SSC CPO Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 26 October – 1 November 2026

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, acting with the Air Intelligence Unit at Trichy, foiled an attempt to bring that many live reptiles into India through Trichy International Airport.

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence found the secret laboratory in a remote village of Jalaun district in Uttar Pradesh and raided it in the early hours of 29 October 2026, with the state Anti-Terrorist Squad giving operational help.

The agency, which functions under the Ministry of Finance, carried out two intelligence-led operations one after the other in Mizoram and Assam and recovered 50 kg of methamphetamine, partly as tablets and partly as crystal meth, with the operational help of the Assam Rifles.

The Ministry of Home Affairs announces this medal on 31 October every year, and that date is observed as the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

The honour was conferred on the force on 1 November 2026, the day Chandigarh marks its foundation day, at a ceremony held for the Diamond Jubilee of the force.

The reptiles were seized and the two Indian passengers were arrested by the Air Intelligence Unit at Trichy under the provisions of that Act, because the offence was the illegal import of goods, here live wildlife, across a customs frontier.

Searches at the residential premises of one of the accused produced around 15.4 kg of finished methaqualone along with about 153 kg of chemicals and a machine used in the manufacturing process.

In the first operation, near Aizawl on the Aizawl-Champhai road, officers recovered 30 brick-shaped packets of pinkish-orange tablets weighing 30 kg from a cavity built inside an office table with a storage cabinet.

The Ministry of Home Affairs conferred the Kendriya Grihmantri Dakshata Padak for the year 2026 on 490 personnel drawn from the police forces of various states and Union Territories, from the Central Armed Police Forces and from the Central Police Organisations.

At the Chandigarh ceremony the Union Home Minister explained that the President’s Colour is granted to a force in recognition of service beyond fifteen years, with the discipline and the dedication of its personnel taken into account before the honour is given.

Officers of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence acted on specific intelligence and intercepted two Indian passengers who reached Trichy International Airport on that routing on 26 October 2026.

The two persons associated with the secret manufacturing facility in Jalaun were arrested under its provisions, which cover the production, possession, sale and transport of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

In both interceptions, the one outside Aizawl on 29 October 2026 and the one at Dholai on 30 October 2026, officers of the revenue intelligence wing worked with the Assam Rifles, which is the force deployed along the stretch of the international boundary through which these consignments move.

The medal was brought into existence by a notification of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, dated 1 February 2024, and the same ministry announces the recipients and publishes the list on its website.

On 1 November 1966 Chandigarh was constituted as a Union Territory and designated the joint capital of both Punjab and Haryana, which is why the city observes its foundation day on that date and why the police force celebrated its Diamond Jubilee alongside it.

The medal is given on five specified grounds: excellence in operations, outstanding service in investigation, exceptional performance, intelligence service marked by daring and determination, and meritorious work by serving government scientists in the field of forensic science.

The Union Home Minister said that the Chandigarh Police had set a national record by filing charge sheets online in 7,590 of the 8,206 FIRs registered in the city from 4 August 2024 onward, the period in which the three new criminal laws have been in force.