2 fact(s) from this day could not be verified against an official source and were left out.
The Prime Minister marked Diwali 2026 at the CoBRA Operations Base at Karanpur in Bastar as the first festival of lights with every district in the country free of Naxalism.
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The Prime Minister visited the CoBRA Operations Base at Karanpur in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, which served as the training base and launch pad for counter-Naxal operations in Bastar and Abujhmad.
He described the 2026 Diwali as the first festival of lights after India won its decades-old battle against Maoist terror and rendered every district Naxal-free.
He named personnel of the CRPF, CoBRA, BSF, ITBP, SSB, IRB, state police forces and the Bastar Fighters commandos among those whose sacrifices made the milestone possible.
A question will turn on the base and the force rather than on the occasion: CoBRA is a CRPF unit, Abujhmad is the terrain it was raised for, and the 47-year figure is the kind of statistic that is quoted without its subject, which is CRPF duty deaths and not deaths overall.
Linked static GK: CoBRA, the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action, is a specialised jungle-warfare unit of the Central Reserve Police Force raised in 2008 for operations against Left-Wing Extremism. Bastar division and the Abujhmad plateau in Chhattisgarh were the core of those operations. The CRPF is India's largest central armed police force and functions under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
The Prime Minister's Bastar address put the earlier scale of Left-Wing Extremism at over 230 districts across nearly 20 states, with up to 2,000 attacks a year.
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He recalled that Left-Wing Extremism had gripped over 230 districts across nearly 20 states, including Bihar, Maharashtra, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
The same account put the toll of the separate 2010 Dantewada attacks at 76 CRPF personnel and 44 civilians, with over 1,000 personnel having lost their lives in Chhattisgarh alone.
The district count is the figure most often misquoted, and the 2010 Dantewada toll is asked as two separate numbers rather than one total. All three facts here come from a single sentence of the address, so the attribution matters: these are the Prime Minister's figures for the earlier period, not a fresh Ministry of Home Affairs count.
Linked static GK: Left-Wing Extremism, also called Naxalism after the 1967 Naxalbari uprising in West Bengal, is handled by the Ministry of Home Affairs, which maintains the list of LWE-affected districts and funds the Security Related Expenditure scheme. The April 2010 Dantewada ambush in Chhattisgarh was the single deadliest attack on the CRPF.
The development drive in Left-Wing Extremism-affected areas was described as having built over 15,000 kilometres of roads and over 9,500 mobile towers.
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The Prime Minister said the special development drive in Left-Wing Extremism-affected areas built over 15,000 kilometres of roads and over 9,500 mobile towers.
Eklavya Model Residential Schools and PM JANMAN are separate schemes under different ministries, and a question pairs the figure with the right one. As in the preceding item, all three facts sit in one sentence of the address.
Linked static GK: Eklavya Model Residential Schools are run by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs for Scheduled Tribe students. PM JANMAN, the Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan, was announced in 2023 for Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups and covers housing, roads, electricity, water and connectivity through eleven interventions across nine ministries.
He listed Jan Dhan banking, PM Awas pucca homes, collateral-free Mudra loans, SVANidhi support for street vendors, Ayushman Bharat healthcare, free monthly rations, Swachh Bharat and Har Ghar Jal as the welfare architecture behind that change.
The 50 crore figure is attributed to a World Bank report, not to a government estimate, and that attribution is what a question tests. The scheme list is the standard set and is worth knowing as a set.
Linked static GK: The World Bank measures extreme poverty against an international poverty line, revised to 3.00 dollars a day in 2021 purchasing power parity terms in June 2025. India's own poverty measurement uses consumption expenditure surveys by the National Statistics Office, so the two are not interchangeable.
A district-level Shram Samvad on the Labour Codes was held at Dewas in Madhya Pradesh on 5 November 2026 by the Ministry of Labour and Employment with the state Labour Department.
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The District Level Capacity-Building and Awareness Programme named Shram Samvad was organised jointly by the Ministry of Labour and Employment and the Labour Department of the Government of Madhya Pradesh at Dewas on 5 November 2026.
Shri S.R. Datta, Director in the Ministry of Labour and Employment, presided over the programme, which drew more than 100 participants from employers, industry, legal, HR and finance professions.
Representatives of EPFO and the Directorate General Labour Welfare led sessions on the Pradhan Mantri Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana and the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maandhan scheme respectively.
Labour is in the Concurrent List, which is why a central ministry and a state labour department organise this jointly, and the two schemes named belong to different bodies: PMVBRY runs through EPFO and PM-SYM through the Directorate General Labour Welfare.
Linked static GK: The four Labour Codes are the Code on Wages 2019, the Industrial Relations Code 2020, the Code on Social Security 2020 and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code 2020. They consolidate 29 earlier central labour laws. Labour and labour welfare appear in the Concurrent List of the Seventh Schedule.
The seven-day exposition of the Sacred Relics of Shakyamuni Buddha at Tawang Monastery drew 31,000 devotees and concluded on 7 November 2026, with the relics moving to Bomdila from 8 November.
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A total of 31,000 devotees and visitors came to Gaden Namgyal Lhatse, the Tawang Monastery, for darshan of the sacred relics during the seven-day exposition.
The Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, Shri Pema Khandu, ceremonially received the relics in the presence of the Union Minister of Culture and Tourism, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.
After a brief halt at Upper Gompa they were to be enshrined at the TGL Monastery, the Lower Gompa, in Bomdila and remain open for public darshan from 8 to 13 November 2026.
Piprahwa, the year 1898 and the custody of the National Museum are the details that separate this from any other relic exposition, and the route Tawang to Bomdila to Namsai is asked in order.
Linked static GK: The Piprahwa relics were excavated in 1898 at Piprahwa in present-day Siddharthnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, near the ancient Kapilavastu, and are held by the National Museum, New Delhi. The International Buddhist Confederation, headquartered in New Delhi, was founded in 2011. Tawang Monastery, Gaden Namgyal Lhatse, is the largest monastery in India and belongs to the Gelug school.
The Raksha Mantri celebrated Deepawali with the Trishakti Corps in forward areas of Sikkim on 8 November 2026 and paid homage at the Sherathang War Memorial.
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Shri Rajnath Singh celebrated Deepawali with soldiers of the Trishakti Corps, the 33 Corps, deployed in the forward areas of Sikkim on 8 November 2026.
He was accompanied by the Chief of the Army Staff, General Dhiraj Seth, and by the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Command, Lt Gen VMB Krishnan.
Trishakti Corps and 33 Corps are the same formation under two names, which is how the question is set, and the 26,000 figure belongs to the National War Memorial in New Delhi rather than to the Sikkim memorials he visited the same day.
Linked static GK: The 33 Corps, known as Trishakti Corps and headquartered at Sukna in West Bengal, is under Eastern Command and is responsible for Sikkim and north Bengal. The National War Memorial near India Gate in New Delhi was inaugurated in February 2019. Baba Harbhajan Singh was an Indian Army soldier who died in Sikkim in 1968 and is venerated locally.
The Green Diwali Campaign 2026 ran from 20 October to 8 November 2026 under Mission LiFE, focused on the 130 cities covered by the National Clean Air Programme across 24 States and Union Territories.
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The nationwide Green Diwali Campaign 2026 ran from 20 October to 8 November 2026 under Mission LiFE, with a special focus on the 130 cities covered under the National Clean Air Programme across 24 States and Union Territories.
The Central Pollution Control Board placed Delhi's air quality in the Very Poor category, with the Air Quality Early Warning System forecasting it may reach Severe during the festive days.
The Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas was implementing measures under the Graded Response Action Plan across the region.
NCAP's city count and the number of States and Union Territories it spans are both asked directly, and CAQM, GRAP and SAMEER belong to three different bodies that a question will try to swap.
Linked static GK: The National Clean Air Programme was launched in January 2019 by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change to cut particulate pollution in non-attainment cities. The Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas was constituted by an Act of 2021 and replaced the Environment Pollution Control Authority. SAMEER is the Central Pollution Control Board's public AQI app. Mission LiFE was launched in 2022.
Entering a 100th year is not the same as turning 100, and the Bharat Ratna year and the office of Deputy Prime Minister are the two facts a question pairs with the name.
Linked static GK: Lal Krishna Advani was born on 8 November 1927 in Karachi and served as Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004 under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, also holding the Home portfolio. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 2024. The office of Deputy Prime Minister is not mentioned in the Constitution.