NDA Current Affairs Quiz: 2 November 2026

The order for eight Next Generation Corvettes has been shared between two government-owned shipyards, and GRSE takes the larger share of five ships.

The Indian Air Force Educational and Cultural Society, working under Air Headquarters, placed 42 Air Force Schools on ScrollControl, a child digital safety programme run through the Information Sharing and Analysis Center Foundation.

Archival and recent observations of the source were drawn from the Chandra, XMM-Newton and Swift space-based X-ray telescopes covering the years 2000 to 2024, which makes it one of the longest X-ray studies of this object carried out so far.

The sail training ship returned to Kochi on 2 November 2026 after a ten-month transoceanic expedition named Lokayan 26, during which it covered more than 22,000 nautical miles and called at 17 ports in 11 countries spread across Asia, Europe, Africa and North America.

The distinguishing feature of this programme is that the design work for the corvettes has been done within the Indian Navy itself, while the construction has gone to defence public sector undertakings that were picked through competition rather than simply nominated.

The teachers who finished the certification course under ScrollControl carry that designation, and it allows them to work as first responders when a cyber incident touches a pupil.

It is often used as a benchmark for how bright an accreting object can be, since beyond it the outward push of radiation would overwhelm the inward pull of gravity.

The voyage took INS Sudarshini to ports in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America, and it included two crossings of the Atlantic Ocean.

The two contracts for the eight corvettes were inked at Kartavya Bhawan-2 in New Delhi, and the Defence Secretary, Rajesh Kumar Singh, was present on the occasion.

CBSE has told the schools affiliated to it to take up cyber safety practices by keeping Cyber Jagrookta Diwas once every month, and the ScrollControl rollout lets Air Force Schools meet that direction with teachers trained in house.

The paper was authored by Tarang Vashisht, a student at IISER Mohali, together with Aru Beri of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and researchers from IUCAA and the Raman Research Institute.

The expedition of INS Sudarshini was presented as an expression of this vision, together with the civilisational idea of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, meaning that the world is one family.

It is the body through which the Indian Air Force Educational and Cultural Society delivers ScrollControl to the schools, and it also arranges the training and certification of teachers, their entry on the National Security Database and help for victims at any hour through cyber lawyers, cyber psychologists and forensic…

The announcement describes it as India's proposed next-generation timing and spectroscopy mission, which together with other future observatories will bring improved sensitivity and monitoring capability for studying ultraluminous X-ray sources.