by the “Cotton Four” or C-4 African nations: Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali).

Uttar Pradesh Exclusives: Gorakhpur ODOP (Terracotta), the Bakhira Bird Sanctuary (Ramsar site in Sant Kabir Nagar), the UP Defence Industrial Corridor (identifying Varanasi as not being one of the 6 nodes), and the historical Kalinjar Fort in Banda.

Polity: Article 108 (Joint Sitting of Parliament presided over by the Lok Sabha Speaker) and the 103rd Amendment Act (10% EWS Reservation).

UPSC Economy: The Middle Income Trap (World Bank concept detailing economic stagnation) and the strict definition of Call Money (interbank borrowing for precisely 1 day).

UPSC Environment: The Kigali Amendment (phasing down highly potent HFCs) and the WWF’s biennial Living Planet Report.

Science & Tech: The NISAR Mission (NASA-ISRO dual-frequency SAR for mapping Earth every 12 days) and India’s first Light Combat Helicopter Prachand.

Defence & IR: Exercise MALABAR (Quad navies), the Navy’s Project 75I (submarines with AIP technology), the OPEC Headquarters situated in non-member Austria, and the highly strategic Bosphorus Strait.

Sports, Awards & Govt Schemes: India winning Bronze against Spain in Paris 2024 Men’s Hockey, the Raman Magsaysay Award conferred by the Philippines, and the massive PM-JANMAN scheme exclusively targeting Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs).