Topics Highlight for Today’s Current Affairs Quiz – 24/07/2026

24 July Special: Income Tax Day (Aayakar Diwas) — Commemorating July 24, 1860, when Sir James Wilson introduced income tax in India to meet financial losses from the 1857 mutiny.

Uttar Pradesh Exclusives: Khurja ODOP (Ceramic City, Bulandshahr), Naimisharanya Tirth Vikas Parishad (Sitapur religious tourism), Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway NE-6 (UP’s first 3D Automated Machine Guidance AMG construction), Sarsai Nawar Jheel (Etawah Ramsar site & Sarus Crane habitat), UP State Institute of Forensic Sciences (UPSIFS) (Lucknow), Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary (UP’s largest sanctuary by area along the Ganga), Kanhar Irrigation Project (Sonbhadra tribal drought relief), Mukhyamantri Yuva Swarozgar Yojana (Rs 25L/10L loan subsidies), and the Ghatampur Supercritical Thermal Power Project (Kanpur Nagar NUPPL joint venture).

National & International: PM e-DRIVE Scheme (Replaces FAME-II, Ministry of Heavy Industries), Axiom-4 (Ax-4) Mission (ISRO Gaganyan astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla to ISS), Genome India Project (DBT sequencing 10,000 genomes), Domestic Systemically Important Insurers (D-SIIs) by IRDAI (LIC, GIC Re, New India Assurance), Stockholm Convention (Persistent Organic Pollutants POPs / Dirty Dozen), Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) (Conceived by Indian Navy in 2008), Gram Nyayalayas Act 2008 (Nyayadhikari judicial appointment), Exercise Al-Nagah (India-Oman), International Energy Agency (IEA) (Paris HQ, India as Association country), and the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) (Chaired by the Prime Minister).