Current Affairs MCQs : Dated – 19 September 2025
Q. With the addition of 7 natural heritage sites in September 2025, what is the total number of Indian sites in UNESCO’s Tentative List?
a) 59
b) 65
c) 69
d) 72
Q. With the addition of 7 natural heritage sites in September 2025, what is the total number of Indian sites in UNESCO’s Tentative List?
a) 59
b) 65
c) 69
d) 72
Q. Which countries, besides India, participated in Zapad-2025, held in September 2025?
a) Iran, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Congo, Mali
b) China, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan
c) USA, UK, France, Germany
d) Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand
Q. In September 2025, the Department of Posts (DoP) and BSNL signed an MoU to expand mobile connectivity across India. How will this be achieved?
a) By setting up new telecom towers in rural areas
b) By using Post Offices as points of sale for BSNL SIM cards and recharge services
c) By launching a joint 5G network across the country
d) By providing free internet connections through postmen
Q. What was the main reason for strained India–U.S. trade ties in 2025 ?
a) Dispute over IT services
b) 50% tariffs on Indian goods linked to Russian crude imports
c) Ban on agricultural exports
d) Intellectual property disputes
Q. Who has been announced as the new lead sponsor of Team India in September 2025?
a) Dream11
b) Apollo Tyres
c) BYJU’S
d) Paytm
Q. Who won the gold medal in the 48 kg and 57 kg categories at the World Boxing Championships 2025?
a) Nikhat Zareen and Lovlina Borgohain
b) Minakshi Hooda and Jaismine Lamboria
c) Mary Kom and Saweety Boora
d) Nitu Ghanghas and Sarita Devi
Q. Where was India’s first bamboo-based bio-refinery inaugurated by PM Modi in September 2025?
a) Dibrugarh, Assam
b) Numaligarh, Golaghat district, Assam
c) Guwahati, Assam
d) Silchar, Assam
Q. What is the minimum attendance required by CBSE to be eligible for Class 10 and 12 board exams from 2025 onwards?
a) 60%
b) 65%
c) 70%
d) 75%
Q. On 14 September, in which year did the Constituent Assembly adopt Hindi in Devanagari script as the official language of India?
a) 1947
b) 1948
c) 1949
d) 1950
Q. On which date is the International Day of Democracy observed every year?
a) 14 September
b) 15 September
c) 16 September
d) 10 December
Q. India defeated Pakistan by 7 wickets in Dubai in the Asia Cup 2025 on 14 September 2025. Who was awarded Player of the Match?
a) Hardik Pandya
b) Shaheen Afridi
c) Kuldeep Yadav
d) Suryakumar Yadav
Q. Who became Nepal’s first woman Prime Minister on September 12, 2025?
a) Bidhya Devi Bhandari
b) Sushila Karki
c) Onsari Gharti Magar
d) Sujata Koirala
Q. What is the name of Mizoram’s first-ever rail connection, inaugurated in September 2025?
a) Silchar–Aizawl Line
b) Bairabi–Sairang Line
c) Agartala–Aizawl Line
d) Guwahati–Sairang Line
Q. Mauritius PM Dr. Navinchandra Ramgoolam, who visited India from September 9–16, 2025, has ancestral roots in which Indian state?
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Bihar
c) Gujarat
d) Tamil Nadu
Q. Fitch Ratings recently (in September 2025) revised India’s GDP growth forecast for FY2025 from:
a) 6.0% to 6.5%
b) 6.5% to 6.9%
c) 6.8% to 7.2%
d) 7.0% to 7.5%
Q. The 17th Asia Cup 2025 is being played from September 9–28, 2025 in which country?
a) India
b) Pakistan
c) UAE
d) Sri Lanka
Q. Which ministry launched Adi Sanskriti, the world’s first Digital Tribal University, launched?
a) Ministry of Culture
b) Ministry of Tribal Affairs
c) Ministry of Education
d) Ministry of Skill Development
Q. Who was elected as the 15th Vice President of India in September 2025?
a) Justice B. Sudershan Reddy
b) CP Radhakrishnan
c) Jagdeep Dhankhar
d) Venkaiah Naidu
Q. Who resigned as Prime Minister of Nepal on 9 September 2025?
a) Pushpa Kamal Dahal
b) Sher Bahadur Deuba
c) KP Sharma Oli
d) Ramesh Lekhak
Q. Who is the newly appointed head coach of the Indian football team in 2025?
a) Igor Stimac
b) Khalid Jamil
c) Stephen Constantine
d) Clifford Miranda
Q. In September 2025, massive youth-led protests by ‘Gen Z’ erupted in Kathmandu, Nepal. What was their main demand?
a) Restoration of dissolved Parliament
b) Withdrawal of social media ban
c) Reduction of fuel prices
d) Resignation of the Prime Minister
Q. Name of the Japanese Prime Minister who resigned in September 2025 after 11 months in office?
a) Fumio Kishida
b) Shigeru Ishiba
c) Shinjiro Koizumi
d) Sanae Takaichi
Q. Which Indian filmmaker won the Best Director award in the Orizzonti section at the 82nd Venice Film Festival (2025)?
a) Mira Nair
b) Anuparna Roy
c) Zoya Akhtar
d) Rima Das
Q. Who won the 2025 U.S. Open men’s singles title?
a) Novak Djokovic
b) Rafael Nadal
c) Jannik Sinner
d) Carlos Alcaraz
Q. Which team won the 2025 Men’s Asia Cup Hockey Championship held Rajgir, Bihar ?
a) Pakistan
b) Japan
c) India
d) South Korea
Q. Who is the current Prime Minister of Bhutan who visited India in September 2025?
a) Lotay Tshering
b) Tshering Tobgay
c) Jigme Khesar Namgyel
d) Lyonpo Dorji
Q. The Ganesh Visarjan ritual is traditionally performed on which day of the Hindu lunar calendar?
a) Ashtami Tithi of Bhadrapada
b) Dashami Tithi of Bhadrapada
c) Chaturdashi Tithi of Bhadrapada
d) Purnima Tithi of Bhadrapada
Q. Teachers’ Day in India is celebrated on September 5th to mark the birth anniversary of which former President of India?
a) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
b) Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
d) Dr. Zakir Husain
Q. Which legendary king’s annual return is celebrated during Onam?
a) King Ashoka
b) King Vikramaditya
c) King Mahabali
d) King Harsha
Q. What GST slabs were retained after scrapping the 12% and 28% rates in September 2025?
a) 5% and 18%
b) 12% and 18%
c) 5% and 28%
d) 0% and 12%
Q. As per the new Guidelines issued in Sept 2025 for Co-location of Anganwadi Centres, where will the Anganwadi Centres be located?
a) Inside Primary Health Centres
b) In Community Halls
c) Within School Premises
d) At Panchayat Offices
Q. The ₹1,500 crore Incentive Scheme approved by the Government in September 2025 to develop recycling capacity of critical minerals will be implemented under which mission?
a) Make in India Mission
b) National Mineral Development Mission
c) National Critical Mineral Mission (NCMM)
d) Self-Reliant Minerals Initiative
Q. Who is the current Prime Minister of Singapore who visited India in September 2025?
a) Lee Hsien Loong
b) Lawrence Wong
c) Tharman Shanmugaratnam
d) Halimah Yacob
Q. Where is Tata Electronics building India’s first semiconductor fabrication plant?
a) Bengaluru, Karnataka
b) Dholera, Gujarat
c) Noida, Uttar Pradesh
d) Hyderabad, Telangana
Q. Who chaired the 56th GST Council Meeting held in New Delhi on 3 September 2025?
a) Prime Minister Narendra Modi
b) Nirmala Sitharaman
c) Piyush Goyal
d) Rajnath Singh
Q. What is the name of India’s first fully Made-in-India semiconductor chip unveiled in 2025?
a) Shakti-2101
b) Vikram-3201
c) Aryabhata-2000
d) Chandrayaan-1601
Q. Where was Semicon India 2025 held from 2–4 September 2025?
a) Bengaluru
b) Gandhinagar
c) Greater Noida
d) New Delhi (Yashobhoomi)
Q. The 21st edition of the India–US Joint Military Exercise Yudh Abhyas 2025, from 1–14 September 2025 held at:
a) Fort Wainwright, Alaska
b) Fort Bragg, North Carolina
c) Fort Hood, Texas
d) Camp Humphreys, South Korea
Q. Who has been appointed as the 29th Controller General of Accounts (CGA) in September 2025?
a) Meena Agarwal
b) TCA Kalyani
c) Arvind Saxena
d) Soma Roy Burman
Q. The 25th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Heads of State Council Summit (2025) was held in:
A. Beijing
B. Tianjin
C. Moscow
D. New Delhi
Q. Which Indian organisation won the 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Award?
A. Pratham Foundation
B. Smile Foundation
C. Educate Girls (Foundation to Educate Girls Globally)
D. Akshaya Patra Foundation
The Indian NGO Foundation to Educate Girls Globally (popularly Educate Girls) has been named a 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee, often called Asia’s Nobel Prize.
Founded in 2007 by Safeena Husain in Rajasthan, the organisation focuses on mobilising communities and government resources to ensure girls’ education in rural and disadvantaged areas.
Educate Girls is the first Indian organisation to win this award.
The 67th Ramon Magsaysay Award will be presented on 7 November 2025 at the Metropolitan Theatre, Manila.
25th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit held in Tianjin from 31 Aug – 1 Sep 2025, the largest in history with leaders from 20+ countries and 10 international organizations.
Q: During his Tokyo visit, PM Modi announced a target of how much Japanese investment in India over the next 10 years?
a) 5 trillion yen
b) 7 trillion yen
c) 8 trillion yen
d) 10 trillion yen
Q. What was India’s GDP growth rate in the April–June quarter of 2025-26?
a) 6.5%
b) 7.0%
c) 7.8%
d) 8.2%
Q. National Sports Day (29 August) marks the birth anniversary of which legendary Indian sportsperson?
a) Kapil Dev
b) P. T. Usha
c) Major Dhyan Chand
d) Milkha Singh
Q. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-nation tour from August 29–September 1, 2025, covers which two countries?
a) Japan and South Korea
b) Japan and China
c) China and Russia
d) South Korea and Vietnam
Q. Who has been appointed as India’s next High Commissioner to Canada in August 2025?
a) Sanjay Kumar Verma
b) Dinesh K. Patnaik
c) Vikram Misri
d) S. Jaishankar
Q. Who headed the Supreme Court Collegium that recommended the appointment of Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Vipul Pancholi to the Supreme Court in August 2025?
a) Justice D.Y. Chandrachud
b) Justice N.V. Ramana
c) Justice B.R. Gavai
d) Justice U.U. Lalit
Q. The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) completed how many years on 28 August 2025?
a) 10 years
b) 11 years
c) 12 years
d) 9 years
Q. Under the restructured PM SVANidhi Scheme in August 2025, what is the revised loan amount for the first tranche?
a) ₹10,000 → ₹12,000
b) ₹10,000 → ₹15,000
c) ₹15,000 → ₹20,000
d) ₹20,000 → ₹25,000
Q. On 26 August 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Maruti-Suzuki’s first Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV). What is its name?
A) e BALENO
B) e VITARA
C) e SWIFT
D) e DZIRE
Q. Who popularised Ganesh Chaturthi as a public celebration in the late 19th century?
a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
b) Mahatma Gandhi
c) Rabindranath Tagore
d) Dadabhai Naoroji
Q. The U.S. announced 50% tariffs on Indian imports effective from 27 August 2025. What was the main reason cited for imposing these additional tariffs?
a) India’s export subsidies and currency manipulation
b) India’s high tariffs, trade barriers, and close ties with Russia
c) India’s environmental and climate policies
d) India’s rising software and IT exports
Q. In which weight category did Mirabai Chanu win Gold at the 2025 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Ahmedabad?
a) 49kg
b) 48kg
c) 50kg
d) 45kg
Q. When and where did ISRO successfully conduct the first Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT-01) for the Gaganyaan mission?
a) 15 Aug 2025, Chandipur
b) 24 Aug 2025, Sriharikota
c) 19 Aug 2025, Bengaluru
d) 25 Aug 2025, Ahmedabad
Q. According to Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2023-24, what is India’s women’s workforce participation rate (WPR)?
a) 22%
b) 34.5%
c) 40.3%
d) 47.5%
Q. Which team won the Durand Cup 2025?
A) East Bengal
B) Jamshedpur FC
C) NorthEast United FC
D) Diamond Harbour FC
Q. Where was India’s first Removable Solar Panel pilot project launched in August 2025?
a) Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai
b) Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW), Varanasi
c) Diesel Loco Shed, Bhopal
d) North Western Railway Workshop, Jaipur
Q. Who was appointed as India’s new Deputy National Security Advisor (NSA) in August 2025?
a) Rajinder Khanna
b) Anish Dayal Singh
c) T.V. Ravichandran
d) Pawan Kapoor
Q. Who won the gold medal for India in the 72kg category at the U20 World Wrestling Championships 2025 in Bulgaria?
a) Priya Malik
b) Kajal Dochak
c) Reena
d) Shruti
Q. The National Space Day was celebrated in India on 23 August 2025 to commemorate the successful soft landing of which mission?
a) Chandrayaan-1
b) Chandrayaan-2
c) Chandrayaan-3
d) Mangalyaan
Q. On 22 August 2025, the Supreme Court modified its earlier order regarding stray dogs in Delhi-NCR. According to the new order, stray dogs may be released back to their original areas only after:
A) Rabies treatment only
B) Sterilisation and vaccination
C) MCD registration
D) Adoption by animal lovers
Q. Which type of games are banned under the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025?
a) Social/Educational Games
b) Esports
c) Online Money Games involving betting/wagering
d) Adventure-based Games
Q. Who is the current Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as of August 2025?
a) K. Sivan
b) S. Somnath
c) V. Narayanan
d) G. Madhavan Nair
Q. What is the name of Uranus’s newly discovered 29th moon in 2025?
a) S/2025 U1
b) Ura-29
c) S/2025 M1
d) Neo-U1
Q. Which Indian authority partnered with Starlink in 2025 for Aadhaar-Based Customer Verification in India?
a) TRAI
b) UIDAI
c) NITI Aayog
d) Ministry of Electronics & IT
Q. What is the range of Agni-5, the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) successfully test-fired in August 2025 from Chandipur, Odisha?
a) 1,500 km
b) 3,000 km
c) 5,000+ km
d) 7,500 km
Q. Who will lead India in the 2025 Asia Cup T20 tournament in Abu Dhabi and Dubai from September 9 to 28, 2025?
A) Rohit Sharma
B) Virat Kohli
C) Suryakumar Yadav
D) Hardik Pandya
Q. Who has been named as the INDIA bloc’s (Opposition parties) candidate for the Vice Presidential election 2025?
a) CP Radhakrishnan
b) Jagdeep Dhankhar
c) Justice B. Sudershan Reddy
d) Mallikarjun Kharge
Q. India and China agreed to resume direct flight connectivity in August 2025. Flight services were suspended after which past events?
a) Pulwama Attack and Balakot Strikes
b) Kargil War and Mumbai Attacks
c) Doklam Standoff and 2020 Galwan Valley Clash
d) BRICS Summit and SCO Summit
Q. Name of the 12th India–Sri Lanka Naval Exercise held in Colombo in August 2025:
A) MILAN-25
B) SLINEX-25
C) VARUNA-25
D) INDRA-25
Q. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited India in August 2025 for the first time since which event?
A) Doklam Standoff 2017
B) Galwan Valley clashes 2020
C) SCO Summit 2023
D) BRICS Expansion 2024
Q. India aims to establish the Bharatiya Antariksh Station by which year?
A) 2030
B) 2035
C) 2040
D) 2047