6 fact(s) from this day could not be verified against an official source and were left out.
The Periodic Labour Force Survey quarterly bulletin for July to September 2026 puts the all-India labour force participation rate for persons aged 15 years and above at 55.5 per cent.
The overall labour force participation rate for persons aged 15 years and above rose to 55.5 per cent in July to September 2026 from 54.6 per cent in the previous quarter.
The overall worker population ratio for persons aged 15 years and above stood at 52.7 per cent in July to September 2026, an increase of 1.0 percentage point over the previous quarter.
The sampling methodology of the Periodic Labour Force Survey was revamped from January 2025 to generate high-frequency labour force indicators with wider coverage.
The Periodic Labour Force Survey is conducted by the NSO under MoSPI and is the primary source of data on activity participation and employment-unemployment conditions of the population.
A quarterly bulletin is asked by its headline rate and by the direction of change, and both are in the snapshot here. The rural unemployment rate falling while agricultural employment rises in the same quarter is the pairing a question can be built on.
Linked static GK: The Labour Force Participation Rate is the share of the population that is either working or seeking work. The Worker Population Ratio is the share actually working. The Unemployment Rate is the share of the labour force that is seeking work and not finding it, so it can fall either because people found work or because they stopped looking.
Round 3 of the Rs 37,500 crore Scheme for Promotion of Surface Coal and Lignite Gasification Projects opened on 10 November 2026, after Round 2 closed with two applications from NTPC Limited.
The Union Cabinet approved the Scheme for Promotion of Surface Coal and Lignite Gasification Projects on 13 May 2026 with a total financial outlay of Rs 37,500 crore.
The outlay, the 2030 capacity target and the Round 3 window are each a clean one-number question, and the scheme's approval date is the kind of fact a candidate cannot reconstruct from general knowledge.
Linked static GK: Coal gasification converts coal into synthesis gas, which can be used to make urea, methanol and other chemicals instead of burning the coal. The Ministry of Coal runs the scheme, and NTPC Limited is a central public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Power.
The Production Linked Incentive Scheme for medical devices has been extended up to 2035-36, with fresh applications invited against an available outlay of about Rs 2700 crore.
The Production Linked Incentive Scheme for Promoting Domestic Manufacturing of Medical Devices has been extended up to 2035-36, and the Government of India has invited fresh applications under it.
The extension year and the four target segments are the askable structure of this scheme, and the production figure is the number a question on its performance would use.
Linked static GK: A Production Linked Incentive scheme pays a manufacturer an incentive calculated on incremental sales of goods made in India, rather than a subsidy on the investment itself. The medical devices scheme is run by the Department of Pharmaceuticals.
The new AIIMS established under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana crossed 6 crore outpatient consultations in the five years since 2021-22, as on 31 October 2026.
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The new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences established under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana recorded over 6 crore outpatient department consultations in the five-year period since 2021-22, as on 31 October 2026.
The count of new AIIMS approved against the count actually functional is the pairing this release is asked on, and the two numbers are different.
Linked static GK: The Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana was launched to correct regional imbalances in tertiary healthcare by setting up new AIIMS and upgrading existing government medical colleges. It is run by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Cargo movement on India's national waterways has risen from 18 million metric tonnes in 2013-14 to 218 million metric tonnes in 2025-26, a figure released with the inauguration of Delhi's first recreational Yamuna cruise.
The MV Ganga Vilas journey covered more than 3,200 kilometres across India and Bangladesh, connected 50 tourist destinations and traversed two countries, five states and 27 river systems.
Delhi's first recreational Yamuna river cruise service was inaugurated at Sonia Vihar by the Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways in the presence of the Chief Minister of Delhi.
The freight cost comparison across waterways, rail and road is the most reusable number on this wire, because it is the argument for inland navigation stated as three figures. The Yamuna's own waterway number is deliberately not a fact here: 9 November 2026 already publishes it and already asks it.
Linked static GK: A national waterway is an inland water route declared by Parliament, and the National Waterways Act, 2016 declared 111 of them. The Inland Waterways Authority of India, under the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, develops and maintains them.
India delivered its opening statement at the 31st Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, being held in Antalya, Turkiye, calling for a fair, equitable and ambitious outcome.
India reaffirmed its commitment to climate multilateralism and to the principles of Equity and Common But Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities at the 31st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, being held in Antalya.
India's opening statement at COP31 was delivered by the Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Narendra Bhooshan, who thanked the two countries leading COP31.
India underscored the fundamental importance of Article 9.1 of the Paris Agreement, which establishes the obligation of developed countries to provide financial resources to developing countries.
India stressed that equity has become particularly urgent in view of the growing challenges posed by the prospect of crossing 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming.
The host city of a COP is asked almost every year, and the Article number India presses on climate finance is the detail that separates a candidate who read the statement from one who read the headline.
Linked static GK: The Conference of the Parties is the decision-making body of the UNFCCC and meets annually. CBDR-RC is the principle that all countries share responsibility for climate change but that their obligations differ with their circumstances and capabilities.
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands have been allocated an investment of Rs 218 crore and Lakshadweep Rs 175 crore for fisheries development in the island territories.
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands have been allocated an investment of Rs 218 crore, while Lakshadweep has been earmarked Rs 175 crore, to unlock the fisheries potential of these island regions.
India's estimated marine fisheries potential within its EEZ is 58.6 lakh metric tonnes, and the sector sustains the livelihoods of nearly 50 lakh fishers.
The coastline length and the Exclusive Economic Zone area are standing general-awareness figures that this release restates officially, and the two island allocations are a clean pair to ask against each other.
Linked static GK: An Exclusive Economic Zone extends up to 200 nautical miles from the baseline, within which a coastal state has rights over living and non-living resources. India's fisheries are administered by the Department of Fisheries under the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.
India won 2 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medal at the 5th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics for Juniors 2026 in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand.
Indian students won 2 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medal at the 5th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics for Juniors 2026, held in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand, from 1 to 8 November 2026.
The gold medals were won by Siddharth Laxmisha of Aditya Vidyashram Residential School, Puducherry, and Swara Srujal Patel of School of Excellence, Gujarat.
The National Council of Science Museums under the Ministry of Culture is the Authorized National Representative Organization responsible for organising India's Junior Astronomy Olympiad Programme.
The medal tally and the host country are the askable facts, and the ministry that runs India's astronomy olympiad is the Ministry of Culture rather than Education, which is exactly the kind of mismatch a question is built on.
Linked static GK: The National Council of Science Museums is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Culture that runs science centres and planetariums across India. International subject olympiads select national teams through multi-stage examinations and training camps.
The Prime Minister said that India reaching 100 Grandmasters is a remarkable milestone reflecting the talent and dedication of the nation's players and the growing popularity of chess among the youth.
A national first with a name attached is among the most reliably asked categories in general awareness, and this item is thin on facts precisely because the news is one fact. It is carried anyway rather than dropped, because the fact itself is near certain to be asked.
Linked static GK: The Grandmaster title is awarded by FIDE, the international chess federation, and is held for life. India's first Grandmaster was Viswanathan Anand, who earned the title in 1988.
Directorate of Revenue Intelligence officers intercepted an import consignment in which goods suspected to be e-cigarettes were mis-declared as "Mop Rod".
Examination of the container yielded 6,000 pieces of Yuoto Thanos e-cigarettes and 7,000 pieces of Yuoto Lens branded e-cigarettes concealed amidst the declared cargo.
In the current financial year 2026-27, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence has seized around 3,55,000 e-cigarettes worth more than Rs 135 crore at ports, airports and inland container depots in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi and West Bengal.
The year of the Act that bans e-cigarettes in India is the durable fact here, and the financial-year seizure total is the number a question on enforcement scale would use.
Linked static GK: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence is the apex anti-smuggling intelligence agency under the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, Department of Revenue. Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems are devices that heat a liquid to deliver nicotine as an aerosol.
The Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan was launched on 15 August 2020 to strengthen drug demand reduction efforts through preventive education, awareness, treatment, rehabilitation and community participation.
Over 33.57 lakh activities have been conducted in educational institutions, and 39.91 lakh persons have been treated and rehabilitated through a network of more than 755 de-addiction centres supported by the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment.
The Abhiyaan's launch date and its original district count are the two facts about it that do not change, which makes them the two a paper will ask.
Linked static GK: The Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan is run by the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment and works on drug demand reduction, as distinct from enforcement against supply, which is handled under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment invited citizens aged 18 years and above to register as Vayo SAATHI volunteers under the Vayo Samman Rashtriya Abhiyan.
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment invited citizens aged 18 years and above to register as volunteers under the Vayo SAATHI initiative, a component of the Vayo Samman Rashtriya Abhiyan under the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana.
Citizens can register through the Senior Citizens Welfare SAMAVESH Portal, where SAMAVESH stands for Single Access Mechanism For All Verticals of Empowerment And Social Harmony.
The national level Vayo Samman Rashtriya Abhiyan was recently launched in the national capital by the Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment.
SAATHI and JEEVAN are both expanded in full in this release, and an acronym expansion is a question that writes itself. The parent scheme link is deliberately not what the question asks: ca-20261028-q12 already keys to the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana as the scheme a senior-citizen programme belongs to, so asking it again would put the same answer in the archive twice.
Linked static GK: The Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana is the umbrella scheme of the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment for the welfare of senior citizens, and subsumes earlier programmes for old age homes and physical aids.
The Sacred Relics of Shakyamuni Buddha will travel from Bomdila to the Golden Pagoda at Namsai for public Darshan from 14 to 20 November 2026, after 11,969 devotees visited in the exposition's first two days.
The exposition is being organised by the Ministry of Culture in collaboration with the National Museum, New Delhi, the Government of Arunachal Pradesh and the International Buddhist Confederation.
The archive already publishes the Bomdila venue and its 8 to 13 November window from 8 November 2026, and ca-20261108-q10 already asks a devotee count for this tour at Tawang, so what is genuinely new here is the onward journey. The Golden Pagoda at Namsai and the return to the National Museum are what a question can ask, and the devotee count is deliberately left unasked.
Linked static GK: Relics of the Buddha held by the National Museum in New Delhi are periodically taken for public exposition in India and abroad. The International Buddhist Confederation is a Delhi-based umbrella body of Buddhist organisations.
At the third Foundation Day of the Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council, India's bioeconomy was stated to have grown to more than USD 195 billion.
Biofoundry hubs are located at Mohali, Hyderabad, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram, and international partnerships include the collaboration with the UK's Centre for Process Innovation.
The bioeconomy figure is the single most quoted number about Indian biotechnology, and the list of four biofoundry hubs is the kind of named set a paper asks a candidate to complete.
Linked static GK: The Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council was created under the Department of Biotechnology to bring the department's autonomous research institutions under one umbrella while leaving each its own identity.
A two day national event on agro-biodiversity conservation and climate-resilient agriculture began at Bhubaneswar, where expansion of millet cultivation to 5 lakh hectares by 2047 was pressed.
A two day national event on agro-biodiversity conservation, climate-resilient agriculture and sustainable food systems commenced on 10 November 2026 at Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
Expansion of the millet cultivation area from 1.79 lakh hectares to 5 lakh hectares by 2047 was pressed, with a production target of 8 lakh metric tonnes.
Ragi is finger millet, and a paper that asks about millets asks about ragi, so the procurement figure and the landrace count are both live. This is a national ICAR event held in a state, which under rule 3 makes it national news.
Linked static GK: Millets were given the International Year of Millets in 2023 and are promoted in India as Shree Anna. Finger millet, known as ragi or mandua, is procured at a minimum support price in several states during the Kharif Marketing Season.