SSC CGL Current Affairs Quiz: 26 September 2026

The correct answer is Digital Agenda and Artificial Intelligence to Redesign Tourism. The day falls on 27 September and the theme chosen for this edition asks how digital innovation and artificial intelligence can change the way destinations are planned, promoted, managed and experienced by travellers. The global observance is hosted by El Salvador. Option A, on green investments, names a concern of the tourism debate but is not the theme picked for this year. Option C, built around rural growth, echoes the kind of destination work India does through its own schemes, yet it is not the theme of the day either. Option D, on peace, is a slogan of an older kind and again does not match this edition. Candidates should tie the year to the exact wording of the theme, because question setters ask for the theme verbatim and place near misses among the options.

The correct answer is Union Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava, who spoke for India at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 25 September and reaffirmed the commitment of the country to global health security. Option A is wrong because the address was delivered by the Health Secretary, the senior civil servant of the ministry, and not by the minister. Option C names the envoy who leads the mission of India at the world body, but the health intervention at this meeting came from the ministry itself. Option D names the head of the apex medical research body, which had a large role during the pandemic yet did not speak here. Such questions test whether an aspirant reads the designation carefully, so the pairing of the meeting, the venue and the exact office of the speaker should be memorised together.

The correct answer is 2 October to 31 October 2026, the month long implementation phase of the campaign across ministries, departments, their undertakings and field offices. Option A is the preparatory phase, when nodal officers were appointed and trained, pending references were listed, offices were chosen for the cleanliness drive and targets were uploaded on the campaign portal, so it is a tempting but wrong choice. Option C shifts the drive to the following month and has no basis. Option D cuts the window to a fortnight, while the campaign is run through the whole of October. Aspirants should keep both dates in mind, because a question may ask for either phase, and should also note that the drive is in its sixth year with the administrative reforms department in charge.

The correct answer is Swachhta Mein Sahbhag - Swachh Bharat, Viksit Bharat. The theme joins two ideas, participation in cleanliness and the goal of a developed India, and every activity held under the campaign is expected to reflect it. The Swachhata Samvad at the Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes at Hisar was organised under exactly this theme, which is why the release names it. Option A reads like a slogan built from the campaign's own title but is not the theme announced for this edition. Option C is invented and merely strings together familiar words about complete cleanliness. Option D names a well-known call for a shared hour of voluntary cleaning work, which is a separate initiative rather than the theme of this campaign. Aspirants should keep the theme and such campaign slogans apart, since both appear in question papers.

The correct answer is 668 metres. The road over bridge whose foundation stone was laid between the Guntur and Nambur railway stations in Andhra Pradesh will run 668 metres and carry four lanes of traffic. It has been sanctioned at a cost of 108 crore rupees, the whole of which is being paid by the Ministry of Railways, and it requires 2.9 acres of land. Option A, 468 metres, option B, 568 metres, and option D, 768 metres, are all wrong because none of them is the figure announced for this bridge; only the 668-metre length is correct. Candidates should link the length with the other numbers of the project, because a question paper may ask for the cost or the land instead of the length.

The correct answer is Deendayal Port, Kandla, Gujarat. The foundation stone of the country's first port-based e-methanol plant was laid at the Deendayal Port Authority at Kandla in Gandhidham on 26 September 2026 by the Chief Ministers of Gujarat and Assam along with the Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways. The plant will make 150 tonnes of the green fuel a day for ships using the Asia-Europe International Trade Corridor. Option A, Jawaharlal Nehru Port, option C, Paradip Port, and option D, Cochin Port, are wrong because the plant announced on this day belongs to the Deendayal Port Authority alone; Cochin Shipyard Limited appears in the news only as the partner in a separate shipbuilding project at Vadinar worth 1,520 crore rupees. Candidates should tie the port to the state, Gujarat, and to the partner from Assam.

The correct answer is 30 October 2026. At its meeting on 26 September 2026 the Commission accepted a request from the Chief Electoral Officer of Delhi and pushed the last date for filing claims and objections to 30 October 2026. Option D, 30 November 2026, is the date by which notices, claims and objections in Delhi must be disposed of, which is a different stage of the same process. Option A, 12 October 2026, is the filing date for Maharashtra, and option C, 10 November 2026, is the disposal date for Maharashtra, both granted on a request from that region's Chief Electoral Officer. Candidates should keep the two regions and the two stages apart, because question papers often swap the filing date of one region with the disposal date of the other.

The correct answer is Keralam. The Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation launched the Vanitham She-Mart Shops at the Pavithram Convention Centre in Kollam on 26 September 2026, and said it was satisfying that the initiative was beginning from a state with more than 23,000 working cooperative institutions and a movement that has been organised since before Independence. Options A and B, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, are wrong as the answer to this question although they are part of the story, because the more than 300 She-Mart stores planned will be spread across Keralam, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka; the launch itself was in Keralam. Option D, Andhra Pradesh, does not figure in the plan at all. Aspirants should remember the launch state and the three states of the rollout separately.

The correct answer is kabaddi. On this day India stood first in both kabaddi events at the Asian Games: the men's team retained the gold medal it already held and the women's team won gold after a thrilling final, so the sport delivered two golds in a single day. Option A, hockey, is wrong because no hockey gold was announced among these results. Option C, squash, and option D, table tennis, are wrong because India's medals in those two sports on the same day were bronze, in the squash mixed team event and in mixed doubles table tennis, and not gold. Aspirants should link the sport with the colour of the medal and with the fact that both the men's and the women's teams stood on the top step.

The correct answer is the shot put. Tajinderpal Singh won silver in the men's shot put with an impressive throw, and the Prime Minister noted that his focus and perseverance have brought India laurels over and over, so this medal is another milestone in a long career. Options A, B and D name the javelin, the discus and the hammer, which are also throwing events in athletics but not the one in which he competed here, so they are wrong. Aspirants should link his name firmly with the shot put, because papers often list four throwing events as options. On the same day India's other athletics medal came from Prachi Choudhary, who took bronze in the women's 400m. His silver was one of the two silver medals India took that day, the other coming from the women’s rifle team event in shooting.

The correct answer is Maharashtra. The collection of 89 mementos brings together the state's historical legacy, spiritual traditions, indigenous art forms and contemporary achievements, with the legacy of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj as the leading theme and a scale model of the Meghadambari at Raigad Fort among the pieces. Options A, C and D name other states whose heritage is not the subject of this collection, so they are wrong. Other giveaways in the catalogue point to the same state: Warli painting is its tribal art form, Sant Tukaram and Sant Dnyaneshwar belong to its Bhakti tradition, and the infrastructure models are of Vadhavan Port, the Thane-Borivali Twin Tunnel Project and Navi Mumbai International Airport. For revision, keep the state, the number of mementos and the leading theme of the collection together in a single line.

The correct answer is 3,937 kg. This is the total quantity of poppy straw, known regionally as doda chura, recovered by the Rajasthan unit across the whole set of operations, alongside 9.6 kg of opium and 1.9 kg of hydroponic cannabis. Option B is wrong because 2,292 kg is only a rounded form of the single largest consignment, the 2,292.460 kg found in 118 bags inside a truck that was hiding the load beneath cement sacks; it is one case, not the total. Option C is wrong because 1,037 kg was recovered in 56 bags from a premises where a Fortuner car stood loaded with contraband, which is again a single case. Option D is wrong because 340 kg was the quantity taken from a Tata Harrier car in 23 bags. Adding these and the other smaller recoveries, such as 156.7 kg from a Honda Amaze and 110 kg from a Creta, gives the announced total of 3,937 kg.

The correct answer is ICAR-NISA, Ranchi and ICAR-CIRCOT, Mumbai. At these two institutes, one in Jharkhand and the other in Maharashtra, biodegradable offerings such as flowers and other puja samagri were collected and segregated from the rest of the festival waste, and the compostable material was then processed at composting facilities to prepare organic manure. That turned waste generated during the immersion into a useful resource for the soil. Options A, C and D name other well-known institutes of the council, but none of them was reported as carrying out this composting work. The activity formed part of the wider Swachhata Hi Seva drive at ICAR institutions, which also covered awareness at a local Ganesh pandal, cleaning of the surrounding area and segregation of the garbage collected there.

The correct answer is El Salvador, which hosts the global observance of the day on 27 September for this edition. The host country changes from year to year, and the venue of the official observance is one of the facts most often asked about the day. Option A is wrong as a host, though India is holding a nationwide celebration of its own, with the central function at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi where the National Digital Tourism Stack and Dekho Apna Desh 2.0 are unveiled. Option B is a plausible distractor because the tourism body has long had its seat in Spain, but hosting the observance is a separate matter. Option D has no link with this edition. Aspirants should hold three things together for such questions: the date, the theme and the host country of the year.

The correct answer is Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing. India argued that the agreement will be judged by whether this system is fair, so that a country which shares pathogens or biological resources receives vaccines, diagnostics, therapeutics and other technologies in return, within a reasonable time and with its sovereignty intact. Options A, B and D are invented expansions that sound plausible because each borrows a word from the vocabulary of health emergencies, but none is the term used in the agreement. Aspirants should also remember that the annex on this system was still being negotiated, that India asked the political declaration not to pre-judge those talks, and that the head of the world health body pressed for the negotiations to be concluded quickly.

The correct answer is the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, under the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, which runs the campaign and monitors it on a dedicated portal. Its Secretary, Nivedita Shukla Verma, chaired the second meeting of nodal officers, where Additional Secretary Puneet Yadav presented the progress of the drive. Option A handles public expenditure and budgetary matters and has no such role. Option B is a plausible distractor because it sits in the same ministry and deals with service matters, but the cleanliness and pending matters campaign is not its charge. Option D promotes industry and trade and is unrelated. A useful memory hook is that the same department also brings out the collection of best practices during Good Governance Week.

The correct answer is buffaloes, at Hisar. The abbreviation expands to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research - Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes, and the institute works under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. It was this institute that held the Swachhata Samvad for its contractual staff and Young Professionals as part of the campaign's Day-VIII action plan. Option A names an institute devoted to goat research at a different station, option C a body working on camels, and option D one working on poultry; all three are of the same family of council institutes, which is precisely why they make good distractors. For examinations it helps to remember the animal, the station and the parent ministry as a single unit, because questions on such institutes usually ask for the pairing of a research subject with its headquarters.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Railways. The bridge has been approved at an estimated cost of 108 crore rupees and the entire amount is being met by the Ministry of Railways, so the state exchequer pays nothing towards it. Option A is wrong because the Government of Andhra Pradesh is not sharing the cost, even though the bridge serves Guntur city. Option C is wrong because the National Highways Authority of India has no role in this project, which replaces a level crossing on a railway line. Option D is wrong because the bridge is a fully funded railway work and no private developer or toll arrangement has been announced for it. Aspirants should remember that road over bridges on railway lines are often shared between the railways and the state, which makes this fully railway-funded case worth noting.

The correct answer is 2,300 crore rupees. The plant is being set up in two scalable phases: the first adds 50 tonnes a day at a cost of 1,200 crore rupees and is targeted for January 2027, while the second adds another 100 tonnes a day for 1,100 crore rupees by March 2027, taking the total to 2,300 crore rupees. Option A is only the first phase outlay, so it is incomplete. Option B is the value of the separate shipbuilding project of the port authority with Cochin Shipyard Limited at Vadinar. Option D confuses money with people, because the figure of 3,500 refers to the direct and indirect jobs the plant is expected to create. The capital is shared between the two partners in the ratio 76:24.

The correct answer is that Booth Level Officers will visit homes and upload the documents on ECINet. The Commission decided that people served notices for being unmapped or for logical discrepancies need not be called to the office of the Electoral Registration Officer or the Assistant Electoral Registration Officer at all; the BLO comes to the house, collects the papers and uploads them, and the ERO then decides the case. Option A is wrong because a personal hearing is now only for exceptional cases and, where held, is preferably online, with any adult family member allowed to attend on the elector's behalf. Options C and D describe procedures the Commission did not order. District Election Officers were separately asked to open help desks and camps for the homeless and for labourers.

The correct answer is more than 300. An agreement signed at the Kollam event between the NCCF and Bharat Lajhna Sahakari Samiti provides for opening 300 She-Mart shops across the three southern states, where local products will be sold along with Bharat Brand goods. Option D is a distractor built from a different figure in the same news: the NCCF already runs more than 2,500 retail outlets, and the new She-Marts will work alongside them. Options A and C are simply not the announced number. The purpose of the chain is to let women self-help groups and rural women entrepreneurs earn at every stage of the value chain, from procurement and processing to branding, packaging and direct retail sale, without depending on middlemen.

The correct answer is that the team retained the gold it already held. The result was announced as the men's team retaining the Asian Games gold, and the Prime Minister greeted the players as champions once again, which tells us that India was the defending champion in the men's event and kept the title in this edition. Option A is wrong because a retained medal cannot be a first win. Option C is wrong because there was no upgrade from a silver; the team won the final. Option D is wrong because no sharing of the gold medal was reported. This distinction between winning a title and defending it is exactly the kind of detail question setters test, so note the word retained.

The correct answer is Joshna Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar. The pair won bronze in the squash mixed team event, and for Joshna the medal extended a remarkable run of consistency, since she has played at consecutive Asian Games and taken a medal at every edition since 2010. Option A is wrong because Manush Shah and Diya Chitale won their bronze in mixed doubles table tennis, a different sport on the same day. Option C names two of the three shooters who won silver in the women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions team event, so it is wrong here. Option D pairs a sprinter with a thrower, neither of whom took part in squash. Keep each sport with its own athletes when revising a medal day.

The correct answer is 2 October 2026. The 8th edition of the PM Mementos e-Auction 2026 stays live until that date, and the catalogue, auction dates and rules for taking part are published on the official portal pmmementos.gov.in. Option A is the day the Ministry of Culture drew attention to the Maharashtra collection, not the closing date. Options B and D are dates that do not appear in the announcement. Candidates should hold together the edition number, the closing date and the fact that the auction is run by the Ministry of Culture, because a question can ask for any one of the three. The collection itself holds 89 mementos ranging from sculptures and paintings to models and sports memorabilia.

The correct answer is the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, usually shortened to the NDPS Act. Every article recovered in these cases, meaning the poppy straw, the opium, the hydroponic cannabis, the cash, the vehicles and the country-made pistol, was seized under the relevant provisions of this Act, and further investigation into sources, destinations and supply channels is proceeding under it. Option A, the Indian Penal Code, 1860, deals with general criminal offences and is not the law under which narcotics seizures are recorded here. Option B, the Customs Act, 1962, governs import and export duties and confiscation of smuggled goods generally, and the release does not invoke it even for the parcel received from abroad. Option D, the Arms Act, 1959, is not named in the case either, although a country-made pistol with three live rounds was recovered during one of the searches.