Daily Current Affairs Quiz- 18/08/2026: Topics Covered

18 August Special: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit’s Birth Anniversary (First female President of the UNGA in 1953) and the Discovery of Helium (Observed as a Noble Gas during an eclipse in Guntur, India on August 18, 1868).

Uttar Pradesh Exclusives: Gonda ODOP (Food Processing – Pulses), Jaunpur’s Geography (Founded by Feroz Shah Tughlaq on the Gomti River), Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary (Renamed Chandra Shekhar Azad Sanctuary in Unnao), Mukhyamantri Yuva Swarozgar Yojana (Rs 25 Lakh industry cap), Kailash Fair (Agra’s monsoon Shiva festival), and the ancient PGW site of Atranjikhera (Etah).

National & International (UPSC/UPPSC Mixed): Right to Privacy (K.S. Puttaswamy judgment under Article 21), Giffen Goods (Microeconomics), 30×30 Target (Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework at COP15), Exercise Malabar (QUAD nations), ITLOS Seat (Hamburg, Germany), James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) (Infrared spectrum), the Kra Canal (Bypassing Strait of Malacca via the Andaman Sea), Zonal Councils (States Reorganisation Act, 1956), Incremental Capital Output Ratio (ICOR) (Investment efficiency), the Five Eyes (FVEY) intelligence alliance, Radhanagar Blue Flag Beach (Andaman & Nicobar), and Kala-azar (Protozoan parasite NTD targeted by WHO).