Daily Current Affairs Quiz- 23/08/2026: Topics Covered

23 August Special: National Space Day (commemorating the Chandrayaan-3 landing at Shiv Shakti Point) and the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (UNESCO marking the 1791 Haiti uprising).

Uttar Pradesh Exclusives: Gorakhpur ODOP (Terracotta), Muzaffarnagar ODOP (Jaggery/Gur), Bakhira Wildlife Sanctuary (Ramsar site in Sant Kabir Nagar), Vindhya Corridor (Mirzapur), the ancient Bhitargaon Temple (Kanpur’s Gupta-era brick temple), and the Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research (IISR) (Lucknow).

National & International (UPSC/UPPSC Mixed): Article 262 (Inter-state water disputes), the Phillips Curve (Inflation vs Unemployment), CAR T-cell Therapy (Blood cancer treatment), Exercise Dharma Guardian (India-Japan), African Union Headquarters (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), the Strait of Magellan (Atlantic to Pacific passage), the Nagoya Protocol (Access and Benefit-sharing), Article 323A (Administrative Tribunals), NASA’s Psyche Mission (Metal-rich asteroid exploration), the Lender of Last Resort function (RBI), the Lucknow Pact of 1916 (Ambica Charan Mazumdar), and the MTCR (Missile Technology Control Regime).