Railway GK Questions 2026

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.

It sits in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, and its Secretary, Nivedita Shukla Verma, spoke at the launch of DLC Campaign 5 on 6 November 2026.

Dr Jitendra Singh said that face authentication adoption surged from 61 per cent to nearly 80 per cent in the first five days of the campaign compared with the same period last year, which he read as rising trust among pensioners in technology.

When Dr Jitendra Singh launched the Nationwide Digital Life Certificate Campaign 5 in New Delhi on 6 November 2026, he said nearly 40 lakh DLCs had been generated in its first five days.

The National Health Authority, which functions under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, convened the two-day National Review Meeting in Kolkata on 5–6 November 2026.

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.

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.

President Droupadi Murmu accepted the credentials of the ambassadors of Mali, Myanmar, Madagascar and Equatorial Guinea at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 6 November 2026.

He presented his credentials to President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 6 November 2026 as Ambassador of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, which is the formal name of India's eastern neighbour.

President Droupadi Murmu accepted credentials from the envoys of exactly these four countries at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 6 November 2026.

Under the schedule announced by the Ministry of Culture, the relics of Shakyamuni Buddha leave Tawang Monastery after 7 November 2026 and go first to TGL Monastery, also called Lower Gompa, at Bomdila from 8 to 13 November.

This is the formal name of Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh, and the Ministry of Culture used it when it reported that more than 21,000 devotees had come to offer prayers before the sacred relics of Shakyamuni Buddha.

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.

The guidelines apply to all future and under-construction National Highway projects, but in two different ways.

NHAI's policy circular standardises the design and infrastructure of toll plazas on four-lane and wider National Highways so that upcoming and ongoing projects are ready for barrier-less MLFF toll collection.

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 Government of India conveyed its concurrence, through a communication dated 6 November 2026, to five southern states: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.

The order directs traders and wholesalers, retailers, big chain retailers and processors or millers in every State and Union Territory to disclose their rice and paddy stocks every Friday on the Food Stock Portal, under six categories: Basmati rice, non-Basmati premium rice, non-Basmati rice, parboiled rice, broken rice and paddy.

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.

Sub-sections (vii) and (viii) of this clause empower TRAI, among other things, to maintain a register of interconnect agreements and make it available for public inspection on payment of the prescribed fee.