Daily Current Affairs Quiz- 21/10/2026: Topics Covered

21 October Context: Police Commemoration Day (Honoring the CRPF jawans martyred by Chinese troops at Hot Springs, Ladakh in 1959).

Uttar Pradesh Exclusives: Muzaffarnagar ODOP (Jaggery/Gud), the Samaspur Bird Sanctuary Ramsar site in Rae Bareli, National Waterway-1 terminating in Prayagraj, and the incredibly historic town of Bithoor (Kanpur) which served as Nana Saheb’s headquarters.

UPSC Polity: The 92nd Amendment Act (Adding Bodo, Dogri, Maithili, and Santhali to the 8th Schedule) and Article 356 (President’s Rule / State Emergency).

Economy & Banking: The devastating economic paradox of Stagflation (high inflation, high unemployment, stagnant growth) and the RBI’s MCLR (Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate).

Environment: The UNCCD (the sole legally binding framework addressing desertification) and the historic signing of the Ramsar Convention in Iran (1971).

Science & Tech: NASA’s Lucy Mission exploring Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, and the fundamental concept of Qubits (Quantum Bits) functioning via superposition.

Defence & IR: Exercise GARUDA SHAKTI (India-Indonesia Special Forces), the LCA Tejas developed by ADA/HAL, identifying China as explicitly NOT a G7 Member, and the heavily militarized 38th Parallel dividing North and South Korea.

Sports, Awards & Govt Schemes: New Zealand’s historic maiden victory at the 2024 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, the posthumous 2024 Bharat Ratna to Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, and the massive women’s empowerment initiative, Lakhpati Didi.