UPSC Current Affairs Quiz: 14 November 2026

As of March 2026 that many Van Dhan Vikas Kendras had been sanctioned under the Pradhan Mantri Janjatiya Vikas Mission, and 12.48 lakh tribal members have been linked to them.

The 7th Session of the India-Egypt Joint Trade Committee is to be held in Cairo on 15 November 2026 and will be co-chaired by Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal and Egypt's Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade Dr. Mohamed Farid Saleh.

The Ministry of Tribal Affairs organised the two-day National Tribal Literary Festival at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, and it closed on 13 November 2026 under exactly that theme, which framed every session of the programme.

Officers of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence intercepted a parcel that had reached the Foreign Post Office in New Delhi from a European country and recovered that quantity of amphetamine from eight concealed packets built into the packaging.

Minimum Support Price stands notified for that many kinds of minor forest produce under the Pradhan Mantri Janjatiya Vikas Mission, which is what allows a tribal collector to be paid a pre-fixed rate even when traders in the local market offer less.

Bilateral merchandise trade between India and Egypt during April to September 2026 reached that level, which is a growth of 64 per cent over the corresponding period of the previous year.

Summing up the two-day festival at the valedictory session, Dr. K. Srinivasa Rao, a former Secretary of the Sahitya Akademi, counted that many languages in the readings and discussions and noted how many of them were tribal tongues.

All eight packets recovered from the sides of the shipping carton tested positive for amphetamine, and they were seized under the relevant provisions of that Act, which is the central law dealing with narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances and with trafficking in them.

It purchases non-timber forest produce at the pre-determined Minimum Support Price whatever the ruling market price may be, working through a network of state implementing agencies that includes tribal development cooperatives and forest development corporations.

The correct answer is Egypt's Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade, Dr. Mohamed Farid Saleh, who will co-chair the session in Cairo on 15 November 2026 with Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal.

At the valedictory session, Smt. Ranjana Chopra, Secretary in the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, described Living Roots Originals as an initiative developed in collaboration with IPRS to recognise and protect the creative rights of tribal musicians and performers.

This detail is the heart of the case. The parcel had been declared as Kleren, that is, clothes, and when the carton was first opened, ordinary household garments were indeed found stuffed inside, exactly as the declaration promised.