Daily Current Affairs MCQ: 21 October 2026

Answer: (b) State List. Entry 3 of List II covers fees taken in all courts except the Supreme Court, which is why each State has its own Court Fees Act. Fees taken in the Supreme Court fall under Entry 77 of List I (Union List).

Answer: (c) 42nd Amendment, 1976. The 42nd Amendment added Article 39A along with Articles 43A and 48A to the Directive Principles. Parliament later passed the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 to give effect to it.

Answer: (a) 1 and 2 only. Section 21 of the 1987 Act makes a Lok Adalat award final and binding, with no appeal. Statement 3 is wrong: when a pending case is settled in a Lok Adalat, the court fee paid is refunded.

Answer: (c) Ministry of Rural Development. NSAP was launched on 15 August 1995 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme under the Ministry of Rural Development. It covers old-age, widow and disability pensions, the National Family Benefit Scheme and Annapurna.

Answer: (b) Article 41. Article 41 asks for the right to work, to education and to public assistance in these cases, within the State's economic capacity. Article 39 lists principles of policy, Article 43 is about a living wage and Article 46 about weaker sections.

Answer: (b) 40 percent. The RPwD Act, 2016 defines benchmark disability as at least 40 percent of a specified disability, certified by an authority, and lists 21 disabilities. The renamed Pradhan Mantri Divyangjan Pension Yojana now uses this 40 percent benchmark instead of 80 percent.

Answer: (c) South Korea. The Quad has four members: Australia, India, Japan and the United States. It was revived at officials' level in November 2017, and leaders held their first summit (virtual) in March 2021.

Answer: (a). Section 123 of the US Atomic Energy Act, 1954 requires an agreement before significant nuclear cooperation with another country. The India-US 123 Agreement was signed in October 2008, after the Nuclear Suppliers Group's waiver for India in September 2008.

Answer: (b) Akbar. Basawan was among the most celebrated artists of Akbar's imperial atelier and worked on manuscripts such as the Akbarnama. Mughal painting flourished under Akbar and Jahangir, with Abd al-Samad and Mir Sayyid Ali guiding the early workshop.

Answer: (d) DIPAM. The Department of Investment and Public Asset Management, under the Ministry of Finance, handles disinvestment and the management of government equity in public sector enterprises. It was renamed from the Department of Disinvestment in 2016.