CTET Current Affairs Quiz: 6 October 2026

The correct answer is the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Nainital. The multi-institutional campaign on the blazar OJ 287 was coordinated by scientists of this institute, which is an autonomous body of the Department of Science and Technology, and the study was led by Dr Alok C. Gupta of the same institute. The team gathered 106 scientists from 18 countries and 48 institutions and universities, who observed the object with about two dozen telescopes between 2015 and 2025. Options A, C and D name well-known Indian centres for astronomy and space science, but none of them is credited with coordinating this particular study; they are offered because candidates often confuse the national astronomy institutes with one another. The safest way to remember the fact is to link the Nainital institute, its parent department and the name of the lead scientist together, since any of the three can be asked.

The correct answer is the President. President Droupadi Murmu conferred degrees on the first graduating batch of AIIMS Bilaspur at the institute first convocation and also presented gold medals to meritorious students across disciplines. Option A is wrong because the Prime Minister did not attend this ceremony, although he was present when the institute was formally inaugurated earlier. Option C is wrong because the Vice-President had no role in this convocation. Option D is wrong but close: the Governor of Himachal Pradesh, Kavinder Gupta, was present on the occasion and addressed the graduates, yet the degrees were conferred by the President. Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda also spoke, and the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, extended his best wishes to the graduating students.

The correct answer is 1,45,26,013. The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports reported this many attempts in the Viksit Bharat Quiz, the first stage of selection for the Viksit Bharat Young Leaders Dialogue 2027. The quiz was conducted on the MY Bharat portal from 17 August to 30 September 2026, with a version also hosted on MyGov, and it carried 20 questions worth a maximum of 20 marks within a time limit of 10 minutes. Options A, C and D are near-miss figures designed to test whether a candidate has read the number carefully, and none of them matches the reported count. About 5.7 lakh of those who attempted the quiz qualified for the essay round that follows. The whole exercise is aimed at the vision of Viksit Bharat @2047, for which the dialogue gathers youth ideas from the grassroots upward.

The correct answer is twelve years. OJ 287 is a rare object lying about 4 billion light years away in which two supermassive black holes circle each other on a twelve-year orbit, forming a binary system. Because of that orbit the blazar brightens in a distinctive double peak, a rhythm that Finnish scientists identified in 1988 after studying nearly 100 years of optical observations going back to 1880, and astronomers have since followed each twelve-year cycle of twin outbursts to map the motion. The recent campaign captured the outbursts that fell between 2015 and 2019. Options A, B and D are wrong because none of them matches the period of the pair; they are included because a candidate who remembers only that the object has a repeating cycle may guess at the number. Remember the orbital period along with the distance, as the two facts are usually asked together.

The correct answer is Rs 5 lakh. Speaking at the convocation, the President said that eligible beneficiaries receive health cover of that amount per family per year under the scheme, which reduces the financial burden of treatment for economically vulnerable families. She added that more than Rs 2 lakh crore has already been spent on the treatment of beneficiaries, and asked everyone concerned to make sure that information about such health protection reaches people living in far-flung areas. Options A and B are wrong because the cover is larger than either figure. Option D is wrong because the annual cover per family under the scheme is smaller than that amount. Candidates should remember the per-family annual cover together with the cumulative spending figure, since questions pair the two.

The correct answer is 500 words. Shortlisted participants have to submit an essay of this length on the MY Bharat portal, on the theme designated for their region, and the window runs till 15 October 2026. Essays may be written in any of twenty-three languages available on the portal, which keeps the contest open to young people writing in their own language. Options A, C and D are plausible word limits for a writing contest but none of them is the limit set for this challenge, so each is wrong. Note the sequence after this stage as well: a district-level in-person presentation round, then the State or Union Territory dialogue, then the national event. Ten regional themes have been set out and the mapping of states to those themes is published on the MY Bharat portal itself.

The correct answer is 3.89 billion solar masses. Using eight optical spectra recorded at Steward Observatory in the United States during low-brightness phases of the object in October and November 2017, the team estimated the central black hole to weigh no less than that, reading the figure from the width of the oxygen emission line. Option A is wrong because it shifts the same digits down by a factor of a thousand; supermassive black holes can range from millions to billions of solar masses, so a candidate who misses the unit will fall for it. Option C is wrong because eighteen is the number of countries whose scientists joined the study, not a mass. Option D is wrong for the same kind of reason, since one hundred and six is the number of scientists in the team. The lesson is to keep the three large numbers of this study separate: the team size, the number of countries and the mass estimate.

The correct answer is 1.42 lakh. The Union Health Minister said that undergraduate medical seats have risen to that number, while the count of medical colleges has gone up from 384 to more than 800. Option A is wrong because that is the earlier figure from which undergraduate seats grew, so it is the starting point rather than the present number. Option C is wrong because no such figure was given for present seats. Option D is wrong but is a careful distractor: that is the number of additional undergraduate and postgraduate seats the government aims to add by 2029, and it includes an allocation of Rs 15,000 crore for 10,000 more MBBS and postgraduate seats. The Minister also noted that 16 new AIIMS have been established in the last 12 years, against a single one for several decades earlier.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, through MY Bharat. The dialogue is a flagship youth engagement initiative of that ministry and is carried out through Mera Yuva Bharat, whose portal hosts the quiz, the essay submissions and the mapping of states to regional themes. The aim is to give young citizens a structured and merit-based platform to offer ideas and solutions towards the goal of Viksit Bharat @2047. Options A, C and D name real ministries and platforms but none of them runs this programme, so all three are wrong. Candidates should link the programme, the ministry and the portal together, since questions often supply one and ask for another. The quiz stage of this programme alone drew well over a crore attempts, which shows the reach the portal now has among young people.

The correct answer is the District PPT Championship. The pathway laid out for the Viksit Bharat Challenge runs in a fixed order: the Viksit Bharat Quiz first, then the Viksit Bharat Essay Challenge, then the District PPT Championship, then the State or Union Territory dialogue, and the National VBYLD at the end. The district presentation round is being held across all districts for the first time in this edition. Option D is wrong because the quiz comes before the essays, not after them. Options A and C are later stages, so they cannot be the one immediately following the essay round. The order of these five steps is the detail most likely to be tested. Participants chosen from all States and Union Territories under the ten regional themes together form the national contingent of the dialogue.