Current Affairs Quiz 10 September 2026

FACT: The 371-series of “special provisions” currently runs from Article 371A (Nagaland) through 371J (Hyderabad-Karnataka region of Karnataka); the letter K has never been used. The 32nd Constitutional Amendment (1973) for Andhra Pradesh inserted Articles 371D and 371E, not 371K. The letter K is therefore available for a first-time assignment to Union Territory Ladakh under the MHA proposal tabled at the HPC sub-committee meeting chaired by MoS Home Nityanand Rai on 9 September 2026.
ANALYSIS: Option (b) is incorrect because 371K was never previously used; the 32nd Amendment inserted 371D and 371E. Option (c) is wrong; the proposal does not grant statehood, Ladakh remains a UT. Option (d) is wrong; the Hill Councils are local-governance bodies under the 1997 Act, not elected legislatures with legislative power.

FACT: Yudh Abhyas 22 is indeed the first two-theatre edition, running 9 to 28 September 2026 at Mahajan (Rajasthan, desert) and Auli (Uttarakhand, high-altitude) simultaneously. The US contingent is drawn from the 11th Airborne Division (Arctic Angels, Fort Wainwright Alaska) and integrates the 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force (3MDTF), bringing long-range precision fires, cyber, space and electronic warfare.
ANALYSIS: Statement 3 is incorrect. Yudh Abhyas is an Army-to-Army bilateral exercise, not tri-services.
The India-US tri-services exercise is Tiger Triumph.

FACT: SAGAR (Security and Growth for All in the Region) was India’s Indian Ocean doctrine announced by PM Modi in Mauritius in 2015. In 2025, it was renamed MAHASAGAR (Mutual and Holistic Advancement for Security and Growth Across Regions), extending the frame from the South Asian Indian Ocean neighbourhood to the Pacific and East African littoral with a broader mutual-advancement and coalition logic.
Rajnath Singh’s visit to Colombo (8 to 10 September 2026, first Indian Defence Minister visit in 38 years) operationalises the India-Sri Lanka Defence Cooperation Agreement signed in April 2025. ANALYSIS: Options (a), (b) and (d) are all factually incorrect.

FACT: The CE20 was tested at 220 kN (up from the rated 200 kN, a 10% increase) at IPRC Mahendragiri, adding approximately 450 to 500 kg to LVM3’s GTO payload; the test also qualified the LOX Tank Pressurisation Module (LTPM), needed for Gaganyaan. ANALYSIS: Statement 3 is incorrect.
CE20 is designed by LPSC (Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, Valiamala, Kerala), not HAL. HAL is the prime manufacturer, not the designer. CE20 uses a gas-generator cycle, not the more advanced staged-combustion cycle of Russian RD-180 or SpaceX Raptor.

FACT: The Reserve Bank of India’s KYC Master Direction, last amended in 2024, explicitly permits Aadhaar face authentication as the biometric verification step in Video-based Customer Identification Process (V-CIP) for banks and NBFCs. This enables paperless, branchless account opening, loan origination and insurance policy issuance with UIDAI-verified identity.
ANALYSIS: SEBI’s KYC RA guidelines cover capital market entities; UIDAI’s circulars govern the auth system itself; IFSCA governs the GIFT City financial entities. The V-CIP regulatory permission comes from RBI for banking entities.

FACT: The central innovation of the Karnataka Aerospace Policy 2026-2031 is the differential subsidy structure: up to 35 per cent capital subsidy in non-focus areas (Belagavi, Hassan, Mysuru, Chitradurga, Vijayapura), raised from 25 per cent under the superseded 2022-2027 policy, versus 30 per cent in Zone 1 (Bengaluru cluster) and 27.5 per cent in Zone 2. This reverses the usual gravity toward the established hub by making non-Bengaluru locations comparatively more attractive for greenfield investment.
ANALYSIS: Karnataka does not have and is not becoming a Defence Industrial Corridor (the two are UP 2018 and TN 2019). HAL is not being relocated.
There is no Rs 5,000 crore cap.

FACT: All three statements are correct. India’s No First Use doctrine was formalised in the 2003 Draft Nuclear Doctrine (the 1999 draft preceded it and was the basis, but the 2003 statement is the operative official doctrine).
The Nuclear Command Authority has a Political Council chaired by the PM and an Executive Council chaired by the NSA. FAS and SIPRI, in 2026 assessments, place India at approximately 190 warheads (up from ~180 in 2025) and Pakistan at approximately 170. ANALYSIS: All three statements are factually accurate; selecting options that exclude any of them is incorrect.

FACT: Samudra Laksamana is a bilateral India-Royal Malaysian Navy exercise, not trilateral. INS Mysore (D60) is a Delhi-class (Project 15) guided-missile destroyer, commissioned in 1999, displacing approximately 6,700 tonnes; not a Project 17A frigate.
The 2026 edition at Lumut Naval Base is the fourth (prior editions: 2010, 2015, 2024). ANALYSIS: Option (a) is wrong: it is bilateral, not trilateral, and the first edition was in 2010 not 2015.
Option (b) confuses INS Mysore with INS Udaygiri (which is the P-17A ship on port call in Colombo). Option (d) is geographically wrong: the Malacca Strait connects the South China Sea to the Andaman Sea/Indian Ocean, not the Arabian Sea directly.

FACT: The 9th AIMMAF was co-chaired by Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Philippines Agriculture Secretary Francisco P. Tiu Laurel, on 9 September 2026 in New Delhi. Ministers welcomed the ASEAN 2045: Our Shared Future vision and the ASEAN Food, Agriculture and Forestry Sectoral Plan 2026-2030.
ANALYSIS: Option (a) incorrectly names the ministers. Option (c) is unverified; the research brief does not assert it was the first on Indian soil.
Option (d) is incorrect: ASEAN is India’s fourth-largest trading partner (approximately USD 130 billion FY2024-25); China, USA and UAE rank higher.

FACT: IMD’s all-India seasonal classification for cumulative Southwest Monsoon rainfall is: Normal 96 to 104 per cent of LPA; Below Normal 90 to 96 per cent of LPA (i.e., 4 to 10 per cent below); Above Normal 104 to 110 per cent; Deficient less than 90 per cent of LPA (i.e., more than 10 per cent below); Excess more than 110 per cent. A 15 per cent seasonal shortfall corresponds to 85 per cent of LPA, which falls below the 90 per cent floor of the Below Normal band and therefore lies in the Deficient category.
ANALYSIS: Options (b), (c) and (d) describe incorrect placements against the IMD thresholds.

FACT: World Suicide Prevention Day has been observed on 10 September each year since 2003 by IASP in partnership with WHO. The 2024-2026 triennial theme is “Changing the Narrative on Suicide”; the 2026 call-to-action is “Start the Conversation”. ANALYSIS: Statement 3 is incorrect and is a critical trap.
The Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 DECRIMINALISED attempted suicide under Section 115; it removed the criminal liability that previously existed under Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code. The Act presumes that a person who attempts suicide is under severe stress and requires care, not prosecution.

FACT: CE20 stands for Cryogenic Engine 20 (the 20 refers to a 20-tonne-force class designation in an earlier naming convention). It uses a gas-generator cycle (pre-burner drives turbopumps, exhaust is dumped overboard rather than fed back to the main chamber).
Baseline rated thrust is 200 kN; the 9 September 2026 test uprated it to 220 kN. It is designed by the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC), Valiamala, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala, and manufactured by HAL as prime. ANALYSIS: Options (a), (c) and (d) all contain incorrect cycle, thrust, design agency or location details.

FACT: Statements 2 and 3 are correct. The Aadhaar Act 2016 is the legal foundation for the authentication system, and UIDAI is the statutory authority created under it under MeitY. MOSIP is an open-source Aadhaar-like national ID stack incubated at IIIT-Bangalore with Gates Foundation support, deployed by Morocco, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia and others.
ANALYSIS: Statement 1 is incorrect and is a critical factual trap. Aadhaar is proof of RESIDENCE-based identity, not citizenship.
It cannot substitute for a passport. SAARC travel facilitation (where it exists at all) requires separate country-specific agreements, not Aadhaar.

FACT: At the Paris International Space Summit on 10 September 2026, Safran Space agreed contracts worth over EUR 5 million with Dhruva Space (Indian private space firm) covering inertial navigation units, communication systems, optical payloads and ground stations for the planned SBS-III (Space-Based Surveillance III) 52-satellite constellation, to be deployed from 2027 to 2030. ANALYSIS: Option (a) is wrong; the summit produced private-sector deals, not exclusively government agreements.
Option (c) is wrong: TakeMeToSpace is an Indian company (India’s first orbital data-centre designer), not French; RIDE! France is the French launch provider. Option (d) is wrong; PM Modi addressed the summit remotely.

FACT: Statement 1 is correct: Article 371 and its letter variants (A through J) sit within Part XXI, headed “Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions”. Statement 2 is correct: the existing 371-series covers Article 371A (Nagaland), 371B (Assam), 371C (Manipur), 371D and 371E (Andhra Pradesh and Telangana), 371F (Sikkim), 371G (Mizoram), 371H (Arunachal Pradesh), 371I (Goa) and 371J (Hyderabad-Karnataka region of Karnataka); the letter K has never been used, so the letter is available.
ANALYSIS: Statement 3 is incorrect. Ordinary insertions or amendments of Article 371-series provisions require a simple parliamentary majority under Article 368(2), not the special ratification procedure of Article 368(2) proviso; the ratification requirement applies to a specific list of entrenched provisions (federal-structure clauses, representation in Parliament, and so on), and 371-series provisions are not among them.