SSC CHSL Current Affairs Quiz: 17 October 2026

The correct answer is Shri Bhupender Yadav, the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, who met start-ups and innovation companies working on air pollution mitigation and himself put a set of problem statements covering nine key areas before them.

The correct answer is 20 ppm, that is 20 milligrams per kilogram, which the draft proposes as the Maximum Residue Limit for Acetamiprid in tea.

The youth dialogue was held to mark the completion of one hundred and fifty glorious years of Vande Mataram, and the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare joined it at Smart City Park in Bhopal, where he planted saplings with young people drawn from seven states.

He spoke at the programme held at a college in Kutiyana, in his own district, and called on young people to take the lead in nation-building and in the march towards a developed India.

The fair at the Mysuru Dasara Exhibition Grounds has eighty three stalls in all, and of these eighty have been allotted to artisans, with thirty seven women among those artisans.

The sessions promoted prevention of drug use, a healthy way of living and the wider goal of a drug free country.

The All India Institute of Ayurveda in New Delhi celebrated ten years of work in Ayurveda teaching, research, clinical care and international collaboration, and the day fell on the concluding day of KAUMARACON 2026, the three-day international conference on Kaumarabhritya organised by the institute.

The interaction of 17 October 2026 between the Union Environment Minister and start-ups was one of a series of stakeholder engagements carried out under that campaign theme, which places a share of the responsibility for clean air on every citizen.

The correct answer is the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, the regulator under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare that sets food standards and notified this draft amendment to the regulations on contaminants, toxins and residues.

The correct answer is Smart City Park, Bhopal, where the plantation and the open dialogue with the young took place during the programme marking the anniversary of Vande Mataram.

The Minister said that efforts were under way, under the guidance of the Prime Minister, to develop one lakh young leaders across the country, and he placed the MY Bharat portal at the centre of that effort as the route through which the young can find openings for participation, career…

The correct answer is the Mysuru Dasara Exhibition Grounds in Karnataka, where the nine day fair began on the eleventh of October and will close on the nineteenth.

The Bureau is usually associated in the public mind with enforcement against narcotics, so option A looks tempting, but the home ministry is not the parent of this particular organisation.

Both agreements were signed at the Foundation Day ceremony to strengthen cooperation between institutions and the sharing of knowledge in Ayurveda.

Shri Bhupender Yadav presented a set of specific problem statements covering nine key areas of air pollution management and discussed with the innovators how their technologies could be adapted, scaled and deployed on the ground against each of them.

The comparison was offered to show that Indian agriculture applies these chemicals sparingly, and that Indian use is also below the levels reported from Colombia, Brazil and the United States of America.

The volunteers who met the Minister belonged to this platform, and he described it as a large one for preparing the creative strength of youth for the building of a developed India, adding that its object is to make the young good citizens who work for the country and society…

The five pledges, together called Panch Pran, were articulated by the Prime Minister from the ramparts of the Red Fort, and the Minister recalled them at this programme: the resolve to build a developed India, freedom from the colonial mindset, pride in the heritage of the country, unity and solidarity…

The correct answer is 975 artisans, who have taken part across the thirteen fairs organised since the Ministry began the series.

The programme at the CM Rise Government School in Jawad was organised in association with the Brahma Kumaris of Neemuch, and the office of the District Opium Officer at Garoth also worked with the same organisation for the session at the Sanskar Valley Higher Secondary School.

The international agreement was signed between AIIA Goa and that university, which is located at Fairfield in the state of Iowa, and it provides for an Academic Chair in Ayurveda in the university’s Department of Physiology and Health.

Pressing for enforcement that leans on technology, Shri Bhupender Yadav said that joining the readings of Online Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems to data on how a plant is actually being operated is essential if malpractices are to be identified, and that artificial intelligence can play an important part in achieving…

The correct answer is Codex standards, the international food standards against which the proposed limit for Imidacloprid in tea was framed.

The correct answer is the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who attended the youth dialogue and planted saplings with the participants.

Kaumarabhritya is Ayurvedic paediatrics, and the conference named after it was devoted to advancing child healthcare through Ayurveda. The sessions covered Ayurvedic paediatric education, regulatory frameworks, traditional practices and scope for collaboration between countries, and a round-table examined policy, education and research in the discipline.