SSC Current Affairs Quiz: 8 October 2026

The correct answer is three. The Ministry of Communications stated that telecom licences have been granted to three Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite operators whose services rest on non-geosynchronous satellite orbits, and that all three are at broadly the same regulatory stage because the security assessment of each is still in progress. Option A, one, is wrong because the ministry spoke of more than a single licensee and said the framework treats every applicant alike; a single licensee would also make the question of discriminatory treatment between operators meaningless. Option B, two, is wrong for the same reason, as the ministry's count of licensed satellite operators is higher than that. Option D, six, is wrong because no such number appears in the government's statement; the ministry named a smaller set of licensees, each of which must demonstrate compliance with the security conditions of its licence before it may ask for spectrum to be assigned. Candidates should tie the number three to the GMPCS licences and to the fact that the security assessment is under way for every one of them.

The correct answer is 43 per cent. The assessment of the Ayush services sector puts the share of women in the sector's total workforce at 43 per cent, and notes that the share rises past half in several organised segments. Option C, 53 per cent, is the figure for hospitals alone, not for the whole sector, so it is a segment number rather than the overall one. Option D, 63 per cent, matches no reported segment either; the highest segment share reported is over 60 per cent, recorded in spas and wellness resorts. Option A, 33 per cent, understates the finding and appears nowhere in the assessment. Candidates should hold the overall number apart from the segment numbers: 53 per cent in hospitals, 57 per cent in day-care centres and 58 per cent in educational institutes, against 43 per cent for the sector taken as a whole.

The correct answer is Fiji. The Pre-COP31 meeting was convened in Nadi, Fiji, and it was there that Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav addressed the Plenary Discussion on Political Landing Zones and Outcomes and asked the Parties for greater flexibility, pragmatism and mutual respect. Option B, Turkiye, is a tempting choice because that is where the main conference will be held, COP31 being scheduled for Antalya in November, but the preparatory meeting was not held there. Options C and D, Brazil and Azerbaijan, have hosted earlier sessions of the UN climate talks and are placed here as plausible distractors, yet neither hosted this Pre-COP. Candidates should keep the two places distinct in memory: the Pre-COP at Nadi in Fiji, and COP31 itself at Antalya in Turkiye.

The correct answer is the National Small Industries Corporation. The National SC-ST Hub was launched on 18 October 2016 and is implemented through NSIC, which also runs the Single Point Registration Scheme that gives registered micro and small enterprises free tender sets and exemption from Earnest Money Deposit. Option A, the Small Industries Development Bank of India, is the development finance institution for the small enterprise sector and lends to it, but it is not the implementing agency named for this scheme. Option C, the Khadi and Village Industries Commission, promotes khadi and village industries and runs separate employment programmes. Option D, the National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation, works on credit for Scheduled Caste beneficiaries under a different ministry. For the examination, pair the scheme with the MSME Ministry as its parent and NSIC as its implementing arm.

The correct answer is Hindi and Marathi. The condolence message on the veteran actor's passing described his contribution to Hindi and Marathi cinema as immense, and it is this pairing that identifies his body of work. Option B, Hindi and Bengali, option C, Marathi and Tamil, and option D, Hindi and Telugu, each keep one correct industry or none, and are placed here because questions on film personalities commonly swap one language for another. Aspirants should remember that the actor was counted among the few who carried an unmistakable presence on screen, bringing versatility and creativity to every role and creating characters expected to be remembered for generations. He was admired away from the screen as well, for frank and forthright views that he never hesitated to express. The condolence from the Prime Minister was issued on 8 October 2026.

The correct answer is the 10th edition. The India Mobile Congress completed ten years with this edition, which the Prime Minister opened at Yashobhoomi in New Delhi on 8 October 2026, and he described the tenth anniversary of the platform as running in parallel with the hosting of a GSMA Board meeting in the country. Option A, the 8th edition, is wrong because that edition belongs to an earlier year of the series; the Prime Minister used this stage to trace a decade of change rather than eight years. Option B, the 9th edition, is wrong for the same reason, being the edition held before this one. Option D, the 12th edition, is wrong because the series has not yet reached twelve; the tenth is the one just held. A useful anchor for exams is that 5G was launched from this very platform in 2022, and the Prime Minister recalled that journey while opening the tenth edition.

The correct answer is Joint Squad for Health. The Union Health Minister launched the JOSH Teams at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, and the squads are to work at district and block level under the TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan, carrying information on prevention, testing and treatment into households. Option B, Youth Squad for Hygiene, is wrong; the squads are indeed youth-led, but hygiene is only one of the healthy behaviours volunteers promote and does not form part of the name. Option C, Joint Outreach for Social Health, is wrong because the expansion uses Squad rather than Outreach, even though community outreach is exactly what the teams do. Option D, Junior Officers for Social Health, is wrong; a Class-I officer leads each team at the block or ward level, so the name does not refer to junior officers. The word squad is the clue, since each unit joins volunteers and cadets in one group.

The correct answer is the Union Jal Shakti Minister, C. R. Paatil, who presided over the meeting in New Delhi. Option A is wrong because river rejuvenation under the Namami Gange Programme sits with the Ministry of Jal Shakti, not with the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, even though the subject is environmental. Option C is wrong; the Director General of the National Mission for Clean Ganga, Rajeev Kumar Mital, attended the meeting and presented the progress of the programme, but the task force is chaired by the Minister. Option D is wrong, although urban local bodies are deeply involved in sewage work and city sanitation action plans. Candidates should also remember that the Minister of State for Jal Shakti, Raj Bhushan Chaudhary, was present, and that the Empowered Task Force is the top review body for the Ganga basin.

The correct answer is screening school children for probable disability conditions. PRASHAST is a school-based digital tool under the Department of School Education and Literacy that helps identify children with conditions covered by the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, and it works through a checklist in two parts, with the teacher screening on observable indicators and a special educator validating the case and arranging a medical referral where required. Option B is wrong; midday meal records are maintained through a separate system under the school nutrition programme. Option C is wrong because the tool looks at children's needs rather than at teacher performance, although teachers are the ones who use it. Option D is wrong, as scholarship distribution runs through dedicated portals of other departments. The point to carry into an examination is the link between PRASHAST and the disability rights law.

The correct answer is Manila, the Philippines, where India was represented by the Minister of State for Power and New and Renewable Energy, Shripad Yesso Naik. Option A, Jakarta, is wrong for this meeting, although it is the seat of the ASEAN Secretariat and therefore a tempting choice in any question about the grouping. Option C, Kuala Lumpur, is wrong here; Malaysia appears in this news for a different reason, as one of the countries a proposed land corridor from Imphal to Singapore would pass through. Option D, Bangkok, is wrong for the same reason, Thailand being another country on that proposed route along with Myanmar. For examinations, link the edition number, twentieth, with the host city and with the two plans the Minister welcomed, the ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation and the ASEAN India Plan of Action for the years from 2026 to 2030.

The correct answer is Arusha in Tanzania, where the Indian Parliamentary Delegation led by the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha took part in the General Debate and in several committee meetings. Option A, Istanbul, is wrong for this question but is worth remembering separately, because the previous assembly of the organisation was held there and it was at that assembly that a new Secretary General was elected. Option C, Geneva, is wrong here, although the Inter-Parliamentary Union has its headquarters in that Swiss city, which makes it the most tempting distractor in any question on the body. Option D, Nairobi, is wrong; Kenya is a neighbour of Tanzania in East Africa and is often confused with it in questions about venues. Candidates should pair the assembly number with the host city and with the theme of the General Debate.

The correct answer is 59.20 GW. Speaking at the inauguration of Windergy India 2026 in Chennai, the Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy put installed wind capacity at that level as on 30 September 2026, and said the country is firmly placed to cross 100 GW of wind capacity by 2030. Options A, C and D are figures that were not reported. The same address gave two more numbers worth memorising: a record addition of 6.05 GW in FY2026, which is the highest annual wind installation India has achieved, and the expectation that the addition in FY2027 will be larger still. Taken together, the installed base, the record yearly addition and the 2030 target are the three figures an examiner is most likely to pick from this story, so candidates should learn them as a group rather than one at a time.

The correct answer is Thiruvarutchelvar. The archive did not hold this title in any format before the donation, so the print fills a real gap in the national collection, and the donor gave it priority once she learnt of the gap. Option A, Thillana Mohanambal, is wrong because the archive already holds several preservation elements of that film and the donation only adds a second surviving release print. Option B, Thiruvilayadal, is wrong because one preservation element of it was already in the collection; the donated print, apparently an optically altered version in the CinemaScope format, becomes the second. Option D, Rathakaneer, is wrong because that print was donated earlier, in January 2026, and was not part of this set of three. All three films star Sivaji Ganesan and were directed by A. P. Nagarajan.

The correct answer is Reliance Jio, which averaged 271.44 Mbps on download in the Fazilka drive test. Option A, Airtel, came second at 204.39 Mbps, so it is a close but wrong choice; Airtel did, however, top the upload table at 23.52 Mbps. Option D, Vodafone Idea, averaged 17.19 Mbps on download and 15.10 Mbps on upload. Option B, BSNL, was lowest on download at 15.59 Mbps and on upload at 6.39 Mbps, and also recorded the highest packet loss, at 2.68 per cent on the downlink and 2.90 per cent on the uplink. Candidates should remember that the exercise was an Independent Drive Test in the Punjab Licensed Service Area, carried out from 5 to 7 August 2026 and supervised by the regulator’s regional office at Jaipur, with the findings published in October.

The correct answer is 2 to 31 October 2026. That is the implementation period announced by the government for the sixth edition of the special campaign, under which departments clear pendency, manage records and dispose of electronic waste. Option A names the preparatory phase, which ran from 15 to 30 September 2026 and was used to set targets rather than to implement them, so it is a careful distractor. Options C and D give periods that were not announced. In the case of the Department of Biotechnology, the drive is being carried out along with its scientific cadre units, divisions, autonomous institutions and public sector undertakings, and the Secretary along with the Joint Secretary who serves as nodal officer is reviewing progress. The campaign itself is coordinated by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances.

The correct answer is Air Force Station Hindan, Ghaziabad. The force completed 94 years of service on 8 October 2026 and held its ceremonial Air Force Day parade at Hindan, where the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal AP Singh, reviewed the parade in the presence of the Army and Navy chiefs, former air chiefs and other senior officers. Option B, Palam, is wrong: no part of this year’s ceremony was held there, although Palam has hosted the parade in earlier years, which is exactly why it works as a distractor. Option C, Chandigarh, is wrong because the station finds no mention in the account of the day. Option D, Prayagraj, is also wrong. The only other place named for this year is Namo Ghat in Varanasi, and that is for a separate aerial display on 25 October 2026, not for the parade itself. So the parade venue is Hindan and the later flypast venue is Varanasi.

The correct answer is 67 days. The rules, notified by the Department of Telecommunications under the Telecommunications Act, 2023, came into effect on 1 January 2025 and set up a uniform and transparent framework for laying telecom infrastructure, with rationalised charges and time-bound processing. The same rules allow only 7 days for special projects such as BharatNet, so the pair of numbers is what a paper setter will test. Options A, B and C are round figures of the kind that feel right for a government timeline and are therefore planted as distractors; none of them appears in the rules. Two related facts are worth carrying along: 34 States and Union Territories have issued orders asking local bodies and line departments to follow these rules, and all 36 are live on the Central Right of Way Portal.

The correct answer is Rowriah, Jorhat, Assam. The Central Silk Board’s Silkworm Seed Production Centre there received a newly constructed grainage building and cold storage facility, inaugurated by the Union Minister of State for Textiles under the North-East Region Textile Promotion Scheme. Option B names another locality near the same town and is the kind of near-miss that catches a candidate who remembers only the district. Options C and D name places long associated with silk research and seed work elsewhere in the country, which is precisely why they are planted here; neither features in this inauguration. The facility can produce 30 lakh disease-free layings of mulberry hybrid seed a year and preserve up to 1 crore of them, so quality seed should reach the region’s farmers on time.

The correct answer is about USD 9 billion. The minister described this as the current size of the space economy and said it could reach USD 45 to 46 billion over the next 8 to 10 years if the present momentum continues, crediting the expansion to the opening of the sector and the entry of a wider set of stakeholders. Option D is the trap: USD 45 billion is the projected figure for 8 to 10 years out, not the present one, and papers often ask candidates to tell the two apart. Options A and C are invented values placed between the real numbers. A useful companion point is that the opening of the sector has let young engineers find work at home in private startups such as Skyroot instead of going abroad, which is the brain-drain argument the minister was making to the students.

The correct answer is Rs 5 crore. Among the decriminalisation measures taken at the 57th meeting of the GST Council, the money threshold at which a prosecution may be launched was lifted to five crore rupees, so that criminal proceedings are reserved for large cases of fraud and evasion rather than ordinary disputes over tax. Option A is wrong because one crore rupees is the old threshold that this meeting replaced, not the new one. Option B is wrong because two crore rupees was never the figure at any stage, either before or after the meeting. Option D is wrong because ten crore rupees goes well beyond what the Council recommended. Along with this change the Council proposed omitting section 69 of the CGST Act, 2017 to end the power of arrest, trimming clauses of section 132 and keeping as the core offence the fraudulent claiming of input tax credit with no supply or invoice behind it.

The correct answer is Atal Akshay Urja Bhawan, the New Delhi building that houses the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and the venue where the ministry marked World Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day. More than a hundred officials, industry representatives, researchers and experts attended two panel discussions there, one on standards for hydrogen and one on safety at hydrogen facilities, and a gap assessment of the country's hydrogen standards was released. Option A is wrong because Bharat Mandapam is the convention centre at Pragati Maidan and had no part in this event. Option C is wrong because Vigyan Bhawan, though a common venue for scientific conferences in the capital, was not used. Option D is wrong because Yashobhoomi, the convention centre at Dwarka, hosted other events and not this one. The valedictory session was attended by the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India.

The correct answer is 30 per cent of the Maximum Retail Price. The Government has approved a ceiling on the margins charged while non-scheduled anti-cancer medicines move through the supply chain to the patient, and that ceiling is fixed at 30 per cent of the MRP. The measure is expected to pull prices down by as much as 70 per cent and to leave cancer patients about Rs 2,500 crore better off every year. Options A and B, at 10 per cent and 20 per cent, are tighter than the level actually approved; no such lower ceiling was announced for these medicines, and quoting them would understate the margin a seller may still retain. Option D, at 50 per cent, is looser than the approved figure and would leave much of the mark-up untouched, which defeats the purpose of the decision. The number worth remembering is therefore 30 per cent of MRP, applied to medicines that sit outside the scheduled list and so were previously free of direct price control.

The correct answer is the third edition. Union Minister for Communications and Development of North Eastern Region Jyotiraditya M. Scindia inaugurated the 3rd International Bharat 6G Symposium 2026, organised by the Bharat 6G Alliance at Yashobhoomi, Dwarka, in New Delhi, with sessions running from 7 to 9 October 2026. Option A, the first edition, is wrong because the symposium has been held earlier as well. Option B, the second edition, is the trap most worth noticing: the earlier edition is the one at which the New Delhi Declaration on 6G principles was endorsed, in 2025, and the report released this year marks one year since that endorsement. Option D, the fifth edition, is too far ahead of the actual count. A clean way to hold this together is the pairing of the edition with its year, that is the third edition in 2026 and the Declaration endorsed at the symposium held in 2025.

The correct answer is Rs 9.68 crore. The National Biodiversity Authority received that amount from users of India biological resources in the half year from 1 April 2026 to 30 September 2026, under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, as amended in 2023, read with the Access and Benefit Sharing Regulations. Of this total, Rs 9.56 crore was paid specifically for access to biological resources by firms across sectors, with the small remainder coming from applications relating to intellectual property rights and other heads. Options A, C and D are deliberately close to the real figure, since questions on this release are most likely to turn on the exact amount rather than on a round number. A good way to fix it in memory is to pair the headline figure of Rs 9.68 crore with the access component of Rs 9.56 crore and with the leading sector, agri-seed, at Rs 7.16 crore.

The correct answer is Patna, the capital of Bihar, where the National Human Rights Commission held and concluded its two-day open hearing and camp sitting for the State. The Commission, led by Chairperson Justice V. Ramasubramanian along with Members Justice (Dr.) Bidyut Ranjan Sarangi and Smt. Vijaya Bharathi Sayani, took up more than seventy alleged cases of human rights violation in the presence of the victims and the officers answerable for them, with the State Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police in attendance. Options A, B and D name other well-known Bihar districts but not the venue of this sitting. Darbhanga in particular is worth separating in memory, because it figures in a different matter of the Commission rather than as the host city. Patna district also appears inside this sitting, as the location of the Maner case in which relief was recommended.