SSC CHSL Current Affairs Quiz: 26 September 2026

The correct answer is Digital Agenda and Artificial Intelligence to Redesign Tourism. The day falls on 27 September and the theme chosen for this edition asks how digital innovation and artificial intelligence can change the way destinations are planned, promoted, managed and experienced by travellers. The global observance is hosted by El Salvador. Option A, on green investments, names a concern of the tourism debate but is not the theme picked for this year. Option C, built around rural growth, echoes the kind of destination work India does through its own schemes, yet it is not the theme of the day either. Option D, on peace, is a slogan of an older kind and again does not match this edition. Candidates should tie the year to the exact wording of the theme, because question setters ask for the theme verbatim and place near misses among the options.

The correct answer is 2 October to 31 October 2026, the month long implementation phase of the campaign across ministries, departments, their undertakings and field offices. Option A is the preparatory phase, when nodal officers were appointed and trained, pending references were listed, offices were chosen for the cleanliness drive and targets were uploaded on the campaign portal, so it is a tempting but wrong choice. Option C shifts the drive to the following month and has no basis. Option D cuts the window to a fortnight, while the campaign is run through the whole of October. Aspirants should keep both dates in mind, because a question may ask for either phase, and should also note that the drive is in its sixth year with the administrative reforms department in charge.

The correct answer is the 85th Foundation Day of CSIR. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research observed its 85th Foundation Day, and on that day the Minister of State for Science and Technology released five popular science magazines published by CSIR-NIScPR. The same occasion marks 84 years of the body's contribution to science, technology and national development. Options A, B and D name anniversaries that do not match the celebration at which these magazines were launched. Aspirants should tie the anniversary to the other details of the event, namely the five languages, the names of the magazines and the institute that publishes them, because examiners often frame the question around the occasion rather than the publication itself. The magazines were launched in New Delhi and the editors of all five titles were present, which makes the event as much about science communication as about the anniversary itself.

The correct answer is Keralam. The Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation launched the Vanitham She-Mart Shops at the Pavithram Convention Centre in Kollam on 26 September 2026, and said it was satisfying that the initiative was beginning from a state with more than 23,000 working cooperative institutions and a movement that has been organised since before Independence. Options A and B, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, are wrong as the answer to this question although they are part of the story, because the more than 300 She-Mart stores planned will be spread across Keralam, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka; the launch itself was in Keralam. Option D, Andhra Pradesh, does not figure in the plan at all. Aspirants should remember the launch state and the three states of the rollout separately.

The correct answer is kabaddi. On this day India stood first in both kabaddi events at the Asian Games: the men's team retained the gold medal it already held and the women's team won gold after a thrilling final, so the sport delivered two golds in a single day. Option A, hockey, is wrong because no hockey gold was announced among these results. Option C, squash, and option D, table tennis, are wrong because India's medals in those two sports on the same day were bronze, in the squash mixed team event and in mixed doubles table tennis, and not gold. Aspirants should link the sport with the colour of the medal and with the fact that both the men's and the women's teams stood on the top step.

The correct answer is Maharashtra. The collection of 89 mementos brings together the state's historical legacy, spiritual traditions, indigenous art forms and contemporary achievements, with the legacy of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj as the leading theme and a scale model of the Meghadambari at Raigad Fort among the pieces. Options A, C and D name other states whose heritage is not the subject of this collection, so they are wrong. Other giveaways in the catalogue point to the same state: Warli painting is its tribal art form, Sant Tukaram and Sant Dnyaneshwar belong to its Bhakti tradition, and the infrastructure models are of Vadhavan Port, the Thane-Borivali Twin Tunnel Project and Navi Mumbai International Airport. For revision, keep the state, the number of mementos and the leading theme of the collection together in a single line.

The correct answer is El Salvador, which hosts the global observance of the day on 27 September for this edition. The host country changes from year to year, and the venue of the official observance is one of the facts most often asked about the day. Option A is wrong as a host, though India is holding a nationwide celebration of its own, with the central function at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi where the National Digital Tourism Stack and Dekho Apna Desh 2.0 are unveiled. Option B is a plausible distractor because the tourism body has long had its seat in Spain, but hosting the observance is a separate matter. Option D has no link with this edition. Aspirants should hold three things together for such questions: the date, the theme and the host country of the year.

The correct answer is the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, under the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, which runs the campaign and monitors it on a dedicated portal. Its Secretary, Nivedita Shukla Verma, chaired the second meeting of nodal officers, where Additional Secretary Puneet Yadav presented the progress of the drive. Option A handles public expenditure and budgetary matters and has no such role. Option B is a plausible distractor because it sits in the same ministry and deals with service matters, but the cleanliness and pending matters campaign is not its charge. Option D promotes industry and trade and is unrelated. A useful memory hook is that the same department also brings out the collection of best practices during Good Governance Week.

The correct answer is Telugu. Of the five magazines released, Vigyan Velugu is the Telugu title. Option A is wrong because the Tamil magazine is named Ariviyal Arikkaiyalar. Option C is wrong because the Marathi magazine is Vidnyan Kshitij. Option D is wrong because the Assamese magazine is Bigyan Lahar; the Bengali one, not listed here, is Bigyan Brittanto. All five are published by the CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research and carry both translated articles and original writing from their own regions. Matching each magazine with its language is the most likely way this news will be tested, so the five pairs should be learnt together rather than one by one. Remember also that the five new titles sit alongside three older ones, taking the institute's popular science publishing from three languages to eight in all, a point that can be asked directly.

The correct answer is more than 300. An agreement signed at the Kollam event between the NCCF and Bharat Lajhna Sahakari Samiti provides for opening 300 She-Mart shops across the three southern states, where local products will be sold along with Bharat Brand goods. Option D is a distractor built from a different figure in the same news: the NCCF already runs more than 2,500 retail outlets, and the new She-Marts will work alongside them. Options A and C are simply not the announced number. The purpose of the chain is to let women self-help groups and rural women entrepreneurs earn at every stage of the value chain, from procurement and processing to branding, packaging and direct retail sale, without depending on middlemen.

The correct answer is that the team retained the gold it already held. The result was announced as the men's team retaining the Asian Games gold, and the Prime Minister greeted the players as champions once again, which tells us that India was the defending champion in the men's event and kept the title in this edition. Option A is wrong because a retained medal cannot be a first win. Option C is wrong because there was no upgrade from a silver; the team won the final. Option D is wrong because no sharing of the gold medal was reported. This distinction between winning a title and defending it is exactly the kind of detail question setters test, so note the word retained.

The correct answer is 2 October 2026. The 8th edition of the PM Mementos e-Auction 2026 stays live until that date, and the catalogue, auction dates and rules for taking part are published on the official portal pmmementos.gov.in. Option A is the day the Ministry of Culture drew attention to the Maharashtra collection, not the closing date. Options B and D are dates that do not appear in the announcement. Candidates should hold together the edition number, the closing date and the fact that the auction is run by the Ministry of Culture, because a question can ask for any one of the three. The collection itself holds 89 mementos ranging from sculptures and paintings to models and sports memorabilia.

The correct answer is 5.22%. The weight of tourism in the economy is measured through the Tourism Satellite Account, the official accounting framework that captures both the direct and the indirect contribution of the sector, and by that measure tourism adds 5.22% of national GDP. The same set of estimates shows employment linked to tourism rising from 6.94 crore in 2019-20 to 8.46 crore in 2023-24. Option A understates the share and matches no published estimate for the sector. Option C and option D are both too high for the current estimate, even though tourism worldwide is a larger share of output, having contributed about a tenth of global GDP in 2024. Remember the framework by name as well, since a question may ask which account is used to measure the contribution of tourism rather than the number itself.

The correct answer is the effective collection, segregation and disposal of electronic waste. The campaign this year gives special weight to identifying and clearing e-waste in keeping with the E-Waste (Management) Rules of 2022, alongside the optimisation of office space, the disposal of scrap and redundant items, record management and the timely settlement of public grievances. Option B names a reform direction the government pursues in other ways but not the theme announced for this edition. Option C and option D describe environmental measures that sound close to the drive yet are not what the campaign has been built around this year. For exams, pair the theme with the rules that govern it, since a question often asks which rules apply to the disposal of electronic waste in government offices.

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. She was present at the launch of the five magazines. Option A is wrong because Dr Geetha Vani Rayasam is the Director of CSIR-NIScPR, the institute that publishes them. Option C is wrong because Dr Meher Wan is one of the two officials who coordinated the publication work, along with Mukesh Ambadas Pund. Option D is wrong because Dr Jitendra Singh is the Union Minister of State with independent charge of the Ministry of Science and Technology, who released the magazines rather than heading CSIR. Knowing who holds each post is useful, as such pairings are asked frequently.

The correct answer is Janah, the NCCF brand whose sale the Union Cooperation Minister launched at Kollam. A memorandum of understanding was also exchanged for integrating the supply-chain logistics of fisheries products of the Bharatiya Matsya Pravartak Sangham with this brand. Option C, Vanitham, is wrong because that word belongs to the name of the She-Mart shops inaugurated the same day, not to the product brand. Options B and D are invented names. At the same event, Bharat Atta and Bharat Rice were put on sale for women customers through the She-Mart shops, free urad and gram seed kits went to women farmers under the Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses, and scholarship cheques were given under the NAFED-Kalyan Scholarship Scheme.

The correct answer is after a thrilling final. The women's kabaddi team took its gold in a final that was described as thrilling, and the Prime Minister praised the side for remarkable courage, composure and teamwork, adding that India is proud of its kabaddi champions. Option B is wrong because no walkover was reported in the women's event. Option C is wrong because the gold was decided in a final and not by a points table. Option D is wrong because the final was completed and produced a winner. Along with the men's team keeping its title, this gave India both kabaddi golds on 26 September 2026, a pairing worth memorising for the sports section of competitive papers. For revision, pair the word retained with the men’s event and the word thrilling with the women’s final, because a paper may reverse the two descriptions.

The correct answer is Raigad Fort. Along with a silver statue, a woodcut portrait and a framed artwork, the collection includes a scale model of the Meghadambari at Raigad Fort, a structure tied to the memory of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Options A, C and D name other well-known forts of the same region, but the model in this catalogue is of the Meghadambari at Raigad, so they are wrong. The Shivaji theme also runs through statues showing the ruler on horseback, on a throne, beside a lion and in ceremonial settings. Aspirants should remember the pairing of the Meghadambari with Raigad, since forts are a favourite area for questions in state and central examinations alike. The same catalogue also carries portraits and sculptures of Dr B. R. Ambedkar, Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Ahilyabai Holkar and Peshwa Bajirao I.