Railway GK Questions 2026

As National Mission Head-II, Ganvir planned and monitored multidisciplinary field programmes and nationwide mineral exploration, and the Ministry credits that period with the handover of 359 Geological Reports and 377 Geological Memorandums, along with a five-fold jump in investigations for critical and strategic minerals.

Ganvir joined the Geological Survey of India on 1 July 1994, after completing his postgraduate degree in geology from RTMNU University in Nagpur, and his service of more than 32 years follows from that date.

The Geological Survey of India is described as an attached office of the Ministry of Mines, Government of India, and it is in that ministry’s mandate that the new Director General placed his priorities: integrated geoscientific investigation, advanced mineral prospectivity mapping and the generation of auction-ready mineral blocks.

He has assumed charge as the 55th Director General of the Geological Survey of India, which works as an attached office of the Ministry of Mines, bringing more than three decades of experience in geological investigation, mineral exploration, engineering geology and institutional leadership.

Mansukh Mandaviya, who holds the Labour and Employment portfolio along with Youth Affairs and Sports, presided over the Foundation Day function in his capacity as Chairman of the Central Board of Trustees of the EPF.

The Foundation Day function showcased the effect of the technological overhaul carried out through the CITES 2.01 platform, and the sharpest measure of it was the fall in the average time taken to settle a claim, which stood at 2.57 days in October 2026.

Under the scheme launched on the Foundation Day, subscribers holding Aadhaar-verified inoperative EPF accounts with balances up to one thousand rupees need not file an individual claim at all; EPFO will begin settlement on its own after the prescribed identity and bank-account verification and transfer the dues to the rightful…

EPFO observed its 74th Foundation Day at the Dr. Ambedkar International Centre in New Delhi, marking a journey of seventy-four years from a statutory provident fund body, founded on a commitment of 1952, to one of the leading social security institutions in the country.

During the programme at Talkatora Stadium the Vice-President felicitated the medal winners of the World Transplant Games 2025, which were held at Dresden in Germany, and he also released the Zindagi Dobara calendar.

The Games were put together by the Renal Care Foundation, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and NOTTO, which functions under the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and the Vice-President congratulated all three for the initiative.

At the Games a record attempt was made in which 570 transplant recipients and organ donors held the Tadasana posture at the same time, and the World Book of Records, New Delhi, gave the organisers a certificate for the largest gathering of transplant recipients and donors doing that posture.

The Vice-President of India, Shri C. P. Radhakrishnan, opened the National Organ Transplant Games 2026 at Talkatora Stadium in the capital, where transplant recipients, living donors and the families of donors who had died came together.

He is the minister visiting the Gangtok and Mangan districts of Sikkim on 2 and 3 November 2026 to review fisheries development, launch the Standard Operating Procedure for organic fish farming, inaugurate projects worth Rs 375 lakh under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana and meet fish farmers.

Among the fisheries production and processing clusters notified under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana, the organic fisheries clusters are in these two states, which is also why a Standard Operating Procedure for organic fish farming is being launched during the ministerial visit to Sikkim.

Under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana, this many fisheries production and processing clusters have been notified across the country, and among them are organic fisheries clusters in Sikkim and Meghalaya.

Projects of this value are to be inaugurated under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana during the visit of the Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying to the Gangtok and Mangan districts of Sikkim on 2 and 3 November 2026.

The foundation day message for Haryana said that the athletes of the state are enhancing the pride of the Tricolour while its farmers are strengthening the food security of the country, and it praised the people of the state for showing talent and determination through hard work in agriculture, sport…

Its foundation day message called the state a land of glorious heritage, rich culture and stunning natural beauty, and said its world renowned heritage sites make its historical identity grander, before going on to note contributions in agriculture, industry, tourism, education, infrastructure and innovation.

The message for the foundation day of Chhattisgarh said it was heartening to see the state move ahead with renewed momentum on the path of development even as the roots of Naxalism were being eradicated, and the same message spoke of the state’s tribal culture, its natural wealth, its unique…

All three states, Haryana, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, mark their State Foundation Day on this date, and in 2026 the Prime Minister sent a separate message of greeting to the people of each of them on the day.