SSC CGL Current Affairs Quiz: 1 November 2026

The navigation satellite NVS-03 rode to orbit on the GSLV-F18 vehicle, which lifted off from Sriharikota on 30 October 2026 at 23:51 hours, and the rocket placed the spacecraft in a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit as intended.

Total coal imports came down from 111.05 million tonnes in August 2025 to 104.57 million tonnes in August 2026, a reduction of 6.48 million tonnes, which works out to a fall of 5.83 per cent.

Indian Naval Ship Trishul is the vessel that arrived at Souda Bay in Greece on 31 October 2026, in the course of a deployment that was already under way in the Mediterranean Sea.

The Star Rating Awards Ceremony for coal and lignite mines is being held at Raipur in Chhattisgarh on 2 November 2026, and the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, Vishnu Deo Sai, is the Special Guest at the function, which fits the choice of the state capital as the venue.

All three states, Haryana, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, mark their State Foundation Day on this date, and in 2026 the Prime Minister sent a separate message of greeting to the people of each of them on the day.

Projects of this value are to be inaugurated under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana during the visit of the Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying to the Gangtok and Mangan districts of Sikkim on 2 and 3 November 2026.

The Vice-President of India, Shri C. P. Radhakrishnan, opened the National Organ Transplant Games 2026 at Talkatora Stadium in the capital, where transplant recipients, living donors and the families of donors who had died came together.

The honour was conferred on the force on 1 November 2026, the day Chandigarh marks its foundation day, at a ceremony held for the Diamond Jubilee of the force.

EPFO observed its 74th Foundation Day at the Dr. Ambedkar International Centre in New Delhi, marking a journey of seventy-four years from a statutory provident fund body, founded on a commitment of 1952, to one of the leading social security institutions in the country.

He has assumed charge as the 55th Director General of the Geological Survey of India, which works as an attached office of the Ministry of Mines, bringing more than three decades of experience in geological investigation, mineral exploration, engineering geology and institutional leadership.

In October 2026 Coal India mined more coal in a month than ever before, and the figure stood at 67.2 MT.

Innovate. Inspire.' This is the theme of the four-day meeting to be held from 2 to 5 November 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, which the Prime Minister will inaugurate on 2 November.

The airports taking part are Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Cochin, Mumbai, Chennai and Amritsar, and the trials there run from November to December 2026.

The stupas stand along an 11.7 kilometre stretch beside the Aie river, which is also called the Mau.

Hirak Jayanti means diamond jubilee, and a diamond jubilee marks sixty years, which is the clue a candidate can use even without recalling the news.

The correct answer is Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Keralam, where the Lok Sabha Speaker will inaugurate the conference on Tuesday, 3 November 2026.

He took over as the 29th Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force on 1 November 2026, marking the start of his tenure with a wreath-laying at the National War Memorial and a ceremonial Guard of Honour at Air Force Station New Delhi.

The Union Railway Minister flagged off the service between SMVT Bengaluru and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in Mumbai, joining the country's hub of information technology and startups with its financial and commercial capital.

He took over the Eastern Air Command of the Indian Air Force as its Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, moving from the appointment of Senior Air Staff Officer at the headquarters of South Western Air Command.

The Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation inaugurated some projects of the Chandigarh Administration and laid the foundation stones of others, and the combined value of the works was given as two hundred and fifty eight crore rupees.

The President attended the observance of the hundredth year of his martyrdom at Gurukul in Kurukshetra, Haryana, and paid tribute to him.

The park, which comes under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, observed its sixty-seventh Foundation Day with a doodle activity for visitors that about one thousand five hundred people joined or admired, aimed in particular at children and families.

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari performed the bhoomipujan there, and the park is being developed over 150 acres of land close to the Sindi Railway railway station.

The Khadi and Village Industries Commission held the fest under this theme at NDMC Palika Park, Connaught Place, New Delhi, opposite Regal Cinema, and KVIC Chairman Manoj Goel inaugurated it as chief guest.

The second-generation series of navigation satellites runs from NVS-01 to NVS-05, and NVS-03 is the third of those five spacecraft to be launched.