Current Affair MCQ for 2025-09-16

Notes: Researchers have discovered a new freshwater fish species named Garra nambashiensis in Manipur. The discovery was made in Taretlok, a tributary of the Chindwin River, near Nambashi Valley in Kamjong district. The fish belongs to the Labeonine family and is locally called Nutungnu. The Northeast region has 60 Garra species, of which 32 are proboscis species group, including eight from the Chindwin River system.

Notes: Russia recently announced it fired a Zircon (Tsirkon) hypersonic cruise missile at a target in the Barents Sea. Sukhoi Su-34 supersonic fighter-bombers also carried out strikes as part of drills with Belarus. The joint exercise, called Zapad (West), began on September 12 to improve military command and coordination in case of an attack on Russia or Belarus. The 3M22 Zircon, NATO code SS-N-33, is a scramjet-powered hypersonic cruise missile developed by Russia. It was first built to strike naval targets but later upgraded for land-attack missions.

Notes: Recently, Australia approved the world’s first vaccine to protect koalas from Chlamydia. The koala bear (Phascolarctos cinereus) is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. Koalas are asocial, meeting mainly during breeding, and spend most of their time in eucalyptus trees eating and sleeping. They live in open forests to woodlands across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. Chlamydia causes urinary infections, infertility, blindness, and death, responsible for half of koala deaths in the wild. It is listed as Vulnerable by IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), they face threats from disease, habitat loss, climate change, and road collisions.

Notes: Recently, the Indian Navy received INS Androth, the second indigenously built Anti-Submarine Warfare–Shallow Watercraft (ASW-SWC). It is named after Androth Island in the Lakshadweep archipelago. INS Androth is the second of eight ASW-SWC ships built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata. These ships are designed as per the Indian Register of Shipping (IRS) Classification Rules. The vessel is 77 meters long and among the largest Indian Naval warships. It enhances submarine detection, coastal surveillance, and mine-laying capabilities.

Notes: Recently, Ho tribe adivasis staged a protest in West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand against administration interference in their Manki-Munda system. The Ho or Kolha people are an Austroasiatic Munda ethnic group of India. They call themselves Ho, Hodoko, and Horo, meaning human in their language. They are mainly found in the Kolhan region of Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, and Bihar. In the Manki-Munda system, the Munda (village head) resolves socio-political disputes at the village level. Each village had one hereditary Munda. A Manki headed a pidh of 8–15 villages and handled unresolved cases. Manki and Munda had no role in land or revenue matters. It was a purely internal self-governing system, with no taxation or external sovereign control.