Current Affairs Quiz: 4 November 2026

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 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.

This was the quantity of goods moved by the network during October 2026, and it stands as the heaviest loading ever recorded for the month of October.

DAKSHIN, the Global South Centre of Excellence, is housed at RIS, and it was in that capacity that it signed the Letter of Association with CSIR on 3 November 2026.

Dhanteras is observed in that form as well, and the day recalls the appearance of Lord Dhanvantari during the Samudra Manthan, the churning of the ocean, when he emerged bearing the Amrit Kalash.

Schedule M sits inside the Drugs Rules, 1945, and it is this schedule that the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has proposed to amend.

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, approved the Capex Support Scheme to Promote Critical Mineral Processing with exactly this outlay, spread across five years from FY 2026-27 to FY 2030-31.

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, cleared this central sector scheme of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation for the period FY 2026-27 to FY 2030-31 with an outlay of Rs 4,371.10 crore.

The Union Cabinet cleared the Viability Gap Funding Scheme for Development of Grid-Scale Energy Storage Systems with this amount of support for the period FY 2026-27 to FY 2030-31.

The Union Cabinet approved the continuation of the Centrally Sponsored Scheme for Fast Track Special Courts, exclusive POCSO courts included, for a further five years with this total outlay.

As was envisaged when the Agnipath Scheme began, a quarter of the Agniveers are offered regular employment in the Defence Forces on merit, and the Cabinet decision reaffirms that share.

TRAI launched the Network Anubhav Platform as a geospatial and analytical dashboard that brings together test data sent in by users through its MySpeed and MyCall apps and the results of its own independent drive tests, and that also opens a web interface for Do Not Disturb services.

The new code, notified under the Bharatiya Vayuyan Adhiniyam, 2024, takes over from the Aircraft Rules, 1937, which served as the principal rulebook for Indian civil aviation for close to nine decades, and it also replaces Part IX of the Aircraft Rules, 1920.

That is the growth in gross value added recorded by the manufacturing corporate sector, which holds a share of more than 89 per cent in total GVA.

This was the first National SARAS Mela ever held outside Delhi-NCR, organised by the Ministry of Rural Development along with the Government of Andhra Pradesh and supported by NIRDPR and Kudumbashree.

Its team, led by Dr Abhishek Kumar of the Meta Optics Laboratory, used topological photonics to show terahertz waves crossing a deliberately engineered barrier while carrying data at 100 Gbit/s, with the work published in the journal Advanced Materials.

The two-day conference of the chairpersons of the Public Accounts Committees of Parliament and of the state and union territory legislatures was held in the capital of Keralam and ended on 4 November 2026 with the adoption of the Keralam Resolution.

The agreement was signed on 3 November 2026 under the Nationally Determined Contribution-Transport Initiative for Asia, Phase II, to speed up the decarbonisation of road freight in India, and the initiative itself is supported by the International Climate Initiative of the German Government.

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

NLMC is a wholly government-owned company under that department, and its mandate is to spot, assess, ready and place in the market the surplus land and buildings held by central public sector enterprises and other government bodies.

The correct answer is food grains, whose loading rose by 26.3 per cent over October 2025, the steepest gain among all the commodities listed for the month.

That is what DAKSHIN is, and it sits at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries, working to spread knowledge and mutual learning among developing countries.

It was in that capacity that he appealed to citizens to make health and disease prevention part of their Dhanteras observance.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said that the revised limits for microbial contamination in Grade A clean areas are being drawn from the World Health Organization Technical Report Series No. 1044, and specifically from its Annexure 2, which carries Good Manufacturing Practices for sterile pharmaceutical products.

The scheme funds four critical mineral processing plants in all. Two of them process nickel and each must have a minimum capacity of 50 kt, while the other two process lithium and each must have a minimum capacity of 30 kt.