Current Affairs Today — 11 November 2026

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1. DayWorld Science Day for Peace and Development is observed on 10 November.
2. AppointedAbhishek Awasthi, 43, was unanimously elected Mayor of Greater Bendigo in Victoria, Australia, for 2026-27.
3. ReportIndian students won five medals, including two golds, at the 5th IOAA-Jr 2026 held in Ubon Ratchathani.
4. ReportChina's trade surplus reached $1.04 trillion in January-October 2026, official data showed on 10 November.
5. ReportA report by Development Reimagined tracked $16.3 billion of Chinese investment in African critical-mineral processing.
6. DefenceThe Department of Defence Production completed Special Campaign 6.0 successfully.
7. WorldThe India-Bangladesh Joint Rivers Commission was set up in 1972; the two countries share 54 rivers.
8. AppointedJustice Surya Kant is the 53rd Chief Justice of India.
9. AppointedTushar Mehta is the Solicitor General of India.
10. WorldThe Gulf of Darien lies between Colombia and Panama.
11. ReportBanoo Jehangir Coyaji received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1985.
12. SportsSpain won the 2026 FIFA World Cup, beating Argentina 1-0 in extra time in the final.
13. SportsRoyal Challengers Bengaluru won IPL 2026, their second consecutive title; Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scored the most runs with 776.
14. SportsJammu & Kashmir won their first Ranji Trophy title in 2025-26; Karnataka were runners-up in the final at Hubballi.
15. SportsIndia finished 4th at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya with 85 medals, including 21 gold.
16. SportsThe 15th SAFF Championship is being played from 5 to 17 November 2026 in Dhaka; India are defending champions.
17. AppointedV. D. Satheesan became Chief Minister of Kerala after the UDF won the April 2026 assembly elections.
18. AppointedSuvendu Adhikari became Chief Minister of West Bengal after the BJP won the April 2026 assembly elections.
19. AppointedC. Joseph Vijay of the TVK became Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu after the April 2026 assembly elections.
20. KarnatakaD. K. Shivakumar took office as Chief Minister of Karnataka in June 2026.
21. KarnatakaGruha Lakshmi gives the woman head of a family Rs 2,000 a month.
22. KarnatakaGruha Jyothi provides domestic electricity consumers up to 200 free units a month.
23. KarnatakaYuva Nidhi pays unemployed graduates Rs 3,000 and diploma holders Rs 1,500 a month for up to two years.
24. SchemeShakti gives women free travel in state-run buses within Karnataka.
25. KarnatakaAnna Bhagya gives each member of BPL and Antyodaya families an additional 5 kg of rice or an equivalent cash transfer.
26. KarnatakaKarnataka's Ruthutare scheme supports women through menopause, with ASHA workers surveying women above 31.
27. KarnatakaThe CM Negila Yogi scheme gives farmers with up to 3 acres free tractor ploughing, booked through the J-Farm app.
28. KarnatakaThe CM Raitha Chaitanya scheme uses drone and satellite crop surveys, piloted in Mandya, Belagavi, Vijayapura, Hassan and Shivamogga.

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1. ReportTeghaza 001, a meteorite found in Mali's Sahara Desert, has been identified as Martian rock formed at least 4.1 billion years ago.
2. DefenceGroup Captain Shubhanshu Shukla was awarded the Ashoka Chakra in the Gallantry Awards 2026.
3. DefenceMajor Arshdeep Singh and Naib Subedar Doleshwar Subba received the Kirti Chakra in the Gallantry Awards 2026.
4. DefenceMajor Swathi Shantha Kumar won the UN Secretary-General's Award 2025 (Gender category) for the 'Equal Partners, Lasting Peace' project with UNMISS in South Sudan.
5. DefenceMajor Abhilasha Barak, deployed with UNIFIL in Lebanon, received the UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award in June 2026.
6. DefenceLance Havildar Harbhajan Singh and Naib Subedar Sujit Kumar Pradhan were posthumously awarded the UN's Dag Hammarskjöld Medal.
7. ReportTamil poet and lyricist R. Vairamuthu was named for the 60th Jnanpith Award.
8. ReportBengali author Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay won the Saraswati Samman for his novel Har Parvati Katha.
9. WorldYáng Shuāng-zǐ and her translator Lin King were joint winners of the 2026 International Booker Prize.
10. WorldGerman mathematician Gerd Faltings won the Abel Prize 2026, awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
11. WorldThe 2026 Fields Medals went to Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman and Hong Wang.
12. ReportProf. Mahesh Kakde of IISc Bengaluru received the Ramanujan Prize 2026 for his work in algebraic number theory.
13. ReportIndian conservationists Parveen Shaikh (Indian Skimmer) and Dr Barkha Subba (Himalayan salamander) won the 2026 Whitley Awards.
14. WorldProf. Kaveh Madani received the Stockholm Water Prize 2026.
15. WorldSmiljan Radić Clarke of Chile won the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2026.
16. ReportValluvan of Tamil Nadu was named an FAO Soil Farmer Hero.
17. ReportThe Ancient Buddhist Site of Sarnath became India's 45th UNESCO World Heritage Site on 25 July 2026 at the 48th session of the World Heritage Committee in Busan.
18. WorldAntónio Costa and Ursula von der Leyen were the chief guests at India's 77th Republic Day Parade on 26 January 2026.
19. ReportAt the 2026 Republic Day Parade the judges ranked Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir and Kerala as the top state tableaux, and the Ministry of Culture won best central tableau.
20. SportsSourav Ganguly, Anjum Chopra and Kevin Pietersen were inducted into the 2026 ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
21. SchemeIB15 is a diesel blend containing 15 per cent isobutanol.
22. ReportUNESCO says cyberbullying affects one in ten students worldwide and that AI is fuelling new forms of the threat.
23. KarnatakaIn Mysuru Dasara 2026 tableau awards, Mandya won first place in the Mysuru division, and Shivamogga's 'Hase Chittara' won first place in the Bengaluru division.
24. KarnatakaBagalkot won first place in the Belagavi division at Dasara 2026, while the Karnataka Tourism Department took first place in the State-level department category.
25. KarnatakaHindustan Aeronautics Limited won first place in the central-level category of the Dasara 2026 Jumboo Savari tableaux.
26. KarnatakaThe Karnataka Ratna award will be conferred posthumously on actors Dr. Vishnuvardhan and B. Saroja Devi on 19 November 2026.
27. KarnatakaSatavadhani R. Ganesh of Karnataka received a Padma Bhushan in the 2026 Padma Awards, in the field of Art.
28. KarnatakaNovelist Devanura Mahadeva received the Pampa Award, Karnataka's highest literary honour.
29. KarnatakaAnke Gowda M. of Karnataka received a Padma Shri in 2026 for social work.

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1. WorldThe 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for work on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.
2. WorldFrancis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions to the IceCube neutrino observatory and high-energy neutrinos.
3. WorldHenri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai received the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric synthesis.
4. WorldCanadian poet Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature.
5. WorldNavanethem 'Navi' Pillay of South Africa received the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
6. WorldRobert E. Hall and Michael Woodford won the 2026 Nobel in Economic Sciences for research on the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.
7. WorldUzbekistan conferred its Order of Highest Friendship on Prime Minister Modi on 30 August 2026, his 36th international honour.
8. WorldIndonesia gave Prime Minister Modi its highest state decoration, the Bintang Adipura, on 7 July 2026.
9. WorldSlovakia honoured Prime Minister Modi with the Order of the White Double Cross (1st Class) on 15 June 2026.
10. WorldThe FAO awarded Prime Minister Modi its Agricola Medal in Rome on 20 May 2026.
11. WorldIsrael's Knesset gave Prime Minister Modi its Speaker of the Knesset Medal on 25 February 2026, making him the first leader to receive it.
12. SportsCarlos Alcaraz and Elena Rybakina won the 2026 Australian Open singles titles.
13. SportsAlexander Zverev won both the 2026 French Open and US Open men's singles; Jannik Sinner won Wimbledon.
14. SportsMirra Andreeva won the 2026 French Open women's singles and Linda Nosková the Wimbledon women's title.
15. WorldThe 18th BRICS summit was held on 12-13 September 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.
16. WorldIn 2026 the G20 summit is hosted by the United States at Miami, and the G7 summit by France at Évian-les-Bains.
17. WorldThe 2026 SCO summit is hosted by Kyrgyzstan at Bishkek, and the NATO summit by Türkiye at Ankara.
18. WorldThe WTO's 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14) in 2026 is hosted by Cameroon at Yaoundé.
19. SportsThe 2026 Winter Olympics were held from 6 to 22 February at Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
20. SportsThe 2026 FIFA World Cup was played from 11 June to 19 July across the United States, Canada and Mexico.
21. SportsThe 2026 Asian Games were held from 19 September to 4 October in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan; the Commonwealth Games were at Glasgow.
22. DayThe UN has declared 2026 the International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development, of Rangelands and Pastoralists, and of the Woman Farmer.
23. DayWorld Ozone Day, 16 September 2026, carried the theme 'Global Action for a Cooler Planet', marking 10 years of the Kigali Amendment.
24. DayWorld Environment Day 2026 on 5 June was hosted by Azerbaijan at Baku.
25. DayThe 2026 International Tiger Day theme was about securing the future of tigers with Indigenous Peoples and local communities at heart.
26. ReportNITI Aayog member Rajiv Gauba told the 2nd National Urban Conclave that cities cannot be run from State capitals and need empowered city governments.
27. KarnatakaKarnataka's I PU question papers will be set at State level, bringing uniform assessment across colleges.
28. KarnatakaBangalore University will set up placement cells in all its affiliated colleges.
29. KarnatakaWomen account for 58.5% of the milk suppliers of the Karnataka Milk Federation.
30. KarnatakaKarnataka Health Minister U.T. Khader announced a network of 800 ambulances and a separate health policy for women.
31. KarnatakaKarnataka dairy farmers have sought KMF reforms on the Amul model and more village-level animal health investment.

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1. AppointedRetired Supreme Court Chief Justice Bhushan R. Gavai was appointed on 6 November 2026 to head a committee scrutinising forest-rights orders in Tamil Nadu.
2. AppointedLt Gen Sushil Chander Mahant took charge as the Indian Army's Director General of Integrated Training on 1 November 2026.
3. AppointedPedro Alliana was sworn in as Paraguay's president on 6 November 2026 after the Senate removed Santiago Peña.
4. SportsIndia beat Japan in the final to win the men's Asian Champions Trophy in hockey.
5. ReportIndian civil society organisation REACH won the Kochon Prize 2026 for work against tuberculosis, the first Indian organisation to do so.
6. WorldIndia announced a US$500 million line of credit for Guyana on the sidelines of CHOGM.
7. DefenceMalabar 2026 naval exercise began in Japan with India, Australia, Japan and the US; India sent the stealth frigate INS Sahyadri.
8. DefenceINS Amini, the fifth of eight anti-submarine warfare shallow water craft built by GRSE, was commissioned into the Indian Navy.
9. SchemeMeitY released three indigenous foundation models under the IndiaAI Mission: EKA-1, Dhir 2B and Dhir 5B.
10. AppointedRBI formed a technical advisory committee on financial markets chaired by Deputy Governor Rohit Jain.
11. ReportNPCI launched NPCI Tech Solutions Limited (NTSL) as its fourth wholly owned subsidiary.
12. SchemeThe government doubled its 2026-27 rice sales target under OMSS (Domestic) from 25 to 50 lakh metric tonnes.
13. ReportResearchers described Exostoma nasibarbatum, a new hill-stream catfish species, from Manipur.
14. SchemeUIDAI onboarded 300 offline verification seeking entities to widen privacy-centred offline Aadhaar verification.
15. ReportFace authentication reached 80 per cent of Digital Life Certificates in the fifth DLC campaign for pensioners.
16. SchemeAn agreement among DBN, DoT, Telangana and BSNL brings the Amended BharatNet Programme to 12,769 gram panchayats there with ₹3,189 crore of central support.
17. SchemeUttar Pradesh doubled compensation for a death in a natural calamity from ₹4 lakh to ₹8 lakh on 6 November 2026.
18. ReportNITI Aayog launched the India S&T Scoreboard on 3 November 2026 in New Delhi.
19. SchemeNITI Aayog and GIZ India signed an agreement under the NDC-Transport Initiative for Asia Phase II to decarbonise road freight.
20. SchemeNITI Aayog and TEXMiN signed a joint statement of intent to strengthen India's critical minerals ecosystem.
21. KarnatakaBengaluru's ADR week will be held from 13 to 15 November at the Karnataka Judicial Academy.
22. KarnatakaBangalore University will set up placement cells in all its affiliated colleges.

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1. AppointedRajesh Kumar, an IPS officer, took charge as Arunachal Pradesh Director General of Police on 6 November 2026.
2. ReportThe World Bank's International Debt Report 2026, released on 5 November, put Pakistan's external debt at $135.1 billion at the end of 2025.
3. ReportA Bundibugyo-strain Ebola outbreak has been reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
4. WorldShey-Phoksundo National Park lies in Dolpa and Mugu districts of Karnali Province in northwestern Nepal.
5. ReportBachan Singh (1980) upheld the constitutional validity of the death penalty, limiting it to the rarest of rare cases.
6. ReportIndia's forex reserves fell by $2.69 billion to $717 billion in the latest weekly data.
7. SchemeNITI Aayog and TEXMiN signed a joint statement of intent to strengthen India's critical minerals ecosystem.
8. ReportNITI Aayog's Frontier Tech Hub released a Data Centre Evaluation Framework to help States plan sustainable data centre growth.
9. ReportThe India S&T Scoreboard was launched on 3 November 2026 in New Delhi.
10. WorldMyanmar will hold byelections next April.
11. ReportAxiom-4 was the mission that carried Shubhanshu Shukla to the International Space Station.
12. ReportFavipiravir is an antiviral drug that inhibits RNA-dependent RNA polymerase.
13. ReportThe Census on Foreign Liabilities and Assets of Indian Direct Investment Entities for 2025-26 has been announced.
14. SportsMohammed Shami's Test career ended with 229 wickets in 64 Tests.
15. KarnatakaTamil Nadu constituted the 20-member Tamil Nadu Investment Promotion Commission on 3 November 2026.
16. KarnatakaBihar's Education Department barred unauthorised outsiders from government schools during teaching hours on 4 November 2026.
17. KarnatakaThe Kerala High Court ruled that prior sanction under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 was not needed in the SNDP microfinance case.
18. KarnatakaKarnataka's Krishi Mela will be held for three days instead of one day, the Agriculture Minister said.
19. KarnatakaManish Pandey returned to the Karnataka squad for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy after two years.

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1. DayWorld Tsunami Awareness Day is observed on 5 November; its 2026 theme is "Be Tsunami Ready: Resilience Starts With You".
2. ReportUPSC declared the Civil Services Mains 2026 result on 5 November 2026.
3. DefenceTiger Triumph is a tri-service humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise between India and the United States.
4. DefenceDRDO's integrated air defence system combines QRSAM, VSHORADS and a high-energy laser directed-energy weapon.
5. DefenceOfek-19 is an Israeli reconnaissance satellite that uses synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for surveillance.
6. ReportResearchers described Disporum kamakhasiense, a new flowering plant found in forests of Assam and Meghalaya.
7. SchemeIndia's Union Health Ministry proposed Drugs Rules, 1945 amendments to allow immediate suspension of drug manufacturing licences on failed quality tests.
8. SportsNirmala Lakshman's "The Tamils: A Portrait of a Community" won the Sharjah Award for Best International Non-Fiction Book on 4 November 2026.
9. ReportJNCASR researchers developed a silicon chip for terahertz waves aimed at 6G communication.
10. SchemeAs of 5 November 2026, Gujarat had completed 497 AMRUT 2.0 projects worth ₹4,832 crore.
11. ReportThe RBI announced a 3-day Variable Rate Reverse Repo (VRRR) auction under the Liquidity Adjustment Facility on 6 November 2026.
12. AppointedLos Angeles, whose new mayor is India-born Nithya Raman, will host the 2028 Olympics.
13. ReportAmit Shah inaugurated a memorial to the 1857 First War of Independence martyrs at Ambala, Haryana.
14. ReportAdFalciVax is a malaria vaccine developed in India.
15. ReportNaegleria fowleri, the brain-eating amoeba, causes Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM).
16. WorldIndia announced a $500 million Line of Credit extension to Guyana on 5 November 2026.
17. KarnatakaThe Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) published the exam schedule for residential school teachers and other posts.
18. KarnatakaChowdiah Utsava 2026 begins in Bengaluru on 11 November.
19. KarnatakaGKVK in Bengaluru will hold its Krishi Mela on 13 November.
20. KarnatakaGreater Bengaluru Authority set 15 December as the new deadline for road works, as nearly half of ₹2,233 crore of works remain incomplete.
21. KarnatakaIbbaluru metro station in Bengaluru is to be renamed "InMobi Ibbaluru" for ₹65 crore.
22. KarnatakaAbout 22% of landowners in seven villages near Bengaluru have received compensation for the Bidadi township over three months.
23. KarnatakaKSRTC will run 2,600 special buses for Deepavali.
24. KarnatakaKarnataka's Higher Education Department launched the "Mukhyamantri Vidyarthi Sahaya Hasta" scheme offering free online coaching for competitive exams to over 90,000 aspirants.
25. KarnatakaGBA suspended two revenue officials for issuing illegal e-Khatas to more than 100 non-flat properties.

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1. SchemeThe Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment scheduled the launch of the Vayo Samman Rashtriya Abhiyan, a National Intergenerational Bonding Campaign, for 4 November.
2. ReportIRDAI mandated a four-tier motor insurance structure for private cars and two-wheelers on 3 November 2026.
3. SchemeTamil Nadu unveiled its Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) Policy, 2026 in Chennai on 3 November.
4. ReportThe 1st International Maize Conference 2026 was held in Hyderabad, Telangana.
5. SchemeThe government released the 24th PM-KISAN instalment, transferring ₹18,690 crore to over 9.34 crore farmers.
6. ReportAsteroid 2025 PN7 is described as a quasi-moon of Earth.
7. SchemeVyommitra is the humanoid robot developed by ISRO for its human spaceflight programme.
8. ReportThe name of Cyclone Murasu was proposed by India; murasu is a Tamil war drum.
9. WorldUkraine's President Zelenskyy awarded US First Lady Melania Trump the Order of Princess Olga, 1st class.
10. DayWorld Tsunami Awareness Day is observed on 5 November.
11. DayNational Cancer Awareness Day is observed on 7 November.
12. DayNational Legal Services Day is observed on 9 November.
13. DayWorld Science Day for Peace and Development is observed on 10 November.
14. DayNational Education Day, on 11 November, marks the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
15. DayChildren's Day in India is observed on 14 November, the birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru.
16. KarnatakaThe Karnataka Legislative Council has 75 members.
17. KarnatakaVemagal in Kolar district, Karnataka, is the site named for India's first private helicopter final assembly line.
18. KarnatakaVisvesvaraya Technological University has its headquarters at Belagavi.