Banking Current Affairs Quiz: 12 November 2026

The backgrounder states that the One Nation One Ration Card scheme was begun in 2019 by the Department of Food and Public Distribution as a major reform of the Public Distribution System, giving nationwide portability to ration cards and to the beneficiaries covered under the National Food Security Act.

The exposition opened there on 31 October 2026 and closed on 7 November 2026, and during that stretch more than 31,000 devotees from Tawang and the neighbouring areas came to pay their respects to the relics.

That is the financial support the Technology Development Board, which works under the Department of Science and Technology, has agreed to give Astrome Technologies Private Limited of Bengaluru from the Research, Development and Innovation Fund, and it is being given as Optionally Convertible Debt.

National Academy of Sciences, which led the Science20 engagement process in 2026 and under whose leadership the Joint S20 Statement was released on 10 November 2026.

The International Film Festival of India is being held in Goa from 20 to 28 November 2026, and the WaveX Startup Pavilion at WAVES Bazaar is organised alongside it, with its own showcase window from 20 to 24 November 2026.

The note says ONORC has been put in place across all 36 States and Union Territories, bringing every beneficiary of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana within its reach.

After the exposition at Bomdila closes, the relics are to proceed there and will be open for public veneration from 14 to 20 November 2026.

The project plans microsatellites of this weight class, to be placed in low Earth orbit and added to the group in stages, so that coverage and the frequency of revisits over a chosen area both grow as more satellites go up.

The statement was drawn up through consultations among the science academies of the G20 countries and is intended to inform the discussions inside member governments.

WaveX is its flagship startup accelerator, set up to encourage innovation, entrepreneurship and technological progress across India's media and entertainment sector and the AVGC-XR ecosystem, and it is this ministry that issued the reminder about the closing of registration.

The backgrounder records that the Mera Ration mobile application, brought out by the Department of Food and Public Distribution as part of the technology-driven reforms under ONORC, is offered in 13 languages.

The exposition is being organised by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of India in collaboration with the National Museum in New Delhi, the Government of Arunachal Pradesh and the International Buddhist Confederation, New Delhi.

The Technology Development Board is giving the money through this fund, and the instrument chosen is debt that may later be converted into equity, which lets the Board support a deep technology firm without taking a shareholding at the outset.

The statement says the opposite: technology should add to human expertise rather than take its place, and advanced tools must come with oversight, local validation, transparency, accountability and clear communication of risk.

These are the allied technology fields named in the ministry's invitation to startups for the WaveX Startup Pavilion at WAVES Bazaar, held along with the film festival in Goa.

The note explains that under the SARTHAK-PDS umbrella scheme, SAKSHAM takes charge of real-time data integration, including the Vehicle Location Tracking System, across the stretch from procurement to distribution.