Teaching Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 28 September – 4 October 2026

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…

This is the theme under which the Swachhata Hi Seva 2026 campaign is being run across the country, and the spirit of joint action it stands for was what the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare echoed when its officers and staff joined a shramdaan in New Delhi on…

A student selected under the scheme receives that amount every year, and the money is credited straight into the student's own bank account through Direct Benefit Transfer, which removes middlemen from the payment chain.

The app carries this name together with the National Scholarship Portal and belongs to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, serving beneficiaries of the Pre-Matric and Post-Matric Scholarships for Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes.

On the birth anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri, both the Prime Minister and the Vice-President went to Vijay Ghat to lay flowers at the memorial of the former Prime Minister.

The campaign opened on that date with the taking of the Swachhata pledge and ran as a fortnight-long drive that ended on 2 October 2026, the day observed as Swachh Bharat Diwas.

The mission was launched on that date and grew into one of the largest government-led sanitation movements in the country, working through two components, one for rural areas and one for urban areas.

Parveen won the gold medal in the women's 65 kg boxing event at the Asian Games after a hard-fought final, and the division is the detail most often tested on a medal story of this kind.

The Department of Higher Education under the Ministry of Education approved the establishment of five Centres of Excellence, one each for Classical Assamese, Classical Bengali, Classical Marathi, Classical Pali and Classical Prakrit.

This was the theme under which the fortnight-long campaign ran at the All India Institute of Ayurveda from 17 September to 2 October 2026, and it ties participation in cleanliness to the larger goals of a clean and a developed India.

Participants were randomly assigned to receive either this standardised aqueous extract or a matching placebo, and the assignment was double-blind, meaning neither the participants nor the assessors knew which arm a person belonged to.

India reaffirmed this commitment at the forestry session in Rome and reported that 21.76 million hectares have already been brought under restoration, which shows how much of the pledge has been covered.

During the bilateral meeting, French institutions were asked to look at opening branch campuses in India, and that financial and business hub was named as one suitable location.

The States and Union Territories that declared full literacy in that period are Ladakh, Mizoram, Goa, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir, which comes to ten in all.

The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts is an autonomous trust under that ministry, which is what makes this agreement a joining of two ministries' resources on one subject: tribal heritage.

It organises the Eco Warrior Awards and the Eco Warrior Conclave jointly with Indian Masterminds, and the fourth edition was held in New Delhi under the chairmanship of the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

Participants at the workshop discussed the constitutional foundation of panchayati raj under this amendment and under Part IX of the Constitution, which together give village level bodies their status, and the deliberations moved on from there to activity mapping, financial resources, staffing, decision-making powers, Gram Sabha participation and institutional accountability.

The Secretary of the Lalit Kala Akademi said the edition attracted more than six thousand entries, and from that pool two hundred and seventy artists were chosen through a jury that screened the work in two rounds.

He is Secretary of the Department of Health Research and also holds charge as Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research, and he led the voluntary cleanliness drive held near Gate No. 3 of Kartavya Bhavan-1 on Dr. Rajendra Prasad Marg in New Delhi.

Fresh scholarships under the scheme go to Class IX students who qualify in the selection examination conducted by the respective State or Union Territory government, and one lakh such awards are made every year.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, through its Department of Social Justice and Empowerment, which launched the app in April 2026.

Apart from offering homage to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat and to Lal Bahadur Shastri at Vijay Ghat, the Vice-President paid tribute at Upa-Rashtrapati Bhavan to Thiru K. Kamaraj, a former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, on his death anniversary.

On the concluding day of the campaign the Department offered floral tribute to the Father of the Nation on his 157th birth anniversary, the date that is observed across the country as Swachh Bharat Diwas.