Current Affairs 25 September 2026: Today's GK & MCQs

The correct answer is Silver. The Prime Minister's message congratulated Manu TS, Poovamma MR, Vishal TK and Vithya Ramraj specifically on taking the silver medal in the mixed 4x400m relay at the Asian Games, so option B is the one supported by the release. Option A, gold, is wrong because the team placed second rather than first in the final; the message speaks of a silver medal throughout and nowhere describes the run as a winning one. Option C, bronze, is wrong for the same reason, as bronze goes to the third team home and would not match the description given. Option D is wrong because a fourth place carries no medal at all, yet the whole point of the message was to mark a medal-winning run and to call it a proud moment for athletics in the country. Aspirants should tie the event, the medal colour and the four names together, since relay questions are usually set on exactly that combination.

The correct answer is four athletes, two men and two women. The name of the discipline itself carries the answer: the figure before the multiplication sign gives the number of runners and the figure after it gives the lap each of them covers, so a mixed 4x400m relay is run by four athletes who each complete a lap of 400 metres. The word mixed tells us the four are split evenly between men and women, and each team may choose the order in which they are sent out. Option A is wrong because two runners would make the event a relay in name only and would not match the four in the title of the discipline. Option B is wrong both on the count and on the balance, since an odd number cannot be split evenly between men and women. Option D is wrong because six runners belong to no standard relay format on an athletics programme. India's silver-winning team at the Asian Games was accordingly a group of four, namely Manu TS, Poovamma MR, Vishal TK and Vithya Ramraj.

The correct answer is the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. The release was issued by the Prime Minister's Office and carried his words praising the pace of the team, the understanding between the runners and their determination, which he said had made the race an exciting one and a proud moment for athletics in the country. He also wished the four of them greater heights in the years ahead, and the Prime Minister's Office shared the message on the platform X. Option A is wrong because the release names no message from the President on this result. Option C is wrong because, although the sports ministry is the nodal ministry for athletes, the document in question came from the Prime Minister's Office and quoted the Prime Minister alone. Option D is wrong for the same reason, as no association official is quoted anywhere in it. For the examination hall, remember the pairing of the Prime Minister's Office with the quartet of Manu TS, Poovamma MR, Vishal TK and Vithya Ramraj.

The correct answer is about 70,000. The Ministry of Rural Development has said that roughly that many rural young people, organised into 2,015 batches across 24 States and Union Territories, are expected to start their training in the opening month of the rollout. Option A is simply a smaller figure with nothing in the announcement to support it. Option D confuses two different numbers: the larger figure refers to the targets that 24 States and Union Territories have already allotted to Project Implementation Agencies over more than 1,200 projects, which is a target for allocation and not the count of trainees walking into a classroom in the first month. Option C is likewise unsupported by anything in the ministry's statement. The distinction between a target allotted on paper and a batch actually commencing is exactly the sort of fine point that examiners like to test, so keep the trainee figure, the batch count and the number of States and Union Territories together in memory as one set.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Rural Development. The announcement on the rollout of DDU-GKY 2.0 came from that ministry, which is also the body pressing States and Union Territories to allot targets to their implementing agencies and holding review meetings with them in phases. DDU-GKY is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme offering placement-linked skill training to poor rural youth, and its rural focus is the reason it sits with the rural development ministry rather than elsewhere. Option A is a plausible distractor because skilling is that ministry's broad remit, but this particular scheme is not run by it. Option B is wrong because employment policy and labour welfare, not the delivery of this training programme, fall to that ministry. Option D is wrong because school and higher education are outside the scope of a placement-linked vocational scheme of this kind. Candidates should also note the course length of 3 months to 12 months and the requirement that courses be aligned with the National Skill Qualification Framework.

The correct answer is 31 October 2026. The Ministry of Rural Development has fixed that day as the outer limit by which States and Union Territories are to finish allotting targets to their Project Implementation Agencies, so that batches can actually begin. Option A is wrong because it falls before the month in which training is itself meant to open, which would leave no room for the allocations the ministry is still chasing. Options C and D are wrong because both push the deadline well past the start of training and would defeat the purpose of the ministry's push for speed; it has called this a crucial phase for action by the States and is holding review meetings in phases precisely to avoid such slippage. For the examination, link the deadline with the two other dates in this story, namely the month in which batches open and the two-year cycle of 2026-28 for which more than 9 lakh targets have been allocated across all 31 participating States and Union Territories.