Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

Using (an idea, term, or name) frequently in casual talk.

1. Bamboozling

2. Bandying

3. Bounding

4. Banding

Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

Eat or drink food quickly and in large amounts.

1. Sip

2. Choke

3. Gulp

4. Swish

The sentence below has been divided into three parts. Select the part of the sentence that has an error. If the sentence has no error, select the option 'No Error'.

We will have to spend a few/ hours journeying down in a bus,/ which is bound to take its toll.

1. hours journeying down in a bus,

2. which is bound to take its toll

3. We will have to spend a few

4. No error

In the following question, one part of the sentence may have an error. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and click the option corresponding to it. If the sentence is free from error, click the 'No error' option.

Let’s all work (1)/together as like a homogeneous (2)/group so that (3)/success would be obvious. (4)/No error (5).

1. Let’s all work

2. together as like homogeneous

3. group so that

4. success would be obvious

5. No error

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Out of bounds

1. Forbidden

2. Within limits

3. Tied up

4. Limitless

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Know like the back of one’s hand

1. to be unaware of the situation

2. to have detailed knowledge of something

3. to hit someone with the back of one’s hand

4. to copy another’s trade secrets

APPOINTMENTS

• Vice Chief of Army Staff - Lieutenant General Pushpendra Singh

• Vice Chief of the Naval Staff - Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan

• Director General of the Sashastra Seema Bal - BSF’s Special Director General Sanjay Singhal

• Director General of the Railway Protection Force - Sonali Mishra

• Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre - Rajarajan

• Controller General of Defence Accounts - Shri Raj Kumar Arora

• Chairperson of the Central Board of Secondary Education - Senior IAS officer Rahul Singh

• CEO of IndusInd Bank - Rajiv Anand

• Governor of Nagaland - Ajay Kumar Bhalla (Additionall charge)

• MD of Solar Energy Corporation of India - Akash Tripathi

• Head coach of the Indian Men’s National Football Team - Khalid Jamil

• President of Boxing Federation of India - Ajay Singh

AWARDS

• UNDP Equator Initiative Award 2025, also called the Nobel Prize for Biodiversity Conservation -

Bibi Fatima Women’s Self-Help Group (SHG) from Teertha village, Dharwad district

• Miss Universe India 2025 - Rajasthan’s Manika Vishwakarma
INDEX/RANKINGS

• World’s Largest Aviation Market in 2024 - US (1st) & India (5th)

• Global AI City Index 2025 - Singapore (1st) & Bengaluru (26th)

• World Competitiveness Ranking 2025 - Switzerland (1st) & India (41st)

DEFENCE IN NEWS

• Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) launched ICGS ATAL (Yard 1275), a Fast Patrol Vessel (FPV), in

Vasco-da-Gama, Goa.

• Assam Rifles signed an MoU with IIIT Manipur at Mantripukhri to promote drone technology for

defence and security.

• India and Japan are co-developing the Unified Complex Radio Antenna (UNICORN), also known

as Nora-50, for Indian Navy platforms.

• Indian Army launches drone competition ‘Surya Dronnathan 2025’ in Himachal Pradesh.

Monthly Current Affairs, [30.09.2025 10:47] Science & Tech/Space In News

• Dhruva Space, a Hyderabad-based spacetech startup, will launch its first commercial mission,

LEAP-1, in Q3 of 2025 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying two payloads—an AI module

from Australia’s Akula Tech and a hyperspectral imager from Esper Satellites—on its

saindigenously built P-30 satellite platform.

• BEML Ltd. and TuTr Hyperloop, a deep-tech startup incubated at IIT Madras, have signed a

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop India’s first indigenously designed

Hyperloop transportation system.

• Russia has planned the Venera-D mission to Venus between 2034 and 2036, after earlier Soviet

Venera probes (1961–1983) captured surface images. The mission will have a lander, balloon

probe, and an orbital spacecraft, with design work starting in January 2026, led by the Space

Research Institute (IKI) and Lavochkin Association.

• NASA plans to establish a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030, following China’s

announcement in April 2025 to construct a lunar nuclear power plant by 2035.

The Artemis mission — an acronym for Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence, and

Electrodynamics of Moon’s Interaction with the Sun — is NASA’s second major effort to land

astronauts on the Moon.
SPORTS IN NEWS

• Malta will host the 8th Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) in late 2027.

• Ramesh Budhial became the first Indian ever to win a medal at the Asian Surfing

Championships by clinching the bronze in the Open Men's category held in Chennai.

• Namrata Batra made history by winning India’s first-ever medal in Wushu at the World Games

2025 in Chengdu, China, securing silver in the women’s 52 kg category.

• Jharkhand Women’s Hockey Team won the 15th Junior National Women’s Hockey

Championship for the second consecutive year, defeating Hockey Haryana 2-1 in the final at

Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh.

• Tamil Nadu's A Ra Harikrishnan becomes India's 87th Chess GM.

• Maharashtra's Divya Deshmukh becomes 88th GM of India.

• Tamil Nadu's S. Rohith Krishna Becomes 89th Indian Grandmaster.

• India's G. Sathiyan won the men’s singles title at the World Table Tennis Feeder in Vientiane,