SSC Current Affairs Quiz: 11 October 2026

The correct answer is Rs 11,440 crore. The Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses was sanctioned with this allocation for the six years from 2025-26 to 2030-31, and the money pays for seed kits, certified seed, cluster-based cultivation in 489 districts and a thousand dal mills. Option A, Rs 7,047 crore, is wrong because that figure is the Minimum Support Price amount released directly to farmers by NCCF, not the Mission outlay. Option C, Rs 14,217 crore, is wrong because that is the MSP value paid out in Rabi 2026-27 procurement, again a purchase figure rather than the scheme allocation. Option D, Rs 6,431 crore, is wrong for the same reason: it is the worth of pulses bought in Kharif 2025-26. Only option B names the sanctioned outlay of the Mission itself, which is the figure asked for in the question.

The correct answer is about 7.8 kg. The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence seized that much foreign-origin gold, valued at more than Rs 11.50 crore, in intelligence-led operations run on 8 and 9 October 2026 in the eastern region, and six persons were arrested. The total is made up of two actions: 50 gold bars of roughly 6.8 kg taken from a vehicle stopped at Dankuni Toll Plaza, and close to 1 kg taken from train passengers at two stations in West Bengal. Options A, C and D are wrong because no such quantity was reported in this set of operations; they are the kind of round figures a paper setter places beside the real one to test whether a candidate has memorised the actual seizure. Keep the pair of numbers together: about 7.8 kg of gold and a value above Rs 11.50 crore.

The correct answer is 5.753 kg. The Mangalore Regional Unit of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence intercepted an Indian national travelling by train from Delhi to Bengaluru and recovered three packets of a white crystalline substance of that weight, suspected to be methamphetamine, from the passenger’s trolley bag. The accused was arrested and later remanded to judicial custody by the competent court set up under the narcotics law. Options A, B and D are wrong because no such weight was reported in this case; they are placed beside the real figure to see whether the candidate has noted the exact quantity. The weight matters in law as well, because the notified commercial quantity for methamphetamine is only 50 grams, and a seizure of this size therefore falls in the gravest category of offence.

The correct answer is Varanasi. The 94th edition of the weekly cycling drive was held in Varanasi, where the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports led the ride. The morning opened at Namo Ghat with a meditation session and ended with a rally of about 5.5 km that ran from Namo Ghat to Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, both of which are in the city. Option A, Lucknow, is wrong because the venue named for this edition is Varanasi and not the state capital. Option B, Prayagraj, is wrong for the same reason, as no part of the programme was held there. Option D, Kanpur, is wrong as well: the ghats and the Sanskrit university mentioned as the start and the finish of the rally are landmarks of Varanasi, which is where the minister addressed the cyclists and the pledge against drug use was taken.

The correct answer is Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat. Yuva Sangam is the youth exchange carried out under that programme, and its seventh phase is being implemented by the Department of Higher Education in the Ministry of Education with the aim of strengthening national integration and building contact between young people from different regions. Participants come from twenty paired States and Union Territories and are shown the cultural traditions, educational institutions, innovation ecosystems and development work of the state they are matched with. Option B is wrong because that scheme funds higher education in the states rather than organising youth exchanges. Option C is wrong because the abhiyan named there connects institutions with village development work and is a separate initiative. Option D is wrong because that programme is aimed at bringing foreign students to Indian institutions, which is not what Yuva Sangam does.

The correct answer is Chennai. The Prime Minister addressed a public function in Chennai, where completed works were opened and foundation stones laid for new ones, the whole set valued at thirteen thousand crore rupees, and where a further stretch of the Chennai Metro was dedicated to the public. Option A, Coimbatore, is wrong because no event of this kind was held there; the metro stretch belongs to the Chennai network. Option C, Madurai, is wrong for the same reason, as the city finds no mention in the address. Option D, Tiruchirappalli, is also wrong, since the venue named throughout the address is Chennai and the projects relate to that city and to Tamil Nadu more widely. The Prime Minister also visited the Brain Research Centre at IIT Madras on the same day, which again places the programme in Chennai rather than in any other city of the state.

The correct answer is Keylong, Himachal Pradesh. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said that the centre will come up at Keylong in the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, and that the Union Health Minister will lay its foundation stone there. The district was chosen because it is a high-altitude, tribal and strategically significant border area, which makes it suitable for long-running field studies on mountain populations. Option A, Leh in Ladakh, is wrong because, although it is also a high-altitude town, the centre announced is not located there. Option C, Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, is wrong for the same reason and does not appear in the announcement. Option D, Munsiyari in Uttarakhand, is wrong as well, since no site in that state has been named. Candidates should tie the centre to Lahaul and Spiti in Himachal Pradesh.

The correct answer is Jayaprakash Narayan. The Prime Minister Office tribute issued on his birth anniversary refers to him throughout as Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan, and in short as Loknayak JP, the word meaning leader of the people. The tribute says his appeal travelled across generations and that he persuaded people to see public life as a means of national renewal. Option B, Ram Manohar Lohia, is wrong because, although he too belonged to the socialist stream of Indian politics, the title in question and the anniversary being marked here are not his. Option C, Acharya Narendra Deva, is wrong for the same reason. Option D, Morarji Desai, is wrong because he is remembered in other terms and is not the leader named in this tribute. Candidates should attach the title Loknayak firmly to Jayaprakash Narayan, since it is asked in exactly this form.

The correct answer is the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune. The workshop for early career researchers, titled 'The ECR Nexus: Connecting Voices, Tools, and Science to Society', was held at IITM Pune in Meghdoot Hall, and the same event served as the curtain-raiser for the Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave. IITM is an institute of the Ministry of Earth Sciences and its Director, Dr. Suryachandra A. Rao, gave the welcome address. Option A, the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, is a leading research university but had no hosting role here. Option C, the National Institute of Oceanography in Goa, works on ocean science and was not the venue. Option D, the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting at Noida, is another earth sciences body but did not host this workshop. Only IITM Pune matches the venue named for the event.

The correct answer is 2 to 31 October 2026. Special Campaign 6.0 is a nationwide drive of the Government of India run through that month, with the twin purposes of making Swachhata a permanent feature of government working and of cutting the backlog of pending matters in government processes. The Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare confirmed that it and its attached and subordinate offices are carrying out targeted activities across the window, with a focus on workplace efficiency and a cleaner, more sustainable office environment. Option A, a September window, and option C, which spans the independence day to teachers' day period, do not match the dates announced. Option D places the campaign in December, which is also wrong. The start on the second of October, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, is the detail worth remembering, since cleanliness drives in India are traditionally anchored to that date.

The correct answer is 1975. The institution started that year as a single small school in the West Mambalam locality of Chennai, with only seven children on its rolls, no permanent building and very limited resources. Because it began in 1975, the school completed fifty years in 2026, which is why its golden jubilee was celebrated on 11 October 2026 with the Prime Minister present. From that one school the trust has grown into a group of 15 institutions spread across different parts of Tamil Nadu. Option A, 1965, and option B, 1970, are both too early and would place the golden jubilee well before the event that was actually held. Option D, 1980, is too late: a school founded then would complete fifty years only later in the decade and not in 2026. Candidates should link the founding year to the jubilee year, since paper setters often test the pair together.

The correct answer is 3,548. Indian Railways notified that many graduate-level posts in the Non-Technical Popular Categories through the Centralised Employment Notification issued by the Railway Recruitment Boards, covering four categories of posts across commercial services, train operations, accounts and administration. Option A is wrong because 2,750 is the number of posts in a single category, that of Goods Train Manager, which is the largest block within the total rather than the total itself. Options C and D are wrong because no such totals were notified; they are placed as plausible larger figures to test recall. The remaining posts in the notification are 371 for Senior Clerk Cum Typist, 300 for Junior Accounts Assistant Cum Typist and 127 for Chief Commercial Cum Ticket Supervisor, and these four numbers add up to the notified total.

The correct answer is INS Trishul. The Ministry of Defence stated that the guided missile stealth frigate INS Trishul had reached Plymouth in the United Kingdom, where it is scheduled to exercise with the Royal Navy in KONKAN-26. The frigate is therefore the Indian unit named for this deployment, and it is the ship that will be opened to visitors during the harbour stage of the exercise at Plymouth. Option A, INS Tabar, is wrong because no such ship figures in this deployment; the only Indian warship identified for KONKAN-26 is INS Trishul. Option C, INS Teg, is wrong for the same reason, as the announcement names a single frigate and that frigate is Trishul. Option D, INS Talwar, is also wrong: although the name is close to that of the ship actually deployed, the vessel sent to the United Kingdom for this edition of the exercise is INS Trishul and no other.

The correct answer is Russia. INDRA is the bilateral exercise between India and Russia, and in this edition the Indian Navy works with the Russian Federation Navy. The Indian warship Sahyadri has arrived at Vladivostok, a port on the Russian Far East coast, for the drill. Option A, Japan, is wrong because the India-Japan naval exercise is a separate series and Japan has no role in this deployment; the release names only the Russian Federation Navy as the partner. Option C, Indonesia, is wrong for the same reason, and India-Indonesia naval activity is conducted under its own arrangements rather than under the INDRA name. Option D, Oman, is also wrong, since no West Asian navy is involved here and the host port named for the exercise is Vladivostok in Russia, not an Omani port. Candidates should link the exercise name directly to the partner country, as questions on exercises are usually set in that match-the-pair form.

The correct answer is 350 lakh tonnes. The Mission sets this as the production goal for 2030-31, to be reached with yield of 1,130 kg per hectare and a sown area taken up to 310 lakh hectares. Option A is wrong because 274.09 lakh tonnes is the output already achieved in 2025-26 on the third advance estimates, a starting point and not the target. Option B is wrong because 286.46 lakh hectares is the area under pulses in 2025-26, a measure of land and not of tonnage. Option D confuses the two measures as well: 310 lakh hectares is the area targeted for 2030-31, not the quantity of pulses to be harvested. Candidates should keep the three numbers separate, since paper setters often swap the area target and the production target.

The correct answer is Dankuni Toll Plaza. A four-wheeler carrying four persons was stopped there as it travelled from Banpur, near the Bangladesh border, towards Kolkata. The search produced 50 gold bars weighing around 6.8 kg and worth nearly Rs 10 crore, some of them bearing foreign markings, and none of the occupants could produce documents showing lawful possession. The head of the smuggling syndicate active in the Banpur border area was among the four arrested. Options A, B and D name other places in West Bengal and were not the site of this interception, so they are incorrect. For the examination, remember the chain of places in this case: Banpur as the point of origin near the border, Dankuni Toll Plaza as the point of interception, and Kolkata as the intended destination of the consignment.

The correct answer is the Mangalore Regional Unit. Acting on intelligence, officers of that unit stopped a passenger travelling by train from Delhi to Bengaluru and recovered 5.753 kg of suspected methamphetamine from the trolley bag being carried. Option B is wrong because the Kolkata unit of the agency figured in a separate action of the same period, which dealt with foreign-origin gold smuggled from across the Bangladesh border, not with narcotics. Options C and D name other regional units of the agency that were not involved in this particular case. For the examination, pair the facts carefully: the Mangalore Regional Unit with the crystal meth seizure on the Delhi to Bengaluru train route, and the seizure being made under the narcotics law of 1985.

The correct answer is Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat. The edition in Varanasi was built around that theme, which links physical fitness to the wider campaign for a drug-free generation. In keeping with it, the minister and the participants took the Nasha Mukt Bharat pledge before the ride, and the cycle rally carried the same message through the streets of the city. Option B is wrong because the campaign invoked at this event was the one against substance abuse, not the cleanliness mission. Option C is wrong because Khelo India is a separate sports development programme and was not the theme announced for this edition. Option D is wrong because the organisers framed the morning around rejecting narcotics and adopting healthy habits rather than around air quality, even though cycling itself is a clean form of transport.

The correct answer is West Bengal. The delegation from Uttarakhand, for which Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University is the nodal institute, travelled to West Bengal and is being hosted there by IIT Kharagpur. The group was welcomed at the start of the tour, called on the Governor of the host state, and went on to see riverside landmarks in Kolkata as part of its cultural itinerary. Option A, Odisha, is wrong because that state is not the one paired with Uttarakhand in this phase of the exchange. Option C, Assam, is wrong for the same reason, as the host institute named for the visit lies in West Bengal. Option D, Tamil Nadu, is also wrong: the delegates’ programme was built around the traditions, institutions and landmarks of West Bengal and not of a southern state.

The correct answer is VOC Port, Thoothukudi. The Prime Minister said the Union Government has recently decided to build this port into a world-class mega container and green energy hub with an investment of about seventeen thousand crore rupees, and that once the work is finished even ultra-large container vessels will be able to reach it, helping Tamil Nadu become a global hub of industry and transport. Option A, Ennore Port, is wrong because it is not the port named in the decision described. Option B, Karaikal Port, is wrong for the same reason and does not appear in the address at all. Option D, Chennai Port, is wrong because the only Chennai facility mentioned for modernisation is the Chennai Fishing Harbour, taken up for fishermen, and not the commercial port. Candidates should link the mega container and green energy hub plan specifically with Thoothukudi.

The correct answer is the Indian Council of Medical Research. The centre is being established by the ICMR under the Department of Health Research in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and the announcement describes it as the first dedicated centre of the ICMR for high-altitude medicine and public health research. Option A is wrong because the Defence Research and Development Organisation is a defence research agency and is not the body setting up this centre, although the Armed Forces Medical Services are named as a collaborating institution. Option B is wrong because the All India Institute of Medical Sciences is a medical institute and does not figure as the promoter of the centre. Option D is wrong because the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research works under a different department and has no role in this project. Note the parent department as well, since that pairing is often tested.

The correct answer is Nanaji Deshmukh. The Prime Minister paid homage to him on his birth anniversary, which falls on the same date as that of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan, and described him as an outstanding nation-builder who showed in thought and in action that genuine change starts at the grassroots. The tribute says his life brought political conviction together with constructive social work and that he devoted himself to rural development and to community participation, with a vision of a strong and self-reliant India. Option A, Vinoba Bhave, is wrong because, though associated with rural causes, he is not the leader remembered in this tribute. Option C, Jagjivan Ram, is wrong because his anniversary and his fields of work are different. Option D is wrong for the same reason, as no such name appears here.

The correct answer is Dr. T. Srinivasa Kumar, Secretary of the Ministry of Earth Sciences. He gave the pivotal address, setting out the conclave's vision and strategic objectives and arguing that the convergence of science, technology and policy is central to India's future development and to building a strong research ecosystem. Option A, Dr. Suryachandra A. Rao, is the Director of IITM and delivered the welcome address rather than the main one. Option C, Dr. Maria Molina of the University of Maryland, gave the keynote presentation on artificial intelligence and machine learning in the earth sciences, which was a separate session. Option D, Dr. Suvarna Fadnavis, who is Project Director of the CCCR at IITM and a member of the Scientific Organizing Committee, proposed the vote of thanks. Hence only the Secretary of the Ministry of Earth Sciences fits the description.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Defence. The Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare, abbreviated DESW, is a department of that ministry and is responsible for the welfare of former service personnel and their families, which is why the faster disposal of grievances and Parliamentary assurances under the campaign matters to veterans and pensioners. Option A, the Ministry of Home Affairs, handles internal security and the central armed police forces, not ex-servicemen welfare. Option C, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, works on welfare for socially disadvantaged groups. Option D, the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, deals with civil service administration and the pensions of civilian government employees, and although it is closely associated with pendency reduction drives in general, the department named in this instance is squarely under Defence.

The correct answer is more than 1,300. Speaking at the jubilee, the Prime Minister said the count of universities in the country stood at about 750 in 2014 and has since crossed 1,300, a near doubling in roughly a decade. He paired that with the figure for colleges, which has moved from about 38,000 to over 52,000, and noted that several new IITs, IIMs, IIITs and AIIMS were set up in the same years. Options A and B, 900 and 1,100, understate the present count and would wrongly suggest much slower growth than the figure he gave. Option D, 1,600, overstates it; no such number was mentioned at the event. For the examination hall the safest way to hold this is as a pair of before and after figures, about 750 against more than 1,300 for universities and about 38,000 against over 52,000 for colleges.