SSC CHSL Current Affairs Quiz: 11 October 2026

The correct answer is about 7.8 kg. The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence seized that much foreign-origin gold, valued at more than Rs 11.50 crore, in intelligence-led operations run on 8 and 9 October 2026 in the eastern region, and six persons were arrested. The total is made up of two actions: 50 gold bars of roughly 6.8 kg taken from a vehicle stopped at Dankuni Toll Plaza, and close to 1 kg taken from train passengers at two stations in West Bengal. Options A, C and D are wrong because no such quantity was reported in this set of operations; they are the kind of round figures a paper setter places beside the real one to test whether a candidate has memorised the actual seizure. Keep the pair of numbers together: about 7.8 kg of gold and a value above Rs 11.50 crore.

The correct answer is 3,548. Indian Railways notified that many graduate-level posts in the Non-Technical Popular Categories through the Centralised Employment Notification issued by the Railway Recruitment Boards, covering four categories of posts across commercial services, train operations, accounts and administration. Option A is wrong because 2,750 is the number of posts in a single category, that of Goods Train Manager, which is the largest block within the total rather than the total itself. Options C and D are wrong because no such totals were notified; they are placed as plausible larger figures to test recall. The remaining posts in the notification are 371 for Senior Clerk Cum Typist, 300 for Junior Accounts Assistant Cum Typist and 127 for Chief Commercial Cum Ticket Supervisor, and these four numbers add up to the notified total.

The correct answer is Varanasi. The 94th edition of the weekly cycling drive was held in Varanasi, where the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports led the ride. The morning opened at Namo Ghat with a meditation session and ended with a rally of about 5.5 km that ran from Namo Ghat to Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, both of which are in the city. Option A, Lucknow, is wrong because the venue named for this edition is Varanasi and not the state capital. Option B, Prayagraj, is wrong for the same reason, as no part of the programme was held there. Option D, Kanpur, is wrong as well: the ghats and the Sanskrit university mentioned as the start and the finish of the rally are landmarks of Varanasi, which is where the minister addressed the cyclists and the pledge against drug use was taken.

The correct answer is Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat. Yuva Sangam is the youth exchange carried out under that programme, and its seventh phase is being implemented by the Department of Higher Education in the Ministry of Education with the aim of strengthening national integration and building contact between young people from different regions. Participants come from twenty paired States and Union Territories and are shown the cultural traditions, educational institutions, innovation ecosystems and development work of the state they are matched with. Option B is wrong because that scheme funds higher education in the states rather than organising youth exchanges. Option C is wrong because the abhiyan named there connects institutions with village development work and is a separate initiative. Option D is wrong because that programme is aimed at bringing foreign students to Indian institutions, which is not what Yuva Sangam does.

The correct answer is Chennai. The Prime Minister addressed a public function in Chennai, where completed works were opened and foundation stones laid for new ones, the whole set valued at thirteen thousand crore rupees, and where a further stretch of the Chennai Metro was dedicated to the public. Option A, Coimbatore, is wrong because no event of this kind was held there; the metro stretch belongs to the Chennai network. Option C, Madurai, is wrong for the same reason, as the city finds no mention in the address. Option D, Tiruchirappalli, is also wrong, since the venue named throughout the address is Chennai and the projects relate to that city and to Tamil Nadu more widely. The Prime Minister also visited the Brain Research Centre at IIT Madras on the same day, which again places the programme in Chennai rather than in any other city of the state.

The correct answer is Keylong, Himachal Pradesh. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said that the centre will come up at Keylong in the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, and that the Union Health Minister will lay its foundation stone there. The district was chosen because it is a high-altitude, tribal and strategically significant border area, which makes it suitable for long-running field studies on mountain populations. Option A, Leh in Ladakh, is wrong because, although it is also a high-altitude town, the centre announced is not located there. Option C, Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, is wrong for the same reason and does not appear in the announcement. Option D, Munsiyari in Uttarakhand, is wrong as well, since no site in that state has been named. Candidates should tie the centre to Lahaul and Spiti in Himachal Pradesh.

The correct answer is Jayaprakash Narayan. The Prime Minister Office tribute issued on his birth anniversary refers to him throughout as Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan, and in short as Loknayak JP, the word meaning leader of the people. The tribute says his appeal travelled across generations and that he persuaded people to see public life as a means of national renewal. Option B, Ram Manohar Lohia, is wrong because, although he too belonged to the socialist stream of Indian politics, the title in question and the anniversary being marked here are not his. Option C, Acharya Narendra Deva, is wrong for the same reason. Option D, Morarji Desai, is wrong because he is remembered in other terms and is not the leader named in this tribute. Candidates should attach the title Loknayak firmly to Jayaprakash Narayan, since it is asked in exactly this form.

The correct answer is Dankuni Toll Plaza. A four-wheeler carrying four persons was stopped there as it travelled from Banpur, near the Bangladesh border, towards Kolkata. The search produced 50 gold bars weighing around 6.8 kg and worth nearly Rs 10 crore, some of them bearing foreign markings, and none of the occupants could produce documents showing lawful possession. The head of the smuggling syndicate active in the Banpur border area was among the four arrested. Options A, B and D name other places in West Bengal and were not the site of this interception, so they are incorrect. For the examination, remember the chain of places in this case: Banpur as the point of origin near the border, Dankuni Toll Plaza as the point of interception, and Kolkata as the intended destination of the consignment.

The correct answer is Goods Train Manager, with 2,750 of the notified posts, which is by far the biggest block in this recruitment. Option A is wrong because Senior Clerk Cum Typist accounts for 371 posts, the second largest share but much smaller. Option B is wrong because Junior Accounts Assistant Cum Typist has 300 posts. Option C is wrong because Chief Commercial Cum Ticket Supervisor has only 127 posts, the smallest share, even though it carries the highest pay among the four at Pay Level 6. Candidates should learn the order of the four categories by number of posts, since the vacancy break-up is a favourite question: Goods Train Manager, then Senior Clerk Cum Typist, then Junior Accounts Assistant Cum Typist, and finally Chief Commercial Cum Ticket Supervisor.

The correct answer is Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat. The edition in Varanasi was built around that theme, which links physical fitness to the wider campaign for a drug-free generation. In keeping with it, the minister and the participants took the Nasha Mukt Bharat pledge before the ride, and the cycle rally carried the same message through the streets of the city. Option B is wrong because the campaign invoked at this event was the one against substance abuse, not the cleanliness mission. Option C is wrong because Khelo India is a separate sports development programme and was not the theme announced for this edition. Option D is wrong because the organisers framed the morning around rejecting narcotics and adopting healthy habits rather than around air quality, even though cycling itself is a clean form of transport.

The correct answer is West Bengal. The delegation from Uttarakhand, for which Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University is the nodal institute, travelled to West Bengal and is being hosted there by IIT Kharagpur. The group was welcomed at the start of the tour, called on the Governor of the host state, and went on to see riverside landmarks in Kolkata as part of its cultural itinerary. Option A, Odisha, is wrong because that state is not the one paired with Uttarakhand in this phase of the exchange. Option C, Assam, is wrong for the same reason, as the host institute named for the visit lies in West Bengal. Option D, Tamil Nadu, is also wrong: the delegates’ programme was built around the traditions, institutions and landmarks of West Bengal and not of a southern state.

The correct answer is VOC Port, Thoothukudi. The Prime Minister said the Union Government has recently decided to build this port into a world-class mega container and green energy hub with an investment of about seventeen thousand crore rupees, and that once the work is finished even ultra-large container vessels will be able to reach it, helping Tamil Nadu become a global hub of industry and transport. Option A, Ennore Port, is wrong because it is not the port named in the decision described. Option B, Karaikal Port, is wrong for the same reason and does not appear in the address at all. Option D, Chennai Port, is wrong because the only Chennai facility mentioned for modernisation is the Chennai Fishing Harbour, taken up for fishermen, and not the commercial port. Candidates should link the mega container and green energy hub plan specifically with Thoothukudi.

The correct answer is the Indian Council of Medical Research. The centre is being established by the ICMR under the Department of Health Research in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and the announcement describes it as the first dedicated centre of the ICMR for high-altitude medicine and public health research. Option A is wrong because the Defence Research and Development Organisation is a defence research agency and is not the body setting up this centre, although the Armed Forces Medical Services are named as a collaborating institution. Option B is wrong because the All India Institute of Medical Sciences is a medical institute and does not figure as the promoter of the centre. Option D is wrong because the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research works under a different department and has no role in this project. Note the parent department as well, since that pairing is often tested.

The correct answer is Nanaji Deshmukh. The Prime Minister paid homage to him on his birth anniversary, which falls on the same date as that of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan, and described him as an outstanding nation-builder who showed in thought and in action that genuine change starts at the grassroots. The tribute says his life brought political conviction together with constructive social work and that he devoted himself to rural development and to community participation, with a vision of a strong and self-reliant India. Option A, Vinoba Bhave, is wrong because, though associated with rural causes, he is not the leader remembered in this tribute. Option C, Jagjivan Ram, is wrong because his anniversary and his fields of work are different. Option D is wrong for the same reason, as no such name appears here.

The correct answer is Tripura. DRI teams intercepted passengers coming off trains at Malda Town railway station and New Jalpaiguri railway station and seized about 1 kg of foreign-origin gold worth nearly Rs 1.5 crore, held in the form of bangles and bars. The investigation showed that this gold had been made from metal smuggled across the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura, and the two passengers were arrested after they could not show proof of lawful purchase. Options B, C and D name other north-eastern States that also lie along India’s eastern frontier, but the case traced the consignment to the Tripura stretch of the border. The wider point of the operations was that road and rail corridors linking the North-East with large markets such as Kolkata are being used to move smuggled gold.

The correct answer is Rs 35,400 a month, which is the initial basic pay for Chief Commercial Cum Ticket Supervisor at Pay Level 6 under the Seventh Central Pay Commission. Option B is wrong because Rs 29,200 a month at Pay Level 5 is the initial basic pay of the other three posts in this notification, namely Goods Train Manager, Junior Accounts Assistant Cum Typist and Senior Clerk Cum Typist. Options A and D are wrong because those entry pay figures belong to other levels of the pay matrix and were not notified for these posts. Allowances and service conditions apply as per the relevant rules. For the examination, link the post with the level and the pay: Level 6 with Rs 35,400 for the supervisor post, and Level 5 with Rs 29,200 for the rest.

The correct answer is Raj Kumar Pal, who won his gold medal as a member of the Indian men’s hockey team at the Asian Games held in Aichi-Nagoya. He was one of four medallists honoured at the cycling event in Varanasi. Option A, Prachi Chaudhary, is wrong because her medal at those Games was a bronze in the women’s quarter-mile event on the track. Option B, Parul Chaudhary, is wrong because she took two bronze medals rather than a gold, one in the women’s steeplechase and the other in the longer distance race. Option C, Jay Kumar, is wrong because his medals were a silver in the mixed relay and a bronze in the men’s relay, so neither of them was gold. Only the hockey player among the four stood on the top step of the podium.

The correct answer is IIT Kharagpur, which is hosting the visiting group and arranging its exposure to the cultural, spiritual and educational life of the host state. On the Uttarakhand side, the nodal institute for the delegation is Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, so the two institutions together anchor this pairing. Option A, Jadavpur University, is wrong because the release names the institute of national importance at Kharagpur as the host for this delegation. Option B, Visva-Bharati University, is wrong for the same reason, although it too is located in the host state. Option D, Presidency University, is wrong as well. Routing delegations through such institutes is deliberate, since it lets the academic exchange run alongside the cultural programme that Yuva Sangam is built around.

The correct answer is 25. The Prime Minister said that in 2014 metro trains ran in only five cities of the country, whereas metro services are today operated in twenty-five cities, and that the network itself has grown from roughly two hundred fifty kilometres in that year to more than one thousand one hundred kilometres now. Option A, 15, is wrong because it understates the present spread of the network, which has gone well past that mark. Option B, 20, is wrong for the same reason; it is close to the figure but not the number given in the address. Option D, 30, is wrong because it overstates the position, and no such count was claimed. The expansion was cited to argue that urbanisation should be treated as an opportunity, with public transport as the element that decides how easily city residents, working families, students and senior citizens are able to travel.

The correct answer is the Green ICMR Campus Initiative. The Ministry has said that after the Bhumi Pujan, the ceremonial groundbreaking and the unveiling of the foundation stone at Keylong, native Himalayan saplings will be planted under this initiative, and that the ceremony will also include a scientific exhibition, the launch of the institutional video and website of the centre, a presentation of the building layout and the release of a commemorative postal special cover by the Union Health Minister. Option B is wrong because no programme of that name is mentioned in the announcement. Option C is wrong because it refers to a different hill region altogether and finds no place in the plan. Option D is wrong because the activity described is tree planting on the campus of a research centre and not a cleanliness drive. Small naming details of this kind are a favourite with paper setters.

The correct answer is the Emergency. The Prime Minister noted that the fearless voice of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan during the Emergency was itself noteworthy, placing it alongside his concern for good governance and for reaching people at the margins of society. Option A, the Quit India Movement, is wrong in the context of this tribute, which does not cite that period even though the leader belonged to the generation that lived through it. Option C, the Bengal Partition, is wrong because that episode belongs to a much earlier phase of the national movement and is nowhere mentioned. Option D, the Non-Cooperation Movement, is wrong for the same reason. For revision, pair Jayaprakash Narayan with the Emergency and with the demand for good governance, and keep Nanaji Deshmukh paired with rural development, since questions on this date usually ask for that match.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Finance. The press note on the gold seizures in the eastern region was issued by that ministry, under which the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence works as the apex agency for intelligence-led action against smuggling and commercial fraud in customs matters. Option A is wrong because the Ministry of Home Affairs looks after internal security and the central armed police forces that guard the border, not revenue intelligence. Option B is wrong because the Ministry of Commerce and Industry deals with trade policy and export promotion. Option D is wrong because the Ministry of Corporate Affairs administers company law. Candidates should link DRI with the revenue side of the Finance Ministry, and recall that in this case it seized about 7.8 kg of gold worth over Rs 11.50 crore and arrested six persons.

The correct answer is 18 to 33 years as on 1 January 2027, with relaxation for eligible categories as prescribed in the rules. A candidate must also hold a degree of a recognised university or an equivalent qualification and meet the conditions laid down for the particular post. Options A, C and D are wrong because they alter either the band of years or the reference date, and both details must match the notification exactly. Selection runs through a first stage computer based test and a second stage computer based test, followed by document verification and medical examination as applicable. Applications opened on 8 October 2026 and close on 6 November 2026, with the fee payable up to 8 November 2026 and corrections allowed from 9 to 18 November 2026.

The correct answer is Sampurnanand Sanskrit University. After addressing the gathering and administering the pledge against drug use, the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports led the riders out of Namo Ghat and the rally finished at that university, covering a distance of roughly 5.5 km through the city. Option A, Banaras Hindu University, is wrong because the institution named as the end point of the rally was the Sanskrit university and not BHU. Option C, Dashashwamedh Ghat, is wrong because the ghat connected with the event was Namo Ghat, which is where the meditation session, the cultural performance and the start of the ride took place. Option D, Sarnath, is wrong because the route described for this edition stayed within the city streets and did not extend to that site.

The correct answer is Shri R. N. Ravi, who met the visiting delegation in his capacity as Governor of West Bengal. The students and teachers discussed learning, cultural exchange and the importance of building ties among young people from different parts of the country, and the meeting gave them a view of the host state’s distinctive cultural identity. Options B, C and D are wrong because the Governor named in connection with this interaction is Shri R. N. Ravi and no other person. Candidates should note the pairing carefully, since questions on Yuva Sangam often combine the dignitary met with the host state, the nodal institute and the hosting institute. Here the delegation came from Uttarakhand, the host institute was IIT Kharagpur, and the Governor it called on was the Governor of West Bengal.