Teaching Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 5–11 October 2026

The correct answer is 110. 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. Options A, B and D are round numbers that look plausible, and round figures are a standard trap in questions of this kind, so the exact count is worth fixing in memory. The same day also saw a health check-up camp on the campus for employees, outsourced personnel and sanitary workers, as well as a rangoli competition under the Kabaad Se Kala theme with drawing and poster events. Candidates should link the number of Safai Mitras honoured to the name of the shivir and to the date, since any one of the three may be asked.

The correct answer is the Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda, Jamnagar. 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. Option A names another leading Ayurveda institute under the same ministry, which makes it the most tempting wrong choice, but the work reported here was not done there. Option C is also an Ayurveda institute of standing, yet it did not conduct this trial. Option D is a research council that works on yoga and naturopathy rather than the institute credited with this study. Aspirants should link the institute with its city, its status as an Institution of National Importance, the Ministry of Ayush and the name of its director, since any of these can be asked.

The correct answer is the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Nainital. 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. The team gathered 106 scientists from 18 countries and 48 institutions and universities, who observed the object with about two dozen telescopes between 2015 and 2025. Options A, C and D name well-known Indian centres for astronomy and space science, but none of them is credited with coordinating this particular study; they are offered because candidates often confuse the national astronomy institutes with one another. The safest way to remember the fact is to link the Nainital institute, its parent department and the name of the lead scientist together, since any of the three can be asked.

The correct answer is the President. 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. Option A is wrong because the Prime Minister did not attend this ceremony, although he was present when the institute was formally inaugurated earlier. Option C is wrong because the Vice-President had no role in this convocation. Option D is wrong but close: the Governor of Himachal Pradesh, Kavinder Gupta, was present on the occasion and addressed the graduates, yet the degrees were conferred by the President. Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda also spoke, and the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, extended his best wishes to the graduating students.

The correct answer is 1,45,26,013. 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 quiz was conducted on the MY Bharat portal from 17 August to 30 September 2026, with a version also hosted on MyGov, and it carried 20 questions worth a maximum of 20 marks within a time limit of 10 minutes. Options A, C and D are near-miss figures designed to test whether a candidate has read the number carefully, and none of them matches the reported count. About 5.7 lakh of those who attempted the quiz qualified for the essay round that follows. The whole exercise is aimed at the vision of Viksit Bharat @2047, for which the dialogue gathers youth ideas from the grassroots upward.

The correct answer is SWAGAT. 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. Option A is wrong, though closely related, because PRAGATI came later and at the national level: it was inspired by SWAGAT and brings different levels of government together to review stalled projects, clear obstacles and speed up completion. Option C is wrong because Jyotigram was the Gujarat scheme that gave agriculture its own electricity feeders, an idea that was also taken up nationally. Option D is wrong because PM-JANMAN is a later central programme meant for particularly vulnerable tribal groups and has nothing to do with the award.

The correct answer is 5,000. 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. Option A is wrong because the first milestone brings a formal Letter of Recognition signed by the Director of the MY Bharat Division, not a place in the Hall of Fame. Option B is wrong because that step brings recognition on the official social media handles, and only with the consent of the young person concerned, since a name and photograph are published. Option D is wrong because that milestone carries a hardbound book rather than any form of listing on the portal. The ladder is best learnt in order, letter first, then social media, then the Hall of Fame, then books, then meetings with ministers.

The correct answer is A++, which is the highest grade the National Assessment and Accreditation Council awards. 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. Options A and B are wrong because each names a lower rung of the same scale, and a candidate who recalls only that the grade begins with the letter A will not be able to separate them. Option D is wrong because it belongs to a different band altogether. Alongside the grade, remember the university’s other distinctions mentioned on the occasion, among them the publication of the Vidyapeeth Panchang for forty-four years and the teaching of Prakrit and Vastu Shastra.

The correct answer is the Capacity Building Commission. 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. Option A is wrong because NITI Aayog is the government's policy think tank and does not run the civil services capacity building programme. Option C is wrong because the Union Public Service Commission conducts recruitment examinations and advises on service matters, not the transformation of training institutes. Option D names a department that leads several governance and administrative reform campaigns, and it is easy to confuse the two, but the workshops in this series belong to the Commission set up specifically for capacity building. Candidates should connect the Commission with the UNNATI portal and with the Training Institute Transformation Framework, all three of which appear together in questions.

The correct answer is Dhokra metal casting. 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. Option A refers to a metal craft associated with another region and was not the craft highlighted here. Option C is a scroll painting tradition of eastern India and does not feature in this description. Option D again names an inlay craft from elsewhere. For the examination, keep the rest of the collection in mind as well: a ceremonial headgear of peacock feathers, cowrie shells, metallic discs and brass bells, a Ramnami Samaj chanting stole inscribed with the words of devotion, depictions of landmarks such as Hatkeshwar Mahadev and Madheshwar Mahadev, and contemporary pieces on the Mahtari Vandan Yojana and the silver jubilee of the State legislature.

The correct answer is screening school children for probable disability conditions. 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 case and arranging a medical referral where required. Option B is wrong; midday meal records are maintained through a separate system under the school nutrition programme. Option C is wrong because the tool looks at children's needs rather than at teacher performance, although teachers are the ones who use it. Option D is wrong, as scholarship distribution runs through dedicated portals of other departments. The point to carry into an examination is the link between PRASHAST and the disability rights law.

The correct answer is Thiruvarutchelvar. 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. Option A, Thillana Mohanambal, is wrong because the archive already holds several preservation elements of that film and the donation only adds a second surviving release print. Option B, Thiruvilayadal, is wrong because one preservation element of it was already in the collection; the donated print, apparently an optically altered version in the CinemaScope format, becomes the second. Option D, Rathakaneer, is wrong because that print was donated earlier, in January 2026, and was not part of this set of three. All three films star Sivaji Ganesan and were directed by A. P. Nagarajan.

The correct answer is about Rs 19,700 crore. 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 spending is aimed at habitat fragmentation, the barrier effect of roads and collisions between wildlife and vehicles, while keeping traffic moving safely. Options A, C and D are near-miss figures built by changing the leading digits, the commonest way such questions are set, so the exact number must be memorised. It helps to anchor it against the item-wise split, in which viaducts account for the largest share at about Rs 8,300 crore, followed by animal underpasses at about Rs 4,600 crore, tunnels at about Rs 2,800 crore and major bridges at about Rs 2,500 crore.

The correct answer is Rowriah, Jorhat, Assam. 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. Option B names another locality near the same town and is the kind of near-miss that catches a candidate who remembers only the district. Options C and D name places long associated with silk research and seed work elsewhere in the country, which is precisely why they are planted here; neither features in this inauguration. The facility can produce 30 lakh disease-free layings of mulberry hybrid seed a year and preserve up to 1 crore of them, so quality seed should reach the region’s farmers on time.

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 14416. 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. Options B, C and D are wrong because they are not the number for this service; they are the kind of close variants an examiner uses to test careful reading. Candidates should store the helpline alongside the other figures released for World Mental Health Day: the service began on 10 October 2022, it had taken 47,75,644 calls by October 2026, and it works through 53 cells covering all 36 states and union territories of the country. The service is especially valuable in rural and remote areas where specialists are hard to reach.

The correct answer is Sushma Swaraj Bhawan. 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. Ministers and senior officials from the states and the union territories attended, and the discussions covered nutrition, care in early childhood, the protection of children, the safety and empowerment of women, and stronger convergence in delivering services. Option A, Vigyan Bhawan, is another conference venue in the capital but was not where this summit met. Option C, Bharat Mandapam, hosts large national and international events but was not the venue for this departmental summit either. Option D, Rashtrapati Bhavan, is the official residence of the President of India and is not used for such departmental deliberations. Only Sushma Swaraj Bhawan matches the venue of this summit.

The correct answer is Jharkhand. 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. Option A, Bihar, is wrong, though it is an understandable error: Deoghar was part of undivided Bihar before Jharkhand was carved out, and the two states share the Santhal Pargana cultural region along their border. Option C, Odisha, is wrong; Odisha has its own All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Bhubaneswar. Option D, West Bengal, is wrong as well; its institute of this family is at Kalyani. A further confirmation inside the event itself is the list of those present, which included the Governor of Jharkhand, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, and the state's Minister for Health and Medical Education, Dr. Irfan Ansari.

The correct answer is 1,06,855 participants. This was the consolidated outreach of the Yuva Sanwad Mela, conducted across 200 designated institutions and the villages they have adopted. Option A, 93,662, is the number of youth participants alone; the remaining 13,193 were other citizens reached through activities in villages and slum communities, and adding the two gives the consolidated figure. That makes option A the most attractive wrong answer for anyone who remembers only the youth count. Option C mixes the digits of a different figure in the same account, the 36,086 youth engaged in dialogue sessions, and option D is simply a round number that matches nothing. Candidates should also note the split by gender within the youth count: 48,269 female participants and 45,618 male participants, which means young women outnumbered young men in this drive.

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. Option B, the Fit India Movement, belongs to the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and promotes physical fitness rather than inter-state cultural exchange. Option C, Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, links higher educational institutions with villages for rural development work, so it is close in its use of institutions but different in purpose. Option D, Study in India, is a programme to attract foreign students to Indian institutions, which has nothing to do with exchanges between Indian states. Yuva Sangam works through paired states and their higher education institutions.

The correct answer is Himachal Pradesh. 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. Option A, Assam, is wrong because Assam is paired with a different State in this phase and is not the host of the Odisha group. Options C and D, Uttarakhand and Telangana, are wrong as well; neither State is the destination of the Odisha delegation. The exchange is built on pairings, and each pairing sends students to a State or Union Territory other than their own so that they can see its culture, traditions, educational institutions and development record. The Odisha delegates also met the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, on 6 October 2026, and President Droupadi Murmu on 7 October 2026.

The correct answer is Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat. 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. Participants come from twenty paired States and Union Territories and are shown the cultural traditions, educational institutions, innovation ecosystems and development work of the state they are matched with. Option B is wrong because that scheme funds higher education in the states rather than organising youth exchanges. Option C is wrong because the abhiyan named there connects institutions with village development work and is a separate initiative. Option D is wrong because that programme is aimed at bringing foreign students to Indian institutions, which is not what Yuva Sangam does.

The correct answer is 1975. 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. Because it began in 1975, the school completed fifty years in 2026, which is why its golden jubilee was celebrated on 11 October 2026 with the Prime Minister present. From that one school the trust has grown into a group of 15 institutions spread across different parts of Tamil Nadu. Option A, 1965, and option B, 1970, are both too early and would place the golden jubilee well before the event that was actually held. Option D, 1980, is too late: a school founded then would complete fifty years only later in the decade and not in 2026. Candidates should link the founding year to the jubilee year, since paper setters often test the pair together.

The correct answer is 17 September 2026. 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. Option C, 1 October 2026, is the date of the shramdaan held at Vigyan Sadan under the nationwide call Ek Din, Ek Ghanta, Ek Saath, and option D, 2 October 2026, is Gandhi Jayanti, when the Secretary led a cleanliness drive in the areas around Technology Bhawan. Both are real dates within the campaign but neither is its start, which makes them the strongest distractors here. Option A has no connection with the campaign calendar. The safest approach is to learn the sequence of dates in order rather than any single one of them.

The correct answer is about 70 per cent. 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. Option B, about 38 per cent, is the improvement recorded in the group that received the medicine alone, so it belongs to the comparison group rather than the combined one. Option A, about 31 per cent, is the improvement in memory among children on medicine alone and is placed here to test whether a candidate separates the parameters. Option C, about 61 per cent, is the memory improvement in the combined group, again a different measure. The study also reported about 66 per cent less irritability and about 71 per cent less hyperactivity in the combined group, so each percentage needs to be tied to its own parameter.

The correct answer is twelve years. 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. Because of that orbit the blazar brightens in a distinctive double peak, a rhythm that Finnish scientists identified in 1988 after studying nearly 100 years of optical observations going back to 1880, and astronomers have since followed each twelve-year cycle of twin outbursts to map the motion. The recent campaign captured the outbursts that fell between 2015 and 2019. Options A, B and D are wrong because none of them matches the period of the pair; they are included because a candidate who remembers only that the object has a repeating cycle may guess at the number. Remember the orbital period along with the distance, as the two facts are usually asked together.

The correct answer is Rs 5 lakh. 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. She added that more than Rs 2 lakh crore has already been spent on the treatment of beneficiaries, and asked everyone concerned to make sure that information about such health protection reaches people living in far-flung areas. Options A and B are wrong because the cover is larger than either figure. Option D is wrong because the annual cover per family under the scheme is smaller than that amount. Candidates should remember the per-family annual cover together with the cumulative spending figure, since questions pair the two.