Daily Current Affairs UPSC: News Based MCQs Quiz | 10th January 2026

Which among the following countries does not border Syria?

A. Lebanon

B. Iran

C. Turkey

D. Iraq

Consider the following:

Assertion (A): The returning officer has the discretion to allot election symbols to the candidates if they belong to different unrecognized political parties.

Reasoning (R): where of the two or more such candidates set up by such different unrecognized political parties, only one is, or was, immediately before such election, a sitting member of the House of the People, the returning officer shall allot that free symbol to that candidate, and to no one else.

Choose the correct answer:

A. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of A

B. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of A

C. (A) is correct but (R) is incorrect

D. (R) is correct but (A) is incorrect.

Consider the following statements:

1. The Lee Commission was formed in 1925 as a result of the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms.

2. The first Public Service Commission (PSC) in 1926 was headed by Sir Ross Barker.

Which of the statements above is or are correct?

A. 1 only

B. 2 only

C. Both 1 and 2

D. None of the above

Consider the following in context of NATO:

1. It is a military alliance only.

2. The concept of collective defence is enshrined in Article 5 of the North Atlantic treaty.

Which of the statements above is or are correct?

A. 1 only

B. 2 only

C. Both 1 and 2

D. None of the above