06th November, 2026

1. 1st International Maize Conference 2026 Held in Hyderabad to Strengthen Maize Productivity and Sustainability
2. IICA Signs MoU with IAMC to Strengthen India’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Ecosystem
3. International Day Against Violence and Bullying at School, Including Cyberbullying 2026 – November 5
4. International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict 2026 – November 6
5. Odisha Signs MoU with J-PAL South Asia to Strengthen Evidence-Based Policymaking
6. JNCASR’s Terahertz Chip Achieves 100 Gbps Data Speed Using Topological Photonics
7. Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly to Become Paperless Under National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA)
8. Nirmala Lakshman Wins Sharjah Award for Best International Non-Fiction Book
9. Edmund Richardson Wins 2026 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction for Biography of Alexander the Great
10. Google Plans $17 Billion Wyoming Data Center Amid Rising Threats of Curbs
11. UIDAI Onboards 300 Entities for Aadhaar Offline Verification; App Downloads Near 7.5 Crore
12. Jitendra Singh Inaugurates Hyderabad Space Robotics Facility, Outlines Debris-Free Space Vision for 2030
13. Embassy of India in Kuwait Celebrates Diwali with a Cultural Fusion of Indian and Kuwaiti Traditions
14. DGH Introduced Special OALP under Samudra Manthan
15. Rich Countries Fall Far Short on Climate Adaptation Funding, UN Says
16. Regional Research Network Launched to Strengthen Climate-Resilient Fisheries in Bay of Bengal
17. CMFRI Documented 161 Marine Mammal Stranding Cases
18. Indigenous Warship ‘Amini’ Delivered to Indian Navy to Strengthen Coastal Defence
19. India’s Finished Steel Consumption Nears 100 Million Tonnes in April-October
20. Amit Shah Inaugurates Rs 594-Crore Memorial to 1857 Martyrs in Ambala
21. Culture Ministry Signs MoU with Google Arts & Culture to Digitise India’s Heritage
22. Delhi CM Unveils Statue of Shyama Prasad Mukherji at DU College on His 125th Birth Anniversary
23. Cristiano Ronaldo Announces Retirement from Portugal’s National Team After 23 Years

National News

1st International Maize Conference (IMC 2026) in Hyderabad

• What: The 1st International Maize Conference (IMC 2026) was held at the JD Convention Centre in Hyderabad, India.
• Tell me more:
  • Theme: “Maize Revolution for Food, Feed, Fodder, Fuel and Sustainability in the Changing World” (M4FS).
  • Organised by:
    • Maize Technologists Association of India (MTAI) as the lead organiser, with co-organisers:
    • Professor Jayashankar Telangana Agricultural University (PJTAU)
    • Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
    • Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences (TAAS)
    • International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and
    • ICAR-Indian Institute of Maize Research (ICAR-IIMR)
  • India’s maize production: It has reached about 55 million tonnes, with about 6% growth.
  • Targets set by the Director General (DG) of ICAR: Dr M. L. Jat, Secretary, DARE and DG, ICAR, called for raising India’s maize production to 75 million tonnes and productivity a further 1.5 times over the next decade.
  • From 4F to 5F: He called for expanding the 4F vision of maize (Food, Feed, Fodder and Fuel) to 5F by placing Farmers at the centre.
  • Maize needed for ethanol blending: India’s target of 20% ethanol blending by 2025-26 will require an additional 18–20 million tonnes annually.
  • New maize hybrids: 329 maize hybrids were developed in the past five years.
  • MTAI President: Dr H. S. Jat.
• Knowledge Nuggets:
  • Maize: Its scientific name is Zea mays L.

Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Onboarded 300 OVSEs

• What: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) onboarded 300 Offline Verification Seeking Entities (OVSEs) since January to expand Aadhaar-based offline verification.
• Tell me more:
  • OVSEs: They are organisations that verify residents through Aadhaar offline verification, which is consent-based and paperless, in line with the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023.

Indian Embassy in Kuwait Organised ‘Diwali Diwaniya’

• What: The Embassy of India in Kuwait organised ‘Diwali Diwaniya’ at India House, a celebration that combined Diwali with Kuwait’s traditional culture of Diwaniya.
• Tell me more:
  • The celebration also marked 65 years of diplomatic relations between India and Kuwait.
  • Diwali and Kuwait’s Diwaniya were both inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2025.

DGH Introduced Special OALP under Samudra Manthan

• What: The Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) introduced a Special Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP) round to award deepwater and ultra-deepwater (DW/UDW) oil and gas blocks quickly under the Samudra Manthan National Offshore Exploration Scheme.
• Tell me more:
  • Companies can apply for deepwater blocks every month instead of waiting a year. The block goes to the company that promises the most exploration work, not the one offering the government the highest revenue share.
  • Samudra Manthan scheme:
    • The Union Cabinet approved this Rs 84,084 crore scheme to speed up oil and gas exploration in India’s deepwater and ultra-deepwater basins, including the Andaman region, the Krishna-Godavari basin and the Mumbai offshore region.
    • The government will bear up to 50% of eligible drilling costs or Rs 675 crore per well, whichever is lower.
    • The scheme aims to add more than 600 million tonnes of oil equivalent (MMTOE) to India’s hydrocarbon reserves and reduce import dependence.

India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives Launched BOB-NOR

• What: India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and the Maldives launched the Bay of Bengal Network of Ocean Researchers for Fisheries (BOB-NOR), a regional research network to strengthen climate-resilient fisheries in the Bay of Bengal region.
• Tell me more:
  • BOB-NOR was launched at the ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) on the sidelines of the international TREVOR-SAFARI (Societal Applications in Fisheries and Aquaculture using Remote Sensing Imagery) symposium.
  • The symposium was jointly organised by the Department of Chemical Oceanography of Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), the Trevor Platt Science Foundation, CMFRI and the Marine Biological Association of India.
  • The BOB-NOR network will combine satellite observations, oceanographic surveys, climate indicators and fisheries data to study how ocean changes affect fish populations.
  • The Bay of Bengal Programme Inter-Governmental Organisation (BOBP-IGO) coordinates the network.
• Knowledge Nuggets:
  • CMFRI has also developed an interactive Geographic Information System (GIS)-based platform that maps marine mammal stranding incidents along the Indian coast. It has around 1,300 records covering 32 species.
  • CMFRI Director: Grinson George
  • BOBP-IGO Director: P Krishnan

State News

Government of Odisha Signed MoU with J-PAL South Asia

• What: The Government of Odisha signed a three-year MoU with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia to strengthen evidence-based policymaking across the state.
• Tell me more:
  • J-PAL South Asia, working in Odisha since 2006, will support Samruddha Odisha by 2036 and Viksit Odisha by 2047 vision by helping state departments identify policy challenges, generate evidence and turn research into policy recommendations.
• Knowledge Nuggets:
  • J-PAL: It is an international research network that uses randomised evaluations to answer policy questions in the fight against poverty.
  • Nobel link: J-PAL’s co-founders and directors, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics for this work.
  • J-PAL South Asia: It is hosted at the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) in Chennai.

Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly to Go Paperless Under NeVA

• What: The Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly is set to become a completely paperless, digital institution before the upcoming Budget Session, through the National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) under the Union government’s Digital India mission.
• Tell me more:
  • MoU: The Union Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, the Chhattisgarh Government and the Assembly Secretariat finalised an MoU to integrate the Assembly into the national “One Nation, One Legislative Platform” network.
  • Implementing agency for NeVA in the Assembly: Chhattisgarh Infotech Promotion Society (CHiPS).

Amit Shah Inaugurated 1857 Martyrs’ Memorial in Ambala

• Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the Martyrs’ Memorial of the First War of Independence of 1857, named “Azadi Ki Pehli Ladai Ka Shaheed Smarak”, in Ambala Cantonment, Haryana.

Delhi CM Unveiled Statue of Shyama Prasad Mukherji

• Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta unveiled a statue of Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherji at Delhi University’s Shyama Prasad Mukherji College in Punjabi Bagh West on his 125th birth anniversary.

International News

Google to Invest $17 Billion in Wyoming Data Center

• Alphabet’s Google will invest $17 billion to build its first data center in Wyoming, US.

Source: NOA

Banking and Economy

Ministry of Steel Released Steel Data for April–October 2026

• What: India’s finished steel consumption rose 7.5% to 99.3 million tonnes (Mt) in April–October 2026, faster than domestic production grew, according to provisional Joint Plant Committee (JPC) data released by the Ministry of Steel.
• Tell me more:
  • Production and trade:
    • Finished steel production grew 3.9% to 95.5 Mt, and crude steel production grew 2.6% to 99.1 Mt.
    • India’s annual crude steel capacity stands at 223 Mt.
    • India remained a net importer of finished steel. Imports rose 28.9% to 4.90 Mt, while exports rose 15.5% to 3.98 Mt.
  • Other steel sector developments:
    • The Ministry of Steel exempted 162 grades of semi-finished stainless steel products from Quality Control Order (QCO) compliance until 31 March 2027 to address MSME concerns.
    • SAIL approved a ₹1,714 crore expansion and modernisation plan for its Alloy Steels Plant in Durgapur to increase production of high-grade alloy and special steels.
    • NMDC opened an office in Sydney, Australia, to strengthen India–Australia cooperation in the minerals sector.
    • Under the Ministry’s Green Steel Initiative, 108 steel producers had received Green Steel Certificates by October 2026.

Reports and Indices

UN Environment Programme Released Adaptation Gap Report 2026

• What: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) released the Adaptation Gap Report 2026. The report found that rich countries are falling well short of the $305 billion needed each year to help developing nations adapt to climate change.
• Tell me more:
  • Funding from developed countries rose by $1 billion to $28.2 billion in 2024.
  • Developing countries’ adaptation finance needs are expected to reach $420 billion a year by 2035.
  • At the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the UNFCCC in Brazil last year, countries agreed to triple adaptation finance to $120 billion a year by 2035, but the report says this would still leave a funding gap of more than two-thirds.
  • Funding through development banks and between developing countries more than doubled, from $3.8 billion in 2019 to $9.6 billion in 2024.
  • The COP31 will be held in Turkey in November 2026. Negotiators there will examine why countries are off track to meet the COP29 pledge, made in Baku, of $300 billion a year in climate finance for developing countries.
• Knowledge Nuggets:
  • UNEP Executive Director: Inger Andersen

Defence News

Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Delivered ‘Amini’ to Navy

• What: Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata, delivered ‘Amini’, an indigenously designed and built Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW SWC), to the Indian Navy.
• Tell me more:
  • Amini is named after Amini Island in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep. It revives the name of the erstwhile INS Amini, a Petya III-class anti-submarine warfare corvette decommissioned in 2002.
  • It is among the largest Indian naval warships propelled by waterjets and has over 80% indigenous content.

Science and Technology

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) Developed Terahertz Chip for 6G

• What: Researchers at JNCASR, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), developed a silicon chip that carries terahertz waves through engineered barriers with little loss, at up to 100 gigabits per second (Gbit/s), for future sixth-generation (6G) communication.
• Tell me more:
  • Such chips could be used to build small circuits for future 6G networks, in which one chip sends high-speed data along different paths with little signal loss.
  • Photonic Klein tunnelling:
    • The chip uses this effect, in which a terahertz signal carrying data crosses a barrier on the chip without significant loss.
    • “Klein tunnelling” is originally an effect in physics where electrons pass through a barrier almost fully. It’s named after Oskar Klein, a Swedish physicist. “Photonic” Klein tunnelling is the same effect shown with waves of light instead of electrons.

Cosmoserve Space Inaugurated Base 1 Facility in Hyderabad

• What: Cosmoserve Space’s Base 1 facility in Hyderabad, dedicated to active debris removal (ADR) and in-orbit servicing, was virtually inaugurated by Union Minister of State Dr Jitendra Singh.
• Tell me more:
  • Vision announced: Dr Jitendra Singh announced a vision of achieving debris-free space by 2030.
  • Cosmoserve Space Founder & CEO: Dr Chiranjeevi Phanindra.
  • Base 1: At this facility, space robots are designed, built, tested under space conditions and operated through mission control.
  • Mission EMBRACE: Cosmoserve Space conducted an in-space test of soft robotic petals under this mission in July 2026, within a year of the company’s formation.
  • Cosmoserve Space’s partners: Pixel for satellite systems, Dhruv Aerospace Netherlands for propulsion systems and Skyroot Aerospace for launch services.

Awards

Nirmala Lakshman Won Sharjah Award for “The Tamils”

• What: Nirmala Lakshman, Director of The Hindu Group, won the Sharjah Award for the Best International Book in the Best International Non-Fiction Book category for “The Tamils: A Portrait of a Community”.
• Tell me more:
  • Awarded by: Sharjah Book Authority, at the Sharjah International Book Fair Awards, UAE.
  • Nirmala Lakshman: She wrote “Degree Coffee by the Yard” (2013), a book on Chennai, and edited “Writing a Nation” (2007), an anthology of contemporary Indian journalism.

Edmund Richardson Won Baillie Gifford Prize 2026 for Non-Fiction

• What: Edmund Richardson, a professor of classics at Durham University, won the 2026 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction at a ceremony in London for “Alexander: God, King, Man”, his account of the life of Alexander the Great.
• Tell me more:
  • First ancient history book to win: It is the first book of ancient history to win the prize since the prize was founded in 1999.
• Knowledge Nuggets:
  • Baillie Gifford Prize: Founded in 1999 as the Samuel Johnson Prize, it recognises English-language nonfiction books with £50,000 in prize money. Investment management firm Baillie Gifford has sponsored it since 2016.
  • Edmund Richardson’s earlier books: “Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City” (2021) and “Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity” (2013).

Important Days

International Day Against Violence and Bullying at School, Including Cyberbullying 2026 – November 5

• Theme: Every learner safe and well: From promise to practice
• UNESCO Member States declared the first Thursday of November as the International Day against Violence and Bullying at School, Including Cyberbullying.

International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict – November 6

• Declared by: The UN General Assembly, on 5 November 2001.

Sports

Cristiano Ronaldo Announced Retirement from Portugal National Team

• What: Cristiano Ronaldo, 41, announced his retirement from the Portugal national football team after a 23-year international career.
• Tell me more:
  • Ronaldo holds the all-time records for international appearances (234) and international goals (146).
  • He captained Portugal to its first major trophy at Euro 2016 and helped it win the 2019 and 2025 Nations Leagues.
  • He has scored 985 career goals and is aiming for his 1,000th.

Memorandum of Understanding

Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) Signed MoU with IAMC, Hyderabad

• What: The Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) signed an MoU with the International Arbitration and Mediation Centre (IAMC), Hyderabad, to strengthen collaboration in arbitration, mediation, corporate affairs and related areas.
• Tell me more:
  • The collaboration aims to create a specialised pool of arbitrators, mediators and dispute resolution professionals through short-term and long-term courses, workshops, seminars and other skill development programmes.
  • IICA Director-General (DG) & CEO: Gyaneshwar Kumar Singh.
  • IAMC CEO & Registrar: AJ Jawad.
• Knowledge Nuggets:
  • IICA: It is an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and a national resource institution for research, policy support, capacity building and professional development in corporate affairs. IICA also has a Centre of Excellence in Alternative Dispute Resolution (CEADR).
  • IAMC, Hyderabad: It is an autonomous institution established with the support of the Government of Telangana and the High Court of Telangana to promote arbitration, mediation and other ADR mechanisms.

Ministry of Culture Signed MoU with Google Arts & Culture

• What: The Ministry of Culture signed an MoU with Google Arts & Culture to digitise India’s cultural heritage and make it accessible in Indian languages to audiences in India and abroad.
• Tell me more:
  • Google Arts & Culture Vice President and Founder: Amit Sood

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