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The most reliable finding in the study of memory is that retrieving something strengthens it more than re-reading it does. For current affairs — where the material is factual, plentiful and quick to decay — that makes a daily quiz the single most efficient revision instrument available.
Ten questions take ten minutes. Over six months that is thirty hours, spread so thinly it never feels like work, producing recall that thirty hours of reading would not.
Current affairs · 19 September 2026
Today’s current affairs, checked at the source
Every item is dated, read on the conducting body’s or ministry’s own site, and written with the question it becomes. Read today’s items, take the quiz, or download the month as a PDF.
Daily current affairs quiz — 19 September 2026
Current affairs quiz with answers: this week, then the month
Every question below is built from an item on the current-affairs pages, checked at its primary source, and the explanation gives the adjacent facts a follow-up question would use. Answer before revealing; log the ones you miss by theme.
This week’s quiz — 13–19 September 2026
Ten questions from the week of 13–19 September 2026: UPI free to ₹2,000, August inflation, the Kishau agreement, the EPFO ceiling, the Gender Gap Index, SEMICON India, the Tejas trainers, the Rozgar Mela and the Asia Cup.
Q1The 20th Rozgar Mela of 19 September 2026 took the cumulative number of appointment letters distributed under the programme to about
- A5 lakh
- B8.5 lakh
- C12.75 lakh
- D20 lakh
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C. 12.75 lakh — About 12.75 lakh, with more than 51,000 letters at this edition across 45 locations.
Q2The International Conference on “The Future of Environment and Climate Dynamics” of 19–20 September 2026 in New Delhi was organised by
- Athe Central Pollution Control Board
- Bthe National Green Tribunal
- Cthe Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
- DNITI Aayog
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B. the National Green Tribunal — The National Green Tribunal, with judges and judicial representatives from 17 countries; the Prime Minister inaugurated it at Vigyan Bhawan.
Q3The 20th Asian Games, opening on 19 September 2026, are being held in
- AHangzhou, China
- BAichi-Nagoya, Japan
- CDoha, Qatar
- DRiyadh, Saudi Arabia
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B. Aichi-Nagoya, Japan — Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, from 19 September to 4 October 2026; India has sent 496 athletes across 36 sports. Doha hosts in 2030 and Riyadh in 2034.
Q4The Nasha Mukt Yuva Abhiyan launched on 18 September 2026 with a Rashtriya Sankalp Samaroh is a campaign of what length?
- A30 days
- B100 days
- C100 weeks
- Dfive years
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C. 100 weeks — 100 weeks, run by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports with MY Bharat and the National Service Scheme.
Q5On 18 September 2026 HAL handed over to the Indian Air Force twin-seat trainer versions of which aircraft, completing the FOC contract?
- ASukhoi Su-30MKI
- BLCA Tejas
- CRafale
- DMirage 2000
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B. LCA Tejas — Two LCA Tejas final-operational-clearance twin-seat trainers, with three HTT-40 basic trainers; four Dhruv-NG helicopters went to Pawan Hans.
Q6SEMICON India 2026, inaugurated on 17 September 2026 at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi, was held on the theme
- AChips for Viksit Bharat
- BSilicon to Systems: Building the Ecosystem
- CDesign in India, Make for the World
- DFab to Future
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B. Silicon to Systems: Building the Ecosystem — “Silicon to Systems: Building the Ecosystem”, the fifth edition, organised by the India Semiconductor Mission, MeitY and SEMI, 17–19 September.
Q7The Union Cabinet on 16 September 2026 raised the wage ceiling for mandatory EPFO coverage to what amount per month?
- A₹18,000
- B₹21,000
- C₹25,000
- D₹30,000
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C. ₹25,000 — ₹25,000, up from the ₹15,000 fixed in September 2014, effective 17 September 2026 and covering more than 51 lakh additional employees.
Q8In the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2026, India was ranked
- A108th
- B127th
- C131st
- D140th
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C. 131st — 131st of 145 countries, the same rank as in 2025, with 64.5 per cent of the gap closed; Iceland was first.
Q9The theme of World Ozone Day 2026 marked ten years of which agreement?
- AThe Paris Agreement
- BThe Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol
- CThe Kyoto Protocol
- DThe Vienna Convention
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B. The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol — The Kigali Amendment, adopted in 2016, which phases down hydrofluorocarbons used in cooling; the Montreal Protocol itself dates from 16 September 1987.
Q10The Kishau Multipurpose Project, for which six states signed an agreement on 15 September 2026, is a dam on which river?
- AGiri
- BTons
- CYamuna
- DBhagirathi
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B. Tons — The Tons, a Yamuna tributary on the Uttarakhand–Himachal Pradesh border; the 232.6-metre dam is a national project with about 90 per cent central funding.
September 2026 quiz — the rest of the month
The items from 31 August to 11 September: the GDP estimate, the RBI policy, the SCO summit, GSLV-F17, the gyrotron, UNGA 81, the Magsaysay awards and the Asian Games.
Q1The 18th BRICS Summit of 12–13 September 2026 was held in
- ARio de Janeiro
- BKazan
- CNew Delhi
- DJohannesburg
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C. New Delhi — New Delhi, at Bharat Mandapam, under India’s 2026 chairship; it adopted the New Delhi Declaration, and China hosts the 19th summit in 2027.
Q2The 82.6 GHz gyrotron commissioned in September 2026 for plasma heating was installed at which facility?
- ABARC, Mumbai
- BInstitute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar
- CIUAC, New Delhi
- DVSSC, Thiruvananthapuram
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B. Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar — The Institute for Plasma Research in Gandhinagar, on its SST-1 (Steady State Superconducting Tokamak), India’s fusion research device linked to ITER.
Q3Who is the President of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, which opened on 8 September 2026?
- AAnnalena Baerbock (Germany)
- BKhalilur Rahman (Bangladesh)
- CPhilemon Yang (Cameroon)
- DDennis Francis (Trinidad and Tobago)
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B. Khalilur Rahman (Bangladesh) — Khalilur Rahman of Bangladesh, elected on 2 June 2026; Baerbock presided over the 80th session and Yang over the 79th.
Q4EOS-05 (GISAT-1A), launched by GSLV-F17 in September 2026, is notable as India’s first
- ARadar imaging satellite
- BImaging satellite operating from geosynchronous orbit
- CSatellite launched from the third launch pad
- DSatellite built entirely by a private company
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B. Imaging satellite operating from geosynchronous orbit — The first Indian earth-imaging satellite designed to operate from geosynchronous orbit, giving near-real-time imagery; the earlier attempt, EOS-03 on GSLV-F10 in 2021, was lost.
Q5What was India’s real GDP growth in the first quarter of 2026-27 (April–June 2026), as estimated by the NSO on 31 August 2026?
- A6.7 per cent
- B7.0 per cent
- C7.8 per cent
- D8.6 per cent
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C. 7.8 per cent — 7.8 per cent, ahead of the RBI’s 7 per cent projection; 6.7 per cent is the RBI’s full-year FY27 forecast and 8.6 per cent the secondary sector’s growth in the quarter.
Q6The 2026 summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Council of Heads of State was held in
- ATianjin
- BAstana
- CBishkek
- DIslamabad
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C. Bishkek — Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on 31 August – 1 September 2026, the organisation’s 25th-anniversary summit; Tianjin hosted in 2025 and Astana in 2024.
Q7Which of these was a 2026 Ramon Magsaysay Award laureate?
- ATommy Koh of Singapore
- BSonam Wangchuk of India
- CMuhammad Yunus of Bangladesh
- DRavish Kumar of India
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A. Tommy Koh of Singapore — Tommy Koh, the Singaporean diplomat who chaired the UNCLOS negotiations, with Runa Khan (Bangladesh) and Bo Kyi (Myanmar); there was no Indian laureate in 2026.
Q8At its August 2026 meeting the RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee kept the repo rate at what level?
- A5.00 per cent
- B5.25 per cent
- C5.50 per cent
- D6.00 per cent
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B. 5.25 per cent — 5.25 per cent, unchanged for the fourth consecutive policy, with a neutral stance; the next MPC meeting is on 5–7 October 2026.
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Why testing
What a quiz does that re-reading does not
- It reveals what you do not know — reading a fact produces a feeling of familiarity that is easily mistaken for knowledge. Being asked and failing removes the ambiguity.
- It strengthens what you do know — the act of retrieval is itself what consolidates memory, more effectively than another exposure.
- It spaces automatically — themes recur across days, which supplies the repeated contact that recall requires.
- It is short enough to sustain — and consistency is the entire mechanism.
How to use it
Getting the benefit
- Answer before checking, always. Even when uncertain. A guess followed by feedback teaches more than reading the answer first.
- Log wrong answers by theme. Schemes, appointments, indices, agreements. Themed logs are revisable; question lists are not.
- Revisit the wrong ones a week later. Missing the same item twice is a signal to study the underlying topic rather than to keep quizzing it.
- Keep it daily and keep it short. A missed week undoes more than an extra fifty questions add.
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Daily Current Affairs Quiz — FAQs
Is there a daily current affairs quiz with answers for SSC and bank exams?
Yes — the quiz above is written from the day’s and the week’s items and pitched at the general-awareness sections of SSC CGL and CHSL, the bank PO and clerk mains, RRB NTPC and the state PSC prelims, which share most of their current-affairs questions. UPSC aspirants should take the same questions as the floor and read the UPSC current affairs page for the issue behind each event. Every answer is revealed with its explanation, and the questions stay on the weekly and monthly pages after the day passes.
Why is a quiz better than re-reading current affairs?
Because retrieval strengthens memory more than repeated exposure does. Reading a fact produces a feeling of familiarity that is easily mistaken for knowledge; being asked for it and failing removes that ambiguity and, when you succeed, the act of retrieval itself consolidates the memory. For factual, plentiful, quickly decaying material like current affairs, that makes a short daily quiz the most efficient revision instrument available.
How many current affairs questions should I do daily?
Ten is a common and effective number, taking about ten minutes. The size matters less than the consistency — a set small enough that you will do it on a busy day is worth more than a larger one you will skip. Over six months, ten questions a day accumulates to substantial retrieval practice, spread thinly enough that it never feels like work.
What should I do with current affairs questions I get wrong?
Log them by theme rather than as a list of questions, so the record is revisable, and revisit them about a week later. If you miss the same item twice, that is a signal to study the underlying topic properly rather than to keep quizzing it — a quiz reveals gaps efficiently but does not close conceptual ones. Themed logs also tend to show patterns that individual questions do not.
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