Current Affairs Quiz 10 September 2026

Statements 1 and 2 are correct. PM SHRI is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme implemented jointly with States/UTs, with its network including schools under the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan and Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, and the scheme carries a total project cost of ₹27,360 crore, including a Central share of ₹18,128 crore. Statement 3 is incorrect and reversed, since under the Challenge Method urban schools must actually score at least 70% while rural schools require a minimum of 60%, not the other way round. Whenever a scheme sets different thresholds for two categories, urban/rural, general/reserved, or similar, it is worth checking carefully which number attaches to which category before accepting the statement, since a reversed paired benchmark is one of the most common single-word traps.

Both statements are correct. The SDK folds face capture, liveness checks, and encrypted data handling directly into a partner's own app, ending the earlier two-app journey that required the background FaceRD app, and UIDAI's Face Authentication technology, launched in 2021, has been adopted by nearly 200 entities and processed over 500 crore transactions. Aspirants often assume a "which is correct" pair must contain one flaw and hunt for a manufactured error in Statement 2, but here both are simply true, verifiable facts, making the real trap over-thinking a straightforward pair rather than inventing a flaw where the source gives none.

All three statements are correct. VVP-I, from 2023, is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme covering the northern border, while VVP-II, approved on 2 April 2025 and launched on 20 February 2026 at Nathanpur in Cachar district, Assam, is a Central Sector Scheme funded fully by the Centre, and VVP-II deliberately excludes blocks on the northern border already covered under VVP-I to avoid duplication. When every statement checks out cleanly against the source, aspirants sometimes assume a hidden flaw must exist and mis-mark "only two" out of caution, but a clean set of true statements is a valid, and increasingly common, UPSC answer key outcome, worth verifying each statement independently rather than assuming.

Statement 1 is correct, since nearly 70% of surveyed jurisdictions reported the integration of new technologies such as virtual assets into hawala-style networks. Statement 2 is incorrect, since the FATF report actually finds that digitisation is acting as a catalyst for traditional settlement mechanisms rather than replacing them, with cash remaining critical at the collection and exit points of these networks. The setter inverts "acts as a catalyst for X" into "has replaced X," a subtle causation flip rather than an invented number, so it is worth watching for a report's stated relationship between two things, catalyst or complement, being flipped into full replacement.

Statements 1 and 2 are correct, since the IAF deployed LCA Tejas, Su-30 MKI, and Rafale aircraft, and the JASDF participated with its F-2A fighter aircraft. Statement 3 is incorrect, since the exercise actually ran for fourteen days, from 9 to 22 September 2026, not seven. Halving a stated duration is a common setter's trap when the exercise dates themselves are given elsewhere in the source, so it is worth always cross-checking a stated duration against the start and end dates given in the same material.

Statement 1 is correct. Statement 2 is incorrect, since Lohum's 10 lithium mining blocks, about 1,100 hectares with estimated deposits of 30-40 million tonnes of ore, are actually located in Zimbabwe's Matabeleland South Province, not Mashonaland West. The setter substitutes a real, differently-located Zimbabwean province, so the option "sounds right" to aspirants unfamiliar with Zimbabwean geography, meaning an unfamiliar foreign place name that sounds plausible is often a substituted trap rather than a genuine memory gap.

Only Statement 2 is correct, since racks with high-end AI processors can indeed generate heat loads of around 120-150 kW against roughly 40 kW manageable by air cooling under practical conditions. Statement 1 is incorrect, since air cooling actually has a lower upfront cost than liquid cooling, not higher, and Statement 3 is incorrect, since liquid-cooled facilities cost roughly 7-10% more to build, not 20-25%. Two independent numeric traps sit in the same question, a flipped cost comparison and an inflated percentage, so aspirants who catch one may relax and accept the other, meaning it is worth checking every numeric claim in a statement set independently, since fixing one flaw doesn't clear the rest.

Bangladesh shares the longest stretch of India's land border at 4,096.7 km, followed by China at 3,488 km and Pakistan at 3,323 km, with Nepal, Myanmar, Bhutan, and Afghanistan accounting for the remainder, and India's total international land border across all seven neighbouring countries exceeds 15,000 km. The distractor codes scramble only the Bangladesh-China-Pakistan figures while leaving the total border length fixed, since a clearly-stated round or total figure is rarely worth mutating, meaning when one list item is an unambiguous total or round figure, the setter usually leaves it fixed and scrambles the others instead.

Statement 1 is incorrect, since the Clay Mathematics Institute instituted seven Millennium Prize Problems, not six, with the Navier-Stokes existence-and-smoothness problem being one of them. Statement 2 is incorrect, since only the Poincaré Conjecture has been solved so far, with the Navier-Stokes problem remaining open, and a recent OpenAI claim of a solution facing unresolved disputes over its validity, data use, and authorship. A numeric substitution, seven to six, is paired with an overreach claim, all solved, so aspirants who spot one error sometimes infer the other statement must then be true by elimination, but two independently false statements can both appear in the same question, and disproving one never makes the other true.

Both the Assertion and Reason are true, and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion. At the ULLAS Mela, NCERT Director Prof. Dinesh Prasad Saklani stressed the growing importance of financial, legal, digital, and electoral literacy precisely because citizens need to understand their rights, responsibilities, and the needs of modern times, and this Reason directly justifies why these four literacies matter today. The Assertion and Reason are drawn from the same event but attributed to two different speakers, the DoSEL Secretary and the NCERT Director, reported together, so aspirants may dismiss the Reason as unrelated commentary rather than recognising it as the stated justification, meaning it is worth checking whether a quoted rationale answers "why," even when attributed to a different speaker than the Assertion.