Daily Current Affairs Quiz- 27/10/2026: Topics Covered

27 October Context: Infantry Day (Commemorating the Sikh Regiment’s 1947 airlift into the Kashmir Valley).

Uttar Pradesh Exclusives: Amroha ODOP (Dholak/Wooden Drum), the Amangarh Tiger Reserve (Bijnor – a buffer to Jim Corbett), the 594-km Ganga Expressway (connecting Meerut to Prayagraj), and the historic Imambara Ghufran Ma’ab in Lucknow.

Polity: Article 136 (Supreme Court’s Special Leave to Appeal / SLP) and the 86th Amendment Act (Adding the 11th Fundamental Duty under Article 51A).

UPSC Economy & Banking: The heavily debated Phillips Curve (Trade-off between inflation and unemployment) and the rise of 100% digital Neo-Banks.

UPSC Environment: The BRS Conventions (Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm) forming a regulatory triad, and the MoEFCC’s Green Credit Program (GCP) incentivizing positive ecological actions.

Science & Tech: ISRO’s highly complex SPADEX Mission (Autonomous Space Docking) and the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in creating hyper-realistic Deepfakes.

Defence & IR: The Indo-US Tri-Service Exercise TIGER TRIUMPH, India’s $4B mega-deal for MQ-9B Predator Drones, Sweden’s historic accession as the 32nd member of NATO, and the geography of the Strait of Tartary.

Sports, Awards & Govt Schemes: Australia capturing the 2024 ICC U19 Men’s World Cup, the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction awarded to Jayne Anne Phillips for Night Watch, and the PM PRANAM scheme aiming to drastically reduce chemical fertilizer subsidies.