Defence Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 2–8 November 2026

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.

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.

Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh reviewed the operational preparedness of the Trishakti Corps at Sukna, where he was briefed on infrastructure development along the Line of Actual Control and on the deployment of advanced military equipment and emerging technologies.

The school hosted the All India Sainik Schools National Games 2026, held from 3 to 7 November 2026, and its closing ceremony was attended by Raksha Rajya Mantri Sanjay Seth as chief guest, who gave away the medals and trophies.

The Trishakti Corps is the designation of the Army's thirty-third Corps, and its soldiers are deployed in the forward areas of Sikkim, where the Raksha Mantri celebrated Deepawali with them.

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.

This is the fishing vessel that an armed pirate group seized off the north-eastern coast of Somalia and that the Indian Navy later took back, with every one of the 20 people on board brought off safely and without a single casualty or injury.

Tiger Triumph is the India-United States bilateral tri-service exercise devoted to Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief, and the opening ceremony of its 5th edition was held at the Maritime Warfare Centre in Visakhapatnam.

The Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Defence met there on the subject of Modernisation of Indian Defence Forces, with Members of Parliament from both the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha taking part, and the deliberations covered emerging security challenges, changing warfare paradigms and the building of a technologically…

Aditya-L1, India's first space-based solar observatory, carries seven payloads, and VELC is described as the primary one.

The ship took part in the bilateral exercise between the Indian Navy and the Republic of Korea Navy at the Korean port of Busan and completed her participation on 29 October 2026, after which the Ministry of Defence said the engagement had strengthened maritime cooperation and improved interoperability between the…

The Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue is described as the Navy's annual apex-level international strategic dialogue, and this edition opened in New Delhi for a three-day run, organised in association with the National Maritime Foundation, which serves as the Navy's knowledge partner.

It organised the two-day third edition of the Delhi Defence Dialogue in New Delhi, where the Defence Minister delivered the address, and its Director General, Ambassador Sujan R Chinoy, gave the welcome remarks.

The ninth High-Level Meeting between the two coast guards was held at Mirissa in Sri Lanka, which means the host of this round was the Sri Lankan service.

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.

Rajnath Singh, as Defence Minister, gave the commemorative address at the dialogue in New Delhi and used it to argue that dependence among nations at sea should be made safer rather than abandoned, through diversified supply chains, dependable maritime infrastructure, better awareness of activity at sea and wider regional cooperation.

The camp run by the Armed Forces Medical Services at Rairangpur treated more than four thousand patients in all and carried out this many eye surgeries that restored sight, with every service given free of charge.

The first edition of the India-Canada Defence Dialogue was conducted through video conference on that day, and the Ministry of Defence placed the outcome on record the following day.

The ship is an indigenously built guided missile stealth frigate belonging to the Eastern Fleet of the Indian Navy, and it berthed at Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan on 4 November 2026 for the multilateral naval exercise MALABAR 2026.

INS Tarkash completed its call at that port on 3 November 2026.

DRDO fired the missile from that island at about 1110 hrs, and the range instruments that confirmed the result were deployed by the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, which is also in Odisha.

This was the unifying theme of IPRD-2026, the Indian Navy's annual apex-level international strategic dialogue, which was examined through five professional thematic sessions together with senior-level interactions meant to find practical routes to regional maritime cooperation.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah presented the President's Colour to the Uttarakhand Police at an investiture ceremony in Dehradun on 6 November 2026, and said the force had become the 16th in the country to receive this highest honour.

When Dr Jitendra Singh launched the Nationwide Digital Life Certificate Campaign 5 in New Delhi on 6 November 2026, he said nearly 40 lakh DLCs had been generated in its first five days.

The ministry ran the campaign through Mera Yuva Bharat (MY Bharat), its platform for young people, from 26 October to 5 November 2026, and held 536 Yuva Samvads in 31 States and Union Territories.

The first BIMSTEC Maritime Security Exercise was held from 30 October to 3 November 2026 under the Andaman and Nicobar Command and concluded at Sri Vijaya Puram on 3 November.

India and Myanmar commenced their maiden bilateral tri-services Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief exercise, named 'Rahat Mitra', at Chennai on 5 November 2026, with the drill running to 6 November.

Tiger Triumph is a bilateral tri-service Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief exercise between India and the US.