SSC CHSL Current Affairs Quiz: 24 September 2026

The correct answer is Prasar Bharati, India's public service broadcaster. PBSHABD is its free news feed, and the very name carries the parent body in it, since it expands to Prasar Bharati - Shared Audio-Visuals for Broadcast and Dissemination. The service grew out of the broadcaster's own internal wire, the Prasar Bharati News Service, and it draws on the same correspondents and desks that feed bulletins on Akashvani and Doordarshan. Option A names a news agency that is not connected with this platform. Option C is the government's own publicity arm, which issues press releases rather than running this multimedia feed. Option D is a training and research institution in mass communication and has no role in running the service. The ministry in charge of the launch was Information and Broadcasting.

The correct answer is the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, usually written as DARPG. It runs the special campaign across the Government, lays down the parameters against which each office identifies its pending matters, issues the guidelines that offices follow, and takes the reporting of achievements on the campaign portal. Option B names the department that is implementing the drive in this particular case, which is the trap in the question: DEPwD is a participating department, not the one that launched the campaign. Option C handles service and personnel matters for the Government and is not the nodal department for this drive. Option D deals with public finance and expenditure control, and has no role in running the cleanliness and pendency campaign. Remember DARPG as the nodal department, and remember that each participating department nominates its own Nodal Officer.

The correct answer is the women's Sanda 60kg event, in which she took the silver medal. Sanda is the full-contact fighting format of wushu and its bouts are decided in weight categories, which is why the weight appears in the name of the event itself. The Prime Minister's message picked out not only the medal but the pattern behind it, namely that she has won at three Asian Games in a row, and he described her consistency, courage and determination as commendable. Options B and C move her to other combat sports and, in the case of judo, to a different weight class as well, so neither matches the event named in the message. Option D belongs to the other medal of the same day, the men's double sculls in rowing, which was won by a different pair of athletes altogether.

The correct answer is the women's 10,000m. Seema finished third in this long distance track race, and the Prime Minister said her determined performance had brought India a medal in the event after many years, describing it as a wonderful achievement reflecting endurance, discipline and years of hard work. Option A is wrong because the marathon is run on the road rather than on the track and is a different event altogether. Option C is wrong because the steeplechase involves barriers and a water jump and was not the race in question. Option D is wrong because the shorter middle distance race is a separate discipline and no such medal was announced. Aspirants should remember the athlete, the event and the colour of the medal together, since questions often pair a name with the wrong distance.

The correct answer is March 2027. Free access has been stretched in steps rather than granted once and for all, which is exactly what makes this a favourite question. When the platform completed a year of operation, free access was extended to March 2026, and it was later extended again, this time up to March 2027, so media organisations can plan their use of the feed with some certainty. Option A is the month in which the first extension was announced, not the date up to which the service is free. Option B was the earlier assurance and has since been superseded, so it is the classic trap for a candidate who has read an older report. Option D is simply beyond anything announced. The service charges registered users no subscription fee for what they download.

The correct answer is 2 to 31 October 2026. The campaign is run in two clearly separated stages, and a question of this kind usually turns on telling them apart. Option A gives the dates of the preparatory phase, which is the stretch in which offices identify the files, references and grievances that they will take up, fix targets and put the institutional arrangements in place. The implementation phase that follows is the month in which that identified pendency is actually disposed of, space is freed and e-waste is collected, segregated and sent for disposal. Option C names a month in which no phase of the campaign falls. Option D repeats the dates of the previous edition, Special Campaign 5.0, which was held a year earlier and whose results form the baseline for this year's drive.

The correct answer is three. What the Prime Minister called noteworthy was not the single silver alone but the run behind it: medals at three Asian Games one after another, a record of turning up at the top of the sport over many years rather than in one good season. That is the phrase to remember, because a question on this athlete is far more likely to test the run of appearances than the score of any bout. Option A understates the record and would describe a competitor at only her second successful Games. Options C and D overstate it, and a candidate who guesses upwards on the assumption that a longer run sounds more impressive will lose the mark. Along with the count, note the words the message used about her, namely consistency, courage and determination.

The correct answer is the skeet mixed team event. The Prime Minister congratulated Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Anantjeet Singh Naruka on the bronze and said their achievement marks the first ever Indian medal in this event at the Asian Games, adding that he hoped the success would inspire many more milestones. Option A is wrong because trap, though also a shotgun discipline, is a separate event with a different target release pattern. Option B is wrong because the air rifle mixed team belongs to the rifle group of events and was not the one named. Option D is wrong because the air pistol mixed team is again a distinct event. The phrase to carry into the examination hall is first ever medal in the skeet mixed team, linked with these two names.

The correct answer is that the content carries no logo and needs no credit line. This is the feature that sets the platform apart from a conventional news agency, because a small newspaper can run a national or international story under its own masthead without attributing it to the broadcaster. Option A reverses that rule. Option C is wrong because the feed offers news in 15 Indian languages and under nearly 50 news categories, in five formats covering text, video, audio, photographs and infographics, which is what makes it useful to regional newsrooms. Option D is wrong because registration is open to newspapers and journals holding a valid RNI certificate, to television and radio stations holding uplink and downlink certificates, and to digital publishers who submit a copy of their PAN. Each organisation gets one login to share within its newsroom.

The correct answer is 14,47,619 rupees. The money came from the disposal of files, obsolete material and scrap during the month-long drive held from 2 to 31 October 2025. The other options are the campaign's remaining figures moved into the wrong place, which is how such questions are usually framed. Option A is the number of physical files and documents that were digitised and weeded out during that campaign. Option B is the office space, measured in square feet, that was freed for use. Option D inflates the number of cleanliness drives, which stood at 64, into a sum of money. A candidate should therefore memorise the four results of Special Campaign 5.0 together with the unit attached to each of them, because the unit is what the examiner tests.

The correct answer is the men's double sculls. The name of a rowing event tells you both the size of the crew and the way the oars are held: sculling means each rower works a pair of oars, and double means the boat carries two of them. That fits the fact that the medal was won by two athletes together, Satnam Singh and Salman Khan, and it is also why the Prime Minister's message dwelt on their composure and their coordination, since a sculling pair has to match every stroke. Option A is an event rowed alone, so it cannot be shared by two medallists. Option B carries two rowers but each handles a single oar, which is a different discipline. Option D is a boat of four, larger than the crew named here.

The correct answer is that the men's badminton team won a bronze medal. The Prime Minister congratulated the squad and said the medal reflects the passion and hard work of the players, adding that the entire team displayed great spirit through the competition and wishing them well for the events still ahead. Option B is wrong because the colour of the medal was bronze and not silver. Option C is wrong because the message named the men's team, and no women's team gold was announced in these releases. Option D is wrong because the mixed team format was not the one mentioned in the badminton congratulation. Note that the other two medals of the day, Seema in the women's 10,000m and the skeet mixed team pair, were also bronze, so the colour is common to all three.