Current Affairs Quiz 14 September 2026

FACT: Article 343 (Official language of the Union) provides that the official language of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script, with the international form of Indian numerals; Article 343(2) continued English alongside Hindi for a period of 15 years from the commencement of the Constitution, and Article 343(3) empowers Parliament to extend that use, which was done by the Official Languages Act, 1963. ANALYSIS: Article 344 is about the Commission and Parliamentary Committee on Official Language; Article 345 is on the official language of a State; Article 351 is the Directive Principle on the development of Hindi.

FACT: The 6th Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan (All India Official Language Conference) was held on 14 and 15 September 2026 at the CIDCO Exhibition Centre in Navi Mumbai. Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated it and conferred the Rajbhasha Kirti (institutions) and Rajbhasha Gaurav (individuals) Puraskars for 2025-26.
ANALYSIS: The rotation of venue is by design, to signal that the Union’s promotion of Hindi is being pursued in conversation with, not at the expense of, other Indian languages.

FACT: The Constitution nowhere uses the phrase “national language”. Article 343 designates Hindi in Devanagari as the official language of the Union, and English continues as an associate official language under Article 343(2) and the Official Languages Act, 1963.
The Eighth Schedule listing of 22 languages, the addition of Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santali by the 92nd Amendment (2003), and the continuation of English under the 1963 Act are all correct. ANALYSIS: The distinction between “official language” and “national language” is examined regularly at both Prelims and Mains levels.

FACT: India recognises eleven classical languages as on October 2024. The earlier six were Tamil (2004), Sanskrit (2005), Kannada and Telugu (2008), Malayalam (2013) and Odia (2014).
In October 2024, five more, Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese and Bengali, were added together. ANALYSIS: The classical-language designation is an executive recognition by the Ministry of Culture with revised criteria; it is not a constitutional or Eighth Schedule listing, and the count is not the same as the 22 scheduled languages.

FACT: Dronathon-2026 opened at the Pokhran Firing Range in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan on 14 September 2026 and runs to 16 September. It is an Indian Air Force industry-facing showcase of indigenous Unmanned Aerial Systems and Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems, aligned with Atmanirbhar Bharat in Defence.
ANALYSIS: Chandipur is a DRDO missile test range; Ahmednagar is the Army’s Armoured Corps Centre and School; Wheeler Island is used for missile launches.

FACT: The PLI scheme for drones and drone components was notified on 30 September 2021 with a corpus of Rs 120 crore over three financial years. ANALYSIS: The Drone Rules 2021 are administered by the DGCA under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, not DGFT (option a is wrong). iDEX is administered by the Defence Innovation Organisation, a Section 8 company set up in 2018, not by DDP directly (option c is wrong).
India has notified five Positive Indigenisation Lists for platforms and five parallel lists for DPSU items (option d is wrong).

FACT: The World Circular Economy Forum was launched by SITRA, the Finnish Innovation Fund, in 2017 and has convened every year since (with a pandemic pause). WCEF 2026 at Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, from 15 to 18 September 2026, is co-hosted by India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change with SITRA. ANALYSIS: The Ellen MacArthur Foundation articulates the concept but does not convene the Forum; the European Environment Agency and UNEP are separate institutional actors.

FACT: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Mission LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment) at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow in November 2021, and the mission was formally rolled out in 2022. It targets individual and household behaviour change across seven themes: energy, water, food, plastics, e-waste, single-use plastic and sustainable transport.
ANALYSIS: COP27 saw the operational rollout in international discussions; Bali was the G20 announcement window; and the Voice of Global South Summit picked up the theme, but the announcement was at Glasgow.

FACT: At the 7th NSA-level meeting in New Delhi on 20 November 2025, hosted by NSA Ajit Doval, the CSC members welcomed Seychelles’ decision to accede as a full member, taking the grouping to six: India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Mauritius, Bangladesh and Seychelles. ANALYSIS: Bangladesh was already a full member, having joined in July 2024; Malaysia attended the November 2025 meeting as a guest; Myanmar is not part of the CSC.

FACT: The Secretariat of the Colombo Security Conclave was formally launched at Colombo, Sri Lanka after the CSC founding documents were signed there on 30 August 2024. It supports the NSA-level meetings, coordinates the five-pillar work streams and administers the growing information-sharing architecture of the grouping.
ANALYSIS: India, Male and Port Louis all host meetings and exercises under CSC, but the Secretariat is at Colombo.

FACT: The moth bean is Vigna aconitifolia, a short-duration, deep-rooted, drought-tolerant pulse of the family Fabaceae. It is grown primarily in western Rajasthan, arid parts of Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab and Madhya Pradesh.
ANALYSIS: Vigna radiata is mung/green gram; Vigna mungo is urad/black gram; Vigna unguiculata is cowpea/lobia. Do not confuse these species when asked to match crop-and-scientific-name.

FACT: The Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI) is headquartered at Jodhpur, Rajasthan. It was established in 1959 by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and transferred to ICAR in 1966.
Its regional research stations include Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Pali, Bhuj and Leh. ANALYSIS: Hyderabad is the location of ICAR-CRIDA (Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture); Kanpur is the location of ICAR-IIPR (Indian Institute of Pulses Research).
Do not confuse the three institutes.

FACT: The Rishikesh to Karnaprayag railway is 125 km long and approximately 84 per cent of the alignment is in tunnels. It is executed by Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), a CPSE under the Ministry of Railways.
It is a broad-gauge line. Escape Tunnel-1 was holed through on 11 September 2026, the 41st tunnel breakthrough on the project.
ANALYSIS: (a) is wrong because RVNL, not Konkan Railway, is the executing agency; (c) is wrong because zonal jurisdiction is separate; (d) is wrong because the line is broad gauge, not metre gauge.