UPSC Current Affairs Quiz: 10 November 2026

India's Exclusive Economic Zone covers close to 24 lakh square kilometres, and the two island groups between them hold about 40 per cent of it, which is why the fisheries roadmap treats them as the anchors of the blue economy.

Mushroom growing in that village began with Anita Devi, who took guidance from the Krishi Vigyan Kendra at Harnaut block in 2010 and raised oyster and milky white mushrooms on farm waste.

The Ministry of Culture reported that this many devotees reached the Thubchog Gatsel Ling Monastery, or Lower Gompa, at Bomdila in Arunachal Pradesh during the opening two days of the exposition of the Holy Relics of Shakyamuni Buddha, offering prayers and seeking blessings in the presence of the Relics.

During Special Campaign 6 the Ministry reviewed its electronic records in bulk and closed this many e-files, which the Ministry counted among the gains in records management and administrative efficiency.

Its clean lagoon systems suit seaweed farming, and the roadmap envisages large-scale cultivation there along with seed banks, hatcheries and training, so that a dependable seaweed value chain can be built for food, nutraceuticals, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and bio-industrial uses.

Good quality spawn had become the binding constraint as mushroom growing spread from Anantpur to the villages around it, so the laboratory addressed a critical input rather than production itself.

After the public exposition at Bomdila ends, the Relics are to be accorded a ceremonial send-off on 14 November 2026 and carried onward to Namsai district, where they will be enshrined at the Golden Pagoda for public viewing from 14 to 20 November 2026.

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation held Special Campaign 6 over these dates, with its field offices in the States and Union Territories joining in along with its attached, subordinate and autonomous offices, and with the Secretary of the Ministry monitoring progress that was uploaded daily on the SCDPM…

Rs 39,272 crore is a different figure from the same roadmap: it is the public investment committed to the fisheries sector through schemes and programmes since 2015, not the value of exports in a single year.

Ruthu of Ippatam village in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, was a waste picker at the age of 20 when she joined a short course under this initiative at Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Guntur.

The exposition at the Thubchog Gatsel Ling Monastery in Bomdila is being organised by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of India in collaboration with three partners, and each of the other three options is one of them.

The Ministry put this amount down to the disposal of electronic waste and scrap during Special Campaign 6, treating it as a sign that resources lying unused in offices can still be turned to account.