UPSC Current Affairs Quiz: 6 November 2026

At the National Review Meeting of the National Health Authority in Kolkata on 5–6 November 2026, Narayan Swaroop Nigam, Principal Secretary of West Bengal's Department of Health and Family Welfare, said the State joined AB PM-JAY as the 36th State.

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 Union Cabinet approved Semicon 2.0, the second phase of the Semicon India Programme, with this fiscal outlay under the India Semiconductor Mission.

This is the total scope of the Amended BharatNet Program in Telangana, made up of three parts: 1,946 Phase I Gram Panchayats that will be upgraded from linear to ring topology for a more resilient network, 10,787 Phase II Gram Panchayats that will be covered, and 36 newly created Gram…

TRAI released the amendment regulations on 6 November 2026 and fixed 1 January 2027 as the date from which they take effect.

The Government of India doubled the target quantity of rice to be sold through e-auctions under OMSS (D) for 2026-27, from 25 LMT to 50 LMT.

MLFF is a barrier-less toll collection system in which vehicles are tolled while they move through the toll zone under gantries, so they do not have to stop at a booth or a physical barrier.

The relics of Shakyamuni Buddha now being venerated at Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh were dug up at Piprahwa in 1898, a find that is treated as a milestone in the archaeological history of Buddhism.

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.

The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying and ICAR-NIVEDI organised VAJRA-SAT in Bengaluru on 4 and 5 November 2026 to test how India would detect, confirm and contain this serotype, which has not been reported in the country but has spread from Africa to parts of West Asia.

The 13th Governing Body meeting of the National Fisheries Development Board took place on 5 November 2026 at the Padma Shri Dr. Ayyappan Conference Hall in the Board's own premises in Hyderabad, and it was chaired by Union Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh.

The figure was cited when Union Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh released the minimum standard protocol for pig semen production and artificial insemination in Sikkim on 2 November 2026.

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.

DARPG was the nodal department for Special Campaign 6, which ran from 2 to 31 October 2026 to institutionalise Swachhata and reduce pendency in government offices, and it compiled the results reported by ministries on the campaign portal.

The Ministry of Mines reported on 6 November 2026 that the two-day 4th Conference of Mining Ministers had concluded in Goa, where Union Coal and Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy urged the Centre and the States to work together to speed up mineral exploration.

I-STEM is the portal that maps scientific equipment and research facilities across academic and research institutions so that they can be shared.

On 6 November 2026 the Sub-Committee on GRAP of the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) reviewed Delhi-NCR's air quality along with IMD and IITM forecasts and decided to invoke Stage-III in the entire NCR with immediate effect.

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.

Amini is one of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft that GRSE designed and built in India, following the classification rules of the Indian Register of Shipping, and it was handed over to the Indian Navy on 5 November 2026.

The SDI of the Indian Air Force signed a Memorandum of Agreement with IIT Madras and the IITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation for the joint design and development of an indigenous digital secure communication system for airborne applications; its Commandant, Air Vice Marshal Sarabjit Singh, signed the document.

BODH stands for the Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI. It was presented by Prof. Phaneendra Yalavarthy of TANUH, IISc Bengaluru, at the National Health Authority's review meeting in Kolkata on 5–6 November 2026.

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.

Semicon 2.0 has six pillars. Pillar 2 covers machines and materials, Pillar 3 covers setting up more fabs and Pillar 4 covers further strengthening of the ATMP/OSAT industry, and these three are the ones for which applications went live when Ashwini Vaishnaw launched the portal.