Daily Current Affairs Quiz- 22/08/2026: Topics Covered

22 August History Special: Madras Day (Commemorating the founding of Chennai on August 22, 1639, via land purchase from the Nayaks of Chandragiri).

Uttar Pradesh Exclusives: Banda ODOP (Shazar Patthar / Agate Stone), Nawab Wajid Ali Shah Zoological Garden (Lucknow), PM MITRA Park (Lucknow-Hardoi border), Chambal-Yamuna Confluence (Pachnada, Etawah), Birbal’s Birthplace (Kalpi, Jalaun), and Lakhimpur Kheri ODOP (Tribal Craft by Tharu Women).

National & International (UPSC/UPPSC Mixed): Article 13 (Judicial Review foundation), NIIF (India’s Sovereign Wealth Fund), Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (International Carbon Markets), AfCFTA Secretariat (Accra, Ghana), Euclid Space Telescope (European Space Agency), Somatic vs Germline Mutations (Inheritance characteristics), Exercise Ekuverin (India-Maldives), Palk Strait Geography (Connecting Bay of Bengal to the Gulf of Mannar), I2U2 Grouping (India, Israel, UAE, USA), Article 102 (Parliament’s power to exempt Offices of Profit), Kalesar National Park (Haryana Tiger sighting), Incremental Cash Reserve Ratio (I-CRR) (Macroeconomic liquidity tool), and the definition of Quantum Supremacy in computing.