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Current Affairs Quiz – 10 October 2026 (Test Now)
Q1. Which Article of the Constitution empowers the President of India to grant pardons, reprieves, respites, remissions or commutations?
A. Article 61
B. Article 72
C. Article 161
D. Article 124
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Correct Answer: B. Article 72
Q2. Which form of clemency substitutes a harsher punishment with a lighter form of punishment?
A. Remission
B. Respite
C. Commutation
D. Reprieve
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Correct Answer: C. Commutation
Q3. A temporary postponement of the execution of a sentence, particularly a death sentence, is called:
A. Pardon
B. Reprieve
C. Remission
D. Respite
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Correct Answer: B. Reprieve
Q4. Which statement about the Governor’s clemency power under Article 161 is correct?
A. The Governor can pardon a death sentence
B. The Governor can suspend, remit or commute a death sentence but cannot pardon it
C. The Governor has no power over death sentences
D. The Governor can grant clemency for court-martial punishments
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Correct Answer: B. The Governor can suspend, remit or commute a death sentence but cannot pardon it
Q5. In which case did the Supreme Court hold that inordinate delay in deciding a mercy petition can violate Article 21 and be grounds for commuting a death sentence?
A. Maru Ram v. Union of India
B. Epuru Sudhakar v. Government of Andhra Pradesh
C. Shatrughan Chauhan v. Union of India
D. Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab
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Correct Answer: C. Shatrughan Chauhan v. Union of India
Q6. Maru Ram v. Union of India (1980) held that the constitutional clemency power is exercised:
A. At the President’s personal discretion
B. On the aid and advice of the appropriate Council of Ministers
C. By the Supreme Court
D. By the Chief Justice of India
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Correct Answer: B. On the aid and advice of the appropriate Council of Ministers
Q7. Which section of the BNSS, 2023 provides a statutory procedure for mercy petitions in death-sentence cases?
A. Section 35
B. Section 163
C. Section 472
D. Section 530
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Correct Answer: C. Section 472
Q8. Balwant Singh Rajoana, whose mercy petition has been pending since 2012, was convicted in the assassination of:
A. Indira Gandhi
B. Rajiv Gandhi
C. Beant Singh
D. Gen. A.S. Vaidya
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Correct Answer: C. Beant Singh
Q9. According to the study, unauthorised GM cotton hybrids may occupy over what share of India’s cotton-growing area?
A. 5%
B. 10%
C. 25%
D. 50%
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Correct Answer: C. 25%
Q10. The cp4-epsps gene confers tolerance to which herbicide?
A. Atrazine
B. Glyphosate
C. 2,4-D
D. Paraquat
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Correct Answer: B. Glyphosate
Q11. The Vip3A gene is derived from which organism?
A. Agrobacterium tumefaciens
B. Bacillus thuringiensis
C. Escherichia coli
D. Rhizobium
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Correct Answer: B. Bacillus thuringiensis
Q12. In which year was Bt cotton approved for commercial cultivation in India?
A. 1996
B. 2002
C. 2006
D. 2010
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Correct Answer: B. 2002
Q13. Which body under MoEFCC appraises proposals for environmental release and commercial use of genetically engineered organisms?
A. RCGM
B. IBSC
C. GEAC
D. ICMR
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Correct Answer: C. GEAC
Q14. The Review Committee on Genetic Manipulation (RCGM) functions under which Department?
A. Department of Biotechnology
B. Department of Science and Technology
C. Department of Agriculture
D. Department of Atomic Energy
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Correct Answer: A. Department of Biotechnology
Q15. World Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day is observed on 8 October because the date refers to:
A. Hydrogen’s discovery date
B. Hydrogen’s atomic weight of approximately 1.008
C. Hydrogen’s boiling point
D. Founding of MNRE
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Correct Answer: B. Hydrogen’s atomic weight of approximately 1.008
Q16. When hydrogen is produced by electrolysis of water using renewable electricity, it is classified as:
A. Grey hydrogen
B. Brown hydrogen
C. Green hydrogen
D. Blue hydrogen
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Correct Answer: C. Green hydrogen
Q17. In a hydrogen fuel cell, the principal reaction product is:
A. Carbon dioxide
B. Water along with heat
C. Methane
D. Nitrogen oxides
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Correct Answer: B. Water along with heat
Q18. India’s National Green Hydrogen Mission targets at least how much green hydrogen production annually by 2030?
A. 1 MMT
B. 3 MMT
C. 5 MMT
D. 10 MMT
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Correct Answer: C. 5 MMT
Q19. The RBI’s MPC reportedly raised the repo rate by 25 basis points to what level?
A. 5.0%
B. 5.25%
C. 5.5%
D. 6.0%
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Correct Answer: C. 5.5%
Q20. Under a ‘calibrated tightening’ stance, the central bank:
A. Plans to cut rates soon
B. Signals it is not inclined to reduce policy rates near-term
C. Keeps rates fixed permanently
D. Reduces CRR only
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Correct Answer: B. Signals it is not inclined to reduce policy rates near-term
Q21. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was established under which section of the RBI Act, 1934?
A. Section 17
B. Section 45ZB
C. Section 7
D. Section 42
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Correct Answer: B. Section 45ZB
Q22. What is the quorum of the MPC?
A. Three members
B. Four members
C. Five members
D. Six members
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Correct Answer: B. Four members
Q23. India’s inflation-targeting framework sets the CPI target at 4% with a tolerance band of:
A. 1% to 5%
B. 2% to 6%
C. 3% to 7%
D. 4% to 8%
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Correct Answer: B. 2% to 6%
Q24. The GST Council is established under which Article of the Constitution?
A. Article 246A
B. Article 268
C. Article 279A
D. Article 280
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Correct Answer: C. Article 279A
Q25. At its 57th meeting, the GST Council proposed raising the monetary threshold for launching prosecution from ₹1 crore to:
A. ₹2 crore
B. ₹3 crore
C. ₹5 crore
D. ₹10 crore
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Correct Answer: C. ₹5 crore
Q26. The GST Council recommended omitting which section of the CGST Act, 2017, dealing with the power of arrest?
A. Section 16
B. Section 69
C. Section 125
D. Section 132
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Correct Answer: B. Section 69
Q27. The Council proposed provisional sanction of what percentage of eligible refund claims for zero-rated supplies and inverted duty structure cases?
A. 50%
B. 75%
C. 80%
D. 90%
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Correct Answer: D. 90%
Q28. The Universal Postal Union (UPU), commemorated on World Post Day (9 October), was established in which year?
A. 1865
B. 1874
C. 1900
D. 1948
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Correct Answer: B. 1874
Q29. The 10th India Mobile Congress (IMC) is jointly organised by DoT and which organisation?
A. TRAI
B. Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI)
C. NASSCOM
D. BSNL
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Correct Answer: B. Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI)
Q30. The Shakti helicopter engine, for which HAL plans a second production line, was developed in collaboration with which French company?
A. Dassault
B. Safran
C. Thales
D. Airbus
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Correct Answer: B. Safran
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