SSC Current Affairs Questions 2026 (Daily Practice Set)

Current affairs questions can feel like a never-ending job, but the good news is that SSC usually asks about the big, well-reported events of the last twelve months. If you know the major stories well, you can answer most of these questions comfortably.

This set has 50 questions divided into five daily sets of 10, so you can solve one set a day for five days. Each question has four options, the correct answer and a short note that explains why the event matters.

Please note: The questions in this set are based on events from 2024 and 2025. Current affairs keep changing, so before your exam also go through the latest monthly digest for the events that happened in the last few months.

How to use it: Solve each daily set in about 8 minutes. Then read the note under each question. If a topic is new to you, search for the news story once and read it in two or three lines. Do not spend more than that.

Day 1: Government and Politics (Q1–Q10)

Q1. On which date was the Union Budget 2025–26 presented?
(a) 28 February 2025   (b) 1 February 2025   (c) 5 July 2025   (d) 31 January 2025
Answer: (b) 1 February 2025
Note: It was Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's eighth consecutive budget. No income tax is payable up to Rs. 12 lakh under the new regime because of the rebate.

Q2. Who took over as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in December 2024?
(a) Shaktikanta Das   (b) Urjit Patel   (c) Sanjay Malhotra   (d) Raghuram Rajan
Answer: (c) Sanjay Malhotra
Note: He succeeded Shaktikanta Das, who had served for six years.

Q3. In February 2025, the RBI cut the repo rate to:
(a) 6.50%   (b) 6.00%   (c) 5.75%   (d) 6.25%
Answer: (d) 6.25%
Note: It was the first cut in the repo rate in about five years.

Q4. Who became the 52nd Chief Justice of India in May 2025?
(a) B. R. Gavai   (b) Sanjiv Khanna   (c) D. Y. Chandrachud   (d) U. U. Lalit
Answer: (a) B. R. Gavai
Note: He succeeded Justice Sanjiv Khanna.

Q5. Who became the Chief Minister of Delhi in February 2025?
(a) Atishi   (b) Rekha Gupta   (c) Arvind Kejriwal   (d) Manoj Tiwari
Answer: (b) Rekha Gupta
Note: The BJP formed the government in Delhi after winning the 2025 assembly election.

Q6. Who became the Chief Minister of Maharashtra in December 2024?
(a) Eknath Shinde   (b) Ajit Pawar   (c) Devendra Fadnavis   (d) Uddhav Thackeray
Answer: (c) Devendra Fadnavis
Note: It was his third time as Chief Minister.

Q7. Who took oath as the Prime Minister of India for a third consecutive term in June 2024?
(a) Amit Shah   (b) Rajnath Singh   (c) Nitin Gadkari   (d) Narendra Modi
Answer: (d) Narendra Modi
Note: He became only the second PM after Jawaharlal Nehru to win three consecutive terms.

Q8. Who was re-elected as the Speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha?
(a) Om Birla   (b) Sumitra Mahajan   (c) Meira Kumar   (d) Rahul Gandhi
Answer: (a) Om Birla
Note: He was elected Speaker for a second consecutive term in June 2024.

Q9. The 129th Constitution Amendment Bill introduced in December 2024 is related to:
(a) Delimitation of seats   (b) Simultaneous elections (One Nation One Election)   (c) Uniform Civil Code   (d) Women's reservation
Answer: (b) Simultaneous elections (One Nation One Election)
Note: It was sent to a Joint Parliamentary Committee for detailed study.

Q10. Which new law replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) from 1 July 2024?
(a) Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita   (b) Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam   (c) Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita   (d) Indian Procedure Act
Answer: (c) Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita
Note: The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita replaced the Indian Penal Code and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam replaced the Indian Evidence Act.

Day 2: World Affairs (Q11–Q20)

Q11. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025?
(a) Narges Mohammadi   (b) Abiy Ahmed   (c) Maria Ressa   (d) María Corina Machado
Answer: (d) María Corina Machado
Note: She is a Venezuelan opposition leader honoured for her work for democratic rights.

Q12. Where was the COP29 climate summit held in November 2024?
(a) Baku, Azerbaijan   (b) Dubai, UAE   (c) Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt   (d) Glasgow, UK
Answer: (a) Baku, Azerbaijan
Note: The main outcome was a new climate finance goal.

Q13. Where was the COP30 climate summit held in November 2025?
(a) Rio de Janeiro   (b) Belém, Brazil   (c) São Paulo   (d) Brasília
Answer: (b) Belém, Brazil
Note: It was held in the Amazon region of Brazil.

Q14. Where was the BRICS Summit of 2024 held?
(a) Johannesburg, South Africa   (b) New Delhi, India   (c) Kazan, Russia   (d) Beijing, China
Answer: (c) Kazan, Russia
Note: It was the first summit after the group expanded with new members.

Q15. Which country hosted the G20 Leaders' Summit in 2025?
(a) Brazil   (b) India   (c) Indonesia   (d) South Africa
Answer: (d) South Africa
Note: It was the first G20 summit held on the African continent.

Q16. Who leads the interim government of Bangladesh since August 2024?
(a) Muhammad Yunus   (b) Khaleda Zia   (c) Sheikh Hasina   (d) Tarique Rahman
Answer: (a) Muhammad Yunus
Note: He is a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the founder of Grameen Bank.

Q17. The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for work on:
(a) Gravitational waves   (b) Quantum tunnelling in electric circuits   (c) The Higgs particle   (d) Neutrino masses
Answer: (b) Quantum tunnelling in electric circuits
Note: It went to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis.

Q18. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2025?
(a) Han Kang   (b) Jon Fosse   (c) László Krasznahorkai   (d) Annie Ernaux
Answer: (c) László Krasznahorkai
Note: He is a Hungarian author.

Q19. Which place will host the Winter Olympics in 2026?
(a) Beijing, China   (b) Sapporo, Japan   (c) Salt Lake City, USA   (d) Milan–Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Answer: (d) Milan–Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Note: The Games were scheduled for February 2026.

Q20. Which Indian writer won the International Booker Prize in 2025 for "Heart Lamp"?
(a) Banu Mushtaq   (b) Arundhati Roy   (c) Geetanjali Shree   (d) Kiran Desai
Answer: (a) Banu Mushtaq
Note: It is a collection of Kannada short stories translated into English by Deepa Bhasthi.

Day 3: Science, Space and Infrastructure (Q21–Q30)

Q21. In January 2025, India became the ______ country to successfully dock two spacecraft in space (SpaDeX).
(a) First   (b) Fourth   (c) Second   (d) Third
Answer: (b) Fourth
Note: Before India, only Russia, the USA and China had done it.

Q22. Who became the first Indian to travel to the International Space Station in 2025?
(a) Rakesh Sharma   (b) Ajit Krishnan   (c) Shubhanshu Shukla   (d) Prashanth Nair
Answer: (c) Shubhanshu Shukla
Note: He went on the Axiom-4 mission. Rakesh Sharma had flown to a Soviet space station in 1984.

Q23. NISAR, launched in 2025, is a joint Earth-observation mission of ISRO and which agency?
(a) ESA   (b) JAXA   (c) Roscosmos   (d) NASA
Answer: (d) NASA
Note: The name stands for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar.

Q24. ISRO's 100th launch from Sriharikota in January 2025 used which rocket?
(a) GSLV-F15   (b) PSLV-C60   (c) LVM3-M4   (d) SSLV-D3
Answer: (a) GSLV-F15
Note: It carried the navigation satellite NVS-02.

Q25. What name has been given to the landing spot of Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon?
(a) Tiranga Point   (b) Shiv Shakti Point   (c) Vikram Point   (d) Chandra Point
Answer: (b) Shiv Shakti Point
Note: The name was announced by the Prime Minister in August 2023.

Q26. Aditya-L1 was placed in its halo orbit around the L1 point in which month?
(a) September 2023   (b) March 2024   (c) January 2024   (d) August 2024
Answer: (c) January 2024
Note: It reached the Lagrange point about 1.5 million km from Earth to study the Sun.

Q27. The new Pamban Bridge, inaugurated in April 2025, is India's first vertical lift sea bridge. It is in which state?
(a) Kerala   (b) Gujarat   (c) Odisha   (d) Tamil Nadu
Answer: (d) Tamil Nadu
Note: It connects Rameswaram island with the mainland.

Q28. The Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 at Prayagraj ended on which date?
(a) 26 February 2025   (b) 14 February 2025   (c) 13 March 2025   (d) 1 March 2025
Answer: (a) 26 February 2025
Note: It ended on Maha Shivratri, and began on 13 January 2025.

Q29. The United Nations declared 2025 as the International Year of:
(a) Artificial Intelligence   (b) Quantum Science and Technology   (c) Clean Water   (d) Space Exploration
Answer: (b) Quantum Science and Technology
Note: It marked 100 years of the development of quantum mechanics.

Q30. The new Income-tax Act, 2025 is set to come into effect from:
(a) 1 April 2025   (b) 1 January 2026   (c) 1 April 2026   (d) 1 April 2027
Answer: (c) 1 April 2026
Note: It replaces the Income-tax Act of 1961.

Day 4: Sports (Q31–Q40)

Q31. Which team won the Indian Premier League 2025?
(a) Punjab Kings   (b) Mumbai Indians   (c) Gujarat Titans   (d) Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Answer: (d) Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Note: It was the franchise's first IPL title.

Q32. Which team won the ICC Champions Trophy 2025?
(a) India   (b) New Zealand   (c) Pakistan   (d) Australia
Answer: (a) India
Note: India beat New Zealand in the final at Dubai.

Q33. Who won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024–25 in Australia?
(a) India   (b) Australia   (c) Drawn   (d) England
Answer: (b) Australia
Note: Australia won the five-Test series 3–1.

Q34. Which country won the gold medals in both the open and women's sections of the 2024 Chess Olympiad in Budapest?
(a) USA   (b) China   (c) India   (d) Uzbekistan
Answer: (c) India
Note: It was India's first double gold at the Chess Olympiad.

Q35. Whom did D. Gukesh defeat to become World Chess Champion in December 2024?
(a) Fabiano Caruana   (b) Ian Nepomniachtchi   (c) Magnus Carlsen   (d) Ding Liren
Answer: (d) Ding Liren
Note: The match was played in Singapore.

Q36. Who became the first Indian to win two medals in a single Olympic Games (Paris 2024) since independence?
(a) Manu Bhaker   (b) Neeraj Chopra   (c) Sarabjot Singh   (d) P. V. Sindhu
Answer: (a) Manu Bhaker
Note: She won bronze in the 10 m air pistol and in the 10 m air pistol mixed team event.

Q37. How many medals did India win at the Paris 2024 Olympics?
(a) 7   (b) 6   (c) 5   (d) 4
Answer: (b) 6
Note: One silver (Neeraj Chopra) and five bronze medals.

Q38. Who won the FIDE Women's World Cup in 2025 and became a Grandmaster?
(a) Koneru Humpy   (b) R. Vaishali   (c) Divya Deshmukh   (d) Harika Dronavalli
Answer: (c) Divya Deshmukh
Note: She defeated Koneru Humpy in the final in Batumi, Georgia.

Q39. Who was named Player of the Tournament in the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup?
(a) Virat Kohli   (b) Rohit Sharma   (c) Arshdeep Singh   (d) Jasprit Bumrah
Answer: (d) Jasprit Bumrah
Note: India won the tournament by beating South Africa in the final.

Q40. How many medals did India win at the Paris 2024 Paralympics, its best ever performance?
(a) 29   (b) 19   (c) 25   (d) 35
Answer: (a) 29
Note: The tally included seven gold medals.

Day 5: People, Awards and Events (Q41–Q50)

Q41. Who among the following was posthumously honoured with the Bharat Ratna in 2024?
(a) Rajendra Prasad   (b) Karpoori Thakur   (c) Lal Bahadur Shastri   (d) Dr. Zakir Husain
Answer: (b) Karpoori Thakur
Note: Others honoured in 2024 were L. K. Advani, P. V. Narasimha Rao, Chaudhary Charan Singh and M. S. Swaminathan.

Q42. Which industrialist and Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons passed away in October 2024?
(a) Rahul Bajaj   (b) Cyrus Mistry   (c) Ratan Tata   (d) Azim Premji
Answer: (c) Ratan Tata
Note: He passed away on 9 October 2024.

Q43. Which former Prime Minister of India passed away on 26 December 2024?
(a) I. K. Gujral   (b) Atal Bihari Vajpayee   (c) H. D. Deve Gowda   (d) Dr. Manmohan Singh
Answer: (d) Dr. Manmohan Singh
Note: He served as Prime Minister from 2004 to 2014.

Q44. Which tabla maestro passed away in December 2024?
(a) Ustad Zakir Hussain   (b) Pandit Kishan Maharaj   (c) Ustad Allah Rakha   (d) Pandit Anindo Chatterjee
Answer: (a) Ustad Zakir Hussain
Note: He was a Padma Vibhushan awardee.

Q45. Who was announced as the winner of the 59th Jnanpith Award?
(a) Gulzar   (b) Vinod Kumar Shukla   (c) Amitav Ghosh   (d) Javed Akhtar
Answer: (b) Vinod Kumar Shukla
Note: He is a well-known Hindi writer and poet.

Q46. Who was elected as the Vice-President of India in September 2025?
(a) Jagdeep Dhankhar   (b) Venkaiah Naidu   (c) C. P. Radhakrishnan   (d) M. Hamid Ansari
Answer: (c) C. P. Radhakrishnan
Note: He succeeded Jagdeep Dhankhar, who resigned in July 2025.

Q47. From 22 September 2025, the GST system was simplified mainly into which two slabs?
(a) 12% and 28%   (b) 5% and 12%   (c) 18% and 28%   (d) 5% and 18%
Answer: (d) 5% and 18%
Note: A special higher rate applies to a few luxury and sin goods.

Q48. On which date did the terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, take place?
(a) 22 April 2025   (b) 14 February 2025   (c) 26 January 2025   (d) 7 May 2025
Answer: (a) 22 April 2025
Note: It killed tourists and led to a sharp reaction from India.

Q49. On which date did India launch Operation Sindoor?
(a) 22 April 2025   (b) 7 May 2025   (c) 10 May 2025   (d) 15 August 2025
Answer: (b) 7 May 2025
Note: It was launched in response to the Pahalgam attack.

Q50. On which date did India and Pakistan agree to a ceasefire in May 2025?
(a) 7 May 2025   (b) 12 May 2025   (c) 10 May 2025   (d) 15 May 2025
Answer: (c) 10 May 2025
Note: The understanding came after military action between the two countries.

A Simple Way to Handle Current Affairs

• Read one good summary a day rather than many news sites. Ten minutes is enough.
• Make small categories: government and policy, world affairs, science and space, sports, awards and people.
• Note names, dates and places in a small notebook. These are the details that are asked in the exam.
• Revise every Sunday. A weekly revision of what you read during the week does more for your score than reading a lot without revising.

Come back to this set again a week before your exam. If you can answer at least 40 of the 50 questions, your current affairs base is in good shape.