Current Affairs 2 November 2026: Daily GK for SSC, Railway, Banking, BPSC, BSSC and JSSC

Three items from the last 24 hours are near-certain paper material. Gross GST collection for October 2026 came in at ₹2,31,290 crore, Air Chief Marshal Ashutosh Dixit took charge as the 29th Chief of the Air Staff, and India took both singles titles at the HYLO Open in Germany.

Below are 20 verified facts from 1 and 2 November 2026, grouped the way exams ask them. Each carries the tag of the exam it matters most for. Once you have read them, the matching 15-question quiz is live on the platform.

National

• 1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Bharat Renewable Energy Summit and Expo 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi on 2 November. It runs to 5 November and hosts the 9th International Solar Alliance Assembly and the 4th International Conference on Green Hydrogen. Tag: All exams
• 2. The CISF switched to a sector-based functional command structure from 1 November 2026, creating eight sectors: Power-I (New Delhi), Power-II (Kolkata), Coal (Ranchi), Steel (Bhilai), Petroleum and Natural Gas (Guwahati), West Coast Port (Mumbai), East Coast Port (Chennai) and Government Buildings, Museums, Monuments and MRTS (New Delhi). Tag: SSC / Railway / All exams
• 3. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw flagged off the Bengaluru–Mumbai Vande Bharat Sleeper Express on 1 November from Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal. It is the third Vande Bharat Sleeper, a 16-coach rake with capacity for 823 passengers, numbered 27652/27651 under South Western Railway. Tag: Railway / SSC

International

• 4. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar held bilateral talks on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Atlanta, United States on 30 October. He met Canada's Anita Anand, and the Prime Minister's Canada visit is set for 11 and 12 December. Tag: All exams
• 5. Union Minister Kiren Rijiju represented India at the consecration of 108 stupas at Gelephu Mindfulness City, Bhutan on 1 November. Each stupa stands 15 metres tall along an 11.7-km stretch of the Aie river, and stupa number 76 was dedicated to the Indian Prime Minister. Tag: SSC / Banking / All exams

Economy and Banking

• 6. Gross GST collection for October 2026 rose 22.9% year on year to ₹2,31,290 crore. Net collection after refunds of ₹27,934 crore stood at ₹2,03,356 crore, up 25.6%. Import GST jumped 42.2% to ₹72,246 crore and domestic GST rose 15.8% to ₹1,59,044 crore. This is the second-highest month ever, behind April 2026's ₹2.43 lakh crore. Tag: Banking / SSC / BPSC
• 7. UPI average daily transaction value crossed ₹1 lakh crore for the first time in October 2026, at ₹1,00,871.30 crore. Average daily volume touched a record 821.69 million, against 802.28 million in September. The month totalled about 25.47 billion transactions worth roughly ₹31.5 lakh crore. Tag: Banking / All exams
• 8. The Centre released an additional tax devolution instalment of ₹1,09,019 crore to states on 31 October 2026, the second extra instalment this financial year. Uttar Pradesh received ₹19,208 crore, Bihar ₹10,845 crore, Madhya Pradesh ₹8,010 crore and West Bengal ₹7,866 crore. Tag: BPSC / BSSC / Banking

Sports

• 9. India won both titles at the inaugural Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship in Ahmedabad on 31 October. The women's team beat Uganda 35-15 and the men's team beat Sri Lanka 54-20, finishing unbeaten. Tag: All exams
• 10. At the HYLO Open 2026 (BWF World Tour Super 500) in Saarbrücken, Germany on 1 November, P. V. Sindhu beat Denmark's Line Hojmark Kjaersfeldt 21-12, 21-14, and Lakshya Sen beat Indonesia's Jonatan Christie 21-17, 21-10. It is the first time since 2022 that two Indians won titles at the same Super 500 or higher event. Tag: All exams
• 11. India beat Malaysia 4-2 in the Men's Hockey Asian Champions Trophy 2026 at the Olympian Surjit Singh Hockey Stadium, Jalandhar on 1 November. Captain Harmanpreet Singh scored a hat-trick in the 3rd, 33rd and 58th minutes and leads the scoring chart with 8 goals. India stayed unbeaten on 12 points. Tag: All exams

Awards

• 12. Malayalam writer Maythil Radhakrishnan was selected for the 2026 Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, Kerala's highest literary honour, given by the Kerala Sahitya Akademi on behalf of the state government. Tag: All exams
• 13. Six farmers from Meghalaya received the Krishi Gaurav Samman 2026 at Umiam on 31 October, at the Academic Assembly of the Central Agricultural University, Imphal. Separately, Karnataka announced its 2026 Rajyotsava Awards for 71 achievers (verify). Tag: SSC / Banking

Science and Defence

• 14. ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan declared the NVS-03 navigation satellite mission a success. It was launched by GSLV-F18 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota on 30 October 2026, placed in an orbit of about 38,000 km, then raised by roughly 5,500 km using its own propulsion. It is the third satellite in India's next-generation navigation series. Tag: SSC / Railway / All exams
• 15. Narayanan also said the first rocket from the new Kulasekharapatnam launch site in Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu is expected in March or April 2027. He put Chandrayaan-4 at 2028, cited about 8,000 Gaganyaan-related tests so far, and said India operates 56 satellites. Tag: All exams
• 16. Air Chief Marshal Ashutosh Dixit took over as the 29th Chief of the Air Staff on 1 November 2026, succeeding Air Chief Marshal A. P. Singh, who retired after 42 years of service. His 'VAYU' vision stands for Vigilance and readiness, Aatmanirbharta, Yukti (ingenuity) and Unity of effort. An NDA alumnus, he was commissioned into the fighter stream on 6 December 1986. Tag: SSC / Railway / All exams

Appointments at a glance

Bihar and Jharkhand Special

This is the section most national GK feeds skip, and it is exactly where BPSC, BSSC, Bihar Police, JSSC and JPSC papers pick up marks.

• 17. Bihar received ₹10,845 crore in the Centre's additional tax devolution instalment of ₹1,09,019 crore released on 31 October 2026, the second-largest share after Uttar Pradesh. Tag: BPSC / BSSC / Bihar Police
• 18. The Delhi–Guwahati bullet train corridor was cleared with a route that passes through Patna and Siliguri, along with Agra, Kanpur, Lucknow, Ayodhya, Varanasi and Prayagraj. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced it on 31 October 2026, with an expected Delhi to Guwahati run of under eight hours. Route length, cost and speed figures have not been officially released yet (verify). Tag: BPSC / BSSC / Railway
• 19. Under the CISF's new command structure effective 1 November 2026, the Coal sector headquarters is at Ranchi and the Steel sector headquarters at Bhilai. For JSSC and JPSC aspirants this is a straight one-liner: Jharkhand's capital now heads CISF coal-sector security nationally. Tag: JSSC / JPSC / Bihar Police

Exam-calendar note for both states

The RRB ALP CBT-1 under notification CEN 01/2026 for 11,127 Assistant Loco Pilot posts begins on 3 November 2026, running 3, 4 and 5 November in three shifts. Aadhaar-verified biometric attendance is compulsory, and candidates must carry the original Aadhaar card, a colour e-call letter and a passport-size photograph. Bihar and Jharkhand send one of the largest candidate blocks to this exam, so treat the biometric rule as non-negotiable.

The paper is 75 questions in 60 minutes: Mathematics 20, General Intelligence and Reasoning 25, General Science 20, General Awareness and Current Affairs 10, with a one-third negative mark per wrong answer.

IMD has also forecast heavy rainfall over parts of Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim around 2 and 3 November. If your centre is in a flood-prone district, leave early.

For revision, keep the state anchors straight: Samrat Choudhary (BJP) has been Bihar's Chief Minister since 15 April 2026, the first BJP leader to hold the post, and he represents Tarapur. The Governor of Bihar is Syed Ata Hasnain, the Assembly Speaker is Prem Kumar, and the Leader of the Opposition is Tejashwi Yadav. Jharkhand Foundation Day falls on 15 November.

Important Days

• 20. 2 November is the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, declared by the UN General Assembly through resolution 68/163. The date marks the killing of two French journalists in Mali on 2 November 2013. Tag: All exams

Obituary and books

Eminent Dogri and Hindi writer, novelist, playwright and filmmaker Ved Rahi died at his residence in Thane district, Maharashtra, at the age of 93. Dogri Sanstha Jammu noted his Dinu Bhai Pant Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award (2018) and the Kunwar Viyogi Sahitya-Kala Samman (2020). Remember the language pairing: Ved Rahi goes with Dogri.

Index and rankings revision table

These were released earlier in 2026, not in the last 24 hours, but they are the rank questions that actually appear. Keep them on one page.

One honest caveat before you memorise this

Two items here are softer than the rest. The Delhi to Guwahati bullet train route is confirmed by the Railway Minister's announcement, but the official route length, cost and speed numbers are not out yet, so do not memorise any figure you see floating on social media. The Karnataka Rajyotsava Award count of 71 comes from a secondary report and the final gazette list may differ.

Everything else on this page is cross-checked against at least two independent reports, with the ISRO, GST and Air Force items matching official statements. If a figure here ever clashes with a PIB release, the PIB release wins.

Your next 20 minutes are better spent on the GST and UPI numbers than on anything else on this page. Economy questions repeat across SSC, Railway and all three banking tiers, and October's 22.9% jump is the kind of figure that gets asked twice in one season.

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