Current Affairs Quiz 11 September 2026

FACT: India assumed the BRICS Chairship on 1 January 2026, succeeding Brazil (which hosted the 17th Summit in 2025). The theme announced for the 18th Summit is “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability”, and the venue is Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.
ANALYSIS: (b) is wrong on the predecessor (Brazil, not South Africa) and the theme. (c) is wrong: Saudi Arabia’s full-membership status is genuinely ambiguous; it was invited in 2023 but has not formally acceded, so it is NOT confirmed as a full BRICS member in 2026. (d) is wrong on the venue.

FACT: The NDB is headquartered in Shanghai (China) and is currently headed by Dilma Rousseff, former President of Brazil, appointed in 2023. K V Kamath (India) was the NDB’s founding President from 2015 to 2020, but he is not the current President.
ANALYSIS: The Fortaleza Summit (2014) was where the founding agreement was signed, but Shanghai is the HQ location; Fortaleza is not the HQ. Marcos Prado Troyjo (Brazil) was NDB President from 2020 to 2023 before Rousseff. Moscow hosts NDB’s Eurasian regional office, not the HQ.

FACT: Statement 2 and Statement 3 are correct. DILRMP 3.0 assigns each parcel a 14-digit ULPIN branded Bhu-Aadhaar; the nodal ministry is the Department of Land Resources under the Ministry of Rural Development.
ANALYSIS: Statement 1 is incorrect. DILRMP has been a Central Sector Scheme (100 per cent central funding) since its 2016 restructuring from the earlier Centrally Sponsored NLRMP (2008).
DILRMP 3.0 continues the Central Sector, 100 per cent central-funding pattern.

FACT: The Amendment Rules 2026, notified on 10 September 2026, take effect from 1 January 2027 and are enforced by the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) under the parent Consumer Protection Act, 2019 (which also created the CCPA). ANALYSIS: (a) is wrong; the parent statute is the Consumer Protection Act 2019, not the DPDP Act 2023. (b) is wrong: the required disclosure is the LOWEST offered price in the preceding 30 DAYS, not the highest in 90 days. (d) is wrong: the Rules impose disclosure, labelling and audit obligations, not a criminal offence with a minimum sentence.

FACT: MyUPI is powered by FiMI (Financial Multilingual Intelligence), a small language model built in-house by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). The in-house design keeps training data and model weights within the payment ecosystem, addresses data-localisation obligations, and gives NPCI direct control over the model’s behaviour on regulated financial content.
ANALYSIS: (a), (c) and (d) each name external or unrelated models; none of them power MyUPI.

FACT: All three statements are correct. OneTag delivers FASTag portability across issuing banks (analogous to Mobile Number Portability), is jointly developed by IHMCL and NPCI, and is accessed through NHAI’s Rajmargyatra app.
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari launched OneTag at the Global Fintech Fest 2026 in Mumbai.

FACT: The DGCA order was issued primarily in response to the 4 August 2026 Air India AI2379 (Phuket to Delhi) episode, in which the pilot-in-command tested positive for a psychoactive substance in post-flight screening. That positive test surfaced the vulnerability of the 10 per cent random annual test regime, prompting the one-time census screening deadline of 31 July 2027.
ANALYSIS: (a), (b) and (d) are unrelated aviation events.

FACT: Statements 1 and 2 are correct. Cervavac is India’s first indigenously developed HPV vaccine, developed by SII with DBT support, and it targets HPV types 6, 11, 16 and 18 (i.e., it is quadrivalent).
ANALYSIS: Statement 3 is incorrect. Cervavac is QUADRIVALENT (targets 4 HPV types: 6, 11, 16 and 18), not bivalent.
Bivalent HPV vaccines (like Cervarix) target only 16 and 18. Nine-valent HPV vaccines (Gardasil-9) target nine types.

FACT: The WHO 90-70-90 targets, part of the Global Strategy to Accelerate the Elimination of Cervical Cancer (2020), are: 90 per cent of girls fully vaccinated with HPV vaccine by age 15; 70 per cent of women screened by age 35 and again by 45 with a high-performance test; and 90 per cent of women identified with cervical disease receive treatment. ANALYSIS: (b), (c) and (d) misrepresent the targets or refer to unrelated framings.

FACT: All three statements are correct. The Khejarli massacre occurred in 1730 in the Marwar kingdom under King Abhay Singh. 363 Bishnois led by Amrita Devi Bishnoi were killed while protecting Khejri trees from the king’s officers.
The Bishnoi community was founded by Guru Jambheshwar in 1485 around a 29-tenet ethical code (the name Bishnoi means “twenty-nine” in local dialect, 20+9).

FACT: The Satyagraha oath was taken on 11 September 1906 at the Empire Theatre, Johannesburg, in the Transvaal Colony, by approximately 3,000 Indians led by M K Gandhi against the Transvaal Asiatic Registration Act, popularly called the Black Act. ANALYSIS: (a) inverts the venue and misplaces the target legislation. (c) is wrong: the name “satyagraha” was coined in 1908 through a naming exercise in Indian Opinion, not on the day of the oath. (d) confuses the 1906 oath with the 1919 Rowlatt Satyagraha, which is a different event a decade later.

FACT: PMMSY is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (with a Central Sector Sub-scheme component) launched on 10 September 2020. Its total outlay per PIB is Rs 20,050 crore (of which the central share is approximately Rs 9,407 crore).
It is administered by the Department of Fisheries under the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying (MoFAHD). ANALYSIS: (b) mischaracterises the funding pattern; PMMSY has state-share components under the Centrally Sponsored architecture. (c) names the wrong department (fisheries falls under MoFAHD, not Agriculture and Farmers Welfare). (d) uses the aggregator figure Rs 20,750 crore, whereas the PIB figure is Rs 20,050 crore.

FACT: The IMF spokesperson Julie Kozack, at a Washington briefing on 10 September 2026, welcomed India’s modernisation package: a new IIP series, a new Producer Price Index (PPI), and an updated GDP base year to 2022-23 (replacing 2011-12). IMF cited Q1 FY27 real GDP growth at 7.8 per cent.
ANALYSIS: (b), (c) and (d) misrepresent the actual reforms welcomed.

FACT: The UN International Day for South-South Cooperation, observed annually on 12 September, commemorates the adoption of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action (BAPA) on 12 September 1978, which established the framework for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries. ANALYSIS: (a) Bandung 1955 is the Asian-African Conference, precursor to NAM; different event. (c) G-77 was formed at UNCTAD I in Geneva in 1964, a different milestone. (d) The Bali Action Plan is a UNFCCC climate document from COP-13 (2007), unrelated to South-South cooperation.

FACT: All three statements are correct. ESTIC-2026 is scheduled at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi from 27 to 29 October 2026, with CSIR-NIIST Thiruvananthapuram as the nodal institution.
The announced Nobel laureate speakers include Joachim Frank (Chemistry 2017), Sir Richard J Roberts (Physiology or Medicine 1993) and Kostya Novoselov (Physics 2010).