Banking GK Questions 2026

The States and Union Territories putting their renewable energy strengths, investment openings and manufacturing capability on display are Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

Three gatherings share the same dates and venue: Bharat RE 2026 itself, the 9th Session of the International Solar Alliance Assembly, and the 4th International Conference on Green Hydrogen.

Innovate. Inspire.' This is the theme of the four-day meeting to be held from 2 to 5 November 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, which the Prime Minister will inaugurate on 2 November.

Moving coal out of the pithead matters as much as digging it, and rail is the main carrier, so the company reports how many rakes are loaded each day for power stations.

That is the quantity of coal the company has been asked to mine in 2026-27.

The miner marked its 51st Foundation Day on 1 November 2026, which places its establishment exactly fifty-one years earlier, and it has now stepped into its 52nd year of service.

In October 2026 Coal India mined more coal in a month than ever before, and the figure stood at 67.2 MT.

As National Mission Head-II, Ganvir planned and monitored multidisciplinary field programmes and nationwide mineral exploration, and the Ministry credits that period with the handover of 359 Geological Reports and 377 Geological Memorandums, along with a five-fold jump in investigations for critical and strategic minerals.

Ganvir joined the Geological Survey of India on 1 July 1994, after completing his postgraduate degree in geology from RTMNU University in Nagpur, and his service of more than 32 years follows from that date.

The Geological Survey of India is described as an attached office of the Ministry of Mines, Government of India, and it is in that ministry’s mandate that the new Director General placed his priorities: integrated geoscientific investigation, advanced mineral prospectivity mapping and the generation of auction-ready mineral blocks.

He has assumed charge as the 55th Director General of the Geological Survey of India, which works as an attached office of the Ministry of Mines, bringing more than three decades of experience in geological investigation, mineral exploration, engineering geology and institutional leadership.

Mansukh Mandaviya, who holds the Labour and Employment portfolio along with Youth Affairs and Sports, presided over the Foundation Day function in his capacity as Chairman of the Central Board of Trustees of the EPF.

The Foundation Day function showcased the effect of the technological overhaul carried out through the CITES 2.01 platform, and the sharpest measure of it was the fall in the average time taken to settle a claim, which stood at 2.57 days in October 2026.

Under the scheme launched on the Foundation Day, subscribers holding Aadhaar-verified inoperative EPF accounts with balances up to one thousand rupees need not file an individual claim at all; EPFO will begin settlement on its own after the prescribed identity and bank-account verification and transfer the dues to the rightful…

EPFO observed its 74th Foundation Day at the Dr. Ambedkar International Centre in New Delhi, marking a journey of seventy-four years from a statutory provident fund body, founded on a commitment of 1952, to one of the leading social security institutions in the country.

During the programme at Talkatora Stadium the Vice-President felicitated the medal winners of the World Transplant Games 2025, which were held at Dresden in Germany, and he also released the Zindagi Dobara calendar.

The Games were put together by the Renal Care Foundation, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and NOTTO, which functions under the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and the Vice-President congratulated all three for the initiative.

At the Games a record attempt was made in which 570 transplant recipients and organ donors held the Tadasana posture at the same time, and the World Book of Records, New Delhi, gave the organisers a certificate for the largest gathering of transplant recipients and donors doing that posture.

The Vice-President of India, Shri C. P. Radhakrishnan, opened the National Organ Transplant Games 2026 at Talkatora Stadium in the capital, where transplant recipients, living donors and the families of donors who had died came together.

He is the minister visiting the Gangtok and Mangan districts of Sikkim on 2 and 3 November 2026 to review fisheries development, launch the Standard Operating Procedure for organic fish farming, inaugurate projects worth Rs 375 lakh under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana and meet fish farmers.