UPSC GK Questions 2026

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.

In Palwal district the average download speed measured 212.03 Mbps for RJIL, against 105.00 Mbps for Airtel, 40.70 Mbps for VIL and 13.92 Mbps for BSNL, so RJIL stood clearly at the top.

The appointed agency drove this distance within the cities, added a walk test of 1.8 km and tested at 6 hotspot locations, all between 13 and 15 July 2026 in the Haryana Licensed Service Area.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India tested mobile network quality in these two cities and the areas adjoining them, all of which lie within the Haryana Licensed Service Area, and released the findings for the information of telecom consumers.

The Prime Minister opened his remarks with a question, asking how long a city like Pune would have had to wait for a Metro if the network had gone on growing at the speed it managed before 2014.

The Prime Minister said the Metro network now covers nearly 1,200 km across 26 cities, compared with 248 km across just five cities in 2014.

The Prime Minister said that in 2014 the country had just 248 km of Metro lines, and that these lines ran in only five cities.

Both were held within the summit, which the Union Minister called the biggest renewable energy event India has hosted. The programme also featured the Watts Next forum, which brought innovators together, and the Next Terawatt Ministerial Plenary, which took up integrated energy planning, resilient infrastructure, storage and financing.

Addressing the closing ceremony of the summit, Pralhad Joshi said the renewable energy sector had drawn more than this amount in the past decade, and that nearly Rs 6 lakh crore of it had flowed in during just the last two years, which shows how sharply the pace has picked…