Current Affairs Quiz 23 July 2026

FACT: The United States announced a phased tariff on imported generic drugs, rising from 0 per cent to 100 per cent and then 200 per cent over 2026 to 2029, to push manufacturing to the US. ANALYSIS: India, the largest supplier of generic medicines to the US, is significantly exposed, and Indian pharma stocks fell on the news.

FACT: India depends heavily on China for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), the key raw materials for making medicines, a vulnerability the government is addressing through the bulk-drug (API) Production Linked Incentive scheme. ANALYSIS: This dependence compounds the risk from US tariffs on Indian generic exports.

FACT: The Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE), Bengaluru, a DRDO laboratory, developed India’s first indigenous 350 kg-thrust-class expendable turbojet engine, with Azad Engineering as the manufacturing partner. ANALYSIS: The engine will power long-range cruise missiles, loitering munitions and UAVs.

FACT: An expendable engine is a single-use engine meant for platforms that are not recovered, such as cruise missiles, loitering munitions and target drones. ANALYSIS: Indigenous expendable engines reduce import dependence for propulsion in these systems.

FACT: Jaishankar reiterated that peace and tranquillity in the border areas is a prerequisite for the normal development of India-China ties, and raised the trade imbalance and supply-chain concerns. ANALYSIS: This restates India’s consistent post-2020 position anchored in mutual respect, mutual interest and mutual sensitivity.

FACT: India frames normal ties with China on the basis of mutual respect, mutual interest and mutual sensitivity, the “three mutuals”. ANALYSIS: The formulation reflects India’s insistence on border peace and its firm stand on territorial integrity.

FACT: Under Article 124(1), the Supreme Court consists of the Chief Justice and such number of other judges as Parliament may by law determine; the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Bill, 2026 raises the strength from 33 to 37 (excluding the CJI). ANALYSIS: The parent law is the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Act, 1956.

FACT: The 2026 bill raises the sanctioned strength of Supreme Court judges from 33 to 37, excluding the Chief Justice of India, taking the total from 34 to 38. ANALYSIS: It aims to help clear a large pendency backlog and replaces an ordinance issued to the same effect.

FACT: DeepDATA is a citizen-science app launched by the ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), Kochi, to document deep-sea fishes and build a national digital repository, developed under the Deep Ocean Mission with Ministry of Earth Sciences funding. ANALYSIS: It follows the discovery of a new fish, Cyttopsis indica, off Kerala.

FACT: The Deep Ocean Mission is led by the Ministry of Earth Sciences and includes Samudrayaan and the manned submersible Matsya-6000. ANALYSIS: CMFRI, which built DeepDATA, functions under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).

FACT: The declaration “Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it” is associated with Bal Gangadhar Tilak, known as Lokmanya, whose birth anniversary falls on July 23. ANALYSIS: Tilak was part of the assertive Lal-Bal-Pal trio and a leader of the extremist wing after the 1907 Surat Split.

FACT: Tilak, with Lala Lajpat Rai and Bipin Chandra Pal, formed the assertive nationalist trio called Lal-Bal-Pal, who championed Swadeshi and Swaraj during the Partition of Bengal agitation. ANALYSIS: They represented the extremist (Garam Dal) wing of the Congress.

FACT: National Broadcasting Day is observed on July 23, marking the first radio broadcast in India by the Indian Broadcasting Company from Bombay in 1927. ANALYSIS: Broadcasting later became All India Radio, now part of Prasar Bharati.

FACT: President Droupadi Murmu became the first Indian President to visit Moldova and North Macedonia, and the first to visit Romania in about three decades, on a three-nation Europe tour. ANALYSIS: She unveiled a Mahatma Gandhi bust in Skopje and advanced cooperation in health and other sectors.

FACT: The 23rd Commonwealth Games opened on July 23, 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland, declared open by King Charles III, with Mirabai Chanu as India’s flag-bearer and Lovlina Borgohain as baton-bearer. ANALYSIS: Glasgow 2026 is a slimmed-down edition after the original host, Victoria, withdrew.