Current Affairs Quiz 11 September 2026

Statements 1 and 2 are correct. Statement 3 is incorrect, since Section 11 of the FRA, 2006 designates the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, not the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, as the nodal authority for implementing the Act — a substitution that feels intuitive because the subject matter is forests, so for any forest-related law it's worth verifying the nodal ministry rather than assuming it must be the Environment Ministry.

Statement 1 is correct. Statement 2 is incorrect — the proposed new chapter, tentatively called Chapter K, would be introduced under Article 371, which enables special provisions for specific States/regions, not Article 244, which deals with the administration of Scheduled and tribal areas. When a question involves "special provisions" for a State or region, the article is almost always 371 or its sub-clauses, so it shouldn't be confused with Article 244.

Statements 1 and 3 are correct. Statement 2 is incorrect and inflated — over a proposed two-year mission, CosmoCube is expected to collect roughly 1,000 hours of data, not 10,000 hours, a round figure scaled up by a factor of ten that is a common numeric trap when a mission's data-collection estimate is stated only once in the source.

Statement 1 is correct. Statement 2 is incorrect — the revised estimate comes from comparing surface fault maps with surface-roughness maps derived from earlier missions, while BepiColombo, a joint European–Japanese mission, is expected to enter Mercury orbit only in November 2026 and has not yet supplied confirming data. A future, expected event is being moved into the present tense here, so verb tense needs careful attention — "is expected to enter orbit" and "currently orbiting" describe very different mission stages.

Statement 1 is correct. Statement 2 is incorrect — despite its grass-like appearance, Ophiopogon japonicus belongs to the family Asparagaceae, not Poaceae, with "grass-like" here being a descriptive term for its leaf shape rather than a taxonomic classification. The plant's common name ("mondo grass") and grass-like leaves suggest a Poaceae classification that sounds intuitive but is taxonomically wrong, so a common name containing "grass" doesn't guarantee family Poaceae.

Statements 1 and 3 are correct. Statement 2 is incorrect and reversed — the White Paper specifically challenges the claim that animal protein is "complete" and plant protein "incomplete," arguing that almost all plant foods contain all nine essential amino acids, only in different proportions. The paper's core argument has been inverted into its opposite here, banking on aspirants recalling only that "protein is topical" rather than which side of the belief the report actually takes.

Statement 1 is correct. Statement 2 is incorrect and reversed — studies have found chatbots are generally better at recognising very low- and very high-risk scenarios but struggle to distinguish between intermediate levels of suicide risk, not the other way round. A capability finding is flipped end-to-end here rather than a number being changed, so for "better at X, worse at Y" findings it's worth checking carefully which capability is attached to which end of the risk spectrum.

South Africa joined BRIC in 2011, forming BRICS. Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE became full members in January 2024. Indonesia joined as the 11th member in January 2025. The Partner Country category, admitting 10 states including Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Uganda, Uzbekistan and Vietnam, was created in 2025. The distractor codes scramble only the three sequential expansion events (A, B, C), which cluster close together in time between 2024 and 2025, while leaving the Partner Country year (D) fixed as a clearly separate category.

Statements 1 and 2 are correct. Statement 3 is incorrect — PM-MKSSY is a Central Sector sub-scheme, meaning it is fully funded and implemented by the Central Government, not by States/UTs. A Central Sector scheme's funding pattern has been swapped for a Centrally Sponsored Scheme's pattern of Centre-State cost sharing here, a distinction UPSC tests repeatedly across schemes, so it's worth verifying whether a scheme is "Central Sector" or "Centrally Sponsored" before accepting a funding-pattern claim.

Both the Assertion and Reason are true, and the Reason correctly explains the Assertion. The high volume of e-commerce-related grievances at the NCH, nearly 29% of all complaints in 2025, is precisely the gap the 2026 amendment addresses by mandating that e-commerce entities formally integrate with the NCH's grievance-redressal mechanism. Both statements are drawn from the same source but appear in different parts of the release, covering the rule change and the background grievance data separately, so it's worth checking whether a statistic given elsewhere in a source is the stated rationale for a rule change even when the two aren't placed next to each other.