SSC Current Affairs Quiz: 21 October 2026

The National SARAS Mela is being held at Punnami Ghat in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, from 13 October to 31 October 2026, and it is the first National SARAS Mela placed anywhere outside the Delhi-NCR region.

The day recalls the action at the Hot Springs post in the remote and inhospitable terrain of Ladakh on 21 October 1959, when ten personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force were killed while resisting an attack by Chinese troops.

The CCO, which functions under the Ministry of Coal, developed SUVIKALP as an in-house Mine Repurposing Tool to help stakeholders select suitable projects for land left behind after mining, and it is the CCO that has been recognised with the SKOCH Gold Award 2026 in the category Digital Operational Efficiency…

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research is running the month-long campaign along with its 114 institutes, Regional Centres, Agricultural Technology Application Research Institutes and Krishi Vigyan Kendras, which makes the drive national in reach.

President Droupadi Murmu handed over the Lalit Kala Akademi Awards to the artists selected for the 65th National Exhibition of Art at a ceremony in New Delhi, and at the same function she felicitated the Grand Prize winners and the Honourable Mentions of the third Print Biennale India.

A key highlight of the conference is its release by the Raksha Mantri, and the document is intended to give the Indian Army an overarching framework for meeting the challenges created by the changing character of warfare and by future conflicts.

The Ministry of Defence signed the contract with BEL to procure the Improved Low Level Light Weight Radar for the Indian Army at a cost of about Rs 770 crore, in the presence of the Defence Secretary in New Delhi.

The Prime Minister said that Thiru Vummidi Ethiraj would always be remembered for his effort in crafting the historic sceptre that was presented to former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and that in 2023 the government had the honour of giving it a place of pride in the new Parliament building.

The Namami Gange Programme was launched in that year as an integrated conservation mission with the twin objectives of effective abatement of pollution and the conservation and rejuvenation of the National River Ganga.

The correct answer is Japan, which joins the fourteenth edition as the partner country, a step seen as strengthening economic cooperation between India and Japan.

Sachin Khilari took the gold medal in the men's shot put in the F46 classification at the Asian Para Games 2026, and he did so with the best throw of his season.

Praveen Kumar won the gold medal in the men's high jump in the T64 classification at the Asian Para Games 2026, defending the title he already held in the event, and his winning jump improved on the Games Record that stood in his own name.

Ayush Verma won his gold medal with an excellent throw in the men's shot put in the F53 classification at the Asian Para Games 2026.

The pair secured the silver medal in the Women's Para Compound Doubles event at the Asian Para Games 2026, and the Prime Minister's message on the result called it a fine display of teamwork and sporting excellence that had made the nation proud, with best wishes for the pair's upcoming…

The Union Home Secretary said the theme of the cultural items at the Rashtriya Ekta Diwas celebrations, the tableaux included, is Vande Mataram, and that this is its 150th year, from which several new features of the parade have been drawn.

Simran took the title in the women's 100 metres run in the T12 classification at the Asian Para Games 2026, and the timing she produced in that final was good enough to stand as a new Games Record.

Dilip Gavit won the gold medal in the men's 100 metres run in the T47 classification at the Asian Para Games 2026, and the timing he produced in that final was described as brilliant.

Kasthuri Rajamani took the silver medal there with an impressive lift, and that silver was the first medal India had ever won in the class, a result described as a historic milestone for Indian para powerlifting.

The seventh edition of the AgriVoltaics World Conference, which opened at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, was organised under that theme by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in partnership with Conexio-PSE.

He finished second in the men's 100m backstroke S13 and his was the only silver among the Indian results announced in the evening hours of that day, the rest of the group being bronze medals.

The group examined four secondary emission lines from the system and concluded that the structure causing those lines to vary must be turning along with the pulsar, which pointed them to the accretion stream and therefore to a disk feeding it.

The correct answer is Guwahati, the capital of Assam, where the eight-day fair opened at Farm Gate in Khanapara and will run until the twenty-eighth of the month.

The provisional Index of Core Industries for September 2026 grew by 7.9 per cent compared with September of the previous year, and this was the headline number in the release issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

The memorandum concerning the electronic exchange of origin data on trade in goods was signed by the CBIC on behalf of India and by the New Zealand Customs Service on the other side, with CBIC Chairman Vivek Chaturvedi and NZCS Comptroller and Chief Executive Christine Stevenson putting their names to…

SIMBEX is the short name of the Singapore-India Maritime Bilateral Exercise, and the two forces that take part are the Indian Navy and the Republic of Singapore Navy, abbreviated RSN.