Teaching Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 2–8 November 2026

The holy relics of Shakyamuni Buddha were brought from the National Museum in the capital for public veneration in Arunachal Pradesh, and they are scheduled to go back to the same museum once the exposition ends.

The two-day orientation was held there, and it was inaugurated in the auditorium of the same venue.

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.

The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship used this expansion while describing the Guwahati programme, where a dedicated session was held on how the scheme can strengthen the skilling ecosystem of the North-Eastern Region through an industry-led remaking of Industrial Training Institutes.

The National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management sits in that city and is an autonomous organisation working under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, set up to strengthen the agricultural extension system of the country.

The correct answer is Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, where the seventeenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity was held and where Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav released the guidelines at a side event on 3 November 2026.

The Ministry of Women and Child Development launched the Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat campaign on 27 November 2024 with the aim of reducing child marriage and making India child-marriage-free by 2030.

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 relics were ceremonially received at Tawang by the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, and the traditional religious reception at the historic Gaden Namgyal Lhatse, or Tawang Monastery, took place in the presence of the Union Minister of Culture and Tourism, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, along with venerable Buddhist monks…

The programme was organised under this initiative of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, in collaboration with ICMR-NIHR, Bhubaneswar, and it was the first of its kind in the country.

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.

Letters of Intent for two Industrial Training Institute clusters were signed at the Guwahati programme, the Jorhat cluster supported by Numaligarh Refinery Limited and the Tinsukia cluster by Oil India Limited, both under the PM-SETU scheme.

Its Secretary, Smt Debashree Mukherjee, presented the Certificate of Recognition at a ceremony in Kaushal Bhawan at New Delhi, and the recognition is valid for three years.

Applications from Central and State government departments, agencies and institutions, local self-governments and Biodiversity Management Committees go to the NBA, which conducts a preliminary examination.

The PIB backgrounder on two years of Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat cites the National Family Health Survey: in NFHS-6, conducted in 2023-24, 20.1 per cent of women aged 20–24 had been married before they turned 18.

Over its run from 26 October to 5 November 2026, the 'Viksit Bharat Yuva Samvad: Know Your Vote' campaign held 536 Yuva Samvads in 31 States and Union Territories and reached 100,493 young people, with 536 Youth Icons taking part.

Piprahwa is an archaeological site in Uttar Pradesh associated with ancient Kapilavastu and with the Shakya tradition into which Lord Buddha was born, and the relics recovered there are preserved at the National Museum in New Delhi.

The first phase of the orientation drew roughly five hundred and fifty tribal healers, each nominated by the tribal welfare department of their state, and they came from nine States and Union Territories: Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

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 programme was held at Guwahati and the Government of Assam presented its CM FLIGHT Scheme along with its vision for a Global Skill Center, setting out the state's effort to connect its workforce with emerging opportunities.

The institute was set up in that year with the purpose of strengthening the agricultural extension system of the country, and it has since worked on building the capacity of extension functionaries, promoting new approaches in extension and helping entrepreneurship grow in agriculture.

The correct answer is USD 60.79 million, the total financing of the project titled Enhancing the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity to meet India's commitment to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework targets by 2030.

The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 replaced it and changed the legal approach from merely restraining child marriage to prohibiting it, with stronger protection and relief for victims.

The 'Viksit Bharat Yuva Samvad: Know Your Vote' campaign was about electoral awareness and responsible participation in democracy, so its activities included quizzes, question-and-answer sessions, the Loktantrik (democratic) Pledge and registration on the MY Bharat portal.

The relics are being taken to three important centres of Buddhist faith in the state.

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 project aims to add three per cent of India's land and marine area to the country's conservation estate, above the twenty-seven per cent already under protection, doing so through OECMs and other conservation initiatives that include community and private conservation areas.

The backgrounder on Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat says this Union Territory registered the largest reduction in the prevalence of child marriage between NFHS-5 and NFHS-6, a fall of 10.1 percentage points.