Current Affairs Quiz 14 July 2026

Statements 1, 2 and 4 are correct. The container was unveiled by Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal at the Maersk-CONCOR ICD, Dadri, UP, on July 3, 2026. The Container Manufacturing Promotion Scheme was announced in Union Budget 2026 with a ₹10,000 crore framework operating through Capex, Opex, and R&D support. The container met both ISO specifications and the International Convention for Safe Containers (CSC), 1972. Statement 3 is incorrect — the CMPS actually targets a tenfold increase to 7.5 lakh TEUs annually, not threefold, since India's current manufacturing capacity is negligible relative to the target.

Option (C) is correct — the 2008 NSG exemption was country-specific, allowing civil nuclear trade with India by NSG members despite its non-NPT status, and formed the legal basis for deals like the Australia-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. Option (A) is wrong — the NSG was established in 1974 after Pokhran-I, not 1998, and India is not an NSG member, only a beneficiary of a country-specific exemption. Option (B) is wrong — the 2008 Safeguards Agreement covered only India's civilian facilities, explicitly excluding military ones. Option (D) is wrong — the 123 Agreement was signed under PM Manmohan Singh, not Vajpayee, who instead presided over Pokhran-II in 1998.

Pairs 1 and 3 are correctly matched. Zanskar was carved from the erstwhile Kargil district (along with Drass), and the LAHDC Act, 1997, originally established two Autonomous Hill Development Councils, one each for Leh and Kargil (with 2026 proposals to extend this to all seven districts). Pair 2 is incorrect — Nubra was actually carved from the erstwhile Leh district, not Kargil. Pair 4 is incorrect — sui generis is Latin for "of its own kind" (unique, one-of-a-kind), not "of the same kind as its neighbours" — the term describes a proposed bespoke constitutional model for Ladakh distinct from statehood or standard UT frameworks.

The correct sequence is the NSG's establishment (1974, after Pokhran-I) → the India-IAEA Safeguards Agreement (2008) → the NSG's country-specific exemption to India (2008, following the Safeguards Agreement as its precondition) → the Australia-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (2014) → the SHANTI Act (December 2025). Option B wrongly places the Safeguards Agreement before the NSG's formation. Option C wrongly places the exemption before the Safeguards Agreement, though the agreement was actually the exemption's precondition. Option D wrongly places the Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (2014) before the NSG exemption (2008).

Option (C) is correct — SC-JUDICARE, launched under CJI D.Y. Chandrachud, uses AI to automatically classify pending cases and group matters involving similar legal questions for joint hearing, saving court time. Option (A) is wrong — civil matters (74,244), not criminal (21,801), form the larger share, and 1986 is the year of the oldest civil case, while the oldest criminal case dates to 1991. Option (B) is wrong — the "pendency paradox" refers to pendency rising even as disposal rates increase, because new filings (75,402 in 2025) outpace disposals, unrelated to judicial strength. Option (D) is wrong — the NJDG is managed by the Supreme Court's e-Committee under the eCourts Mission Mode Project, not the Law Commission, and covers High Courts and district courts too, not just the Supreme Court.