UPSC GK Questions 2026

The announcement states plainly that the Philippines is hosting the 23rd ASEAN-India Summit and the 21st East Asia Summit as the ASEAN Chair for 2026, and that the meetings fall on 17 November 2026 in Manila.

The Prime Minister will travel to Manila, the capital of the Philippines, from 16 to 17 November 2026, on an invitation from Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., President of the Republic of the Philippines.

The Ministry of Jal Shakti extended the time for submitting citizen feedback on the portal up to that date, so that people can keep commenting on the artificial recharge and storage structures built under the initiative.

The vision for the countrywide water conservation movement was set out by the Prime Minister there on 6 September 2024, with the stated purpose of turning conservation work into a genuine people's movement built on public participation.

It runs the Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari initiative and it is this ministry that extended the citizen feedback window on the JSJB 2.0 portal to 30 November 2026.

The minister's programme in Italy included an event to mark World Diabetes Day at the Indian Embassy in Rome on that date, followed by a meeting with members of the Indian community living in Italy.

The delegation's programme for 13 November took it to Trieste, where it visited Elettra along with the International Centre for Theoretical Physics and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, all three of which sit in that city.

Dr Jitendra Singh, Minister of State with independent charge for Science and Technology and for Earth Sciences, travelled to Italy from 11 to 15 November 2026 and took part in the Second Science and Innovation Dialogue with the Italian Minister of University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini.

The KVS-Samvaad parent connect app and web portal was built to bring the school closer to the home, so it shows attendance, progress of the syllabus, academic results, learning resources and digital student identity cards, and it allows these applications to be filed without a visit to the school office.

He described them as a step towards the goals of the National Education Policy 2020 and the Digital India vision, and asked that they be taken to every Kendriya Vidyalaya across all classes and locations.

The AI-integrated Vidya Samiksha Kendra set up for Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan carries an AI bot of that name, which studies the data flowing into the centre, marks out the gaps it finds and suggests what the administration should do about them.

These four have been named Partner States of the fair, which gives them the largest presence among the participating States in the halls set aside for States and Union Territories.

It organises this multi-product fair every year, and for the 45th edition it has arranged over 3,500 exhibitors across 17 halls at Bharat Mandapam, along with country pavilions from 11 nations in Hall 1.

The 45th edition of the India International Trade Fair carries this theme, which sets India's development alongside its inherited crafts and culture, and the whole layout of the fair follows from it: start-ups in deep-tech, drones and space sit in the Hall of Inspiration while district crafts and cuisine fill…

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment runs the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan as the awareness arm of this plan, which stands on three legs: prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.

When the Abhiyaan began it was taken up in 272 districts that had been identified as particularly vulnerable to substance use, so that effort and money went first where the problem was sharpest.

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment launched the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan on that day as its flagship awareness drive against substance abuse, and the campaign has since grown into a nationwide people's movement.

Among the key items listed with the steepest price rise at the all-India combined level for October 2026, onion stood first, which means the kitchen staple was the single biggest contributor to the sting felt by households that month.

The release carrying the October 2026 numbers is titled for the Consumer Price Index on base 2024=100, and every index value and inflation rate in it is compiled on that base.

The provisional all-India retail inflation rate worked out from the Consumer Price Index for October 2026 was 6.09%, with the rural figure at 6.63% and the urban figure at 5.41%.