Daily Current Affairs Quiz- 19/09/2026: Topics Covered

19 September Special Context: UN Day for South-South Cooperation (Tracing back to the 1978 Buenos Aires Plan of Action).

Uttar Pradesh Exclusives: Firozabad ODOP (Glass Bangles/Suhag Nagari), Jaunpur’s History (Founded by Feroz Shah Tughlaq/Shiraz-i-Hind), Okhla Bird Sanctuary (Gautam Buddha Nagar), UP’s first Veda Van Park in Noida, and the Major Dhyan Chand Sports University in Meerut.

UPSC Polity: Article 148 (Audit jurisdiction of the CAG over both Centre and States) and the S.R. Bommai Case (Restricting the misuse of Article 356/President’s Rule).

Economy: The Inverted Duty Structure (Tax on raw materials exceeding finished goods) and the RBI’s Account Aggregator (AA) framework.

Environment: The Montreux Record (Ramsar sub-register for ecologically threatened wetlands) and Project Elephant (MIKE Program launched in 1992).

Science & Tech: The Aditya-L1 Halo Orbit around Lagrange Point 1, the H5N1 Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) outbreak, and the passing of Peter Higgs (The ‘God Particle’).

Defence & IR: The indigenous Astra Missile (BVRAAM), the G20 Troika (India, Brazil, South Africa marking a Global South sweep), and UNCLOS Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) limits (200 nm).

Sports & Awards: Carlos Alcaraz defending his Wimbledon title against Djokovic, and Jon Fosse winning the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Government Schemes: PM POSHAN (The revamped Mid-Day Meal Scheme).