SSC Current Affairs Quiz: 3 October 2026

Navpreet Singh, named by the Ministry of Home Affairs as a hardened kingpin of the narcotics trade, had settled in Türkiye and taken Turkish nationality under the invented identity of Navab Virk.

The conclave was organised on that theme by the Institute of Economic Growth, and the Vice-President used it to argue that economic resilience cannot be separated from social resilience, that inclusion is the foundation of resilience, and that no citizen, enterprise or region should be left behind.

The Assembly and the meetings held around it are taking place at Arusha, a city in that country, from 5 to 9 October 2026, and the Indian Parliamentary Delegation left for Arusha for this purpose.

Union Minister of Jal Shakti Shri C. R. Patil attended the Special Gram Sabha there, in Chikhli Block, on Swachh Bharat Diwas.

The two captive-bred birds were moved from a soft-release facility at this park in the Thar desert, with the Union Environment Minister present at the site and the Chief Minister of Rajasthan joining by video conference during Wildlife Week 2026.

The scheme is funded three ways: the Centre contributes ₹30,000 crore, the State governments ₹20,000 crore and industry ₹10,000 crore, which together make up the full outlay.

The Department of Agricultural Research and Education and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research started the campaign on that day, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, which is also observed as Swachh Bharat Diwas.

She became the first Indian woman to win the Recurve Individual gold medal at the Asian Games, doing so at the 2026 edition, and the Prime Minister congratulated her on the achievement the same day.

She won the country's first gold medal in the Women's Individual Golf event at the Asian Games, and the Prime Minister congratulated her the same day, describing the achievement as one for the history books and praising the superb finish that produced it.

The Prime Minister congratulated the Indian men's cricket side on retaining its gold medal at the Asian Games, called the result a joyous occasion for the nation and wished the players well for their future endeavours.

That is the span over which the country's first free-space Quantum Key Distribution link was established, between the BISAG-N campus and IIT Gandhinagar, in a field trial run on the night of 27 and 28 September.

The Department of Higher Education under the Ministry of Education approved the establishment of five Centres of Excellence, one each for Classical Assamese, Classical Bengali, Classical Marathi, Classical Pali and Classical Prakrit.

The ASEAN-India Maritime Exercise was conducted there, with INS Sahyadri and INS Kulish representing the Indian Navy through both the Harbour Phase and the Sea Phase.

The Prime Minister, in congratulating the men's team on retaining its Asian Games gold, noted that the triumph was made more special because India's men's and women's hockey teams had both won gold at the same Asian Games for the first time.

The wrestler won the gold medal in that weight category, and it was recorded as the first time India has won an Asian Games gold in this event, which is precisely what makes the category worth memorising along with the name.

The bronze medal was won in that weight category after a fiercely contested bout, and the result was described as bringing India back on to the podium in the event after six decades.

Jal Arpan is described as a key reform under that mission, and it places rural drinking water systems in the hands of the communities that use them by handing completed schemes to gram panchayats and to Village Water and Sanitation Committees.

The auction of mementos presented to the Prime Minister is held so that the gifts serve a larger public purpose, and the money raised in this edition is directed to the Namami Gange Project, the programme for cleaning and conserving the river Ganga.

The target set under White Revolution 2.0 is to establish that many new cooperative dairies across the country, and alongside it to strengthen 46 thousand dairies that already exist.

National Anti-Drug Addiction Day falls on 2 October, the birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and the Central Bureau of Narcotics tied its Rajasthan programmes to Gandhi’s message of self-discipline and social responsibility.

NABKISAN Finance Limited, a subsidiary of NABARD, placed India's first social bond meant only for water, sanitation and hygiene work, and investors bid for 1.8 times the paper on offer.

That was the false name under which the narco-trafficking kingpin secured citizenship of Türkiye, and behind it he continued sending heroin and methamphetamine into India from Afghanistan.

The Vice-President recalled that the institute was set up that year under Professor V. K. R. V. Rao and has stayed close to India’s development journey ever since; it hosts this conclave.

He is to sit in the Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, speak in the General Debate and in the debate on the emergency item, and attend the hearing of those who are candidates for the post of IPU President.

The framework lets a panchayat judge its own sanitation work each year, and it was taken up in the Special Gram Sabhas, above all in ODF Plus (Model) Gram Panchayats; the Joint Secretary and Mission Director of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) made a presentation on it at Majigam.