Daily Current Affairs Quiz- 26/08/2026: Topics Covered

26 August Special: Mother Teresa’s Birth Anniversary (born in Skopje, North Macedonia in 1910).

Uttar Pradesh Exclusives: Bahraich ODOP (Wheat Stalk Handicrafts / Gehu Duthal), Patna Bird Sanctuary (UP’s smallest sanctuary in Etah), Mukhyamantri Bal Seva Yojana (Rs 4,000 monthly aid for COVID-19 orphans), India’s First Mega Leather Park (Ramaipur, Kanpur), Shringverpur (Ramayana-linked archaeological site in Prayagraj), and the Sahariya Tribe (concentrated exclusively in Lalitpur).

National & International (UPSC/UPPSC Mixed): Pluto’s Demotion Anniversary (August 24, 2006, failing the “clearing the neighborhood” criterion), Anti-Defection Law (91st Amendment requiring 2/3rd members for a valid merger), Okun’s Law (Inverse relationship between GDP and unemployment), MARPOL Convention (Preventing marine pollution from ships), Xenotransplantation (Cross-species organ transplants), Exercise SAMPRITI (India-Bangladesh), Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) (The Hague), Bering Strait (Separating Russia and USA), Article 249 (Rajya Sabha authorizing Parliament to legislate on the State List), Sarsai Nawar Jheel (Etawah Ramsar site), Bilateral Currency Swaps (Forex liquidity mechanism), NASA’s DART Mission (Kinetic impactor asteroid defense), the Living Planet Report (WWF), and the Group of 77 (G-77) (Collective economic interests of developing nations).