State Exams GK Questions 2026

The ship took part in the events held for it on 2 November 2026, and separately hosted a cultural exchange on board to mark Aapravasi Diwas 2026, at which the Minister of Education and Human Resource of Mauritius, Mahend Gungapersad, was the Guest of Honour and India's High Commissioner Anurag…

INS Tarkash completed its call at that port on 3 November 2026.

In the state-wise break-up published with the release, Uttar Pradesh was allotted the largest amount of the Rs 1,09,019 crore shared among twenty-eight states, which follows from its being the biggest claimant on the states' share of central taxes.

The Ministry of Finance said the early transfer would also let states finance expenditure related to development and welfare.

This was the regular instalment of tax devolution that the Union Government transferred to the state governments, and it was released on 5 November 2026.

The researchers used Gaia measurements, which give exceptionally precise positions and motions for stars right across the Milky Way, and it was these data that revealed two populations of starkly different ages inside what had been taken for one cluster.

UBC 63A is the young cluster of the pair at roughly twenty-one million years, while UBC 63B is much older at about five hundred sixty-two million years.

The group, which lies about 4892 light years away and had been treated in the limited earlier literature as a single cluster, was found to hold two separate stellar populations, now named UBC 63A and UBC 63B. Their brightness and colours formed two sequences in the colour magnitude diagram, and…

It was taken in as an Observer Member of the African Diamond Producers' Association at the thirteenth Extraordinary Meeting of the ADPA Council of Ministers, held in Luanda alongside the body's twentieth anniversary celebrations.

The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme was established pursuant to that resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, and its purpose is to stop conflict diamonds from entering the legitimate trade in rough diamonds.

India chairs the Kimberley Process for the year and will host its plenary at that venue, with the New Delhi Diamond Dialogue, also called the KP Forum, held a day earlier on 29 November, and associated programmes running on until 5 December.

TRAI has recommended that the authorisation fee for a Satellite Communication Network provider authorised entity be eight per cent of its adjusted gross revenue, and that no minimum authorisation fee be imposed on it.

TRAI has recommended that the Satellite Communication Network Provider Authorisation be granted for the national area with a maximum duration of twenty years, and that it carry a provision for renewal for up to a further twenty years.

The Department of Telecommunications had told the regulator that it proposed to bring in a Satellite Communication Network authorisation under Section 3(1)(b) of the Telecommunications Act, 2023, and asked TRAI for the terms and conditions, including spectrum assignment for feeder and user links.

The government notified these rules on 16 October 2026, and the change has been written into the tender documents of both tranches launched in Goa.

The Exploration Licence was created through Section 10BA of the MMDR Act, and it allows private industry to put money into exploring minerals even before mining itself begins.

The ninth tranche of the e-auction of critical and strategic mineral blocks places twenty blocks before bidders, drawn from eight states.

The space was freed mainly through the records management exercise, in which 1,20,115 of the 1,25,114 physical files reviewed were weeded out and 32,542 of the 37,481 e-files reviewed were closed.

The Department disposed of that many public grievances during the campaign, and alongside them it cleared 6,026 related appeals. It also addressed 119 references received from Members of Parliament and simplified 19 rules and processes.

The Department of Health and Family Welfare reached 100 per cent of the targets set for it under Special Campaign 6, which ran over that month with a focus on making cleanliness an institutional habit, reducing pendency and improving administrative efficiency across government offices.