SSC CGL Current Affairs Quiz: 14 October 2026

India stands first in the world both in making coir and in selling it abroad, and about two-thirds of global coir output comes from Indian units.

Wholesale price inflation for September 2026 was measured at 11.39 per cent on a year-on-year basis, a clear step up from the previous month.

The maiden ASEAN-India Defence Think Tank Forum was convened at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi, where Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh addressed delegates from India and all eleven ASEAN member states across a two-day programme.

That is the outlay with which BHAVYA was notified on 10 April 2026 after Cabinet approval in March 2026, and it funds the development of 100 plug-and-play industrial parks with assistance of up to Rs 1 crore per acre.

The ceremony at which the Indian Navy gave up command of Combined Task Force 154 was held at Manama in Bahrain on 14 October 2026, and it closed the first spell in which India headed a task force of the Combined Maritime Forces.

That is the support the Technology Development Board has agreed to extend to ideaForge Technology Limited under the Research Development and Innovation Fund, and it comes in the form of debt financing.

The third edition of the conclave was held there, and Dr Sukanta Majumdar, Union Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region and for Education, addressed it on 13 October 2026, asking banks to widen their reach and lend more readily in the region.

When the Union Cabinet approved carrying the programme forward for five years, it renamed the umbrella scheme itself to Pradhan Mantri Samajik Sahayata Yojana, so option B is the one to mark.

The Union Cabinet cleared a Productivity Linked Bonus equal to 78 days' wages for railway employees, and this is the figure every other number in the decision hangs on: the total sanctioned amount, the per-employee ceiling and the count of employees covered are all tied to the same 78 days.

DRI ran Operation Deep Manifest and detected 295 containers carrying 7,311 metric tonnes of Pakistan-origin industrial or Himalayan rock salt, worth roughly Rs 30 crore, that had been brought into the country in breach of the import ban.

The partnership begins by adopting 25 clinical trial sites in emerging research geographies, assessing what each can do, and then giving the staff targeted training and mentoring while tightening documentation and the processes around ethics, safety and trial feasibility.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs picked this company as the Strategic Buyer when it approved the strategic restructuring of the bank, and its parent is M/s Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.

The Central Government has approved India moving from the position of a cooperating non-contracting party, which it has held since 2022, to that of a full contracting party, which brings voting rights in the bodies that run the agreement.

The Government of India constituted the committee under his chairmanship to examine the issues raised by sugarcane farmers and to recommend suitable measures.

As Chairman of the committee he launched its dedicated digital web portal in New Delhi, a portal that is now fully operational for public access, stakeholder submissions and data interaction.

MSCARO stands for the Multi-State Co-operative Societies (Auditor’s Report) Order, and the version mandated now creates a uniform, structured and risk-based framework in which auditors report on financial, administrative, governance and statutory compliance parameters through a standard format with clear Yes or No answers and remarks.

The Vice-President released her inspirational memoir at Uprashtrapathi Bhavan and spoke of it as an account of passion, hard work and resilience, and of her journey through cancer.

This was the theme announced for the national celebration held in New Delhi, and it shaped the day's announcements: the Bureau of Indian Standards released standards on clean energy mobility, including one for electric vehicle charging cables and another for pedal assisted bicycles, and the Union Minister for Consumer Affairs…

The campaign was launched by the Defence Minister in New Delhi and is the largest fundraising effort ever undertaken by any Indian Institute of Technology.

The Union Minister of State for Science and Technology felicitated 62 young innovators at the twelfth edition of the National Level Exhibition and Project Competition, held under the INSPIRE-MANAK scheme in New Delhi.

It was brought out by the National Statistical Systems Training Academy, which works under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.

The Joint Trade Committee is the standing bilateral mechanism through which India and Brunei Darussalam review trade and economic cooperation, and this round was convened to take stock of commercial ties and identify ways of strengthening them.

The Build-a-thon was organised by the Department of Telecommunications of the Ministry of Communications along with the International Telecommunication Union, and was held on the closing day of India Mobile Congress 2026 at Yashobhoomi in New Delhi.

The Government of India added Advanced Chemicals, Petrochemicals and Material Technologies as an extra technology area that can draw funding under this scheme, the change applying from 8 October 2026.

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research worked with the New, Emerging and Strategic Technologies Division of the MEA to run the first edition of the programme, which was held on 14 October 2026 and designed to deepen India's scientific links with countries of the Global South.