CTET Current Affairs Quiz: 9 October 2026

The correct answer is the Drugs Rules, 1945. The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has proposed an amendment to these rules so that the requirement of prior Central Government sanction for advertising drugs listed in Schedule H, Schedule H1 and Schedule X extends to entities licensed to sell and distribute medicines, and not only to manufacturers. The vehicle is a new sub-rule inserted under Rule 65. Option B names a different legal instrument concerned with objectionable advertisements of remedies, which is not what the ministry has moved to change here. Option C deals with food and not with medicines, and is administered by a separate regulator. Option D concerns the registration and standards of clinical establishments, again outside the subject of drug advertisements. The point to carry is that schedules H, H1 and X sit inside the Drugs Rules of 1945.

The correct answer is Digital Health Resources: Redefining Access Through Libraries. The National Medical Library, which functions under the Directorate General of Health Services in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, organised the one-day conference on this theme in New Delhi, drawing attention to the place of digital knowledge resources in healthcare delivery, medical education and evidence-based clinical practice. Options A, C and D are invented titles. Option C is a plausible distractor because the Health Secretary did speak of the library contributing to the vision of Viksit Bharat, and option D echoes the idea voiced by the Director General of Health Services that libraries must turn information into evidence and evidence into better healthcare, but neither phrase was the theme. Candidates should also fix the edition in memory, since this was the fifth such conference.

The correct answer is the National Institute of Social Defence, which works under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and is running the course with the Office of the Collector, Diu, and the administration of the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Its Senior Citizen Division is conducting the sessions through Course Coordinator Ms. Asha Sharma and Junior Consultant Ms. Ritu Dandriyal. Option B is a body that works in the field of child development and women, not elderly care training of this kind. Option C is a mental health and neurosciences institute, and option D works on educational planning, so neither is connected with this programme. Candidates should fix in mind that geriatric care and welfare of senior citizens fall under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, with the National Institute of Social Defence as its training arm.

The correct answer is Mukul Wasnik. He is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha and heads the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports, which placed the 382nd report on "Reforms and Strengthening of the National Testing Agency" before the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha on 9 October 2026. Option A is wrong because Dr K. Radhakrishnan, the former Secretary of the Department of Space, chaired the separate High-Level Committee of Experts on examination reform and only appeared before this panel as a witness. Option C is wrong because Harivansh is the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha and had no role in heading this committee. Option D is wrong because Jayant Chaudhary handles skill development as a minister and is not the chairman of this committee. For the examination, pair the report number with the chairman and the House.

The correct answer is G.S.R. 861(E) dated 28 September 2026. The ministry notified the draft amendment through that notification after consulting the Drugs Technical Advisory Board, and it has invited objections and suggestions from stakeholders and from the public within thirty days of the date on which copies of the Gazette carrying the draft rules are made available. Options A, C and D carry invented numbers and dates that appear nowhere in the announcement, and option C also uses the wrong series, since subordinate legislation of this kind is issued as a General Statutory Rule rather than a Statutory Order. For the examination, pair three details together: the notification number, the date of 28 September 2026 and the consultation with the Drugs Technical Advisory Board that preceded it.

The correct answer is 93 medical colleges. Smt. Punya Salila Srivastava, Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, highlighted the growth of the National Medical Library network to that many colleges and urged that its reach be extended to every medical college in the country, with particular attention to institutions in underserved areas so that access to quality medical literature and digital learning resources is equitable. Options A, B and D name counts that appear nowhere in the account of the conference. The figure is worth remembering together with two policy names she invoked, namely the One Nation One Subscription initiative and the ERMED Consortium, which she described as complementary ways of widening access to scholarly publications for clinicians, researchers and students.

The correct answer is Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. The programme was opened at the Education Hub at Kevdi in Diu, which is part of this Union Territory, and the Collector of Diu, Shri Rahul Dev Boora, welcomed the dignitaries and participants at the inaugural session. Options A, B and D name other Union Territories that have no role in this programme; they are plausible only because training programmes of this type are held across Union Territories. The training has been shaped for the circumstances of senior citizens in Diu district in particular, with attention to older persons living alone, those needing help with Activities of Daily Living, and those with limited family support, and it is meant to strengthen locally available support systems.

The correct answer is about 1.2 crore. The committee records that the National Testing Agency conducts examinations in which roughly 1.2 crore students sit every year, which is why it describes the agency as the gateway to the higher education system. The tests named in the report include JEE-Main, NEET-UG, UGC-NET and CUET, and the panel points out that an all-India test such as NEET needs the Union, State and local administrations to work as one. Options A and B are wrong because they understate the figure given in the report. Option D is wrong because it overstates it. The number matters for the examination because the committee uses it to argue that the agency’s resources and accountability structures must match the size of the responsibility it carries, including a parliamentary framework for answerability.

The correct answer is the 93rd meeting, held on 16 February 2026. That sitting of the Drugs Technical Advisory Board took up the question of whether the rules needed an express provision covering advertisements issued by firms holding licences to sell and distribute medicines, and the draft amendment follows its recommendation. The board was also consulted before the draft was notified in the Gazette. Options A, B and D name meeting numbers and dates that do not appear in the announcement, and all three would place the recommendation either too early or after the notification itself, which was issued on 28 September 2026. Candidates should remember the chain of events in order, namely the board's recommendation in February, the Gazette notification in September and the public comment window of thirty days that follows.

The correct answer is ClinicalKey, BMJ, Access Medicine and MedOne. A central feature of the conference was practical training on these four platforms, meant to familiarise medical librarians and healthcare professionals with them and strengthen their ability to reach clinical information and academic resources. Option B lists well-known databases and archives, but none of them was named in the training. Option C names clinical evidence resources that likewise do not appear in the account. Option D is the trickiest, since it keeps two correct names and swaps in two that were never mentioned, which is exactly how such questions are set. Candidates should also recall the panel discussion of the day, titled From Custodian to Clinical Partner: The Next Mandate for the Medical Librarian.

The correct answer is the Pledge for Welfare of Senior Citizens, which Shri Sudhansh Pant, Secretary of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, administered to the trainees after the inaugural session. The other three pledges belong to different campaigns and were not taken at this programme, though each is familiar enough to tempt a candidate. The rest of the event is worth remembering with the pledge: Joint Secretaries Dr Sandeep R Rathod and Shri Sajeesh Kumar N and the Director of the National Institute of Social Defence, Shri Gaurav Singh Rajawat, attended, and the training is expected to leave a pool of about 50 trained and sensitised Anganwadi workers and other frontline functionaries in Diu district who can identify care needs early and arrange referral support.

The correct answer is NEET-UG. The committee notes that most entrance tests run by the National Testing Agency are already held on computers and that NEET-UG is the outlier still relying on pen and paper, so it recommends moving that test to computer-based testing as well. Options A, B and C are wrong because JEE-Main, CUET and UGC-NET are listed in the report as examinations already conducted in the computer-based format. The panel added a condition: the switch must follow heavy investment in government-owned infrastructure, particularly in Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities and rural areas, and the 1,000 secure government centres proposed by the High-Level Committee of Experts should be built to a clear phased timeline. It also suggested the agency fund IT labs of 100 to 200 nodes in schools and colleges that provide the space.

The correct answer is 23 officers in position against 39 sanctioned posts, a vacancy of 41 per cent. The committee flags this shortage and notes that recruitment of manpower was among the main recommendations of the High-Level Committee of Experts chaired by Dr K. Radhakrishnan. Option B is wrong because it invents a sanctioned strength that the report does not mention. Option C is wrong because 16 is the number of posts under the Central Staffing Scheme, which the panel says should be only a supplementary layer of senior leadership and not a substitute for domain expertise. Option D is wrong because the report states the opposite: all 39 permanent posts are currently filled through deputation, and since deputationists serve only two to three years, the panel wants a dedicated permanent cadre with specialists in psychometrics, examination security and data analytics.