Current Affairs Quiz — 21 July 2026

5 UPSC-style MCQs from daily current affairs, with answers and exam-focused explanations.

Q1.The escalation between Iran and the United States is most directly relevant to which regional concern?

  • AWest Asia regional security and humanitarian conditions
  • BArctic shipping lanes and polar trade routes
  • CSouth China Sea maritime arbitration
  • DThe Sahel desertification corridor

Q2.Which political party led the Delhi protest demanding restoration of Jammu and Kashmir statehood?

  • ANational Conference
  • BJammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party
  • CIndian National Congress
  • DBharatiya Janata Party

Q3.Article 44 of the Constitution of India is associated with which of the following?

  • ADirective Principles of State Policy
  • BFundamental Rights
  • CSchedules of the Constitution
  • DEmergency provisions

Q4.In which area of Delhi were phone and internet services disrupted to manage protest-related activity?

  • ACentral Delhi
  • BSouth Delhi
  • CNew Delhi district
  • DEast Delhi

Q5.Four Indian seafarers were killed in a commercial shipping incident near which Ukrainian port?

  • AOdesa
  • BMariupol
  • CSevastopol
  • DKherson