Daily Current Affairs Quiz- 20/09/2026: Topics Covered

UP Specific (ODOP, GI, Infra, Culture): Kannauj ODOP (Perfume/Attar), Siddharthnagar (Kalanamak Rice GI Tag), India’s first Night Safari in Kukrail Forest (Lucknow), and the Hindustani classical Kirana Gharana originating from Shamli.

UPSC Polity: Article 243G (Panchayat powers involving 29 items in the 11th Schedule) and the constitutional basis of a Curative Petition (derived from Article 137).

UPSC Economy: The paradoxical Veblen Good (Conspicuous consumption driving demand up alongside price) and the Keynesian Liquidity Trap.

Environment: The Nagoya Protocol (Fair and equitable sharing of genetic resources) and Tamil Nadu’s pioneering Project Nilgiri Tahr.

Science & Tech: ISRO’s SPADEX (Space Docking Experiment) and the underlying quantum mechanics securing Quantum Key Distribution (QKD).

Defence & IR: Exercise SHAKTI (India-France), the Tata-Airbus C-295 private manufacturing facility in Vadodara, India hosting the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), and the historic Operation Ajay (evacuating Indians from Israel).

Sports, Awards & People: The historic Indian victory at the Thomas Cup (Badminton), fusion band ‘Shakti’ (Zakir Hussain & Shankar Mahadevan) winning the 2024 Grammy Award, and the appointment of B.V.R. Subrahmanyam as NITI Aayog CEO.

Government Schemes: PM-KUSUM (Aiming to de-dieselize the farm sector by subsidizing solar agricultural pumps).