Current Affairs 10 November 2026: 20 Exam Ready Facts for SSC, Railway and Banking

The last 24 hours handed you three facts that will almost certainly show up in a question paper: a UN climate summit opened in Antalya with India pushing hard on finance, revised prices for 1,364 anti-cancer formulations came into force, and Indian chess got its 100th Grandmaster. Three marks, sitting there for the taking.

Everything below is dated 9 or 10 November 2026. Where an official release existed, the fact is checked against PIB, RBI, the Indian Navy or UNESCO rather than a news aggregator. Each point carries the exam it matters most for, so you can skip what your syllabus does not touch.

National

• Revised maximum retail prices of 1,364 anti-cancer formulations came into effect on 9 November 2026, and the estimated saving for patients is about ₹3,540 crore a year. The ceiling prices are fixed by the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), which functions under the Department of Pharmaceuticals in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. (Exam tag: All exams)
• Sacred relics of Shakyamuni Buddha reached the Thubchog Gatsel Ling Monastery at Bomdila, Arunachal Pradesh, for a six day public exposition, with the relics arriving on 8 November 2026. Relic expositions are handled by the Ministry of Culture through the International Buddhist Confederation, and Bomdila is the headquarters of West Kameng district. (Exam tag: SSC / Railway)
• TRAI released the Telecommunication Interconnection (Port Charges) (Third Amendment) Regulations, 2026 on 9 November 2026. Port charges are what one telecom operator pays another for the interconnection ports that carry calls between networks, and TRAI is a statutory body set up under the TRAI Act, 1997. (Exam tag: SSC / Railway)
• Modernist painter Arpita Singh died at 89 on 9 November 2026 in Delhi. She was a Padma Bhushan awardee known for crowded, narrative canvases that kept women at the centre, and she remains one of the most recognised names from the post independence generation of Indian painters. (Exam tag: All exams)

Two more items from the same day deserve a line. Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated a 4.03 km elevated corridor connecting ISKCON Junction to the Sanand flyover in Gujarat, and set 2028 as the target year for making the state drug free. Separately, Punjab recorded 1,152 farm fires on Diwali, the sharpest single day rise in stubble burning this season, while parts of Delhi woke up in the severe category of the Air Quality Index. Pollution questions in SSC and Railway papers usually test the AQI bands, so revise those six categories.

International

• COP31, the 31st UN Climate Change Conference, opened at the Antalya Expo Center in Türkiye on 9 November 2026 and runs to 20 November. This is Türkiye's first time as host, and Murat Kurum, the Turkish Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change, is the COP31 President. (Exam tag: All exams)
• Under the Türkiye and Australia power sharing deal struck at COP30 in Belém, Chris Bowen, Australia's Minister for Climate Change and Energy, serves as Vice President and President of Negotiations at COP31, steering the negotiated texts while Türkiye runs the Action Agenda. The World Leaders' Summit is scheduled for 11 and 12 November 2026. (Exam tag: All exams)
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on 9 November 2026, per the Prime Minister's Office. India has kept to a dialogue and diplomacy position on the conflict, and this call is the kind of fact that turns into a one line question on bilateral engagement. (Exam tag: SSC / Railway)

India's negotiating brief at Antalya was set out by Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav in New Delhi on 3 November. India wants a formal decision launching the Climate Finance Work Programme, argues that finance is a developed country obligation under Article 9.1 of the Paris Agreement, and wants the indicators under the Global Goal on Adaptation kept voluntary. It will work with the G77 and China, the Like Minded Developing Countries and BASIC. Türkiye, for its part, is trying to land an Antalya Ocean Declaration, which is a stated goal and not yet an adopted text.

Elsewhere, Pedro Alliana was sworn in as President of Paraguay after the impeachment of Santiago Peña over a bank collapse scandal, with Peña placed under arrest. Union Minister Kiren Rijiju attended the Hajj Conference in Saudi Arabia and spoke on pilgrim welfare.

Economy and Banking

• The RBI published the result of a 4 day Variable Rate Repo (VRR) auction held on 9 November 2026. A VRR auction injects liquidity into the banking system, while a VRRR auction absorbs it, and the RBI ran overnight and three day VRRR auctions earlier in the same week. (Exam tag: Banking)
• The policy repo rate stands at 5.50 per cent after the Monetary Policy Committee raised it by 25 basis points on 7 October 2026, reported as the first increase since February 2023, with the stance shifted to calibrated tightening. The next MPC meeting is scheduled for 2 to 4 December 2026. (Exam tag: Banking)
• The RBI extended the supersession of the Board of Directors of Abhyudaya Co-operative Bank Ltd., Mumbai, in a release dated 9 November 2026. Supersession means the RBI replaces an elected board with an administrator under Section 36AAA of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, and it is a resolution tool, not a licence cancellation. (Exam tag: Banking)
• The RBI also cancelled the Certificate of Registration of Gandhinagar Leasing and Finance Ltd. on 9 November 2026. Once the CoR is cancelled, the company cannot carry on the business of a non banking financial institution as defined in the RBI Act, 1934. (Exam tag: Banking)

One global number from the climate track belongs in your economy notes. The UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2026 puts the annual adaptation bill for developing countries at about 305 billion dollars by 2035, against international public adaptation finance of roughly 28.2 to 31.7 billion dollars in 2024. That gap is the single statistic India leans on when it argues for concessional, largely public finance that does not add to debt. For the record, the RBI's inflation target remains 4 per cent with a band of 2 to 6 per cent, CRR is 3 per cent and SLR is 18 per cent.

Sports

• Anuj Shrivatri became India's 100th chess Grandmaster after winning the 7th ASEAN Plus Individual Open Chess Championship in the Philippines on 8 November 2026. He is from Madhya Pradesh, and India's GM count now sits at a round hundred, a number examiners love. (Exam tag: All exams)
• The third ODI between New Zealand and India was played at Seddon Park, Hamilton, on 10 November 2026, with the result not available at the time of writing. India had already taken the T20I leg 3 to 2, and Glenn Phillips was named Player of the Series. ODI captains on this tour are Shubman Gill for India and Mitchell Santner for New Zealand. (Exam tag: All exams)

Awards

• President Droupadi Murmu will present the Swachh Survekshan 2025-26 awards on 11 November 2026 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. This is the 10th edition of the survey, which is run by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and ranks cities and states on urban sanitation under the Swachh Bharat Mission Urban. (Exam tag: All exams)
• Manuscripts of the Mahabharata, Rajatarangini by Kalhana and Arthashastra by Kautilya were inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Asia Pacific Regional Register on 5 November 2026, at the 11th Session of MOWCAP held in Jakarta, Indonesia. India's tally on this regional register rises to six, after Ramcharitmanas, Panchatantra and Sahrdayaloka Locana were added in 2024. (Exam tag: All exams)
• The three nomination dossiers were prepared by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), and the manuscripts are held by the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in Pune (Mahabharata, a birch bark manuscript in Sharada script), the Oriental Research Institute in Mysuru (Arthashastra, a 16th century palm leaf manuscript in Grantha script) and the Oriental Research Library in Srinagar (Rajatarangini). Union Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat welcomed the inscriptions. (Exam tag: All exams)

Two more honours are worth a glance. Dr Devi Prasad Shetty, founder and chairman of Narayana Health, received France's Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite on 5 November 2026 (verify). At the MOWCAP session itself, 21 items were inscribed out of 28 nominations submitted by 26 countries for the 2025-26 cycle, which is useful context if a question asks how selective the register is.

Science and Defence

• INS Surat arrived at Muscat, Oman, on 9 November 2026 for the 15th edition of the India Oman maritime exercise Naseem Al Bahr. INS Surat is the fourth and final ship of the Project 15B class of stealth guided missile destroyers, built at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, and Naseem Al Bahr translates as Sea Breeze. (Exam tag: Defence / All exams)
• The first ever India Myanmar bilateral tri services HADR exercise, RAHAT MITRA, concluded at Chennai, with the Ministry of Defence release dated 9 November 2026. HADR stands for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief, and a tri services exercise involves the Army, Navy and Air Force together. (Exam tag: Defence)
• The Indian Navy will hold the passing out parade of its largest ever Agniveer batch at INS Chilka on 13 November 2026. INS Chilka, on the shore of Chilika Lake in Odisha, is the Navy's basic training establishment for sailors, and Agniveers are recruited under the Agnipath scheme introduced in 2022. (Exam tag: Defence / Railway)

On the technology side, the DRDO is reported to have carried out flight trials of the indigenously developed Pralay quasi ballistic missile from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast on 5 November 2026 (verify), and to have operationalised a pilot plant for high strength carbon fibre (verify). Pralay is a surface to surface, solid fuelled, short range missile, and the island it is tested from was renamed from Wheeler Island in 2015. Treat both DRDO lines as pending official confirmation until you see the PIB release yourself.

Important Days

• World Science Day for Peace and Development is observed on 10 November every year, under UNESCO. It was proclaimed in 2001 and first marked in 2002, and it grew out of the 1999 World Conference on Science held at Budapest. (Exam tag: All exams)

9 November carried three observances. Uttarakhand Foundation Day marks the carving of the state out of Uttar Pradesh on 9 November 2000, when it was named Uttaranchal and became India's 27th state; it was renamed Uttarakhand in 2007. National Legal Services Day marks the date the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 came into force, which is the statute behind NALSA and free legal aid. World Freedom Day recalls the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Looking a day ahead, 11 November is National Education Day, the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, independent India's first Education Minister.

Today's 15 questions live in a separate quiz set

You will not find MCQs in this page, and that is on purpose. Reading and testing use different parts of your preparation, and mixing them lets your eye slide down to the answer before your brain has tried to retrieve it. That feels productive and teaches you very little.

So the day's 15 questions sit in their own quiz set on ExamAtlas, built from exactly the facts above and pitched a notch above the real paper. Read this digest first, close it, then attempt the quiz cold. The gap between what you thought you knew and what you could actually recall is the only honest measure of a day's current affairs study.

Final word

One caveat on today's set. The three DRDO items and the Devi Prasad Shetty honour are carried from secondary reporting, not from a release we could open on an official site, so they are marked (verify). If a question hinges on the exact date of the Pralay trial, check the PIB page before you trust it.

If you have ten minutes rather than thirty, memorise four things from today: Antalya and Murat Kurum for COP31, 1,364 formulations and ₹3,540 crore for the anti cancer price revision, 100 and Anuj Shrivatri for chess, and 15th edition and Oman for Naseem Al Bahr. Those four carry the highest probability of appearing in a paper in the next six months. Aspirants in Mukherjee Nagar and Rambagh will tell you the same thing: the digest you revise twice beats the digest you read five times.

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