SSC CGL Current Affairs Quiz: 16 October 2026

India has declared 111 National Waterways to promote shipping and navigation, and their combined length comes to 20,187 km spread over 23 States and 4 Union Territories.

The maiden consignment of 1.755 MT of organic Palmyra jaggery powder was sent to Varna in Bulgaria, where M/s Sow Life Ltd is the importer and distributor.

The status report counts 4,077 Ayush patent applications filed across the twelve financial years from 2014-15 to 2025-26, and this is the headline figure of the whole study.

The Department of Consumer Affairs has dispatched the first-ever Kanda Express movement to Agartala with about 440 MT of buffer onions, expected to arrive by 18 October 2026.

The Digital India BHASHINI Division, which works under the Digital India Corporation in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, built the models jointly with IISc Bengaluru, and the speech corpus used for training was developed at the institute SPIRE Lab.

The two workshops, one on cyber security and secure digital disposal and the other on e-waste management awareness, were organised by the Ministry of Textiles under this campaign on 15 October 2026, and more than 85 officials attended, among them all the Nodal Officers of the ministry.

The vessel was commissioned by Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan at Karwar in Karnataka and is described as the Indian Navy's first indigenous Multi-Purpose Vessel, with more than 75 per cent of its content made in India.

The Technology Development Board, which functions under the Department of Science and Technology, signed the agreement with this Karnataka-based company for financial support from the Research Development and Innovation Fund.

The committee approved five Strategic Investment Plans of that combined value for ITI clusters spread across Maharashtra, Odisha and Jammu and Kashmir.

PAIMANA, which expands to Project Assessment, Infrastructure Monitoring and Analytics for Nation-building, is that ministry's dashboard for tracking the performance of infrastructure sub-sectors through a standard set of indicators, and it is updated every quarter.

At Neyveli the mineral forms from marcasite in the lignite substratum through sulphide oxidation, and it records short-lived wet, acidic and oxidising conditions of the kind believed to have produced sulphates on Mars.

He inaugurated the festival at the Khadi and Village Industries Commission's Central Office in Vile Parle, Mumbai, with the stated aim of carrying the Prime Minister's call of 'Har Ghar Swadeshi, Ghar-Ghar Swadeshi' and 'Vocal for Local' to younger buyers.

The fourteenth meeting of the Joint Working Group between the defence ministries of India and Mongolia took place in Ulaanbaatar, the Mongolian capital, on 16 October 2026, where the two delegations reviewed their running defence cooperation activities and identified new areas to work in.

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment stated that this many villages had been declared Adarsh Grams under the scheme by that date, reflecting its work on infrastructure, basic services and quality of life in Scheduled Caste-majority villages.

The conference opened in this town of Himachal Pradesh and brought together representatives of the Central Government, States and Union Territories along with experts on digital transformation and technology-enabled service delivery.

Its scientists traced past environmental conditions at Karela Lake using stable isotopes, vegetation changes and archaeological and sedimentary records, and built a record stretching back about four thousand six hundred years.

The Union Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development performed the foundation ceremony for forty-six village roads sanctioned under this rural roads programme during his visit to Sanchi, and said better roads would make movement easier for villagers.

India met Iran in the women kabaddi final of the Asian Games and finished ahead 37-34 in a contest that remained close until the final raids, a result that let India keep the continental title it already held.

The All India Institute of Ayurveda in New Delhi is an autonomous institution under that ministry, and its stated work is healthcare, education, research and innovation in Ayurveda along with building recognition for India traditional systems of medicine.

The correct answer is the Sangeet Natak Akademi, the national academy for music, dance and drama, which created the Yuva Puraskar in 2006 for artists up to the age of 40 and has conferred it every year since at a ceremony reserved for young performers.

The order requires every covered industrial unit to have the cameras installed and working, with arrangements for real time transmission of the video feeds already in place, by that date.

The correct answer is 24 to 26 February 2027, the revised dates announced by the Ministry of Coal for its flagship mining event.

The correct answer is Kozhikode, the city in Kerala where Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan inaugurated the festival and where he also released a book and gave away an award.

The Government approved the continuation of the Scheme of Assistance to National Sports Federations for the five years from 2026-27 to 2030-31, which corresponds to the Sixteenth Finance Commission cycle, at this outlay, and the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports then issued the operational guidelines along with revised norms…

At the 10th meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee, held in New Delhi on 16 October 2026 under the chairmanship of Urban Development Secretary Satendra Singh, over 1.93 lakh additional houses were cleared under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Urban 2.0.