RRB Group D Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 5–11 October 2026

The backgrounder states that the 2026 railway timetable speeded up 549 trains across the network, and it breaks that total into four bands.

At the Safai Mitra Suraksha Evam Samman Shivir held on 29 September 2026, the Secretary of the department felicitated 110 Safai Mitras in recognition of their contribution to cleanliness and hygiene at the department, an exercise meant to underline the dignity of sanitation work.

The Ministry of Rural Development has notified a Schedule of Permissible Works allowing that many works under the new rural works framework of the VB-G RAM G Act.

The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution said more than two lakh quintals of buffer onion had been disposed of so far, moved by eight Kanda Express rail consignments and four hundred and sixty-seven trucks, and that additional rail rakes were being planned so larger quantities could reach…

That is the implementation period announced by the government for the sixth edition of the special campaign, under which departments clear pendency, manage records and dispose of electronic waste.

The Central Silk Board’s Silkworm Seed Production Centre there received a newly constructed grainage building and cold storage facility, inaugurated by the Union Minister of State for Textiles under the North-East Region Textile Promotion Scheme.

The National Medical Library, which functions under the Directorate General of Health Services in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, organised the one-day conference on this theme in New Delhi, drawing attention to the place of digital knowledge resources in healthcare delivery, medical education and evidence-based clinical practice.

Mangrol is the third shallow water craft for anti-submarine warfare delivered by that yard, and it will be commissioned at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai, with the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Western Naval Command presiding.

Under Yuva Sangam Phase VII the Odisha delegation travelled to Himachal Pradesh, reaching the State on 5 October 2026, where NIT Hamirpur is hosting it.

Indian Railways notified that many graduate-level posts in the Non-Technical Popular Categories through the Centralised Employment Notification issued by the Railway Recruitment Boards, covering four categories of posts across commercial services, train operations, accounts and administration.

The Prime Minister addressed a public function in Chennai, where completed works were opened and foundation stones laid for new ones, the whole set valued at thirteen thousand crore rupees, and where a further stretch of the Chennai Metro was dedicated to the public.

The Prime Minister Office tribute issued on his birth anniversary refers to him throughout as Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan, and in short as Loknayak JP, the word meaning leader of the people.

The corridor will serve 12 stations and includes India’s first undersea rail tunnel, which runs about 7 km beneath Thane Creek, and the first service on it is targeted for August 2027.

The campaign started on that date across the department, its autonomous institutions and the offices of the Survey of India located throughout the country, and officials took the Swachhata Pledge the very next day, administered by the Secretary.

It covers check dams, gully plugs, underground dykes, recharge shafts, injection wells, the revival of rivers and nallahs, the reclaiming of waterlogged land, drip irrigation, sprinklers, rooftop rainwater harvesting and even ice-stupas and artificial glaciers.

These were named as the major producing States from which fresh kharif onion had started reaching markets, while availability from stored stocks continued to meet demand in the meantime, and arrivals were expected to rise further in the following weeks.

The figure came from the disposal of electronic waste together with non-electronic scrap, and it sits alongside a set of other targets fixed in the preparatory phase: the review of 18,741 electronic files and 7,773 physical files, cleanliness and space-clearing work at 156 sites, the release of 46,486 square feet…

The trap here is option C: 74 per cent is Assam’s share of Eri silk production, amounting to 2,131 metric tonnes, and the two shares are routinely swapped in question papers, so the pairing must be learnt together.

Smt. Punya Salila Srivastava, Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, highlighted the growth of the National Medical Library network to that many colleges and urged that its reach be extended to every medical college in the country, with particular attention to institutions in underserved areas so that…

The correct answer is Abhay, the hull-mounted sonar that lets the craft pick up submarines in coastal and shallow waters.

The Indian Institute of Management, Sambalpur, is the nodal institution leading the Odisha delegation on its Yuva Sangam Phase VII visit to Himachal Pradesh.

The correct answer is Goods Train Manager, with 2,750 of the notified posts, which is by far the biggest block in this recruitment.

The Prime Minister said the Union Government has recently decided to build this port into a world-class mega container and green energy hub with an investment of about seventeen thousand crore rupees, and that once the work is finished even ultra-large container vessels will be able to reach it, helping…

The Prime Minister paid homage to him on his birth anniversary, which falls on the same date as that of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan, and described him as an outstanding nation-builder who showed in thought and in action that genuine change starts at the grassroots.

Besides cutting the running time from roughly eight hours to half an hour, it shortened the distance between the two points from about 300 km to 22 km, which is why it is quoted as one of the sharpest connectivity gains in the document.

Under the Safai Mitra Suraksha initiative, the department arranged a financial awareness session through the securities regulator on 23 September 2026, and it was open to housekeeping staff as well as to the scientists, officers and officials of the department, the aim being to improve financial awareness and the general…

The Ministry of Rural Development notified the Schedule of Permissible Works under the Viksit Bharat - Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act of that year, and the Schedule itself was put out on 6 October 2026.

Eight such rail movements, together with four hundred and sixty-seven trucks, were used to carry more than two lakh quintals of buffer onion to one hundred and twenty-three cities, and further rail rakes were being planned so that bigger quantities could reach markets with heavy consumption.

The department marked Swachh Bharat Diwas on that day with an e-waste disposal drive led by the Secretary at its headquarters in the CGO Complex in Delhi, where officers were urged to identify and dispose of obsolete items and unserviceable material both at work and at home.

The minister cited this estimate to show how much livelihood depends on the sector, which is the reason seed quality and modern infrastructure matter well beyond the rearing shed.