Banking GK Questions 2026

It was launched during the inaugural and technical sessions on the first day of the forum.

The Delhi Declaration on Local Action for Global Climate Goals 2026 is the outcome document of the forum, and it will be adopted on 28 October 2026 before being carried to the climate conference at Antalya.

The two-day forum opened there on 27 October 2026 and is organised by ICLEI South Asia with the National Institute of Urban Affairs, with support from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

The programme had four Rugby Sevens matches in all, and two of them were mixed-team fixtures in which national players from India and New Zealand played alongside one another as teammates rather than as opponents.

The series at Rajgir formed part of this initiative, which marks a century of sporting ties between India and New Zealand and uses sport to strengthen cultural and diplomatic links between the two countries.

The series was played there under the 100 Years of Unity through Sport initiative, which marks a century of sporting ties between India and New Zealand, and the closing day was attended by the Chief Minister of Bihar and the Union Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports.

The agreement provides for an exchange of expertise in digitisation and preservation technologies, cataloguing standards, optical character recognition and handwritten text recognition tools for Indian scripts, digital humanities and manuscript conservation.

He signed and exchanged the Memorandum of Understanding in Paris on 26 October 2026 with Gilles Pecout, President of the Bibliotheque nationale de France.

The agreement between the Ministry of Culture and the Bibliotheque nationale de France was signed in Paris on 26 October 2026 under this mission, which is the Ministry's flagship initiative for India's manuscript heritage.

Speaking about advances in nuclear medicine, the Minister referred to provisions in this recently enacted law that allow private players into nuclear medicine research, and said such steps can create openings for further research and for industry involvement in the sector.

The Minister said that relying on suppliers abroad for specialised research inputs creates difficulties for Indian scientists in terms of time, access and the continuity of their work, and that building this capability within the country would let researchers work more efficiently while strengthening the biotechnology ecosystem as a whole.

The Minister was addressing a session on System and Synthetic Biology at that conclave, which brings scientists, policy makers, industry leaders, startups and young researchers together to tie research and technological innovation more closely to national development.

It has been added in this edition to build a habit of innovation among school and college students, and it is open to students across all 36 States and Union Territories, with a total prize pool of Rs 25 lakh spread over four sub-categories.

The twenty sectoral categories span fields from agriculture and food systems to deep technology, clean energy, financial services, healthcare, logistics and tourism, while the three special categories are Women-Led Startups, startups from the North-Eastern Region, and the newly added Student Innovator or Aspiring Entrepreneur Award.

The awards sit under that initiative and were first held in 2019, since when they have grown into its flagship recognition for young ventures.

The amendment creating the pass has been issued as the National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) (Fifth Amendment) Rules, 2026, framed under powers that this Act confers on the Central Government, and the fee rules that govern tolling on national highways flow from the same source.

The charge is set by where the plaza stands: a plaza outside a municipal or local town area costs that much for a year, while a plaza inside those limits costs twice as much.

The pass is offered to owners of non-commercial vehicles whose residence lies within a 20 km range of the fee plaza they use, and who hold a valid and working FASTag.

Mobile Number Portability lets a subscriber shift to another operator while keeping the same number, and that many requests were filed with service providers during the month.

The correct answer is urban 155.85 per cent and rural 61.30 per cent, the total tele-density figures counting both wireless and wireline connections.