TRAI releases telecom subscription data for September 2026
economy · ssc-cgl, rrb-ntpc, ibps-po, rbi-grade-b
Why this mattersTele-density is the number of telephone connections per hundred people, so it can exceed 100 per cent in cities where one person holds several connections. Papers ask for the urban figure and the all India figure separately.
Linked static GK: TRAI was set up in 1997 under the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997, and is the sector regulator for tariffs and quality of service.
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India and Indonesia begin 11th edition of Exercise GARUDA SHAKTI at Banyuwangi
defence · nda, cds, afcat, ssc-cgl
Why this mattersExercise names travel with a partner country and a venue, and that pairing is what gets asked. GARUDA SHAKTI is the Indonesia special forces exercise, not to be confused with GARUDA, which is the India France air exercise.
Linked static GK: India and Indonesia also hold the coordinated patrol IND INDO CORPAT and the naval exercise Samudra Shakti.
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SIMBEX-2026, the 33rd Singapore India maritime exercise, concludes at Visakhapatnam
defence · nda, cds, afcat, ssc-cgl
Why this mattersSIMBEX is the Indian Navy's longest running bilateral exercise with any country, which is the fact most often asked about it rather than the year's edition number.
Linked static GK: SIMBEX began in 1994 as Exercise Lion King and was renamed Singapore India Maritime Bilateral Exercise.
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Goa Shipyard launches Next Generation Offshore Patrol Vessel INS Srishti
defence · nda, cds, ssc-cgl, rrb-ntpc
Why this mattersA launch is when the hull enters the water, and commissioning is when the ship formally joins the Navy with the prefix INS. Questions exploit the gap between the two dates.
Linked static GK: Goa Shipyard Limited is one of the defence shipyards alongside Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Hindustan Shipyard and Cochin Shipyard.
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Zoological Survey of India describes a new electric ray from the Arabian Sea
environment · ssc-cgl, upsc-prelims, rrb-ntpc, ugc-net
Why this mattersA new species question usually asks the state or sea it was found in and the body that found it. Electric rays are cartilaginous fish, the same class as sharks, which is the follow up that catches candidates out.
Linked static GK: The Zoological Survey of India was founded in 1916 and is headquartered at Kolkata under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
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NHRC issues advisory on women's safety at work and in public spaces
polity · upsc-prelims, ssc-cgl, mpsc-group-c, ugc-net
The National Human Rights Commission issued an Advisory on Women's Safety at Work and Public Spaces to the Secretaries of ten Union Ministries, the Chairperson of the Railway Board and the Chief Secretaries of all States and Union Territories.
Sources: https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2328904
Why this mattersThe NHRC advises and recommends, it does not adjudicate, and the two month Action Taken Report is the mechanism behind that distinction. That limit on its powers is asked far more often than any single advisory.
Linked static GK: The NHRC was constituted in 1993 under the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993, and is a statutory body rather than a constitutional one.
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DPIIT launches the sixth edition of the National Startup Awards
economy · ssc-cgl, ibps-po, rbi-grade-b, rrb-ntpc
Why this mattersDPIIT sits under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and owns Startup India, so a question naming the wrong parent ministry is the usual trap. Note that the awards began in 2019, three years after the initiative itself.
Linked static GK: Startup India was launched on 16 January 2016, and DPIIT was renamed from DIPP in 2019 when internal trade was added to its remit.
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Ministry of Culture signs manuscript heritage MoU with the National Library of France
art-and-culture · ssc-cgl, upsc-prelims, ugc-net, ssc-chsl
Why this mattersGyan Bharatam is the manuscript mission, and the two institutions it works through are the National Archives at New Delhi and the National Library at Kolkata. Those two cities are the detail that gets swapped in a wrong option.
Linked static GK: The National Library of India at Kolkata is the country's largest library by volume and a designated repository under the Delivery of Books and Newspapers Public Libraries Act, 1954.
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Prison officers from eight States certified as PRAHARI Master Trainers
governance · upsc-prelims, ssc-cgl, police-constable, ssc-gd
Why this mattersPrisons are a State subject under the Seventh Schedule, which is why a central initiative works by training State officers rather than by directing prisons. Rashtriya Raksha University being an Institution of National Importance under the Home Ministry, not the Education Ministry, is the detail usually got wrong.
Linked static GK: Prisons sit at entry 4 of the State List in the Seventh Schedule, and the governing law is still the Prisons Act of 1894 as amended by States.
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29th Energy Technology Meet opens at the ONGC Advanced Training Institute in Goa
economy · ssc-cgl, rrb-ntpc, ibps-po, ssc-chsl
The three-day meet is organised by the Centre for High Technology under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and co-hosted by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, on the theme Accelerating Energy Innovation: From Research to Commercialisation.
Sources: https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2329108
Why this mattersThe Centre for High Technology is the technical arm of the petroleum ministry and is the body behind this meet, which is the kind of lesser known institution a question uses to separate rote recall from reading.
Linked static GK: India's petroleum sector regulator for downstream marketing is the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board, set up under the PNGRB Act, 2006.
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Anti-Doping Act amendment in force, and NADA reports over 7,000 tests in 2025-26
sports · ssc-cgl, rrb-ntpc, ssc-chsl, ssc-gd
Why this mattersNADA is the testing agency and NDTL is the testing laboratory, and the two are routinely swapped in options. The Act of 2022 gave NADA statutory standing, which it did not have before.
Linked static GK: The National Dope Testing Laboratory in New Delhi is India's WADA accredited laboratory, separate from the National Anti-Doping Agency that orders the tests.
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Karnataka's final electoral roll published after the Special Intensive Revision
polity · upsc-prelims, ssc-cgl, ksp-civil-police-constable, ugc-net
Net additions barely offset the deletions, taking nearly a crore names off the pre-revision electorate.
No official release states this yet. Two independent newspapers report it, and it is not used in any test.
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