1st January 2026 Current Affairs MCQ Quiz

The United States has taken over the G20 presidency for 2026 from South Africa, with the leaders' summit set to be held in Miami. South Africa held the rotating presidency through 2025.

NITI Aayog is running the show here. They're the ones aggregating all that massive input from across the country to draft our long-term development roadmap.

ISRO's trusty workhorse the PSLV-C62 carried the EOS-N1 earth observation satellite plus 15 smaller co-passengers into orbit from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.

The National Green Hydrogen Mission targets at least 5 Million Metric Tonnes (MMT) of green hydrogen production per annum by 2030, backed by about 125 GW of new renewable energy capacity.

Mansour Al Mansour of Saudi Arabia won the 2025 Global Teacher Prize, chosen from over 5,000 nominations across 89 countries. Ranjitsinh Disale of India won it back in 2020.

In its December 2025 review the RBI's Monetary Policy Committee trimmed the repo rate by 25 bps to 5.25%, capping the most aggressive easing cycle since 2019 as inflation cooled.

India's first long-distance Vande Bharat Sleeper train runs between Howrah in West Bengal and Kamakhya (Guwahati) in Assam, with fully air-conditioned overnight coaches and a top speed of 180 km/h.

Kerala has done it again! They've been very consistent with their digital infrastructure projects, and now every rural panchayat is fully digitally literate.

Italy is the place to be! Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo are co-hosting, and the preparations are already in full swing as we enter the start of the year.

Launched in September 2023, PM Vishwakarma covers 18 traditional family-based trades such as carpenter, blacksmith, goldsmith, potter, cobbler and tailor, offering a toolkit incentive and concessional loans up to Rs 3 lakh.

The Union Cabinet approved the IndiaAI Mission with an outlay of Rs 10,371.92 crore, funding pillars like AI compute (over 10,000 GPUs), an Innovation Centre, datasets platform and FutureSkills.

National Startup Day is observed on 16 January, the date the Startup India initiative was launched in 2016. In January 2026 the government marked a decade of Startup India.

Ravneet Kaur continues to lead the way at the CCI. Ensuring fair competition in our rapidly growing digital market is a tough job, but she's been a steady hand.

Nauradehi in Madhya Pradesh finally got the upgrade. This is huge for protecting our big cats and ensuring they have a safer corridor to roam.

Aditya-L1 is India's first solar mission. Launched in September 2023, it studies the Sun from a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 1 (L1), about 1.5 million km from Earth.

India and Sri Lanka are the joint hosts of the 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. (The 2025 Champions Trophy was hosted by Pakistan, with India winning a record third title.)

The IMF is always the one to watch for these macro reports. They’ve signaled that we need to keep a close watch on global trade dynamics this year.

It's our nuclear-capable, short-range ballistic missile. It’s all about strengthening our deterrence and keeping our defense systems top-tier.

The rules are all about holding entities (fiduciaries) accountable for how they handle our personal info. It's a massive step forward for our privacy rights.

The 13th session of the World Urban Forum (WUF13) is being held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in May 2026 under the theme 'Housing the world: Safe and resilient cities and communities.'