SSC MTS Current Affairs Quiz: 2 October 2026

The correct answer is Dhiraj Bommadevara and Kumkum Anil Mohod. The two shot together in the recurve mixed team event at the Asian Games and finished with the silver medal, which is India's first in that event at these Games, and the Prime Minister congratulated both by name. Option A is wrong because the woman in the pair was Kumkum Anil Mohod and not Ankita Bhakat, although Ankita Bhakat did win gold in the women's recurve team event on the same day. Option C is wrong because Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma are not archers; the two took bronze in the women's skiff, a sailing event, on that date. Option D is wrong on two counts, since a mixed team must have one man and one woman, and a pair of two women cannot enter the event at all. Fix the male archer's name first, because the mixed team question is usually set around him.

The correct answer is 17 September 2026. The campaign opened on that date with the taking of the Swachhata pledge and ran as a fortnight-long drive that ended on 2 October 2026, the day observed as Swachh Bharat Diwas. Through the fortnight offices held cleanliness drives, door-to-door awareness visits, drawing competitions, walkathons, plantation under Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam and cultural activities such as Nukkad Natak and slogan writing. Option A is wrong because the campaign had not started at the beginning of September. Option C is wrong because that date fell in the last stretch of the drive rather than at its start, when officials joined sweeping work on the eve of Swachh Bharat Diwas. Option D is wrong because it falls in the middle of the fortnight, after the pledge had already been taken. The pair of dates to memorise is 17 September to 2 October.

The correct answer is women's 75 kg. Lovlina Borgohain won the gold medal in the women's 75 kg boxing event at the Asian Games, and the weight division is the single detail most likely to be tested, because several Indian boxers compete in neighbouring classes. Option A is wrong because the gold on record for her is not in the lighter 57 kg division. Option B is wrong for the same reason; the figure has been nudged close to the correct one so that a candidate who half-remembers the result is caught out. Option D is wrong because her title bout was not in a heavier division either. The clean way to hold the fact is as a triplet: Lovlina Borgohain, women's 75 kg boxing, gold, with the final won by a 5-0 margin.

The correct answer is sepaktakraw. The men's quadrant event belongs to the sepaktakraw programme at the Asian Games, and the bronze won by the Indian men's quadrant team is India's first medal in that event at the Games, which is why the win was called a landmark moment for Indian sepaktakraw. Option A, kurash, is wrong because the quadrant event is not part of kurash and no kurash result is involved in this story. Option C, wushu, is wrong for the same reason; wushu has its own set of events and the quadrant format does not appear among them. Option D, pencak silat, is also wrong, even though it too is a discipline associated with Southeast Asia, which is exactly why a paper setter is likely to place it among the options. The safest way to carry this story into the examination hall is to keep the sport and the event together, sepaktakraw and men's quadrant, and to remember that the medal was a bronze and the first of its kind for India.

The correct answer is silver. Dhiraj Bommadevara and Kumkum Anil Mohod finished second in the recurve mixed team event, and the Prime Minister noted that the pair had given the country its first ever silver in this event at the Asian Games. Option A, gold, belongs to a different event of the same day, the women's recurve team, in which Ankita Bhakat, Kumkum Anil Mohod and Kirti stood on the top step. Option C, bronze, was the colour of the medal India won in the women's skiff sailing event through Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma. Option D is plainly wrong because a medal was in fact won. The trap in this item is that one archer, Kumkum Anil Mohod, appears in both the gold and the silver of the same day, so the colour has to be matched to the event rather than to the athlete.

The correct answer is 157th. On the concluding day of the campaign the Department offered floral tribute to the Father of the Nation on his 157th birth anniversary, the date that is observed across the country as Swachh Bharat Diwas. Option A names the anniversary that was marked in an earlier year and is often remembered because of the sanitation targets attached to it, so it is a tempting distractor, but it is not the one marked here. Option B names an anniversary that had already passed before this campaign. Option D names an anniversary still in the future. Candidates should link three things together for this date: Gandhi Jayanti, Swachh Bharat Diwas and the closing day of Swachhata Hi Seva, and should be able to state the anniversary number asked for in the year under study.

The correct answer is 5-0. The boxer closed out the final with a 5-0 scoreline, which the government described as an emphatic victory, and that margin is the reason the win was reported as a dominant one rather than a narrow escape. Option A, 3-2, is wrong because it would describe a contest decided by the narrowest possible margin, which is not what happened here. Option B, 4-1, is wrong in the same way, as the result was not split. Option D is wrong because the gold was won in a contested final bout and not handed over without a fight. Aspirants should remember that in this result the margin itself became a reported fact, alongside the athlete, the weight class and the colour of the medal.

The correct answer is bronze. The Indian men's quadrant team finished third in the men's quadrant event of the sepaktakraw competition at the Asian Games and took the bronze medal, and that bronze is India's first medal ever in this event at the Games. Option A, gold, is wrong because the team did not finish first; the achievement being marked is a third placing that opens India's account in the event. Option B, silver, is wrong for the same reason, as silver would mean a second placing. Option D is wrong because the side did reach the podium, and a fourth place would carry no medal at all and would not have been described as a landmark for the sport. Candidates should note that a bronze can still be a historic result when it is a country's first medal in an event, and that is precisely the case here, so the colour of the medal and its significance have to be learnt together rather than separately.

The correct answer is two archers, one man and one woman. That is precisely what the word mixed means in the name of the event: a country is represented by a male and a female archer who shoot as one unit, their scores being added together, which is why the Indian silver in this event is credited to Dhiraj Bommadevara and Kumkum Anil Mohod and to nobody else. Option A is wrong because a single archer competes in the individual event, not in a team event. Option C describes the ordinary team event, in which three archers of the same gender shoot together, as the Indian women did while winning the gold on the same day. Option D is wrong because no archery team format at these Games fields four archers in a mixed combination. For revision, tie the number two to the mixed team and the number three to the men's or women's team.

The correct answer is Eco Clubs for Mission LiFE. The Shramdaan was organised at a PM SHRI school in New Delhi under the aegis of Eco Clubs for Mission LiFE and was led by the Secretary of the Department of School Education and Literacy, with students, teachers, senior officials and officers of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan joining in. The drive covered the school campus, the community space next to it and the park facing the school, and was followed by a plantation programme under Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam 3.0 and a quiz on the Solid Waste Management Rules. Options B, C and D name other well-known school-level programmes of the education sector, but none of them was the banner under which this cleanliness drive was conducted. Remember the pairing of Eco Clubs with Mission LiFE in school-level environment activities.

The correct answer is that her sporting journey reflects remarkable determination and excellence. The Prime Minister framed the gold as the outcome of a long career rather than one good day in the ring, and he also wished the boxer well for the endeavours ahead of her. Option B is wrong because no world record is associated with this result; what was reported was an emphatic 5-0 win in the final. Option C is wrong because nothing of the sort was said, and age had no part in the message. Option D is wrong because no ceremonial role was announced for her. Questions of this type reward candidates who read the exact words of an official message instead of guessing at the kind of praise that usually follows a gold medal.

The correct answer is that it is India's first-ever medal in the men's quadrant event at the Asian Games. That is the exact claim attached to the result, and it is the reason the bronze was described as a landmark moment for sepaktakraw in India rather than as one more entry on the medal table. Option B is wrong because the medal won was a bronze and not a gold, so it cannot be India's first gold in the sport. Option C overstates the claim by a wide margin: India has a long record of medals across many disciplines at the Asian Games, and the first being spoken of here is limited to one event. Option D is wrong in the same way, since Indian teams have won team medals at these Games before, including on the same day in other disciplines. In questions of this shape, candidates should look for the narrowest claim, because a first is almost always tied to one specific event rather than to a whole Games.