IBPS Current Affairs Quiz: 15 November 2026

The India-Egypt Joint Trade Committee met for its seventh session in Cairo on 15 November 2026, co-chaired by Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal and Egypt's Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade, Dr. Mohamed Farid Saleh.

A Lakhpati Didi is a woman of a rural self-help group whose household earns at least that much in a year, and the test is applied to the family's total earnings rather than to what she alone brings in.

It was set up as an autonomous agency under the Department of Space after the Cabinet cleared space reforms on 24 June 2020, and it is the single point at which private firms obtain regulatory clearances.

It is launching the series of five National Workshops from 17 November 2026 so that the lessons of twenty-five years of public leadership become part of the country's shared knowledge, and its Chief Executive Officer Anurag Jain and Vice Chairman Ashok Kumar Lahiri open the first session.

This is the theme around which NCCDFI 2026 has been built, and the conference is being held on 16 and 17 November 2026 at the Dr Ambedkar International Centre in New Delhi by the National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology, which works under the Ministry of Electronics and Information…

The Heliopolis War Cemetery in Cairo holds or commemorates 4,000 soldiers in all, and 3,727 of them are Indian, which is why option D names the total rather than the Indian count.

The Lakhpati Didi drive was built on top of this mission rather than given a separate structure of its own, because DAY-NRLM already organises women of poor rural households into self-help groups and links them to savings, banks, credit, training and markets.

On that date the Union Cabinet approved reforms that let Non-Government Entities work across the entire space value chain rather than merely supply components and services, and the same approval established IN-SPACe as an autonomous agency under the Department of Space.

That is the theme of the opening workshop, held at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on 17 November 2026, and it looks at leadership through the specific decisions in which it becomes visible and how those decisions turn into outcomes for citizens.

It organised the first edition through NIELIT Kohima in 2024 and is now holding the third edition in New Delhi, and the memoranda of understanding at the conference are to be signed between NIELIT and its industry partners.

He co-chaired the seventh session of the Joint Trade Committee in Cairo on 15 November 2026 with Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal, which fits the pattern of such committees being led by the trade ministers of the two sides.

The goal has been revised more than once. When the drive was announced on 15 August 2023 the aim was two crore women from self-help group households; the Interim Budget of February 2024 raised it to three crore; that three-crore mark was met ahead of time by December 2025; and…

The Union Cabinet approved the amended foreign investment rules for the space sector on 21 February 2024 and they took effect on 16 April 2024.

Cabinet Secretary T. V. Somanathan will close the first workshop and launch it on the iGOT Karmayogi platform, and through this Sankalpa civil servants across the country will commit to a specific change in their own leadership practice.

The conference began there in 2024 at the Capital Convention Centre, organised by NIELIT Kohima along with the Nagaland Police and the state's Department of Information Technology and Communication, which makes the North East the birthplace of this platform.

Addressing the Indian community in Cairo, the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry said trade at this level is only the beginning of the partnership between two ancient civilisations, which is the sense in which the figure was quoted.

The assessment was described as an independent one, covered 6,531 respondents across 17 states and union territories, and reported that average monthly household income in Lakhpati Didi homes was higher by 61 percent while average monthly savings were higher by 61.7 percent.

Its small satellite launch vehicle Vikram-I reached orbit on its first flight on 18 July 2026 in a mission named Aagaman, the first time an Indian private company carried out an orbital launch of a rocket from Indian soil.

He took charge as Chief Minister of Gujarat on that day, served more than twelve years in the office, and then became Prime Minister of India in May 2014, where he is serving a third successive term.

Cyber Kushti 2026 is a cybersecurity and artificial intelligence hackathon held alongside the technical sessions of the conference, and its three levels are built on those themes, which reflect the main parts of modern cybersecurity work.