SSC CHSL Current Affairs Quiz: 6 September 2026

The correct answer is Kolkata. The release says the sixth edition opened at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology in Salt Lake, Kolkata, and runs on 6 and 7 September. Every wrong option here is a real host city of an earlier edition, which is what makes them good distractors: the conclave has previously been held in Mumbai, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Chennai and Bengaluru, so options A, C and D each name a past venue rather than the present one. The Minister explained the practice of moving the platform around the country as a way of widening its reach and connecting scientific capability with innovators in different regions. He also gave a reason for choosing this particular city, recalling the scientific tradition associated with Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy, Prof U. N. Brahmachari, Sir C. V. Raman and Dr Syama Prasad Mukherjee. Remember the sequence of six cities in order; a paper setter can ask for any one of them.

The correct answer is 'From Crisis to Recovery - Conserving India's Vultures'. Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav inaugurated the national workshop under this theme at Panchkula in Haryana, and the release uses the same phrase again at the close to describe the journey the country has made in vulture conservation through science, policy, conservation breeding, safe landscapes and community participation. Options A, C and D are invented slogans; none of them appears in the release. Store the theme together with the rest of the event card, because that is how such questions are set: the occasion is International Vulture Awareness Day 2026, the venue is Panchkula in Haryana, the Minister is Bhupender Yadav, the Haryana Minister present is Rao Narbir Singh, and the partners are the Central Zoo Authority, the Haryana Forest and Wildlife Department, the Bombay Natural History Society and the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre at Pinjore.

The correct answer is Dr Vinaya Prakash Singh. He is a 1988 batch officer of the Indian Postal Service and was declared elected unopposed, by acclamation, at the 14th APPU Congress held in Bangkok on 4 September 2026. This is his second consecutive four-year term: the first began in January 2023 after he was elected at the 13th Congress in 2022, and the second will run from January 2027 to December 2030. Options B, C and D name senior officials who hold entirely different posts in the Government of India and have no connection with the postal union, which is what makes them serviceable distractors in a mixed current affairs paper. When an Indian is elected to head an international body, examiners usually ask three things together, so learn them as one unit: the person, the post, and the body. Add the term dates, because those are asked next.

The correct answer is Bhagwat Prasad Makwana. The Department of Social Justice and Empowerment appointed him Chairperson of the Commission, and the release sets out his background: a Master's degree in Economics, long experience in social work for Scheduled Caste communities, earlier service as Vice-Chairman and then Chairman of the Safai Karamchari Commission under the Government of Uttarakhand, a term as an Independent Director on the Board of NHPC, and membership of the Central Monitoring Committee constituted under the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013. Every wrong option here names someone appointed in the same order but to a different post. Kaishab Bihari in option A is the Vice-Chairperson, while option C and option D name two of the three Members. That is precisely how such questions are framed, so learn the post beside each name rather than the list of names alone.

The correct answer is Surat. The release says the 89th edition was organised there with the theme 'Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat', led by Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Dr Mansukh Mandaviya together with Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi. The ride began at the Sardar Patel Statue at Mangadh Chowk and covered 6 km towards the Sarthana Zoo, after a warm-up of fitness activities, yoga and zumba. Option D deserves care rather than a quick rejection: the same 89th edition was also held in the national capital at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, but on a special Teachers' Day theme honouring teachers and coaches, and the main event that the release headlines is the one in Surat. Options A and C name other large cities of Gujarat and do not appear in the release at all.

The correct answer is minerals, medicine, materials and machines. The release places this 4M framework at the heart of the conclave and explains that the four words represent the complementary strengths of the four CSIR laboratories hosting it. Read the framework alongside the laboratories and it becomes easy to hold in memory: CSIR-IMMT works on mineral and materials technology, CSIR-IICB on chemical biology and therefore medicine, CSIR-CGCRI on glass and ceramic materials, and CSIR-CMERI on mechanical engineering and therefore machines. Options B, C and D each keep one or two of the real words and replace the rest with plausible substitutes drawn from the same industrial vocabulary, which is exactly how such distractors are built. None of those combinations appears in the release. Alongside the framework, note the concrete outcomes recorded at the conclave: eight memoranda of understanding, four technology transfer initiatives, two product launches and one facility inauguration.

The correct answer is 356. The release records that the Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre at Pinjore housed that many vultures during 2025-26 and bred 35 chicks successfully in the same period. The rest of the centre's year is worth memorising with it, because any one line of it can be turned into a question: 87 vultures were released or contributed for reintroduction, 90 birds were transferred to other conservation-breeding institutions, and 1,222 participants from 22 institutions were trained there. Options A, C and D are near-miss figures that do not appear anywhere in the release. Remember also what the centre actually does: scientific husbandry, artificial incubation, veterinary care, breeding and genetic management, focused on the White-rumped, Long-billed and Slender-billed vultures. It is run jointly by the Haryana Forest Department and the Bombay Natural History Society.

The correct answer is Bangkok. The release describes the Asian-Pacific Postal Union as an inter-governmental organisation headquartered in Bangkok with 32 member countries, and it was in Bangkok that the 14th Congress met on 4 September 2026 and re-elected its Secretary-General. Option A is the strongest distractor for anyone who has studied international organisations, because Bern is the seat of the Universal Postal Union, the United Nations specialised agency of which the APPU is a Regional Union. Keep the two cities apart: Bern for the global body, Bangkok for the Asia-Pacific regional one. Options B and D are not mentioned in the release. Remember the membership figure of 32 as well, since it is the kind of small, checkable number that examiners like to place against an organisation's name.

The correct answer is 31 March 2028. The release states that the appointments will be effective up to that date, which corresponds to the remaining tenure of the present Commission. This is an important point of principle and not just a date to memorise: the new Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson and Members do not begin a fresh full term of their own but serve out the unexpired part of the Commission's existing tenure. Options B, C and D are plausible-looking dates that do not appear in the release. A related detail worth carrying is the composition: one Chairperson, one Vice-Chairperson and three Members were appointed in the same order, namely Bhagwat Prasad Makwana, Kaishab Bihari, Manoj Kumar Balmiki, Sushma Gaudiyal and Ravi Ramu Kalose. The appointments were made by the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment.

The correct answer is 'Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat'. The release names this theme for the 89th edition and links it to the Nasha Mukti Sankalp Abhiyan, under which the Union Minister, the Deputy Chief Minister and the participants together took the Nasha Mukt Pledge. Options B, C and D are invented slogans that sound like fitness campaign lines but appear nowhere in the release. Themes are among the most commonly asked details in current affairs, so learn this one with its surrounding facts. The Minister set out four benefits of cycling that the theme ties together: it is an effective form of exercise, it supports the Nasha Mukt Bharat campaign, it helps address pollution, and it reduces fuel consumption. He also urged people to cycle on working days for short trips rather than limiting it to Sundays.

The correct answer is Dr N. Kalaiselvi, who is Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and also Secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. The release names her as an inaugural session speaker in that capacity. The other three options all name people the release places at the same event, but in different roles, which is what makes them difficult to separate. Option A, Prof Vibha Tandon, is Director of CSIR-IICB, the host laboratory. Option B, Dr Ramanuj Narayan, is Director of CSIR-IMMT, one of the four organising laboratories. Option D, Dr Sharadwat Mukherjee, is the Minister-in-Charge of Health and Family Welfare in the West Bengal government and attended as Guest of Honour. When a release lists several dignitaries, note the office against each name rather than the name alone, because that is where the question is usually set.

The correct answer is Haryana. Pinjore lies in Haryana, and the centre there is described in the release as a joint initiative of the Haryana Forest Department and the Bombay Natural History Society. The Union Minister began the day with a visit to this facility before the workshop at Panchkula, which is also in Haryana. Options A, B and D name neighbouring States, and that geographical closeness is exactly what makes them plausible distractors in an examination hall. Two supporting details help fix the answer. First, the State's own Environment, Forest and Wildlife Minister, Rao Narbir Singh, spoke at the event and highlighted the work of the Pinjore centre. Second, he argued that conservation breeding should be judged not by the number of animals born but by healthy, genetically managed populations, scientific knowledge, technical capacity and recovery of the species in the wild.

The correct answer is the Universal Postal Union. The release states plainly that the APPU works as a Regional Union of the UPU, which is the United Nations specialised agency for the postal sector. Option C, the International Telecommunication Union, is the trap worth naming: it is also a United Nations specialised agency and it also sits in the communications field, but it covers telecommunications and radio spectrum rather than posts. Option A deals with international trade rules and option D is a regional development bank, so neither belongs here. Carry the whole chain in memory, because questions are often set at one link of it: the United Nations, then the Universal Postal Union as its postal agency, then the Asian-Pacific Postal Union as a regional union of 32 member countries headquartered in Bangkok, and then Dr Vinaya Prakash Singh as its Secretary-General.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. The release is issued by that Ministry, and the appointments were made by its Department of Social Justice and Empowerment. The Ministry also welcomed the new team and said it expects their combined experience in social welfare, public service, administration and academia to strengthen the Commission in discharging its mandate of safeguarding the rights, dignity and socio-economic well-being of safai karamcharis. Options A, B and D are ministries whose work touches sanitation, urban services or employment in some way, and that overlap is what makes them tempting, but none of them administers this Commission. Fix the link in memory through the subject matter: safai karamcharis are a question of social justice for the Scheduled Castes, and this Commission accordingly sits with the social justice ministry.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. The release states that it organises the initiative in collaboration with the Cycling Federation of India, the Raahgiri Foundation and MY Bharat, and that Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, who heads this ministry, led the 89th edition in Surat. The cycling drive runs at the same time across all States and Union Territories, including at regional centres of the Sports Authority of India, National Centres of Excellence, SAI Training Centres, Khelo India State Centres of Excellence and Khelo India Centres. Options A, B and D are ministries whose remit touches public health, road use or schooling, and the campaign does relate to all three in spirit, which is what makes them plausible. But the organising ministry named in the release is the sports ministry. Note also that over 6000 NAMO Fit India clubs hold the ride weekly.

The correct answer is 'Driving Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Viksit Bharat 2047'. The release gives this as the theme under which the four CSIR laboratories are jointly organising the conclave in Kolkata. The other three options are invented phrases that sound like plausible science-policy slogans but appear nowhere in the release. Themes are among the most frequently asked details in current affairs papers, so pair the theme with the rest of the event card in one block of memory: sixth edition, Kolkata, CSIR-IICB at Salt Lake, 6 and 7 September, and Dr Jitendra Singh as the Minister who inaugurated it. It also helps to know the wider policy setting the Minister described, in which a Research, Development and Innovation Fund of Rs 1 lakh crore and the Anusandhan National Research Foundation support high-risk, high-reward work and stronger ties between academia, startups and industry.

The correct answer is 'Story of Jatayu: Saving India's Vulture'. The release says this coffee table book was brought out during the inaugural session at Panchkula. It records the country's vulture conservation story, moving from a falling population to a working conservation breeding programme built around the centre at Pinjore. Options B, C and D are invented titles and appear nowhere in the release. Books and reports released at government events are asked about very often, so note the title along with the occasion and the person releasing it. Alongside the book, a prize distribution was held for an online drawing competition and a digital photography competition on vulture conservation. The Minister used the occasion to press for more Vulture Safe Zones, for vulture-safe veterinary practices, for a supply of safe food, and for the technical capacity that species recovery in the wild will need.

The correct answer is January 2027 to December 2030. The release says the second term will commence in January 2027 and continue until December 2030, which matches the four-year term the union works to. Option D is the most instructive wrong answer, because it describes his first term: he assumed the office in January 2023 after being elected at the 13th APPU Congress in 2022. Option B shifts the whole period a year earlier and option C confuses the date of the election with the start of the term, a mistake that is easy to make because the Congress met on 4 September 2026 while the term itself begins months later. That gap between an election date and a term start date is a favourite of paper setters, so read both dates separately whenever a release gives them.

The correct answer is the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013. The release records that Bhagwat Prasad Makwana served as a Member of the Central Monitoring Committee constituted under that Act, before his appointment as Chairperson of the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis. Option C names the earlier statute on the same subject, which the 2013 Act replaced, and it is therefore the most difficult distractor to reject. Options A and D are genuine laws protecting the Scheduled Castes but deal with untouchability offences and atrocities rather than manual scavenging, so neither is named here. Carry the Chairperson's other credentials with this: a Master's degree in Economics, earlier terms as Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the Uttarakhand Safai Karamchari Commission, and a stint as an Independent Director on the NHPC Board.

The correct answer is over 25,000. The release says the 89th edition was held across the country at more than that many locations, with more than 5 million young people taking part and carrying the message of a drug-free youth for a developed India. Options A, C and D are round figures of the same order that do not appear in the release, and they are the sort of near-miss numbers a paper setter reaches for. Keep the two big figures of this edition together, since a question can ask for either: the participation of more than 5 million people and the spread across more than 25,000 locations. A third number belongs in the same group, namely the more than 6000 NAMO Fit India clubs that organise the cycling initiative nationwide every week, which explains how a campaign of this size is sustained.