27th June 2026 Current Affairs MCQ

The historic landing happened at Udaipur Airport, where an IndiGo Airbus A320 completed an approach guided entirely by GAGAN — India's own satellite-based navigation system — under a DGCA trial. GAGAN works by taking GPS signals, correcting them through ground stations across India, and rebroadcasting the fix via geostationary satellites, getting accuracy down to about 7.6 metres. That's precise enough to safely guide a jet to the runway even in poor visibility, without needing the expensive ground-based ILS equipment most airports rely on. Since fewer than 80 of India's 450+ airports currently have ILS, this milestone matters far beyond Udaipur — it points to a future where smaller cities finally get reliable air connectivity.

GAGAN stands for GPS Aided GEO Augmented Navigation, jointly built by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and ISRO. It falls under a category called Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) — think of it as a correction layer that fixes the small errors in raw GPS signals, the same broad concept used by systems like the US's WAAS or Europe's EGNOS. GAGAN got its DGCA certification back in 2015 and is fully ICAO-compliant, but the Udaipur landing marks its first real jump from "certified on paper" to "actively guiding a jet in the air." One shared piece of infrastructure can, in theory, serve hundreds of Indian airports at once — a huge cost advantage over installing ILS at each one individually

Bharat Taxi flips the usual ride-hailing model on its head — instead of drivers paying a 20-25% per-ride commission to a corporate platform, it's run as a cooperative where drivers are the actual owners. They pay a lower membership fee instead of commissions, share in the surplus earnings, and vote democratically on governance decisions rather than answering to a corporate board. It builds on India's genuinely strong cooperative track record — think Amul and IFFCO — and falls under the Ministry of Cooperation's push (led by Amit Shah, who launched this platform) to expand the cooperative model into new sectors. Launching it in Gandhinagar was a deliberate choice too, since Gujarat has one of India's strongest cooperative traditions and is meant to serve as the template for a national rollout.

HELINA (Helicopter-launched NAG) is exactly that — the helicopter-fired version of DRDO's indigenously developed NAG missile, a third-generation anti-tank guided missile. Its standout feature is an infrared imaging seeker that locks onto a tank's heat signature and guides itself to the target with zero operator input after launch — useful even in fog, dust, or total darkness. It's designed to fire from the HAL Rudra and the upcoming Light Combat Helicopter, and it's especially valuable in a place like Ladakh, where high-altitude terrain limits what ground vehicles can do. HELINA achieved Initial Operational Clearance back in 2022, and it now sits alongside BrahMos, Akash, and ULPGM-V3 as part of India's growing homegrown precision-weapons portfolio.

India's MSME sector accounts for nearly 50% of India's exports — a genuinely striking figure for a sector often thought of as small and domestic-facing. Beyond exports, MSMEs employ over 11 crore people (India's second-largest employer after agriculture) and contribute roughly 30% of India's GDP. World MSME Day itself was established by the UN General Assembly in 2017, and globally MSMEs make up about 90% of all businesses and 70% of employment. On the policy side, Udyam Registration (3.5 crore+ MSMEs registered), the MSMED Act, 2006, and CGTMSE's collateral-free credit guarantees up to ₹5 crore are the frameworks worth remembering — these show up regularly in IBPS PO and SSC CGL exams.

The Maharashtra State Council of Examination pulled the plug on TET 2026 — originally set for 28 June — after intelligence inputs pointed to a possible paper leak, leaving lakhs of registered candidates scrambling with almost no notice. This isn't Maharashtra's first brush with this exact problem either — a similar leak scandal hit the state's TET back in 2021, involving examination officials and coaching centre operators working together. Zoom out, and this fits a troubling pattern across India's exam ecosystem in 2026, alongside the NEET-UG leak crisis. The National Recruitment Agency, set up in 2020 partly to reduce this kind of fragmentation and leak risk through a single Common Eligibility Test, has rolled out far slower than originally promised.

The World's Best School Prizes, organised by T4 Education, judge schools across five categories — Community Collaboration, Environmental Action, Innovation, Overcoming Adversity, and Supporting Healthy Lives. India had 7 schools shortlisted in 2026, the highest number ever from a single country in the award's history. It's a nice counterbalance to a less flattering NITI Aayog report on school infrastructure gaps from a month earlier — both things are true at once: real infrastructure challenges exist at the aggregate level, while genuinely innovative, community-driven schools are thriving in pockets across the country.

India's nominal GDP stood at approximately $3.9 trillion in 2026, making it the world's 5th largest economy, with GDP per capita (PPP) crossing $10,000. For comparison, Pakistan's GDP sat around $350 billion. On other fronts, India also ranked 39th on the Global Innovation Index 2025 — its highest-ever ranking — while its HDI score of roughly 0.644 places it in the "Medium Human Development" category around 132nd globally. These comparative figures matter for exams less as political talking points and more as concrete development benchmarks worth memorising together.

Swift has detected over 1,500 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) since launching in 2004 — more than every previous GRB mission combined — largely because it can detect a burst and swing its telescopes toward the source in just 75 seconds. GRBs are the most violent explosions in the universe, releasing more energy in seconds than the Sun will emit across its entire 10-billion-year life, and they come in two flavours: short GRBs (under 2 seconds, from neutron star mergers) and long GRBs (from collapsing massive stars). India connects to this story through AstroSat, its own multi-wavelength space observatory launched in 2015, which contributes to the same global GRB research effort that Swift anchors.

Cricket, in T20 format, returns to the Olympics at LA 2028 for the first time in over a hundred years — a genuinely significant moment given India's outsized dominance in the sport, including two T20 World Cup titles (2024 and 2026) and the top ICC Test ranking. It sits within a broader story of Indian sport strengthening across the board — the Khelo India programme has funded thousands of young athletes, and India's Paris 2024 haul of 7 medals (including Neeraj Chopra's javelin gold) showed real breadth beyond cricket. With cricket's massive following in India, its Olympic return in 2028 is likely to be one of the most closely watched storylines heading into that Games.