IBPS Current Affairs Quiz: 24 September 2026

The correct answer is six months. Under the earlier design of the scheme a placement counted only when the trained candidate held continuous employment for at least three months, so option A states the old rule and not the present one. The upgraded guidelines that the Government notified in May 2025 doubled that floor, so that training is judged by work that lasts rather than by a short spell of employment, and the revised rules recognise continuous as well as non-continuous employment, including wage work, self-employment and gig work. Option C names a period the guidelines do not use at any stage. Option D is the period for which a placed candidate is tracked after joining, and also the point at which upskilling and reskilling opportunities open up, but tracking is not the same thing as the placement test itself, so it does not answer the question.

The correct answer is Prasar Bharati, India's public service broadcaster. PBSHABD is its free news feed, and the very name carries the parent body in it, since it expands to Prasar Bharati - Shared Audio-Visuals for Broadcast and Dissemination. The service grew out of the broadcaster's own internal wire, the Prasar Bharati News Service, and it draws on the same correspondents and desks that feed bulletins on Akashvani and Doordarshan. Option A names a news agency that is not connected with this platform. Option C is the government's own publicity arm, which issues press releases rather than running this multimedia feed. Option D is a training and research institution in mass communication and has no role in running the service. The ministry in charge of the launch was Information and Broadcasting.

The correct answer is the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, usually written as DARPG. It runs the special campaign across the Government, lays down the parameters against which each office identifies its pending matters, issues the guidelines that offices follow, and takes the reporting of achievements on the campaign portal. Option B names the department that is implementing the drive in this particular case, which is the trap in the question: DEPwD is a participating department, not the one that launched the campaign. Option C handles service and personnel matters for the Government and is not the nodal department for this drive. Option D deals with public finance and expenditure control, and has no role in running the cleanliness and pendency campaign. Remember DARPG as the nodal department, and remember that each participating department nominates its own Nodal Officer.

The correct answer is the women's Sanda 60kg event, in which she took the silver medal. Sanda is the full-contact fighting format of wushu and its bouts are decided in weight categories, which is why the weight appears in the name of the event itself. The Prime Minister's message picked out not only the medal but the pattern behind it, namely that she has won at three Asian Games in a row, and he described her consistency, courage and determination as commendable. Options B and C move her to other combat sports and, in the case of judo, to a different weight class as well, so neither matches the event named in the message. Option D belongs to the other medal of the same day, the men's double sculls in rowing, which was won by a different pair of athletes altogether.

The correct answer is 25 September 2014, under the National Rural Livelihoods Mission. The Ministry of Rural Development started the scheme on that date to give placement-linked skill training to youth of 15 to 35 years from poor rural households, and the scheme is marking its twelfth anniversary this year. Option B moves the launch a year later and attaches the scheme to a different skilling programme, which the ministry does not name as its parent. Option C picks a date associated with cleanliness and rural employment programmes rather than with this scheme, and MGNREGA is a wage employment law, not the mission under which rural skilling sits. Option D names neither the right date nor the right parent mission. The pairing to remember is DDU-GKY with the National Rural Livelihoods Mission, also written as DAY-NRLM.

The correct answer is March 2027. Free access has been stretched in steps rather than granted once and for all, which is exactly what makes this a favourite question. When the platform completed a year of operation, free access was extended to March 2026, and it was later extended again, this time up to March 2027, so media organisations can plan their use of the feed with some certainty. Option A is the month in which the first extension was announced, not the date up to which the service is free. Option B was the earlier assurance and has since been superseded, so it is the classic trap for a candidate who has read an older report. Option D is simply beyond anything announced. The service charges registered users no subscription fee for what they download.

The correct answer is 2 to 31 October 2026. The campaign is run in two clearly separated stages, and a question of this kind usually turns on telling them apart. Option A gives the dates of the preparatory phase, which is the stretch in which offices identify the files, references and grievances that they will take up, fix targets and put the institutional arrangements in place. The implementation phase that follows is the month in which that identified pendency is actually disposed of, space is freed and e-waste is collected, segregated and sent for disposal. Option C names a month in which no phase of the campaign falls. Option D repeats the dates of the previous edition, Special Campaign 5.0, which was held a year earlier and whose results form the baseline for this year's drive.

The correct answer is three. What the Prime Minister called noteworthy was not the single silver alone but the run behind it: medals at three Asian Games one after another, a record of turning up at the top of the sport over many years rather than in one good season. That is the phrase to remember, because a question on this athlete is far more likely to test the run of appearances than the score of any bout. Option A understates the record and would describe a competitor at only her second successful Games. Options C and D overstate it, and a candidate who guesses upwards on the assumption that a longer run sounds more impressive will lose the mark. Along with the count, note the words the message used about her, namely consistency, courage and determination.

The correct answer is 7,620 rupees, at 1,270 rupees a month for six months. The support is deliberately paid month by month over the same six months that now make up the minimum placement period, so that the money helps a candidate stay in a new job and a new city rather than arriving as one lump sum. Option A is wrong because the assistance is not a single grant on joining. Option C invents both the total and the monthly rate. Option D is wrong because post-placement support is one of the features that the upgraded framework strengthened: besides the monthly assistance, a candidate who remains employed for 365 days, with an employment break of no more than 60 days, receives a retention amount of 5,000 rupees, and upskilling opportunities follow twelve months of placement.

The correct answer is that the content carries no logo and needs no credit line. This is the feature that sets the platform apart from a conventional news agency, because a small newspaper can run a national or international story under its own masthead without attributing it to the broadcaster. Option A reverses that rule. Option C is wrong because the feed offers news in 15 Indian languages and under nearly 50 news categories, in five formats covering text, video, audio, photographs and infographics, which is what makes it useful to regional newsrooms. Option D is wrong because registration is open to newspapers and journals holding a valid RNI certificate, to television and radio stations holding uplink and downlink certificates, and to digital publishers who submit a copy of their PAN. Each organisation gets one login to share within its newsroom.

The correct answer is 14,47,619 rupees. The money came from the disposal of files, obsolete material and scrap during the month-long drive held from 2 to 31 October 2025. The other options are the campaign's remaining figures moved into the wrong place, which is how such questions are usually framed. Option A is the number of physical files and documents that were digitised and weeded out during that campaign. Option B is the office space, measured in square feet, that was freed for use. Option D inflates the number of cleanliness drives, which stood at 64, into a sum of money. A candidate should therefore memorise the four results of Special Campaign 5.0 together with the unit attached to each of them, because the unit is what the examiner tests.

The correct answer is the men's double sculls. The name of a rowing event tells you both the size of the crew and the way the oars are held: sculling means each rower works a pair of oars, and double means the boat carries two of them. That fits the fact that the medal was won by two athletes together, Satnam Singh and Salman Khan, and it is also why the Prime Minister's message dwelt on their composure and their coordination, since a sculling pair has to match every stroke. Option A is an event rowed alone, so it cannot be shared by two medallists. Option B carries two rowers but each handles a single oar, which is a different discipline. Option D is a boat of four, larger than the crew named here.