Daily Current Affairs Quiz- 17/08/2026: Topics Covered

17 August Special: Radcliffe Line (Commemorating August 17, 1947, when the boundary demarcation between India and Pakistan was formally revealed).

Uttar Pradesh Exclusives: UP Solar Energy Policy 2022 (Target of 22,000 MW by 2026-27), Farrukhabad ODOP (Block Printing and Textile Zari Crafts), Turtle Wildlife Sanctuary (Realignment to Prayagraj-Bhadohi-Mirzapur), Atala Masjid (Sharqi Architecture of Jaunpur), and Mathura ODOP (Sanitary Fittings alongside Peda).

National & International (UPSC/UPPSC Mixed): Supreme Court Collegium System (Third Judges Case 1998 under Article 143), Delimitation Commission (87th Amendment Act for 2001 Census base), Sovereign Green Bonds (Framework exclusions like nuclear & fossil fuels), Mundell-Fleming Trilemma (Impossible Trinity in Macroeconomics), OECM Sites (Aravalli Biodiversity Park), Global Methane Pledge (COP26 30% reduction target), ISRO-JAXA LUPEX Mission (Lunar Polar Exploration), Transformer Architecture (Self-Attention mechanism in Gen AI), Exercise Garuda (India-France Air Force), Rome Statute (Establishing the ICC), Strait of Gibraltar (Connecting Atlantic and Mediterranean), Cochin International Airport (CIAL) (World’s first 100% solar airport), Trimmed Mean Inflation (Macroeconomic core inflation metric), and Nusantara (Indonesia’s new capital in East Kalimantan, Borneo).