UPSC Civil Services GK Questions 2026

The port call at Civitavecchia was part of the ship's ongoing operational deployment in that sea, and once the visit ended on 28 October 2026 the frigate proceeded to the next phase of the same deployment.

Civitavecchia is an Italian port, and INS Trishul finished its call there on 28 October 2026 as part of a continuing operational deployment in the Mediterranean Sea.

The Climate Champion model of GCF-ECRICC puts such women to work as the link between technical knowledge and the villages that have to act on it, and they are called ECRICC Didi.

Narendra Bhooshan, Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, said at the inaugural session that this mission would work as the fulcrum for coastal resilience and adaptive intervention, building on what the GCF-ECRICC project has produced.

Progress under the project in these three States, and the chance of replicating or scaling up what has worked, was presented at the workshop in the welcome address.

It held the workshop in New Delhi on 29 and 30 October 2026 under the Green Climate Fund project known as GCF-ECRICC, and its Secretary, Narendra Bhooshan, addressed the opening session.

The 15th RCNCA meeting approved the modalities for paying the outstanding dues of projects under the Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal award, and fixed the current financial year as the period within which the payments must be completed.

On that day, at New Delhi, the four party States signed the Memorandum of Agreement in the presence of the Union Home and Cooperation Minister and the Union Minister of Jal Shakti.

These are the four party States to the Narmada arrangement, and their Chief Ministers took part in the 15th RCNCA meeting: Bhupendra Patel, Mohan Yadav, Bhajan Lal Sharma and Devendra Fadnavis respectively.

C. R. Paatil holds that office and is Chairman of the RCNCA; he presided over its 15th meeting on 27 October 2026, held through video conferencing.

At the 93rd General Council meeting the Chairman gave special weight to the North-Eastern Region and set 2030 as the year by which it should meet its own demand for milk, eggs, fish and meat.

The accounts laid before the 93rd General Council meeting put the Corporation's net profit for FY 2025-26 at Rs 1,475 crore, alongside a loan recovery rate of 99.84 per cent and net non-performing assets of zero.

Amit Shah holds both portfolios and took the chair at the 93rd General Council sitting on 29 October 2026 in New Delhi.

The General Council of the National Cooperative Development Corporation met for the 93rd time on 29 October 2026 at the Corporation's head office in New Delhi, with Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah in the chair.

Both were developed by the Ministry of Labour and Employment and handed to employers and compliance professionals so that they could apply the Labour Codes and the rules notified under them with less difficulty.

The first two sessions of the day dealt with an overview of the Labour Codes and with the compliance duties of employers under each code and the central and state rules, while the third and fourth were given to these two schemes of the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

The programme was held at IIA Bhavan in the Dadanagar Industrial Area of Kanpur, and was organised jointly by the Ministry of Labour and Employment and the Labour Department of the Government of Uttar Pradesh.

The parading of the three men took place in Kolkata, the capital of that state, which is why the Commission addressed its notice to the Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, and sought a detailed report within two weeks.

The report said the police brought the three arrested men, the girl's father, her maternal uncle and the uncle's friend, back to the same neighbourhood and made them walk shirtless and barefoot for more than 100 metres, purportedly for that purpose.

Having taken cognizance of the news report on its own motion, the Commission served the notice on the head of the city police and fixed a fortnight as the period for a detailed report on the matter.