SSC CHSL Current Affairs Quiz: 25 September 2026

The correct answer is Silver. The Prime Minister's message congratulated Manu TS, Poovamma MR, Vishal TK and Vithya Ramraj specifically on taking the silver medal in the mixed 4x400m relay at the Asian Games, so option B is the one supported by the release. Option A, gold, is wrong because the team placed second rather than first in the final; the message speaks of a silver medal throughout and nowhere describes the run as a winning one. Option C, bronze, is wrong for the same reason, as bronze goes to the third team home and would not match the description given. Option D is wrong because a fourth place carries no medal at all, yet the whole point of the message was to mark a medal-winning run and to call it a proud moment for athletics in the country. Aspirants should tie the event, the medal colour and the four names together, since relay questions are usually set on exactly that combination.

The correct answer is the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. The Digital Connectivity Rating Platform was launched by the telecom regulator, which functions under the Ministry of Communications, and the launch was announced on 25 September 2026. The regulator framed the rules for rating properties in the first place, registers the agencies that carry out an assessment and publishes the ratings, so the platform sits with it alone. The Department of Telecommunications is the executive arm of the ministry, handling licensing and spectrum, and it did not launch this platform. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is a state-owned service provider with no regulatory or rating role in the exercise. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology looks after electronics manufacturing and information technology policy, which is an altogether separate subject. Aspirants should tie the platform to the regulator, to its chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti and to the Ministry of Communications.

The correct answer is the faint envelope of gas surrounding a galaxy beyond its disc. The study describes the circumgalactic medium as a diffuse, ghostly reservoir of gas that lies past the edge of the stellar disc and spreads out to between ten and twenty times the size of the galaxy, and this reservoir supplies the fuel from which stars are eventually made. Option A describes the crowded central region of a galaxy, which is a different thing altogether. Option C refers to the dust in the spiral arms, which lies within the visible disc and not outside it. Option D describes the region bounded by the event horizon of a black hole, a region from which nothing escapes, and it has nothing to do with this outer gas. The whole point of the study is that a jet from the central black hole reaches out into this envelope.

The correct answer is the 48th. WorldSkills Shanghai 2026 is the 48th edition of the WorldSkills Competition and is being held in Shanghai from 22 to 27 September 2026. India has entered a contingent of 70 competitors who are taking part across 63 skills, and 14 of those competitors are young women, which works out to more than a fifth of the squad. Options A and B are wrong because they name earlier editions of the championship, while option D is wrong because it runs ahead of the current one. Edition numbers, host cities and dates are the three details an examiner is most likely to combine in a single question about an international competition, so it is worth fixing all three together rather than remembering only the year.

The correct answer is four athletes, two men and two women. The name of the discipline itself carries the answer: the figure before the multiplication sign gives the number of runners and the figure after it gives the lap each of them covers, so a mixed 4x400m relay is run by four athletes who each complete a lap of 400 metres. The word mixed tells us the four are split evenly between men and women, and each team may choose the order in which they are sent out. Option A is wrong because two runners would make the event a relay in name only and would not match the four in the title of the discipline. Option B is wrong both on the count and on the balance, since an odd number cannot be split evenly between men and women. Option D is wrong because six runners belong to no standard relay format on an athletics programme. India's silver-winning team at the Asian Games was accordingly a group of four, namely Manu TS, Poovamma MR, Vishal TK and Vithya Ramraj.

The correct answer is 2024. The platform carries out the framework prescribed by the regulator's rules of 2024 on the rating of properties for digital connectivity. Those rules were later amended by a notification issued on 13 May 2026, and the process now followed is the one written into the Rating Manual of 2026, which was brought out on 9 June 2026. So three dates hang together in this story: the parent rules, the amendment and the manual. The other options are years in which no such rating framework was notified by the regulator, and none of them figures in the launch. A careless reading often mixes up the year of the parent regulations with the year of the amendment; remember that the parent rules came first and the amendment and the manual both belong to 2026.

The correct answer is the Raman Research Institute, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology, whose scientists worked with colleagues at Arizona State University in the United States. The lead author of the paper, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, is Namrata Roy, an assistant professor in the astronomy and astrophysics division of that institute, and a co-author quoted on the finding is Sanchayeeta Borthakur of the American university. The other three names in the options are all genuine and well-known Indian research institutions working in astronomy and physics, which makes them plausible distractors, but none of them is credited with this particular study. In current affairs, always tie a discovery to the exact institute, the lead researcher and the journal, because a question can be set on any of the three.

The correct answer is 70. India's competitor contingent at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026 has 70 members. Option A is wrong, though the number is genuine in another sense: 14 is the count of young women in that contingent, which is more than a fifth of the whole squad. Option B is wrong for a similar reason, because 63 is the number of skills in which India is competing rather than the number of people competing. Option D matches nothing in the announcement at all. This question is a good example of why a candidate should tag every number with the thing it counts: competitors 70, skills 63, women 14, edition 48. Confusing any two of them is the commonest way to lose a mark on an item like this.

The correct answer is the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. The release was issued by the Prime Minister's Office and carried his words praising the pace of the team, the understanding between the runners and their determination, which he said had made the race an exciting one and a proud moment for athletics in the country. He also wished the four of them greater heights in the years ahead, and the Prime Minister's Office shared the message on the platform X. Option A is wrong because the release names no message from the President on this result. Option C is wrong because, although the sports ministry is the nodal ministry for athletes, the document in question came from the Prime Minister's Office and quoted the Prime Minister alone. Option D is wrong for the same reason, as no association official is quoted anywhere in it. For the examination hall, remember the pairing of the Prime Minister's Office with the quartet of Manu TS, Poovamma MR, Vishal TK and Vithya Ramraj.

The correct answer is carpet area and the number of parking slots. The rating framework is about how well a building is wired and covered for communication, so its yardsticks are fibre readiness, whether a mobile network is available inside, the connectivity solutions built into the structure and the Wi-Fi the property offers, with benchmarks that differ from one category of property to another. Carpet area and parking belong to real-estate description and have nothing to do with the connectivity assessment. Fibre readiness, mobile network availability and Wi-Fi infrastructure are all part of the framework, which is why options A, B and D are wrong choices for a question that asks what is left out. The purpose of the exercise is to make connectivity a visible and verifiable attribute of a property, so buyers can compare buildings on it.

The correct answer is that the jet energises the gas only along its own direction and suppresses star formation. When the team averaged their measurements over all directions around the galaxies they picked up no signal, but when they probed along the direction of the jet they found a strong one, which showed that the jet illuminates only the gas in its path. The signal was strongest where the jet first meets the outer gas at the rim of the stellar disc, and again at the outer boundary of the envelope where the slowed jet strikes once more, depositing energy at both places. Because cool gas is needed for gas to clump into stars, this heating keeps the galaxy quiet and passive, so option A is the opposite of the finding. Options C and D are ruled out for the same reason, since the study shows an effect reaching far beyond the centre.

The correct answer is Manisha Sensarma, who is the Official Delegate of WorldSkills India and also Senior Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. She described the participation of these young women as an encouraging shift in India's skilling landscape and made the point that skills have no gender. Options B, C and D name competitors rather than officials: Sampada Desai is competing in Chemical Laboratory Technology, Smriti Nambiar in Bakery, and Krishnanjali Sahoo in Patisserie and Confectionery. Distractors of this kind work well in an examination because all four names appear in the same announcement, so a candidate who has skimmed it will remember the names without remembering which of them holds the official post.