UPSC Current Affairs Quiz: 5 November 2026

Its authorities informed the National Human Rights Commission that a separate Gender-Neutral Cell had been established for persons with diverse gender identities and expressions, so as to protect their dignity and give them appropriate living arrangements, and that affirmative clothing had also been permitted for those housed there.

The joint advisory of the Department of Rural Development and the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying picks out exactly 22 works from the 375 works that the VB-G RAM G Act permits.

The Ministry of Mines, Government of India, is organising the 4th Conference of Mining Ministers in Goa on 5 and 6 November 2026.

The third national-level consultation on the draft National Technical Guidelines was held under the World Bank-assisted REWARD programme, whose expanded name is Rejuvenating Watersheds for Agricultural Resilience through Innovative Development.

The Union Cabinet cleared the CAPEX Support Scheme to Promote Critical Mineral Processing on 4 November 2026 with exactly this outlay, spread over five financial years running from FY 2026-27 to FY 2030-31, and funded wholly from budgetary support.

On that date gold hallmarking stopped being optional and became compulsory, at first in 256 districts; as more assaying and hallmarking centres came up, the requirement now extends to 392 districts.

It secured the top position in the category of Maximum Buildings Solarized by Central Ministries and Departments under PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana, and Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan handed over the award at the Renewable Energy Summit and Expo 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.

Awantipora lies in the Kashmir valley, and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences being built there is meant to widen access to tertiary and specialised care in the union territory as well as strengthen medical education in the region.

The correct answer is Rs 21,330 crore in 824 MSMEs, of which roughly three-quarters are micro enterprises.

The Inter-Ministerial Group on asset monetisation is chaired by that officer, while the Secretary of the Department of Telecommunications, named in option C, is its co-chair; a candidate who remembers only that both departments are involved can easily swap the two roles.

Base 1, the facility of the startup Cosmoserve Space, stands at VSD Tech Park in Gachibowli, a locality of Hyderabad in Telangana, and it was opened on 5 November 2026.

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.

Union Minister Pralhad Joshi described the summit as the largest renewable energy event hosted in India, and gave this figure for its footfall and reach at the valedictory session in New Delhi on 5 November 2026.

The Prime Minister said that in 2014 the country had just 248 km of Metro lines, and that these lines ran in only five cities.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India tested mobile network quality in these two cities and the areas adjoining them, all of which lie within the Haryana Licensed Service Area, and released the findings for the information of telecom consumers.

The Department of Health and Family Welfare reached 100 per cent of the targets set for it under Special Campaign 6, which ran over that month with a focus on making cleanliness an institutional habit, reducing pendency and improving administrative efficiency across government offices.

The ninth tranche of the e-auction of critical and strategic mineral blocks places twenty blocks before bidders, drawn from eight states.

The Department of Telecommunications had told the regulator that it proposed to bring in a Satellite Communication Network authorisation under Section 3(1)(b) of the Telecommunications Act, 2023, and asked TRAI for the terms and conditions, including spectrum assignment for feeder and user links.

India chairs the Kimberley Process for the year and will host its plenary at that venue, with the New Delhi Diamond Dialogue, also called the KP Forum, held a day earlier on 29 November, and associated programmes running on until 5 December.

The group, which lies about 4892 light years away and had been treated in the limited earlier literature as a single cluster, was found to hold two separate stellar populations, now named UBC 63A and UBC 63B. Their brightness and colours formed two sequences in the colour magnitude diagram, and…

This was the regular instalment of tax devolution that the Union Government transferred to the state governments, and it was released on 5 November 2026.

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

That officer visited the prison on 8 October 2026 and, during the visit, stressed the implementation of the advisories of the Commission and of the Ministry of Home Affairs for the welfare of transgender persons.

The Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025, came into force on 1 July 2026 and carries a statutory guarantee of 125 days of wage employment for every rural household in a year.

The Ministry of Mines is organising the 4th Conference of Mining Ministers on 5 and 6 November 2026 in Goa, and it has described the event as part of its continued engagement with State Governments for the collective advancement of the mining sector.