Today's 10 questions on Israel election 2026 and hung Knesset, Israel's proportional representation, I2U2, digital arrest scams and bank liability, Section 66D IT Act, RBI zero-liability rule, 1930 cyber helpline, NPPA cut in anti-cancer drug prices, DPCO 2013 and Essential Commodities Act, definition of 'industry' (Bangalore Water Supply), Statue of Unity and Rashtriya Ekta Diwas. Each one starts from the news and tests the fact behind it.
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📰 In news: Israel voted on 27 October 2026; with all votes counted, Netanyahu's bloc has 53 seats and the Eisenkot-led bloc 48, so no side has a majority.
Answer: (b) 120. A government needs the support of 61 members. No single party has ever won 61 seats on its own, so Israel is always ruled by coalitions.
📖 Read in simple words: Israel election 2026: hung Knesset and India →📰 In news: Arab-led parties won a record 19 seats in the 2026 Israeli election, helped by a turnout of about 80% among Arab voters.
Answer: (c). The whole country is one constituency; voters choose a party list and seats are shared in proportion to votes among parties crossing 3.25%. India's Lok Sabha uses first-past-the-post in 543 constituencies.
📖 Read in simple words: Israel election 2026: hung Knesset and India →📰 In news: A new Israeli government's West Asia policy will matter for groupings and projects in which India works with Israel.
Answer: (a). I2U2 (India, Israel, the United Arab Emirates and the United States) was formed in 2021 and held its first leaders' summit in July 2022, focusing on food security, energy, water, health, space and transport.
📖 Read in simple words: Israel election 2026: hung Knesset and India →📰 In news: On 29 October 2026 the Supreme Court told the RBI that banks must compensate digital arrest victims where the fraud resulted from the bank's failure of due diligence.
Answer: (a). Section 66D punishes cheating by personation through any communication device or computer resource with up to 3 years' imprisonment and a fine of up to Rs 1 lakh. Cyber terrorism is Section 66F and obscene material Section 67.
📖 Read in simple words: Digital arrest: Supreme Court on bank compensation →📰 In news: Banks often refuse refunds in digital arrest cases, saying the victim 'authorised' the transfer; the Supreme Court wants the RBI's new rules to fix bank liability.
Answer: (b) 3 working days. Reporting in 4-7 working days limits liability to a capped amount. If the fraud is due to the bank's own negligence, the customer's liability is zero regardless of when it is reported.
📖 Read in simple words: Digital arrest: Supreme Court on bank compensation →📰 In news: The Supreme Court asked all States and UTs to report FIRs and investigations in digital arrest cases; victims are told to report at once to the national cyber helpline.
Answer: (a) 1930. Complaints can also be filed at cybercrime.gov.in, run by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) of the Home Ministry. 1098 is Childline, 112 the emergency number and 1915 the National Consumer Helpline.
📖 Read in simple words: Digital arrest: Supreme Court on bank compensation →📰 In news: NPPA released revised MRPs for 543 brands of anti-cancer medicines, effective 9 November 2026, after capping trade margins at 30%.
Answer: (c). NPPA, set up in 1997, is an attached office of the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. It fixes and enforces drug prices under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013.
📖 Read in simple words: Cancer medicines cheaper: NPPA price cut →📰 In news: The anti-cancer price cut uses the special public-interest power in Paragraph 19 of the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013.
Answer: (b). DPCO 2013 is made under Section 3 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955. The Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 deals with quality, manufacture and sale of drugs, not their prices.
📖 Read in simple words: Cancer medicines cheaper: NPPA price cut →📰 In news: On 28 October 2026 the Supreme Court agreed to hear AITUC (Tamil Nadu)'s challenge to the exclusion of charitable, sovereign and notified activities from the definition of 'industry' in Section 2(p) of the Industrial Relations Code, 2020.
Answer: (a). A seven-judge bench led by Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer held that any systematic activity organised by co-operation between employer and employees to produce goods or services for human wants is an 'industry'. The petitioners want this wide reading kept under the new Code.
📖 Read in simple words: Law & Awareness guides →📰 In news: PM Modi will pay floral tributes at the Statue of Unity in Ekta Nagar, Gujarat on 31 October 2026, Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (Sardar Patel's birth anniversary).
Answer: (a). It stands on Sadhu Bet island facing the Sardar Sarovar Dam in Narmada district, Gujarat, and was unveiled on 31 October 2018. Since 2014, 31 October is observed as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day).
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