IBPS GK Questions 2026

The second phase of the land sale run by the National Land Monetization Corporation closed at Visakhapatnam on 3 November 2026, and the 114 parcels that found buyers brought in bids worth Rs 218 crore in all.

A business delegation of that many Indian companies travelled with Jitin Prasada, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry and for Electronics and Information Technology, on his two-day programme in Poland.

He asked companies from both countries to use the coming India-European Union Free Trade Agreement to widen market access and deepen investment ties.

The two visits together show how quickly senior exchanges are now following one another between the two countries.

The India-Poland Strategic Partnership was set up in that year, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his landmark visit to Poland, and the ministerial travel of November 2026 was described as carrying that partnership forward.

The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority works under this ministry and supports exporters, farmers and farmer producer organisations in reaching overseas buyers, which is exactly what it did for the kiwi from Ziro and the pomegranates from Kullu.

The export let participating farmers earn half again as much as the price prevailing in the home market, a gain credited to direct procurement from growers and to collective participation through the Bhuntar farmer producer organisation, which brings together about 600 farmers.

APEDA facilitated the export of 1.3 metric tonnes of the Sinduri variety from Kullu district to Dubai, packed in 650 boxes of 2 kg each and shipped by Amama Exports, a firm based in Uttar Pradesh.

APEDA facilitated a trial export of 1.5 metric tonnes of kiwi from Ziro in Arunachal Pradesh to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, and the consignment was displayed at LuLu Hypermarket, Al Qusais.

It was an invitation-only forum curated in partnership with BloombergNEF, and its first leg was held on the second day of the summit.

The summit brought together representatives of over 130 countries, among them more than 40 ministers, along with policymakers, investors, financial institutions and industry leaders.

The high-level dialogue called The Next Terawatt was convened by the International Solar Alliance together with these two, and it was joined by the Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy, the Union Minister of Power and Housing and Urban Affairs, and the Minister of State for New and Renewable…

On the second day of the Bharat Renewable Energy Summit and Expo 2026, the state saw the signing of 18 memoranda of understanding representing a proposed investment of about Rs 1.17 lakh crore, in the presence of Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi and Deputy Chief Minister Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo.

The IndiaAI Mission was cleared by the Union Cabinet on that date, guided by the vision of making AI in India and making AI work for India, and it aims to address problems specific to the country, create economic and employment opportunities, and place India among the leaders in artificial…

Soket Labs and ZenteiQ are among the teams picked under this pillar to build indigenous foundation capabilities and large language models, and the mission supported them with subsidised national AI compute together with help for allied research costs.

ZenteiQ introduced the open-source Dhir 2B and Dhir 5B models, which can be deployed as secure, on-premise multilingual assistants supporting English and 10 Indian languages.

EKA-1, built by Soket Labs Technology and Research Private Limited, is a foundation model of 26.3 billion parameters trained on roughly 7.5 trillion tokens.

Addressing the symposium on critical minerals and rare earths, the NITI Aayog Member highlighted the scope for recovering critical minerals from secondary resources, naming coal fly ash, red mud, mine tailings and electronic waste.

The collaboration is stated to align with that mission's objectives and with the vision of an Aatmanirbhar and Viksit Bharat, as it seeks to advance indigenous technological capability and build resilient and sustainable value chains for critical minerals.

TEXMiN is the Technology Translation Research Park at that institute and is an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology; the Joint Statement of Intent with NITI Aayog was signed during a visit by a Member of NITI Aayog to the campus.