Quiz Current Affairs 2025-26 February 2025

Sep 07, 2025

Keeping abreast with the latest happenings is vital to cracking competitive exams. The February 2025 Current Affairs Quiz 2025-26 presents you with multiple-choice (MCQ) questions and objective-type questions and answers on the most important news and updates each day. These quizzes are also well planned and to exam takers such as SSC, IBPS, Banking, Railways, KAS/KPSC, UPPSC, RPSC, MPPSC, MPSC and other PCS exams.

2025 Economic Survey

The Indian economy's performance, governmental policies, and prospects for the next fiscal year are all summarized in the Economic Survey.
The Department of Economic Affairs' economic branch, led by the Chief Economic Advisor (CEA), prepares the Economic Survey.
According to the poll, GDP growth in the fiscal year 2025–2026 (FY26) is expected to be 6.4%.
The construction industry grew at an exponential rate in the most recent fiscal year, surpassing its pre-pandemic trend by almost 15%.
India's FY25 real GDP growth of 6.4% is still in line with the decadal average.
At 2.6% of gross loans and advances, the gross non-performing assets fell to a 12-year low.
A recovery in rural demand is expected to propel the economy's overall demand to increase by 7.3%. It is projected that gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) would increase by 6.4% at constant prices.
Real gross value added (GVA) is predicted to increase by 6.4% on the supply side.
In FY25, the agricultural industry is anticipated to recover to a growth rate of 3.8%.
In FY25, the industrial sector is predicted to expand by 6.2%.
The services sector's growth rate is predicted to stay strong at 7.2%.
According to the Survey, real GDP growth in FY26 is anticipated to range between 6.3% to 6.8%.
From 52.2% in 2017–18 to 58.4% in 2023–24, the proportion of self-employed people in India’s workforce has grown.
In terms of average weekly working hours at the maximum level of 48 hours, India is tied with Germany, Vietnam, and the UK.

Ad Hoc Judges SC

To clear the log jam of pending criminal cases, the Supreme Court relaxed its earlier rule that High Courts needed ad hoc judges.
The High courts themselves can be granted adhoc judges under article 224 A, as at any one time, the number of adhoc judges cannot be more than 10 percent of the sanctioned strength by The Supreme Court bench adjudged that Article 224A should be invoked to appoint adhoc judges within the two to five range of strength.
The appointment of retired judges to the sessions of the High Courts is provided in Article 224A.
The Chief Justice of a High Court of a state may invite any former judge of a High Court of that state or any other High Court to become a judge of that state after the prior approval of the president.
Every individual being so requested shall be deemed entitled to such allowances as the President may, by order determine inasmuch as these persons are sitting and acting in such fashion.
Moreover he will enjoy all the honours, privileges and jurisdiction of a judge of that High Court, but is not in respect of that court to be regarded as a judge.

Index of Shortages Occupation

The Ministry of Labor and Employment came up with a number known as the Occupational Shortage Index (OSI).
The OSI will also equip job searchers with data-driven understandings of professions where there are shortages, to enable them to match talents with the needs of the industries.
Nothing was left behind by the ministry, as it introduced a bilingual e-Shram forms service.
E-Shram microsites are the state-specific digital platforms using the national e-Shram database.
They provide unorganized employees with a one stop facility to avail state and federal welfare schemes, employment opportunities and developmental schemes.

Railway Budget 2025

The Indian Railways (Rlys) Budget for the year 2025-26 is 2.65 lakh crores that is equal to its 2024-25 allocation.
The Railway Capex is of 2.52 lakh crores of the 2.65 lakh crores with which the Public Private Partnership investments are included.
The budget used to build customer amenities in Indian Railways has remained falling at 12,118.39 crores during the FY 2025-26.
Another thing is the allocation of investment in the Public Sector Units (PSU) and Joint Ventures (JV) has decreased in FY 2024-25 through the revised estimate of 27,570.77 Crore compared to the budgeted estimate of 22,444.33 Crore in FY 2025-26.
By March 2025, the Indian Railways will have an excellent record of moving 1.6 billion-tonne cargo capacity.
By this it earns the ranking of being the second largest cargo carrying rail way in the world just after the China one which is 3.7 billion tonne capacity all in the world.
In the Budget of FY 2025-26, the allocation on ‘Bullet’ train project was cut at 19,000 crore.
In FY 2025-26, the Railways will have 100 percent electrification of its routes.
It is the first time that the Railways is expected to hit the 3 lakh crores mark in revenue from passengers in the year 2025-26.
In 1924 The Railway Budget and General Budget were initially differentiated.
This tradition was put to an end after a span of 92 years with the announcement of the Merged Union Budget 2017-18 by the Finance Minister at that time Arun Jaitley.
This choice to combine these two budgets was informed by a committee of this nature that was chaired by Bibek Debroy.