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Current Affairs 24 September 2026: Top 20 Facts with Bihar-Jharkhand Special
Current Affairs 24 September 2026: 20 Exam-Ready Facts with Bihar-Jharkhand Special
Ayushman Bharat turned eight on 23 September 2026, and the figure the Health Ministry put on the board was 60 crore people covered. The same day in Nagoya, Mirabai Chanu lifted 198 kg and ended India's 28-year wait for an Asian Games weightlifting medal. Two facts, two different question papers.
Here are the 20 items from the last 24 hours that actually surface in SSC, Railway, Banking, BPSC, BSSC, JSSC and TET papers. Each one carries an exam tag. The tables cover people and posts, sports winners, index ranks and the days just ahead. The 15-question quiz built on these same facts sits on ExamAtlas as a separate practice set, pitched a notch above the real paper.
National
- 1. Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY completed eight years on 23 September 2026, with over 60 crore beneficiaries covered, more than 48.54 crore Ayushman cards issued and roughly 13 crore cashless hospital treatments availed. Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda marked the day under the campaign line "Sankalp for Seva". Exam tag: All exams
- 2. PM-JAY gives ₹5 lakh of annual hospitalisation cover per family, runs across all 36 States and Union Territories with about 38,000 empanelled hospitals, and government spending on it has crossed ₹2 lakh crore. It was launched from Ranchi, Jharkhand in September 2018. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / BPSC / JSSC
- 3. The Delhi Cabinet cleared the DURGA scheme, short for Driving Upliftment and Rozgar for Women/Transgender Green e-Auto, allotting 1,300 pink electric autos in the first phase: 1,170 for women and 130 for transgender beneficiaries. Chief Minister Rekha Gupta announced it as a self-employment push. Exam tag: SSC / Banking / All exams
- 4. Shastri Bhawan and Krishi Bhawan in Lutyens' Delhi will be demolished to make way for Kartavya Bhawan 4 and 5 under the Common Central Secretariat plan, with CPWD setting 30 September 2026 as the vacation deadline. Ten Common Central Secretariat buildings are planned in all; Udyog Bhawan and Nirman Bhawan came down earlier in 2026. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams
International
- 5. The general debate of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly is running in New York from 22 to 28 September 2026 on the theme "Restoring trust, managing transformation: A United Nations that delivers for all". Exam tag: All exams
- 6. Dr. Khalilur Rahman of Bangladesh is presiding over the 81st UNGA session, having been elected in June 2026. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar leads the Indian delegation and addresses the general debate on 26 September. Exam tag: Banking / BPSC / All exams
- 7. India held its 131st position among 145 countries in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index 2026, released on 16 September 2026, with a parity score of 64.5% against the global average of 69.2%. Iceland topped the list for the seventeenth year running with 93% of its gap closed, and Chad finished last. Exam tag: SSC / Banking / BPSC
Index Table: Where India Stands
Economy & Banking
- 8. The Union Cabinet approved raising the EPFO wage ceiling for mandatory coverage from ₹15,000 to ₹25,000 a month, the first revision since 2014. Banking aspirants should link this to the EPF Act, 1952 and to the ₹15,000 figure that older question banks still carry. Exam tag: Banking / SSC / Railway
- 9. The government has cleared field trials for polymer banknotes, one billion pieces each in the ₹10 and ₹20 denominations. Polymer notes last longer than cotton-paper notes and are harder to counterfeit, which is the angle a question will test. Exam tag: Banking / SSC / BSSC
- 10. The RBI has proposed restarting Urban Cooperative Bank licensing after a gap of 22 years, with entry conditions including ₹10,000 crore in deposits, ₹300 crore net worth, a 12% CRAR and gross NPA below 3%. Governor Sanjay Malhotra also reported bank credit growth of about 18% year on year through June 2026. Exam tag: Banking / All exams
Sports
- 11. India's women's cricket team won the country's first gold of the 2026 Asian Games, beating Sri Lanka by 147 runs in the final at Nisshin on 22 September. India posted 216 for 3 and Sri Lanka were bowled out for 69; captain Harmanpreet Kaur led the side and Deepti Sharma took three wickets. Exam tag: All exams
- 12. Mirabai Chanu took silver in the women's 49 kg weightlifting with a total of 198 kg on 23 September, India's first Asian Games weightlifting medal in 28 years. North Korea's Ri Song-gum won gold. The Games run at Aichi-Nagoya, Japan from 19 September to 4 October 2026, with India sending 496 athletes across 36 sports. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams
Sports Table: Event and Winner
Awards
- 13. President Droupadi Murmu presented the 72nd National Film Awards on 22 September 2026 at Ekta Nagar, Kevadia (Gujarat), the first time the ceremony was held outside New Delhi. Veteran Kannada actor Anant Nag received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Article 370 won Best Feature Film with Yami Gautam as Best Actress, and the Best Actor honour was shared by Mammootty (Bramayugam) and Kartik Aaryan (Chandu Champion). Rajkumar Periasamy won Best Director for Amaran. Exam tag: All exams
- 14. The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist of six novels was announced on 22 September, with Mary Beard chairing the judges. The winner, to be named on 9 November 2026, takes £50,000 while each of the other five shortlisted authors receives £2,500. Shortlisted: M. John Harrison, Marlon James, Luke Kennard, Rebecca Perry, Elizabeth Strout and Douglas Stuart. Exam tag: Banking / SSC / BPSC
People in the News: Person and Post
Science & Defence
- 15. The 22nd edition of Exercise Yudh Abhyas, the annual India-United States army exercise, began on 15 September 2026 in a first-ever two-theatre format at Auli in Uttarakhand and the Mahajan Field Firing Ranges in Rajasthan, with about 600 troops. India's AH-64E Apache attack helicopters joined the drills, which focus on Integrated Battle Groups, drones and multi-domain operations. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / Banking / All exams
- 16. The European Space Agency and ISRO have amended their cooperative agreement, extending it to January 2032 and adding space weather, human and robotic exploration and orbital sustainability. It opens the door for European astronauts to visit the Bharatiya Antariksh Station, planned as a 52-tonne station at 400 to 450 km altitude, with the first module targeted for 2028 and full operations by 2035. ESA is headed by Josef Aschbacher and ISRO by Dr. V. Narayanan. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / BPSC
Bihar-Jharkhand Special
This is the section that separates a Bihar or Jharkhand aspirant from a candidate who only reads national news. BPSC, BSSC, Bihar Police, JSSC, JPSC and the TET papers all lift state questions from exactly this kind of item.
- 17. Bihar's Revenue and Land Reforms Department has opened four-day panchayat-level camps under Abhiyan Basera 2 from 22 September 2026, giving each eligible landless family 3 decimals of homestead land. About 30,000 families are targeted in this phase, on top of 93,916 beneficiaries already settled, and applications are also open on the Bihar Bhumi portal. Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary announced it on 21 September. Exam tag: BPSC / BSSC / Bihar Police / BTET
- 18. Jharkhand has cleared a ₹1,795 crore urban infrastructure package for Ranchi through the Jharkhand Urban Infrastructure Development Corporation (JUDCO), reported on 23 September 2026. The biggest pieces are the Sainik Market Mall redevelopment at ₹630.53 crore, an interstate bus terminal at Dubaliya at ₹400.42 crore and a state corporate office building in Dhurwa at ₹440 crore. Exam tag: JSSC / JPSC / JTET
- 19. The Jharkhand Teacher Eligibility Test (JTET) proposed for 11 October 2026 has reportedly been deferred, affecting roughly 4.4 lakh registered candidates; the Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) conducts the test and a fresh date is awaited. (verify) Treat the new date as unconfirmed until JAC puts out a notice. Exam tag: JTET / JSSC
- 20. Three new judges took oath at the Jharkhand High Court, which sits at Ranchi. For the state papers, remember that Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar on 15 November 2000 and its High Court was set up the same year. Exam tag: JPSC / JSSC / Jharkhand Police
Important Days
- 21. World Maritime Day falls on 24 September 2026, the last Thursday of September, on the IMO theme "From Policy to Practice: Powering Maritime Excellence" for 2026-27. The International Maritime Organization is headquartered in London and led by Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / Banking / All exams
Important Days Table: Day and Focus
One Honest Caveat Before You Revise This
Two items here are softer than the rest. The JTET deferral is newspaper-sourced and JAC had not published a fresh date at the time of writing, so treat the date as open. The World Tourism Day 2026 theme is also trade-press sourced, so cross-check it against the UN Tourism page before you memorise the exact wording.
Everything else on this page traces to an official release or a first-party source: PIB and Akashvani for Ayushman Bharat and the National Film Awards, the UN for the UNGA presidency, the IMO for World Maritime Day, and match reports for the Asian Games results. If you are preparing for BPSC, BSSC or JSSC, revise facts 17 to 20 twice. State sections carry fewer candidates who know them, which is exactly where you gain marks.
ExamAtlas runs a free daily current-affairs quiz with topic-wise accuracy tracking, so you can see which of these eight sections you keep dropping marks in.
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