Current Affairs Quiz — 10 August 2026

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

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Q1.Facility-level engineering assessments for industrial heat electrification specifically include an evaluation of which set of items?

  • ABoilers, steam flows, process temperatures, and waste heat
  • BOnly end-product quality metrics
  • CExport-import data for industrial clusters
  • DGrid outage statistics for the past decade

Q2.Lok Sabha delimitation of constituencies is triggered even without passing a new Constitutional amendment after population census data is published. Which census is named as the trigger point for this next delimitation?

  • ACensus 2027
  • BCensus 2011
  • CCensus 2021
  • DCensus 2031

Q3.In the Centrally Sponsored Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme for Scheduled Caste (SC) students, the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment implements the scheme through which channels?

  • AState Governments and Union Territory Administrations
  • BState Governments only (excluding Union Territories)
  • COnly the Central Government directly (no State/UT role)
  • DLocal municipal bodies only

Q4.In a session chaired by ICMR Director General Dr Rajiv Bahl on reimbursement mechanisms for innovative therapies under India’s path to Universal Health Coverage (UHC), what requirement did he emphasise for regulatory, Health Technology Assessment (HTA), reimbursement and procurement decisions?

  • ARobust clinical evidence should underpin these decisions
  • BNo evidence is needed if pricing is realistic
  • CProcurement decisions should be independent of clinical evidence
  • DExemptions from evidence generation must be encouraged to speed up adoption

Q5.In Indian electoral practice, delimitation is used to:

  • ARedraw Lok Sabha and State Assembly constituency boundaries to reflect population changes for fair representation
  • BIncrease the number of parliamentary seats without changing constituency boundaries
  • CFix the reservation percentage for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes permanently across elections
  • DChange vote counting so that votes across regions carry different weights