SSC CHSL Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 7–13 September 2026

The correct answer is New Delhi. The release opens by saying that the Ninth ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture and Forestry was held on 9 September 2026 in New Delhi, India, and it closes with the ministers thanking the Government of India for the hospitality and the arrangements made for the meeting, which confirms India as the host. Option A, Jakarta, is a trap for the hurried reader, because Jakarta does appear in the release, but only as one of the two cities where the ASEAN-India Millets Festivals were held in 2023, the other being New Delhi. Option B, Manila, is not named anywhere; the Philippines is mentioned because the co-chair from the ASEAN side was its Agriculture Secretary, not because the meeting was held there. Option D, Bangkok, does not figure in the release at all. Candidates should link the ninth edition firmly with New Delhi and the tenth edition with the year 2028.

The correct answer is 1 January 2027. The release says in its headline points, and repeats at the very end, that the new rules shall come into force from January 1, 2027, which gives e-commerce entities a clear runway before compliance becomes mandatory. The three wrong options are all dates that sound administratively plausible, and this is precisely the trap: a candidate who remembers only that the amendment was made in 2026 may assume it applies at once, and pick the October date. It is worth separating the two years cleanly in memory. The amending instrument is titled the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) (Amendment) Rules, 2026, because that is the year it was made, but the date of commencement falls in the following year. The rules it amends are the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020, which were notified under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019.

The correct answer is Rs 12,773 crore. The release states that more than 1.44 crore Scheduled Caste students have benefited under the Pre-Matric and Post-Matric Scholarship Schemes and that scholarships amounting to Rs 12,773 crore have been disbursed to support their education. Option A is the most dangerous distractor because that amount does appear in the release, but it belongs to a different group: more than 1.01 crore students of the Other Backward Classes and the Economically Backward Classes received assistance of Rs 2,445.05 crore under the same pre-matric and post-matric schemes. The two pairs should be memorised together as pairs, so that the beneficiary count and the amount are never separated. Options B and D are figures close enough to the correct one to catch a candidate working from a hazy memory, but neither appears in the release.

The correct answer is the National Commission for Scheduled Castes. The release identifies Kishor Makwana as the Chairman of the NCSC and says the award recognises his dedicated service to that Commission and his contribution to advancing social justice, adding that the Commission has strengthened its role in safeguarding the constitutional rights of the Scheduled Castes under his leadership. Option A is the sharpest distractor, because the National Commission for Backward Classes does appear in the release, but in a different role: the ceremony was presided over by Hansraj Ahir, a former Chairman of that Commission. Option C and option D are national bodies that a candidate may confuse with the right one, yet neither is mentioned here. It is worth fixing the pairing in memory as a set, namely the recipient, the Commission he heads, and the award named after the former President of India.

The correct answer is 37. The Ministry of Education says the exposition at Bharat Mandapam is showing that many Indian deep-tech start-ups and ventures, and that they were drawn from the larger group which had taken part in the first Bharat Innovates at Nice. Option D is the trap here, because that is the size of the original cohort at Nice rather than the number on show in New Delhi; a careless reading of the release swaps the two. Option A is wrong because thirteen was the number of thematic areas into which the Nice exposition was divided. Option B is wrong because fifteen was the number of institutes shown at Nice, among them the IITs, IISc, BIRAC and iDex. Keep the four numbers apart in memory by tying each to its own label, and note that the New Delhi figure is the one tied to this event.

The correct answer is more than 80 lakh, which the Ministry also writes as over 8 million doses. The figure covers the whole campaign since its launch in February 2026 and was announced as a milestone in the prevention of cervical cancer. Option A is wrong because that is the number of adolescent girls vaccinated in Uttar Pradesh alone, the highest for any single state. Option C is wrong because that is the size of the annual cohort of girls aged 14, taken from the Registrar General of India's estimates, and not the number of doses given. Option D is wrong because it misreads the crore and lakh scales and is far above anything in the release. This kind of question is best answered by keeping the national total, the leading state's figure and the annual cohort separate, since all three appear in the same release and are easy to interchange under time pressure.

The correct answer is 18.77 lakh. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs says that is the total number of houses approved under the second phase of the mission after the ninth meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee, and that cumulative sanctions are now nearing the twenty lakh mark. Option B is the closest trap, since that is the number of these houses allotted to women, which works out to ninety two per cent of the total. Option A is wrong because that figure belongs to the houses sanctioned for OBC beneficiaries. Option D is wrong because it is the combined record of the earlier phase and the present one taken together, of which more than one crore houses have already been completed and handed over. Read such questions carefully for the phrase under PMAY-U 2.0, which fixes which of the four numbers is being asked for.

The correct answer is Lothal in Gujarat. The release says the project reviewed by the Governing Council is coming up there, and that it seeks to revive and showcase a maritime legacy spanning over five millennia, with the aim of making the town a globally known centre of maritime heritage, knowledge, education and tourism. Option A is wrong, and it is the sharpest distractor because that site is also a Harappan settlement in the same state; the release names only the one town. Option C is wrong although the release's parent ministry signed a ship repair joint venture at that port city in the same week, which is a separate story. Option D is wrong because no such site appears here. Remember the pairing of the complex with Lothal, and with the Archaeological Survey of India, which is carrying out the excavation.

The correct answer is Ahmedabad. The Commission held the fifth conference in the series there, and the participants were students and teachers drawn from schools, colleges and universities across Gujarat. Options A, B and D are all wrong for this question because each city hosted one of the four earlier conferences in the same series: Patna in Bihar, Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, Chennai in Tamil Nadu and Margao in Goa. Questions in this series are usually set on the order of the host cities, so learn the four earlier ones as a group and attach the fifth to Gujarat. Note also that the Chief Election Commissioner met Booth Level Officers of the state on the same day and praised their work in the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls.

The correct answer is two. A pair of commemorative postage stamps was released in New Delhi on the sidelines of the 18th BRICS Summit to mark the completion of two decades of the grouping. The two stamps do not carry the same design. The first depicts the rise of BRICS as a platform for dialogue and cooperation, resting on the spirit of mutual respect, understanding and solidarity. The second carries the logo of India's Chairship along with the vision of 'humanity first' and a 'people-centric' approach that guided the Chairship year. Option A is wrong because a single stamp could not have carried both designs described in the release. Options C and D name larger numbers that are not supported by the announcement. A useful way to fix the answer is to link the number two with the phrase 'two decades' that the stamps themselves carry in their inscription.

The correct answer is Ministry of Earth Sciences. The drive at Digha in East Midnapore was organised by this ministry, and the campaign was coordinated across the country by the National Institute of Ocean Technology at Chennai, which is an institute under the same ministry. The programme was inaugurated by Sreenivasa Rao Gangi Reddy, Joint Secretary in the ministry, at the Marine Aquarium and Regional Centre. Option A, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, handles forests, wildlife and pollution control and is a natural guess, but it was not named here. Option C, the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, deals with ports and shipping rather than beach cleanup campaigns. Option D, the Ministry of Jal Shakti, works on rivers, drinking water and sanitation rather than marine litter. Candidates should attach the ocean-related institutes, namely NIOT and INCOIS, to the Ministry of Earth Sciences.

The correct answer is 2026-2030. The meeting looked forward to the adoption and implementation of the medium-term plan of action for cooperation in agriculture and forestry for 2026-2030, and the release sets out its four mutually reinforcing areas, namely policy dialogue with food security, trade, investment and resilient value chains; institutional networking, information exchange and digital innovation; capacity building, technology cooperation and joint research and development; and human-resource development with farmer exchanges and inclusive rural enterprise. Option A, 2021-2025, is the period of the plan that was being closed out, and the release praises the progress made under it, so it describes the past and not the future. Option C and option D are periods that do not appear anywhere in the release and have been placed here only to test whether the candidate has memorised the exact span. Note also that the same years, 2026-2030, cover the ASEAN sectoral plan for food, agriculture and forestry welcomed at this meeting.

The correct answer is 30 days. The amended rules provide that where a price reduction is announced, both the reduced price and the prior price shall be displayed, and they define the prior price as the lowest price at which the goods or services were offered during the thirty days preceding the announcement. The point of the provision is to stop the familiar trick of quietly raising a price and then advertising a discount from the inflated figure, because the reference point is now the lowest price in a fixed window rather than a figure of the seller choosing. The other options are periods that do not appear in the release. Candidates should tie this provision to the neighbouring ones in the same list, namely the ban on manipulating search results in a way that misleads users and the requirement that sponsored listings be identified through clear and prominent disclosures.

The correct answer is from May to December. Under the Scheme for Residential Education for Students in High Schools in Targeted Areas, the annual examination schedule of the National Entrance Test for SHRESHTA has been advanced from May to December. The purpose given in the release is practical: an earlier test lets counselling and admission be completed in time, keeps the process aligned with the academic calendar, and reduces both delay and the number of students who drop out while waiting. Option D reverses the two months and is the classic trap in questions of this kind, so read the direction of the change carefully; the test now happens earlier in the cycle, not later. Options A and C name months that do not appear in the release at all. Candidates should also note the full form of SHRESHTA, since examiners ask for it as often as they ask for the reform itself.

The correct answer is the Sansad Ratna Awards 2026. The release states that the award was presented during the sixteenth edition of the Sansad Ratna Awards, held at the Dr Ambedkar International Centre in the national capital, and it adds that the jury of the Sansad Ratna Awards Committee recognised the service of the Commission to the nation and to the cause of social justice. The same committee, along with the Prime Point Foundation, also nominated him for the honour. The other three names in the options have been built to sound like plausible award ceremonies, but none of them appears in the release. Candidates should carry the surrounding details as well, since questions are often framed around them: the Chief Guest was Union Minister of Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy, and former Chief Justice B. R. Gavai was present on the occasion.

The correct answer is Nice in France. The release records that the first Bharat Innovates was held there from the fourteenth to the sixteenth of June 2026, under the India-France Year of Innovation, and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Emmanuel Macron inaugurated it together. That edition showed the country's top deep-tech ventures across thirteen thematic areas along with fifteen institutes, drew participants from twenty-nine countries and ended with funding commitments for Indian ventures. Option C is wrong, although the city does appear in the release for a different reason: it hosted the BRICS Education Ministers' Meeting and the senior officials' meeting on education in August 2026. Options B and D are wrong because neither Switzerland nor the United Arab Emirates figures anywhere in the account of the programme. The France link is worth remembering together with the India-France Year of Innovation.

The correct answer is Karnataka. The Ministry places that state in a different band, saying it has achieved more than 85 per cent coverage of its identified target population rather than complete coverage. The four states listed as having reached full coverage are Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram, so options A, B and D are all wrong for this question. The release also notes a third band, with Bihar, Andhra Pradesh and Assam crossing 90 per cent, and a fourth with Chhattisgarh, Sikkim, Kerala, Telangana and Odisha crossing 60 per cent. Questions framed in the negative reward candidates who have learnt the bands as groups rather than as a single list of names. Fix the four full-coverage states first, then the three above ninety, and the rest follow easily.

The correct answer is Satendra Singh, Secretary, Department of Urban Development. The release says the meeting was held under his chairmanship in New Delhi, and that it was he who told the states the committee would meet in the second week of every month and asked them to submit duly approved projects by the end of each month. Option C is wrong, though the officer named did attend: he is the Joint Secretary and Mission Director for Housing for All, not the chair. Option A is wrong because no minister is recorded as presiding over this meeting; the committee is an official body of the Ministry. Option D is wrong because no such role appears in the release. Questions on sanctioning committees usually turn on who chairs them, so tie the post of Secretary, Department of Urban Development, to the CSMC.

The correct answer is 13. The Minister told the Council that this many countries, among them Portugal, the United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Thailand, the Netherlands, Denmark, Oman, Israel, Germany, the Republic of Korea, Italy, New Zealand and Singapore, had signed memoranda of understanding for collaboration on the project. Option D is the trap, because that is the size of the proposed pipeline of partnerships towards which talks with several more nations are under way, not the number already signed. Options A and C are wrong because neither figure appears anywhere in the release. The MoUs enable the exchange of artefacts, replicas and ship models along with research collaboration and cultural engagement, which is why the Minister called the project a powerful instrument of maritime diplomacy.

The correct answer is Learn Democracy. Lead Democracy. The release says ELC 2.0 carries that tagline and reimagines Electoral Literacy Clubs as structured, visible and digitally enabled platforms across schools, colleges and universities, encouraging young and first-time voters to understand democracy and take part in it meaningfully. It leverages the ECINET platform, which provides every election-related service from roll to poll, and will run continuous, year-round activity through a dedicated ELC portal. Options B, C and D are wrong because none of those lines appears in this release, although each has the ring of a voter awareness slogan and so works as a distractor. The two-part tagline is easy to remember if you keep its structure in mind: first learn, then lead.

The correct answer is BRICS: Two Decades of Cooperation, 2006-2026. The stamps carry these words in English and the same inscription in Hindi. The year pair matters, because the first of the two years is the year in which the grouping itself began, and the second is the year of India's Chairship and of the Summit at which the stamps were released. The other options change the years and the wording. Option B shifts the span by one year at both ends and replaces cooperation with partnership. Option C uses years associated with later stages of the grouping and a phrase that does not appear on the stamps. Option D pushes the beginning far too early. Candidates should remember that an inscription question is really a date question in disguise: fix the pair of years first, and the wording will follow.

The correct answer is 19 September. The cleanup drive at Digha was described as a prelude to International Coastal Cleanup Day, to be observed on 19 September 2026, and the objective was to build wider awareness about marine pollution and to encourage practices that protect coastal and marine ecosystems. Option A, 5 June, is World Environment Day, and option B, 8 June, is World Oceans Day; both belong to the same broad family of environmental observances and are therefore the strongest distractors here. Option D is a nearby date offered to test precision. A useful way to keep the three days apart is to remember that June carries the two global environment and ocean days, while September carries the day devoted specifically to cleaning up coasts, which is why a cleanup drive was organised in the week leading up to it.

The correct answer is 50. Listing the achievements of the cooperation period that has just ended, the release records the launch in 2024 of the ASEAN-India Fellowship for Higher Education in Agriculture and Allied Sciences, which provides for 50 master’s fellowships over five years for students from ASEAN member states. The other options are numbers that fit the shape of such a scheme but are not supported by the release, and a candidate who guesses will very likely pick one of them. Two further details from the same list are worth carrying into the examination hall alongside this figure: the ASEAN-India Millets Festivals were held at Jakarta and New Delhi in 2023 to promote dietary diversification, nutrition and climate-resilient crops, and the joint leaders statement on strengthening food security and nutrition in response to crises also belongs to this period of cooperation.

The correct answer is the Consumer Protection Act, 2019. The release states that the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020 were notified under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, and that they provide the framework for safeguarding consumers against unfair trade practices in the e-commerce sector; the amendment of 2026 strengthens that same framework. The other three statutes are real laws that a candidate may associate loosely with online business, but none of them is named in this release, and attributing the rules to them would be wrong. The chain worth memorising runs in one line: the Act of 2019 is the parent, the Rules of 2020 sit under it, the Amendment Rules of 2026 modify those rules, and the whole package takes effect from the first day of 2027. Also remember that the administering authority named here is the Department of Consumer Affairs.

The correct answer is the National Overseas Scholarship Scheme. The release says that to strengthen the authenticity of documents and prevent fraudulent claims, a system for verifying income and caste certificates on the spot, directly with the authorities that issued them, was introduced under this scheme from the academic year 2024-25, and that the measure helps ensure the benefit reaches genuine candidates aspiring to study abroad. Each of the other options is a real scheme named in the same release but carries a different reform, so they must be kept apart. SHRESHTA is where the entrance test was advanced from May to December. The National Fellowship for SC Students is where a mandatory seven-day grievance window was introduced from the academic year 2025-26, following the declaration of the UGC-NET and Joint CSIR-UGC NET results. The Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme is where the disbursement figures come from.

The correct answer is G. Kishan Reddy, the Union Minister of Coal and Mines, who was the Chief Guest at the function. This question is hard precisely because every option names a person who was actually present, so each must be tied to the right role. Dr Sukanta Majumdar, the Minister of State for Education and for the Development of the North Eastern Region, graced the occasion as the Special Guest, which is a different designation from Chief Guest. Hansraj Ahir, former Chairman of the National Commission for Backward Classes, presided over the ceremony rather than attending as its guest. Former Chief Justice B. R. Gavai was present on the occasion but is not described as holding either of the guest roles. Reading the roles carefully is the whole skill being tested here, and the same care pays off in questions about any award ceremony.

The correct answer is 12 and 13 September 2026. The Ministry of Education says the exposition is being held as a lead-up to, and alongside, the summit that falls on those two days under India's BRICS Chairship. Option A is the trap, since those are the dates of the exposition itself at Bharat Mandapam, which opens a day before the leaders meet and continues through the first day of the summit. Option C is wrong because no part of the programme is placed on those dates. Option D is wrong because early August belongs to a different set of events, the BRICS Education Ministers' Meeting and the senior officials' meeting on education, both held at Bhubaneswar in Odisha. In questions of this kind, note which body is meeting on which day, since the exposition, the business forum and the leaders' summit all fall in the same week.

The correct answer is U-WIN. The release says the campaign has leveraged India's digital health infrastructure through this platform, which allows programme managers to monitor vaccination coverage at the district level, identify coverage gaps and missed beneficiaries, and plan the programme and its resources better. Option A is wrong, and it is the most attractive distractor because the name is similar and belongs to the platform associated with an earlier vaccination drive; the release names only the newer platform. Option C is wrong because that service is associated with teleconsultation and is not mentioned here. Option D is wrong for the same reason, as no health account or identifier of that kind appears in the account of the campaign. Along with the platform, remember the safety arrangement: sessions under trained Medical Officers, with facilities linked to round-the-clock care for rare adverse events.

The correct answer is up to Rs 9 lakh. The release states that the scheme caters to the housing needs of urban EWS, LIG and MIG families having an annual household income up to that level, and that it helps them move from kutcha, inadequate or rented accommodation into pucca homes. Options A and B are wrong because neither figure is given as the ceiling anywhere in the release, even though the lower income categories the scheme serves are often associated with such thresholds in general discussion. Option D is wrong as well and no such limit appears. Along with the ceiling, remember the four routes the scheme offers: building one's own pucca house, buying a house in a project built under the scheme, affordable rental housing, and an interest subsidy on an eligible housing loan.

The correct answer is 31 October 2026. The Council was informed that Phase 1A had reached about eighty two per cent physical completion, and the Minister urged the implementing agencies to keep strict supervision so that this revised target is met. He specifically flagged the components that remain, namely Galleries four and six, Lothal Town and the Aquatic Theming, and asked for quick approvals on the artefacts already readied for installation so that exhibits can be commissioned in time for visitors. Options B, C and D are wrong because no other completion date is given anywhere in the release. Tie the date to the percentage in memory, since questions on projects under construction usually ask for one and use the other as a distractor. Note also that the first Council meeting was held in June 2025.