Teaching Current Affairs Quiz: 17 October 2026

The draft Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) Amendment Regulations, 2026, which reached the Gazette of India on 16 October 2026, proposes that these two sugars not be added to any product intended for an infant up to the age of six months.

The correct answer is the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, which organised the meeting on its own campus under the Ministry of Earth Sciences.

The youth dialogue was held to mark the completion of one hundred and fifty glorious years of Vande Mataram, and the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare joined it at Smart City Park in Bhopal, where he planted saplings with young people drawn from seven states.

World Menopause Day is marked on this date every year, and the Ministry of Ayush issued its statement on the eve of the day to press for awareness, preventive care and research on the health of women during menopause.

The Ministry of Mines reported that this many Cleanliness Target Units were given a makeover under the campaign, and that the work drew 10,723 participants.

The All India Institute of Ayurveda in New Delhi celebrated ten years of work in Ayurveda teaching, research, clinical care and international collaboration, and the day fell on the concluding day of KAUMARACON 2026, the three-day international conference on Kaumarabhritya organised by the institute.

These are the parent rules that the new draft, styled the Amendment Regulations of 2026, sets out to edit.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Earth Sciences, under which the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology works and which was named as the parent body in the announcement of the consultation.

The correct answer is Smart City Park, Bhopal, where the plantation and the open dialogue with the young took place during the programme marking the anniversary of Vande Mataram.

It is the Ayurvedic research council through which the Ministry of Ayush pursues a better understanding of menopausal health, covering physical health, emotional well-being and quality of life.

The correct answer is Shri G. Kishan Reddy, the Union Minister for Coal and Mines, who joined the drive at the market in Chanakyapuri in the national capital along with the Secretary of the ministry and senior officials.

Both agreements were signed at the Foundation Day ceremony to strengthen cooperation between institutions and the sharing of knowledge in Ayurveda.

The notification on sucrose and fructose in infant foods has been published as a draft for public consultation, and objections as well as suggestions from stakeholders are invited within sixty days of the date on which copies of the Official Gazette carrying it are made available to the public.

The introductory talk of the technical session, given by Dr Rupa Kumar Kolli, formerly Chief of the Climate Applications and Services Division at the World Meteorological Organization, set out why the country needs such a system to carry climate information to the people who must act on it.

The volunteers who met the Minister belonged to this platform, and he described it as a large one for preparing the creative strength of youth for the building of a developed India, adding that its object is to make the young good citizens who work for the country and society…

Ayurveda places the menopausal phase and the complaints that accompany it, such as irregular menstruation, hot flushes, disturbed sleep, mood changes and joint pain, under this heading, and treats the stage as a natural transformation rather than a disease.

The Ministry of Mines reported that 59 public spaces were cleaned under the campaign with this many individuals taking part in the effort.

The international agreement was signed between AIIA Goa and that university, which is located at Fairfield in the state of Iowa, and it provides for an Academic Chair in Ayurveda in the university’s Department of Physiology and Health.

The meeting brought together stakeholders from government ministries and departments, operational agencies, research and academic institutions, non-governmental organisations, civil society and the private sector, spread across several states of the country.

The correct answer is the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who attended the youth dialogue and planted saplings with the participants.

Kaumarabhritya is Ayurvedic paediatrics, and the conference named after it was devoted to advancing child healthcare through Ayurveda. The sessions covered Ayurvedic paediatric education, regulatory frameworks, traditional practices and scope for collaboration between countries, and a round-table examined policy, education and research in the discipline.