Teaching Current Affairs Quiz: September 2026

The PIB backgrounder of 20 September 2026 gives this as the theme of Swachhata Hi Seva 2026, which began on 17 September.

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment defines NAMASTE exactly this way, and describes its aim as ensuring the safety and dignity of sanitation workers by creating an enabling ecosystem that recognises their contribution to the operation and maintenance of sanitation infrastructure.

Both the Department of Food and Public Distribution and the Ministry of Textiles named this as the theme of the current campaign, and described it as an appeal to treat cleanliness as a collective effort and a festival of community involvement.

President Droupadi Murmu presented the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2024 to the veteran Kannada actor at the 72nd National Film Awards at Ekta Nagar, Kevadia, in Gujarat.

Mera Yuva Bharat, or MY Bharat, is the national youth engagement platform of the Department of Youth Affairs within that ministry, and it has now gone past 3 crore registered youth in under three years.

She attended the 75th annual convocation ceremony of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda at Vadodara in Gujarat and addressed the graduating students, telling them that education will be meaningful only if the country and society benefit from it.

The release states that more than 1.44 crore Scheduled Caste students have benefited under the Pre-Matric and Post-Matric Scholarship Schemes and that scholarships amounting to Rs 12,773 crore have been disbursed to support their education.

The release says the campaign builds on its success over the last four years, which is the internal check an aspirant can apply: four earlier editions plus the one being launched makes this the fifth.

The Commission held the fifth conference in the series there, and the participants were students and teachers drawn from schools, colleges and universities across Gujarat.

The release names it as the institute whose researchers took up peptides, and the work was led there by Dr Goutam Ghosh with his doctoral scholar Aparna Ramesh.

The release states that the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment launched the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan on that date to combat the demand for drugs in the country, which is why the campaign is now marking its sixth anniversary with a National Mass Pledge Against Drug Abuse.

The Department of Official Language, which functions under the Ministry of Home Affairs, held the sixth edition of the All India Official Language Conference there together with the Hindi Diwas programme, and the sittings were spread over 14 and 15 September 2026.

The release records that 82 teachers and educators were selected for the National Teachers Awards this year, and that they came from three departments.

The release records that he launched the India Valve Registry at India Valves 2026, a national academic meeting on valvular and structural heart disease held in Chennai.

The correct answer is Circular Economy: Transition for People and Prosperity, the theme under which the forum is being organised at Gandhinagar.

Every wrong option here is a real number taken from the same release, which is exactly how a question on an event of this kind is built.

The first was found in the prompts that told a rider, after the booking had already been made, that captains were not accepting at the quoted fare and that a higher price improves the chance of getting a ride.

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change organised the national celebration of the 32nd World Ozone Day in Mumbai on 16 September 2026 under this theme, with Minister of State Kirti Vardhan Singh presiding and Maharashtra's Environment Minister Pankaja Munde also present.

The ministry explained that the theme is meant to join the country's inheritance in Ayurveda to the health needs of the years ahead, which is why the word tomorrow sits in it.

This is the central theme of the nutrition month that begins on 9 September 2026 at the Rudraksh centre in Varanasi, and it calls upon every citizen to take shared ownership of the Anganwadi centre, described as part of the largest childcare network in the world.

The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the Union Minister for Women and Child Development, the Minister of State in that ministry and the state minister for women welfare were all present.

Both engagements India took part in were side events of that session: the ministerial meeting of the Group of Friends of Universal Health Coverage and Global Health, and the launch of the OneSCD partnership on sickle cell disease.

WorldSkills Shanghai 2026 is the 48th edition of the WorldSkills Competition and is being held in Shanghai from 22 to 27 September 2026.

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research observed its 85th Foundation Day, and on that day the Minister of State for Science and Technology released five popular science magazines published by CSIR-NIScPR.

The collection of 89 mementos brings together the state's historical legacy, spiritual traditions, indigenous art forms and contemporary achievements, with the legacy of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj as the leading theme and a scale model of the Meghadambari at Raigad Fort among the pieces.

At these two institutes, one in Jharkhand and the other in Maharashtra, biodegradable offerings such as flowers and other puja samagri were collected and segregated from the rest of the festival waste, and the compostable material was then processed at composting facilities to prepare organic manure.

The campaign against drugs and substance abuse among the young has been designed as a sustained drive of that length, so that awareness work continues instead of ending with a single day or a single week of events.

A second-tier jury, set up only to judge the prize entries, selected twenty artworks by twenty artists for the Lalit Kala Akademi Awards at the sixty-fifth National Exhibition of Art. Options A, B and D do not match the number announced by the Akademi.

The zoo has planned a week of walks and competitions in that window, among them a tree walk, a birds walk, a butterfly and dragonfly walk, a spider and insect walk, a reptile, amphibian and molluscs walk, a keeper's talk with enclosure enrichment, and contests in clay modelling, poster making…

In his address he spoke of the place the institution holds in the healthcare and medical education landscape of Keralam, and welcomed the opening there of Robotic Surgery and Computer-Aided Diagnosis facilities.

The randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial enrolled that many apparently healthy adults between eighteen and seventy years of age, each of whom had already received a first, second or booster dose of the COVISHIELD vaccine, across seven study sites in India.

India gave this pair of figures in its statement at the 28th session of the FAO Committee on Forestry in Rome, while describing the steady growth of its forest resources.

Philippe Baptiste holds that combined portfolio in France, which is why his talks in New Delhi with the Union Minister for Education covered universities, research collaboration and innovation together.

The Periodic Labour Force Survey of 2025 puts the country's overall literacy rate at that level, and this is the headline figure quoted for India's literacy today.

The MoU was signed in New Delhi on 28 September 2026 for the preservation, documentation, digitisation, research and promotion of India's tangible and intangible tribal cultural heritage, and it brings the ministry's network of Tribal Research Institutes together with IGNCA's academic, archival and curatorial strengths.

He is an Indian Forest Service officer of the 1976 batch from the Karnataka cadre, and the Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to him by the Union Environment Minister in recognition of decades of work in forest and wildlife conservation, including efforts against sandalwood smuggling and against the activities of…

The workshop on connecting people, places, resources and opportunities through stronger panchayats was an initiative under this mission, and it was conducted in collaboration with the state institute of panchayat and rural development of the Government of Assam.

The correct answer is the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's national academy of fine arts, which works under the Ministry of Culture and organises the National Exhibition of Art. At the sixty fifth edition the Union Minister of Culture and Tourism, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, was the Chief Guest and felicitated twenty…

The backgrounder explains that ODF Plus villages are classified into three progressive stages. Aspiring villages manage either solid or liquid waste.

The Ministry's Secretary stated that the sewer and septic tank workers component now covers all 36 States and Union Territories, and that this many workers have been validated.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting release states plainly that the campaign is being organised jointly by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and that department, which together cover urban and rural sanitation.

The 72nd National Film Awards were conferred there, in Gujarat, and it was the first time the ceremony had been taken out of the national capital.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Mera Yuva Bharat on that date, setting it up as a technology-enabled platform through which young Indians could join the country's development journey.

The President attended the 75th annual convocation of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in that city, and the university takes its name from the ruler of the former princely state of Baroda, which is the older name of Vadodara itself.

Under the Scheme for Residential Education for Students in High Schools in Targeted Areas, the annual examination schedule of the National Entrance Test for SHRESHTA has been advanced from May to December.

The campaign is spearheaded by that ministry, and the minister who launched it, Dr Jitendra Singh, holds Earth Sciences as Minister of State with Independent Charge.

Lead Democracy. The release says ELC 2.0 carries that tagline and reimagines Electoral Literacy Clubs as structured, visible and digitally enabled platforms across schools, colleges and universities, encouraging young and first-time voters to understand democracy and take part in it meaningfully.

The team found that in water the peptide molecules form nanofibers and show no piezoelectric response. Introducing just that small share of a co-solvent reorganised the molecules into a highly ordered supramolecular arrangement, and the piezoelectric response switched on at once.

That is the total reach of the campaign as stated in the release.

The Home Minister told the conference that Hindi Shabd Sindhu has now grown to that size, and that it is expected to become the largest dictionary anywhere in the world by 2029.