Current Affairs Quiz 6 September 2026

FACT: The resolution, adopted on 4 September 2026 by 164 votes to 1 with 6 abstentions, encourages governments, schools, international organisations and technology companies to use Equal Earth and other equal-area projections where relative size matters, and asks that the limits of every flat map be taught. ANALYSIS: Statement 1 is incorrect.
The resolution neither bans Mercator nor mandates a replacement. General Assembly resolutions of this kind are recommendatory and create no legal obligation.

FACT: Conformality, the preservation of local shape and angles, and equivalence, the preservation of area, are mathematically incompatible. No projection can be both.
ANALYSIS: This follows from the fact that a sphere has Gaussian curvature and a plane does not, so no transformation between them preserves all metric properties. Every projection is therefore a decision about what to sacrifice.

FACT: Equal Earth is an equal-area pseudocylindrical projection developed in 2018 by Bojan Savric, Tom Patterson and Bernhard Jenny, and adopted soon afterwards by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. ANALYSIS: Option (a) describes Mercator, option (b) describes Winkel Tripel and option (c) describes Gall’s orthographic projection of 1855, later presented by Arno Peters in 1973 as the Peters world map.

FACT: The resolution rejected all rectangular world maps for general use, a category that includes both the Mercator and the Gall-Peters projections, on the ground that rectangular projections inevitably distort severely at the corners. ANALYSIS: The cartographic profession did not defend Mercator against Peters.
It rejected both, on technical grounds applying equally to each. The North American Cartographic Information Society declined to endorse the resolution.

FACT: The Indian Space Policy 2023, approved by the Union Cabinet on 6 April 2023 and released on 20 April 2023, provides that ISRO shall not undertake operational and production work for the space sector and shall focus on developing new technologies, new systems and research and development. ANALYSIS: Options (a) and (c) reverse the roles.
IN-SPACe is the interface and authorisation body; NSIL is the public sector undertaking operating in demand-driven mode.

FACT: EOS-05, weighing 2,367 kg, was launched by GSLV-F17 at 02:55 IST on 4 September 2026 from the Second Launch Pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, into a sub-geosynchronous transfer orbit. It is India’s first imaging satellite designed to operate from geosynchronous orbit.
ANALYSIS: It was the 19th flight of the GSLV and the heaviest satellite the launcher has carried.

FACT: On 5 September 2026 the Group of Governmental Experts under the CCW reached consensus among 128 High Contracting Parties on a document addressing lethal autonomous weapons systems, after more than a decade of talks. The CCW Seventh Review Conference is scheduled for November 2026.
ANALYSIS: Statement 2 is incorrect. The document is non-binding.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the ICRC issued a joint appeal for the November conference to begin negotiating a legally binding instrument.

FACT: India’s position, as set out in its statements to the CCW and the UN General Assembly First Committee, is that the rules and principles of international humanitarian law take a technology-neutral approach and therefore already offer a sufficient framework for regulating LAWS. India regards the CCW as the appropriate forum, balancing military necessity against humanitarian imperatives. ANALYSIS: Option (a) is factually wrong.
India chaired the GGE in 2017 and 2018, when the eleven guiding principles on LAWS were developed.

FACT: President Droupadi Murmu conferred the awards at Vigyan Bhawan on 82 educators: 48 from the Department of School Education and Literacy, 21 from higher educational institutions and polytechnics, and 13 skill trainers from the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. ANALYSIS: The 48 school teachers came from 27 states, 7 Union Territories and 6 Central Government organisations, and comprised 26 men and 22 women.

FACT: Karnataka issued Government Order 216 E SLB 2026 on 5 September 2026, through the Department of School Education and Literacy, permitting all teachers in the state to prefix “Tr”, for Teacher-Shikshaka, to their names, on the lines of “Dr” for doctors. ANALYSIS: Karnataka is the first state in India to formally recognise a separate honorific for the teaching profession.

FACT: The Expert Level Mechanism was established through a Joint Declaration in 2006 and provides for flood-season hydrological data and emergency communication. Indian officials have said China has not provided Brahmaputra hydrological data since June 2023.
ANALYSIS: Statement 2 is incorrect. The ELM is a consultative mechanism, not a legally binding treaty.
No comprehensive India-China water treaty exists.

FACT: The project comprises five cascade hydropower stations with a planned installed capacity of 60 GW and projected annual generation of about 300 billion kWh, roughly three times the Three Gorges Dam. Announced investment is about 1.2 trillion yuan, some $167 billion.
ANALYSIS: Premier Li Qiang announced the start of construction at Nyingchi on 19 July 2025, calling it “the project of the century”. Completion is expected around 2033.

FACT: India imports about 60 per cent of its LPG consumption. The Gulf share, comprising the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar, fell from about 81 per cent in February 2026 to about 16 per cent in May 2026, while the US share rose from about 14 per cent to about 55 per cent over the same period and to about 67 per cent by August.
ANALYSIS: Statement 3 is incorrect. India is the world’s second largest LPG consumer, after China.

FACT: Section 115BBH imposes a flat 30 per cent tax on gains from the transfer of a Virtual Digital Asset, plus surcharge and 4 per cent cess, and permits deduction only of the cost of acquisition. ANALYSIS: Losses cannot be set off against any other income, including gains on a different digital asset, and cannot be carried forward.
There is no distinction between short-term and long-term holdings. The 1 per cent TDS under Section 194S is a withholding mechanism, not the tax itself.

FACT: The Rules, notified by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs on 27 August 2026, make Indian Standard Time the single reference for legal, administrative, commercial and other official purposes across India, and come into force 180 days after publication in the Official Gazette. ANALYSIS: Option (d) is the opposite of the intent.
The Rules enable NavIC and other approved Indian timing sources precisely to reduce dependence on foreign satellite time sources such as GPS.

FACT: The Indian Army signed a Letter of Offer and Acceptance under the US Foreign Military Sales programme covering 25 Lightweight Command Launch Units and 60 missiles. ANALYSIS: Option (b) overstates the position.
On 30 August 2026 the Javelin Joint Venture signed a memorandum of understanding with Tata Advanced Systems Limited only to explore establishing a final assembly and integration facility. Option (c) is wrong: the Javelin is a fire-and-forget missile with an imaging infrared seeker that locks on before launch.