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Current Affairs Quiz: 19 February 2026

15 questions from the news of 19 February 2026. Tap an option to see the answer and the explanation.

DAILY QUIZCurrent AffairsQuiz19 February 202615 questions with answers and explanationssafalsetu.com
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1. Which one of these countries is not part of the G7?

Answer: E. The G7 has the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada; China is outside it, and the European Union takes part without being an enumerated member.

2. The Beat the Heat Programme is chiefly meant to tackle which problem?

Answer: E. It concentrates on dealing with extreme heat through sustainable cooling technologies and planning for urban resilience.

3. For what is the 105-billion parameter model released by Sarvam mainly intended?

Answer: B. This 105B parameter large language model targets advanced reasoning, coding, multilingual processing and the solving of complex problems.

4. INS Krishna, which the Indian Navy recently launched, is what kind of vessel?

Answer: C. It is the country's first indigenously built Cadet Training Ship, conceived as a floating classroom that gives naval cadets practical sea experience.

5. Which initiative acts as a national benchmarking platform to validate Health AI tools?

Answer: A. BODH, short for Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI, tests AI tools before wide rollout to confirm they are safe, reliable and fair.

6. What cap applies to the post-acquisition Debt–Equity ratio in RBI's acquisition financing norms?

Answer: D. On a continuing basis the ratio after a takeover must stay at or under 3:1, which limits excess leverage and systemic risk.

7. To which transactions does the Unique Transaction Identifier mandated by RBI apply?

Answer: E. Requiring a UTI on every OTC derivative deal improves transparency, risk monitoring and oversight of financial stability.

8. For what is the NPCI–Nvidia partnership mainly intended to develop AI?

Answer: B. The tie-up aims at a sovereign AI model suited to heavy, real-time digital payment volumes, with fraud detection and operational intelligence.

9. Which scheme turns cattle dung and crop residue into compressed biogas and organic manure?

Answer: C. GOBARdhan encourages converting animal waste and crop residue into compressed biogas (CBG) and organic manure, supporting circular agriculture.

10. Which digital farm infrastructure does Bharat VISTAAR bring together?

Answer: A. It pulls together AgriStack, land records, farmer registries and ICAR advisories in order to deliver AI-based support to farmers.

11. The 52nd G7 Summit 2026 is to be held in which place?

Answer: A. Macron invited Modi to the summit in Évian, France.

12. How many Maharashtra cities joined the Beat the Heat Programme during Mumbai Climate Week 2026?

Answer: B. Maharashtra announced that 30 cities joined.

13. Till which year does the India–France Special Global Strategic Partnership guide cooperation?

Answer: A. The framework runs till 2047.

14. What are the two parameter sizes of the Indian-language LLMs launched by Sarvam?

Answer: B. Sarvam launched 30-billion and 105-billion parameter models.

15. How many AI startups are featured in the book AI-Preneurs of India?

Answer: C. The book documents 45 pioneering AI startups.