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Current Affairs 10 September 2026 — Part 1
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10-september-2026 — Answer Key & Explanations (15 Questions)
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Q1.Who was sworn in as the 50th Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court on 9 September 2026?
- A.Justice Mahesh Chandra Tripathi✓ Correct Answer
- B.Justice Sanjay Kumar Agrawal
- C.Justice Pushpendra Singh Bhati
- D.Justice Nitin Jamdar
Explanation: Justice Tripathi, formerly of the Allahabad High Court, was sworn in by Maharashtra Governor Jishnu Dev Varma. Around the same time, Justice Sanjay Kumar Agrawal became the 44th Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court.
Q2.Who was given additional charge as Lieutenant Governor of Jammu & Kashmir while Manoj Sinha was on an official visit to the USA?
- A.Vinai Kumar Saxena✓ Correct Answer
- B.Gulab Chand Kataria
- C.Arif Mohammad Khan
- D.Anil Baijal
Explanation: Saxena is the Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh. In the same week he also administered the oath of office to the new Chief Justice of the J&K and Ladakh High Court, Justice Pushpendra Singh Bhati.
Q3.The Union Cabinet's September 2026 railway multitracking approval worth Rs 10,783 crore will add track across how many states?
- A.Five✓ Correct Answer
- B.Three
- C.Seven
- D.Four
Explanation: The five states are West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. The projects include the Kharagpur-Jharsuguda fourth line and are targeted for completion by 2029-30.
Q4.The Department of Food & Public Distribution signed an MoU with which organisation to cut storage losses and optimise logistics?
- A.Food Corporation of India (FCI)✓ Correct Answer
- B.Central Warehousing Corporation
- C.NAFED
- D.Food Safety and Standards Authority of India
Explanation: FCI is the nodal public-sector undertaking responsible for procurement, storage and distribution of foodgrains under India's food-security framework. The MoU also includes capacity-building for FCI staff.
Q5.RNFI Services was recently authorised by the RBI as which type of entity?
- A.Payment Aggregator - Physical✓ Correct Answer
- B.Payments Bank
- C.Small Finance Bank
- D.Non-Banking Financial Company
Explanation: A Payment Aggregator-Physical facilitates card and point-of-sale payment acceptance for merchants. PB Pay had separately received RBI approval for similar operations back in February 2026.
Q6.The RBI permitted ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company to acquire up to what stake in CSB Bank?
- A.9.95%✓ Correct Answer
- B.4.35%
- C.24.99%
- D.5%
Explanation: This is a separate approval from LIC's RBI clearance to raise its stake in ICICI Bank to up to 9.99%, reported around the same week.
Q7.Fintech firm Niyo secured a Payment Service Provider licence from which regulator to offer cross-border financial services from GIFT City?
- A.IFSCA✓ Correct Answer
- B.RBI
- C.SEBI
- D.IRDAI
Explanation: IFSCA (International Financial Services Centres Authority) regulates financial services within GIFT City, Gandhinagar - India's international financial services centre.
Q8.NALCO's Technology Licensing Agreement with UAE's Emirates Global Aluminium is for expanding its smelter at which location?
- A.Angul, Odisha✓ Correct Answer
- B.Korba, Chhattisgarh
- C.Renukoot, Uttar Pradesh
- D.Bharat Aluminium plant, Odisha
Explanation: The 0.5 MTPA brownfield expansion uses EGA's DX+ Ultra high-amperage smelting technology and will take NALCO's total aluminium capacity to about 1 MTPA.
Q9.Jindal Stainless's September 2026 Technical Assistance Agreement with JFE Steel of Japan focuses on manufacturing which product?
- A.Ferritic stainless steel grades✓ Correct Answer
- B.Galvanised sheets
- C.Cold-rolled carbon steel
- D.Tin-plated steel
Explanation: Ferritic stainless steel is widely used in automotive components, railway coaches and kitchen equipment; the pact builds manufacturing capability rather than adding new capacity.
Q10.The final BRICS Finance Ministers' and Central Bank Governors' meeting was held in which city ahead of the 18th BRICS Summit?
- A.Mumbai✓ Correct Answer
- B.New Delhi
- C.Bengaluru
- D.Goa
Explanation: The 18th BRICS Leaders' Summit itself will be held in New Delhi on 12-13 September 2026, marking India's fourth time chairing the grouping.
Q11.The UN General Assembly voted 164-1 to encourage use of which map projection over the Mercator projection?
- A.Equal Earth projection✓ Correct Answer
- B.Robinson projection
- C.Winkel Tripel projection
- D.Gall-Peters projection
Explanation: The Mercator projection, dating to the 16th century, distorts relative size so Africa appears similar in size to Greenland; only the US voted against the resolution, and six nations abstained.
Q12.The non-binding definitional text on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems agreed in Geneva in September 2026 was negotiated under which convention?
- A.Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW)✓ Correct Answer
- B.Chemical Weapons Convention
- C.Arms Trade Treaty
- D.Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Explanation: 128 High Contracting Parties reached the text. India, along with the US and Russia, is among the countries opposing a legally binding treaty on LAWS.
Q13.Tung Chee-hwa, who died recently at age 89, was known as Hong Kong's first what?
- A.Post-colonial Chief Executive✓ Correct Answer
- B.Governor under British rule
- C.Financial Secretary
- D.Chief Justice
Explanation: He served as Chief Executive from 1997 to 2005, immediately after Hong Kong's handover from Britain to China, and later served as Vice-Chairman of China's CPPCC.
Q14.GalaxEye's OptoSAR technology, for which it won a US patent, synchronises optical sensors with which other sensor type?
- A.SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar)✓ Correct Answer
- B.Infrared
- C.LiDAR
- D.Hyperspectral
Explanation: GalaxEye's Mission Drishti, launched in May, was the world's first satellite to combine multispectral optical imaging and SAR on a single platform.
Q15.DRDO's SHIELD programme uses which technology for its high-power microwave amplifiers?
- A.Gallium Nitride (GaN)✓ Correct Answer
- B.Silicon Carbide (SiC)
- C.Gallium Arsenide (GaAs)
- D.Indium Phosphide (InP)
Explanation: SHIELD is an evaluation platform to study how high-power microwave radiation affects drone electronics, targeting a field strength of at least 3 kV/m, funded under DRDO's Technology Development Fund.
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