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Current Affairs Test 1 — Diagnostic

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Q3

Arrange the following events in the correct chronological order: 1. Presidential assent to the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 2. The Supreme Court's opinion on the Presidential Reference concerning assent to Bills 3. The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 is negatived in the Lok Sabha 4. Parliament passes the Kerala (Alteration of Name) Act, 2026

  1. (a) 2 – 1 – 3 – 4
  2. (b) 1 – 3 – 2 – 4
  3. (c) 1 – 2 – 4 – 3
  4. (d) 1 – 2 – 3 – 4
Answer (d).

Assent to the Waqf (Amendment) Act came on 5 April 2025; the five-judge opinion on the Presidential Reference under Article 143 followed on 20 November 2025; the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill was negatived on 17 April 2026; and the Kerala (Alteration of Name) Act was passed on 11–12 August 2026. (a) the Reference opinion followed the Waqf assent by seven months, it did not precede it; (b) that opinion also came before, not after, the April 2026 division; (c) Kerala's renaming was the last of the four, not the third.

Q9

Consider the following statements about education administration as on 30 August 2026: 1. Pralhad Joshi holds additional charge as Union Education Minister. 2. The Union Education Minister is ex officio Chairman of both the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan and the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti. 3. Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar is the Chairman of the University Grants Commission. Which of the statements given above are correct?

  1. (a) 1 and 3 only
  2. (b) 2 and 3 only
  3. (c) 1 and 2 only
  4. (d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer (c).

Joshi took additional charge on 25–26 July 2026 after Dharmendra Pradhan resigned over the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak, and the Education Minister chairs the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan and the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti ex officio. The UGC chair has been held as additional charge by Deepti Gaur Mukerjee since 12 August 2026. (a) statement 3 names a chairman whose regular tenure had ended; (b) statement 3 fails for the same reason; (d) all three cannot be correct, since the UGC entry is out of date.

Q4

Consider the following statements about Census 2027: 1. It will be the 16th Census of India and the 8th since Independence. 2. The reference date for snow-bound areas such as Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand is 1 October 2026. 3. Caste enumeration will be carried out during the House Listing and Housing Census phase. Which of the statements given above are correct?

  1. (a) 1 and 2 only
  2. (b) 2 and 3 only
  3. (c) 1 and 3 only
  4. (d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer (a).

Census 2027 is India's 16th census and the 8th since Independence, and its reference date is 00:00 hours on 1 March 2027, with 1 October 2026 for snow-bound areas. Caste data will be captured electronically in the Population Enumeration phase of February 2027, not during house listing. (b) statement 3 misplaces caste enumeration in the first phase; (c) the same error stands, while statement 2 is in fact correct; (d) all three cannot be right, because caste enumeration belongs to Phase II.

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