SSC CHSL Current Affairs Quiz: 23 October 2026

She won the Global Youth Institute Award, which carries a cash prize of US$500, at the World Food Prize Foundation event held in Des Moines, Iowa, in the United States.

The Prime Minister inaugurated the Chinmaya Amrit Mahotsav Global Sammelan there on 23 October 2026, the global gathering of the Chinmaya Mission founded by Swami Chinmayananda.

It is the nodal department for Special Campaign 6, fixing targets activity by activity and collecting what each ministry achieves, and the photographs taken before and after each cleanliness drive are uploaded to its portal.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has said that in the first phase a total of 600 Civil Defence Master Trainers, 50 from each participating State or Union Territory, are proposed to be trained by the second week of November 2026 through a three-day specialised programme at designated Indian Army training…

The official account of the programme calls her Kittur Rani Chennamma and describes her as the brave queen of Kittur, the nation's unparalleled woman warrior who challenged an imperial power and stands in history as an immortal symbol of resistance.

Under the Integrated Programme for Senior Citizens (IPSrC) of the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana, run by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, 764 senior citizen homes are being supported at present, along with 13 continuous care homes, 17 mobile medicare units and 3 physiotherapy clinics.

During the visit she also interacted with the local Manjhi and Chalki at the Muriya Darbar, saw the rangoli and the Dussehra exhibition, and earlier offered darshan and puja at the Maa Danteshwari Temple in the same town.

This was the theme of the 2026 Norman E Borlaug International Dialogue, the World Food Prize Foundation event held from 20 to 22 October 2026 in Des Moines, Iowa, in the United States.

He began the Gita Gyana Yagna to carry the Upanishads, Vedanta and the scriptures to ordinary people, and his radio talks on the art of man making reached a wide audience.

The drive is conducted through that month under the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, and it is meant both to speed up the disposal of pending matters and to improve cleanliness in government offices.

The announcement states that this directorate of the Ministry of Home Affairs, working in coordination with the Indian Army, is undertaking the pilot initiative to strengthen Civil Defence preparedness through specialised training of Master Trainers.

The ceremony at Prerana Sthal in the Parliament premises combined two occasions, the birth anniversary of Kittur Rani Chennamma and the 202nd Victory Celebration, or Vijayotsava, of her win against the British.

The scheme guidelines of the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana provide annual financial support of this amount to each Regional Resource and Training Centre, and the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment also assists designated non-governmental organisations and institutions that function as RRTCs, so that outreach, capacity building and service delivery…

She then met the local Manjhi and Chalki, the traditional community representatives of Bastar, at the Muriya Darbar, visited the rangoli and Dussehra exhibition, and addressed the public programme.

The National Academy of Agricultural Sciences signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CAST at the 2026 Norman E Borlaug International Dialogue, and the agreement is meant to open new avenues of cooperation in agricultural research, in capacity development and in the exchange of knowledge, strengthening institutional links and creating room…

Swami Chinmayananda launched it so that the Upanishads, Vedanta and the scriptures would reach people in ordinary life rather than remain with a few scholars, and the Prime Minister described this effort as an important chapter in India's cultural and spiritual revival.

The branch office of the Cotton Corporation of India there identified 511 items of electronic waste for disposal through an e-auction on the Government e-Marketplace, with the bids to be opened in the fourth week of the month.

Under the structured Master Trainer model, every Master Trainer who completes the Army course will go back and train 100 Civil Defence Volunteers in their own State or Union Territory.

He addressed the gathering, greeted the country on the queen's birth anniversary and on the 202nd celebration of her victory against the British, and thanked those who made the event possible.

The scheme promotes the welfare of senior citizens through an integrated framework of care services, institutional support and state-level initiatives, and it addresses the needs of elderly persons, especially indigent senior citizens, by supporting residential care facilities, strengthening geriatric care capacity and encouraging awareness and evidence-based work on ageing.

The President said she was happy to note that initiatives to provide financial support to tribal entrepreneurs and connect them with markets had been accelerated, and expressed confidence that such efforts would prove instrumental in achieving the goal of a developed India by 2047 through equitable and inclusive development.