Daily Current Affairs MCQ: 27 October 2026

Answer: (b) IRCC. MEA Secretary (CPV and OIA) Sripriya Ranganathan and IRCC Deputy Minister Ted Gallivan co-chaired it, and the Terms of Reference of the dialogue were signed. No new visa quota was announced; Canada fixes study permits on its own (about 408,000 planned for 2026).

Answer: (b) G20, Johannesburg, November 2025. At the G7 in Kananaskis (June 2025) the two PMs agreed to restore High Commissioners. The CEPA Terms of Reference were signed during Carney's India visit (27 February-2 March 2026). Both sides aim to finish the deal in 2026.

Answer: (c) Canada. CIRUS stands for Canada-India Reactor Utility Services (the US supplied heavy water). After India's 1974 Pokhran test Canada ended nuclear cooperation. It resumed with the 2010 Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement and the 2015 Cameco deal.

Answer: (b) Article 324. Article 326 gives adult suffrage (18 years), Article 329 bars courts from interfering in electoral matters in certain cases, and Article 320 is about Public Service Commissions. Electoral rolls are prepared under the Representation of the People Act, 1950. In Maharashtra the final roll is now due on 12 November.

Answer: (b) The WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones. Its 13 member countries each propose names; the 2020 list has 169 names. "Arnab" was proposed by Bangladesh. IMD, New Delhi, as the Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre, assigns the next name in turn when a storm forms.

Answer: (b) The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by the Raksha Mantri. AoN is the first formal step; contracts come later after trials and price talks, and the largest deals need Cabinet Committee on Security approval. Procurement follows the Defence Acquisition Procedure.

Answer: (a). The number shows the ethanol share: E20 is 20% ethanol in petrol, now the standard fuel at pumps; E100 is essentially pure ethanol. Only vehicles designed and certified for it may use E85/E100. The rules are made under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.

Answer: (b). Maharaja Hari Singh signed the Instrument of Accession on 26 October 1947, and on 27 October troops of 1st Battalion, the Sikh Regiment were airlifted to Srinagar to push back raiders from Pakistan. Operation Polo was in September 1948; Kargil Vijay Diwas is 26 July.

Answer: (b) The old Parliament House. It was renamed Samvidhan Sadan in September 2023 when Parliament moved to the new building. Its Central Hall is where the Constituent Assembly met and the Constitution was adopted on 26 November 1949.

Answer: (b) Yarlung Tsangpo. It enters India as the Siang, joins the Dibang and Lohit in Assam and becomes the Brahmaputra. India sees the Siang project partly as a buffer against China's giant dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo at Medog; local Adi communities fear loss of land and villages.