UPSC Civil Services 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.

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.

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.

This was the total quantity of coal India imported during August 2026, lower by 6.48 million tonnes than the same month of the previous year.

Souda Bay is the Greek port where Indian Naval Ship Trishul called on 31 October 2026 while deployed in the Mediterranean Sea.

Under the Star Rating Policy for Coal Mines, a mine does not award itself a grade.

Under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana, this many fisheries production and processing clusters have been notified across the country, and among them are organic fisheries clusters in Sikkim and Meghalaya.

At the Games a record attempt was made in which 570 transplant recipients and organ donors held the Tadasana posture at the same time, and the World Book of Records, New Delhi, gave the organisers a certificate for the largest gathering of transplant recipients and donors doing that posture.

At the Chandigarh ceremony the Union Home Minister explained that the President’s Colour is granted to a force in recognition of service beyond fifteen years, with the discipline and the dedication of its personnel taken into account before the honour is given.

Under the scheme launched on the Foundation Day, subscribers holding Aadhaar-verified inoperative EPF accounts with balances up to one thousand rupees need not file an individual claim at all; EPFO will begin settlement on its own after the prescribed identity and bank-account verification and transfer the dues to the rightful…

The Geological Survey of India is described as an attached office of the Ministry of Mines, Government of India, and it is in that ministry’s mandate that the new Director General placed his priorities: integrated geoscientific investigation, advanced mineral prospectivity mapping and the generation of auction-ready mineral blocks.

After the launch vehicle released NVS-03 into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit, the spacecraft began a series of burns meant to lift it into its working geosynchronous position, and the slot assigned to it is 111.75 degrees East.

Imported coal accounted for this share of all the coal India consumed during August 2026, which marks a reduced reliance on foreign supplies for the month.

The establishment at Souda Bay is the NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Centre, usually written as NMIOTC, and the crew of Indian Naval Ship Trishul is to be familiarised with its facilities during the port call, along with those of Naval Support Activity Souda Bay.

The mines to be honoured at the Star Rating Awards Ceremony in Raipur are those that secured the highest star ratings for the assessment year 2024-25, after their performance was assessed and validated by reviewers appointed for the purpose.

Among the fisheries production and processing clusters notified under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana, the organic fisheries clusters are in these two states, which is also why a Standard Operating Procedure for organic fish farming is being launched during the ministerial visit to Sikkim.

The Games were put together by the Renal Care Foundation, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and NOTTO, which functions under the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and the Vice-President congratulated all three for the initiative.

On 1 November 1966 Chandigarh was constituted as a Union Territory and designated the joint capital of both Punjab and Haryana, which is why the city observes its foundation day on that date and why the police force celebrated its Diamond Jubilee alongside it.