SSC Current Affairs Quiz: 10 October 2026

The Ministry of Tribal Affairs convened the second of its regional review conferences on the Forest Rights Act in the West Bengal capital, and officers of the Tribal Welfare, Revenue and Forest Departments of eight States took part, along with district Collectors from places where claims have piled up.

Tarang Shakti is an air exercise, and the second edition was hosted by the Indian Air Force from 26 September to 12 October 2026, with the Defence Minister addressing the participants at Air Force Station Jodhpur.

The correct answer is Milton Dick, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Australia, who was declared elected after a secret ballot in the IPU Governing Council on the closing day of the Assembly.

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports is organising them together with the Government of Gujarat, which is the clue that fixes the host state and therefore the city.

Deoghar lies in the Santhal Pargana region of Jharkhand, and the Vice-President described the convocation as a celebration of that region's aspirations, speaking of what the institute means for tribal and rural communities around it.

The 94th edition of the ride, held in Varanasi, was built around this theme, which joins the weekly fitness drive to the effort to keep young people away from substance abuse and sets both in the frame of a developed India.

India maintains 205 lighthouses along a coastline that stretches beyond 11,000 km, and these towers are looked after by the Directorate General of Lighthouses and Lightships under the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.

The scheme works in 100 Aspirational Agricultural Districts, and these were identified using three indicators: low productivity, low cropping intensity and low disbursement of agricultural credit.

Under the National Quantum Mission the country set an eight-year target of covering 2,000 kilometres of quantum-secure communication, and the 1,000-kilometre milestone was reached in three years, which is well ahead of the pace that target implied.

This was the consolidated outreach of the Yuva Sanwad Mela, conducted across 200 designated institutions and the villages they have adopted.

NCCSR 2026 was organised by IICA, specifically by its School of Business Environment, under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, and was held at The Ashok in New Delhi on 6 and 7 October 2026.

The announcement states that the projects taken up together at Chennai in Tamil Nadu carry a combined value of more than ₹13,000 crore, and that they cover metro rail, national highways, railways, ports, petroleum and education.

The mela, named Sainya Sampark Mela - Sadaiv Aapke Saath, was held at Deoghar and was organised by the Indian Army together with the Deoghar district administration.

The Ministry of Defence has said that the Defence Secretary, Rajesh Kumar Singh, will undertake an official visit to these two countries from 12 to 15 October 2026, with the Cyprus leg falling on 12 and 13 October and Greece forming the second half of the tour.

GI-AI4FS is a global initiative of the United Nations and the ITU is named as the body that coordinates it, working in close collaboration with three partner agencies.

The high-level CAQM team visited these two districts during the paddy harvesting season because both have been identified as hotspots for paddy stubble burning, and the review meeting with Deputy Commissioners was held at Amritsar.

The correct answer is Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Kolkata, where Shreyas, carrying the yard number 3040, was launched.

The correct answer is Rs 2.02 crore, the sum the Authority released among twenty-seven states and three union territories as their share of contributions paid by seed companies.

The choice of venue matters because the same campus houses IIT (BHU), where the students felicitated for clearing the engineering entrance had won admission.

The correct answer is Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat, the initiative under which the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education runs Yuva Sangam to strengthen cultural and emotional bonds among young Indians.

This was the theme chosen for the fifth edition of the Kautilya Economic Conclave, held across three days from 3 to 5 October 2026 in New Delhi by the Institute of Economic Growth together with the Union Ministry of Finance.

Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood, who holds that post, chaired the meet on 9 and 10 October 2026 at Panjab University in Chandigarh, and the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser runs the whole clusters programme.

The Defence Correspondents Course ended there once the participating journalists had completed the Navy, Air Force and Army legs of the programme, and the valedictory function was held at the same place.

The Junior Category of the Robotics for Good Youth Challenge India 2026 was won by Team Singularity of Gopalan International School, Karnataka.

Under Yuva Sangam Phase VII the Odisha delegation travelled to Himachal Pradesh, reaching the State on 5 October 2026, where NIT Hamirpur is hosting it.