CTET Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 5–11 October 2026

At the Safai Mitra Suraksha Evam Samman Shivir held on 29 September 2026, the Secretary of the department felicitated 110 Safai Mitras in recognition of their contribution to cleanliness and hygiene at the department, an exercise meant to underline the dignity of sanitation work.

The clinical study was carried out by the Department of Kaumarbhritya, the paediatrics wing of this institute, which is an Institution of National Importance under the Ministry of Ayush, and the findings were published in the AYU Journal.

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.

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.

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 Cabinet resolution recalls that through this system the then Chief Minister personally heard the grievances of citizens, and that it won the United Nations Public Service Award in 2010.

At that count the portal carries the achiever in a dedicated Digital Hall of Fame, showing the name, the MY Bharat identity number, a photograph and a short profile taken from the public profile.

The Vice-President praised the university for securing it and for carrying out research across the many domains of the Indian knowledge tradition, and he urged the institution to go further and become a leading international centre of excellence for Sanskrit studies.

The Commission is running this nationwide series of four regional workshops to help turn civil service training institutions into capacity building institutions under the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building.

It is a lost-wax casting tradition whose history in the country runs back more than four thousand years, and several works in the collection show its range, among them an Elephant Head Nandi, a Standing Nandi and a bust of a Madia-Madin tribal couple.

PRASHAST is a school-based digital tool under the Department of School Education and Literacy that helps identify children with conditions covered by the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, and it works through a checklist in two parts, with the teacher screening on observable indicators and a special educator validating…

The archive did not hold this title in any format before the donation, so the print fills a real gap in the national collection, and the donor gave it priority once she learnt of the gap.

The document brought out by the National Highways Authority of India records that this amount has gone into wildlife mitigation infrastructure and related environmental protection measures across National Highway projects over the past five years.

The Central Silk Board’s Silkworm Seed Production Centre there received a newly constructed grainage building and cold storage facility, inaugurated by the Union Minister of State for Textiles under the North-East Region Textile Promotion Scheme.

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 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.

Its Senior Citizen Division is conducting the sessions through Course Coordinator Ms. Asha Sharma and Junior Consultant Ms. Ritu Dandriyal.

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.

Tele-MANAS, which stands for Tele Mental Health Assistance and Networking Across States, offers free and confidential counselling on this number at any hour of the day, in several languages, without the caller having to reach a hospital.

The two-day National Departmental Summit on Women and Child Development was held at Sushma Swaraj Bhawan in New Delhi, and the Prime Minister chaired its valedictory session there.

Deoghar lies in the Santhal Pargana region of Jharkhand, and the Vice-President described the convocation as a celebration of that region's aspirations, speaking of what the institute means for tribal and rural communities around it.

This was the consolidated outreach of the Yuva Sanwad Mela, conducted across 200 designated institutions and the villages they have adopted.

The correct answer is Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat, the initiative under which the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education runs Yuva Sangam to strengthen cultural and emotional bonds among young Indians.

Under Yuva Sangam Phase VII the Odisha delegation travelled to Himachal Pradesh, reaching the State on 5 October 2026, where NIT Hamirpur is hosting it.

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.

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.

The campaign started on that date across the department, its autonomous institutions and the offices of the Survey of India located throughout the country, and officials took the Swachhata Pledge the very next day, administered by the Secretary.

Children who took the Ayurvedic formulation and also practised the four selected asanas showed roughly 70 per cent improvement in the frequency of bedwetting over the eight weeks of the study.

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.

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.