15 November 2026 Current Affairs: Headlines, GK & MCQs

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1. Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum Approved at Rs 3,230 Crore in Delhi
2. Adi Vaani Now Translates Nine Tribal Languages Using AI
3. India-Egypt Joint Trade Committee Holds 7th Session in Cairo
4. Buddha's Sacred Relics Reach Golden Pagoda in Namsai, Arunachal

One-liner Current Affairs

• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum on 11 November 2026 at an estimated cost of Rs 3,230 crore, with the Ministry of Culture as the executing body.
• The museum occupies the historic North and South Block Complex in New Delhi, which stayed the seat of government administration until 13 February 2026.
• Display space of more than 1 lakh square metres would put it ahead of the Louvre at 73,000 square metres, the British Museum at 70,000 and the Hermitage at 66,800.
• It is designed for 30,000 visitors a day and 1 crore a year, over a built-up area of about 1,78,509 square metres.
• The Adornment gallery is to open in the North Block late in 2027, with the build running from FY 2026-27 to FY 2030-31.
• Adi Vaani, launched on 1 September 2025 by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, was developed by a consortium led by IIT Delhi with BITS Pilani, IIIT Hyderabad and IIIT Nava Raipur.
• As on 15 October 2026 it offered text translation in nine tribal languages, worked on 13 languages in all, and had crossed 35,000 Android downloads with about 6,500 monthly users.
• State Tribal Research Institutes have contributed about 13.9 lakh written sentences and nearly 300 hours of speech data; the target is 1,00,000 sentence pairs per language.
• The Working Group on Tribal Languages, which first met on 15 October 2026 under Secretary Ranjana Chopra, discussed making Adi Vaani the National Tribal Language Repository.
• Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas, the birth anniversary of Bhagwan Birsa Munda, has been observed on 15 November since the Government of India designated it in 2021.
• The 7th Session of the India-Egypt Joint Trade Committee was held in Cairo on 15 November 2026, co-chaired by Piyush Goyal and Egypt's Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade Dr. Mohamed Farid Saleh.
• Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal reached Cairo on 14 November 2026 with a delegation of more than 130 business leaders and start-ups.
• India-Egypt bilateral trade stands at about US$6.5 billion, with nearly 70 Indian companies in Egypt holding investments of more than US$5 billion.
• Of the 4,000 soldiers buried or commemorated at the Heliopolis War Cemetery in Cairo, 3,727 are Indian, nearly 2,000 from the First World War and around 1,700 from the Second.
• The visit also covers the Joint Business Council, the India-Egypt Business Forum and meetings with Afreximbank and the Egypt-India Startups Forum.
• The Sacred Relics of Shakyamuni Buddha arrived at Namsai in Arunachal Pradesh on 14 November 2026, beginning the third and final phase of the State exposition at the Golden Pagoda or Kongmu Kham.
• Governor Lt Gen Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik (Retd.) received the Relics at Nalung Helipad and inaugurated the exposition, with Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein present.
• Public darshan at Namsai runs from 14 to 20 November 2026, and the Relics return to the National Museum, New Delhi, on 21 November 2026.
• The exposition began at Tawang Monastery on 31 October 2026 with over 31,000 devotees and continued at Bomdila from 8 to 13 November with over 35,000, taking the total past 66,000.
• Two exhibitions opened at the Golden Pagoda: one by the International Buddhist Confederation on the Piprahwa relics and one curated by the National Museum on Buddhist heritage.

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  National

  Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum Approved at Rs 3,230 Crore in Delhi

  The Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum, cleared by the CCEA on 11 November 2026 at Rs 3,230 crore, will turn Delhi's North and South Blocks into galleries.

  15 November 2026 · 2 min read

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  International

  India-Egypt Joint Trade Committee Holds 7th Session in Cairo

  Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal co-chaired the 7th India-Egypt Joint Trade Committee in Cairo on 15 November 2026, with bilateral trade near US$6.5 billion.

  15 November 2026 · 2 min read

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  Science & Technology

  Adi Vaani Now Translates Nine Tribal Languages Using AI

  Adi Vaani, the AI language platform of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, now offers text translation in nine tribal languages and has passed 35,000 downloads.

  15 November 2026 · 3 min read

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  State News

  Buddha's Sacred Relics Reach Golden Pagoda in Namsai, Arunachal

  The Sacred Relics of Shakyamuni Buddha reached the Golden Pagoda at Namsai on 14 November 2026 for the last phase of the Arunachal Pradesh exposition.

  15 November 2026 · 2 min read

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