Current Affairs 11 November 2026: 20 Exam-Ready Facts for SSC, Railway and Banking

President Droupadi Murmu hands out the 10th Swachh Survekshan awards at Vigyan Bhawan today, and the assessment behind them covered more than 4,751 cities on 43 indicators. That single line has already appeared in three shapes in past SSC papers: the edition number, the city count, and who confers the award.

Below are the 20 facts from the last 24 hours that an SSC, Railway or Banking paper would actually ask. Each one carries the exam it matters most for. Numbers are taken from the ministry release or the official auction result wherever one exists, and anything that only an aggregator carried is marked so you know the difference.

National

• Swachh Survekshan 2025-26 awards: President Droupadi Murmu confers the 10th edition awards at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 11 November 2026, with a new "Swachh Shahar Jodi" category added this year. Tag: All exams
• Census 2027 Phase II dates locked: Self-enumeration runs 10 to 24 January 2027, house-to-house enumeration 25 January to 28 February 2027, and the reference moment is 00:00 hours on 1 March 2027. Tag: SSC / Railway
• Model Code of Conduct widened: The Election Commission on 10 November extended MCC restrictions to retired officials engaged by state governments, writing to the five poll-bound states and UTs. Tag: All exams
• Namo Yamuna River Safari launched: Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal opened Delhi's first recreational Yamuna cruise at Sonia Vihar on 10 November, a 6 km round trip on National Waterway-110 developed by IWAI. Tag: SSC / Railway

Two more national items are worth a line each. The Ministry of Home Affairs closed Special Campaign 6 (2 to 31 October 2026) with 7,963 sites cleaned against a target of 6,757, and scrap disposal worth Rs 10.17 crore. Indian Railways did the same exercise and beat its own target by a wide margin, earning Rs 628.49 crore from scrap against a Rs 600 crore goal, while freeing 6,20,121 square feet of space. Railway aspirants should remember that scrap-revenue figure; RRB general awareness has asked campaign numbers before.

The Supreme Court also moved its suo motu "digital arrest" matter forward on 10 November. The bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant asked intermediaries to file their anti-scam steps with I4C, and WhatsApp told the court it had acted against 9,400 accounts. Next hearing is 23 November. The examinable part here is I4C, the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre, which sits under the Ministry of Home Affairs.

International

• India to send 1,75,025 Haj pilgrims in 2027: The Bilateral Haj Agreement was signed at Jeddah on 9 November 2026 after Union Minister Kiren Rijiju's talks with Saudi Haj and Umrah Minister Dr Tawfiq bin Fawzan Al-Rabiah. Tag: All exams
• India's COP31 opening statement: At UNFCCC COP31 in Antalya, Turkiye, India's statement on 10 November was delivered by Narendra Bhooshan, Secretary in the Environment Ministry, pressing CBDR-RC and Article 9.1 of the Paris Agreement. Tag: All exams
• First India-Lebanon Foreign Office Consultations: Held in New Delhi on 9 November and co-chaired by Sripriya Ranganathan for India and Abdel Sattar Issa for Lebanon, with trade, digital public infrastructure and pharmaceuticals as priority areas. Tag: SSC

Alongside those, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on 9 November and offered Indian help in building food corridors, days before Russian, Ukrainian and American negotiators were due to meet in Abu Dhabi from 10 November. The COP31 World Leaders' Summit itself runs on 11 and 12 November at Antalya, so expect a second round of COP31 questions next week. For a Banking or SSC paper, the two things to fix in memory are the host city and the Paris Agreement article India invoked.

Economy and Banking

• Abhyudaya Co-operative Bank supersession extended: RBI on 9 November extended the board supersession of Abhyudaya Co-operative Bank Ltd, Mumbai, by one year from 24 November 2026, using Section 36AAA read with Section 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949. Tag: Banking
• Unemployment rate eases to 5.1 per cent: The PLFS Quarterly Bulletin for July to September 2026, released by MoSPI on 10 November, puts the all-India unemployment rate at 5.1 per cent against 5.4 per cent, with labour force participation up to 55.5 per cent. Tag: Banking / SSC
• Coal gasification scheme opens Round 3: The Coal Ministry's Rs 37,500 crore scheme for surface coal and lignite gasification closed Round 2 with two NTPC applications and opened Round 3 on 10 November, with 11 January 2027 as the last date. Tag: SSC / Railway
• NBFC registration cancelled: RBI on 9 November cancelled the Certificate of Registration of Gandhinagar Leasing and Finance Ltd, which can no longer transact the business of a non-banking financial institution. Tag: Banking

The weekly state-development-loan auction on 9 November is the other number a Banking aspirant should carry. Eleven states and one union territory had notified Rs 29,050 crore; RBI accepted Rs 27,083.882 crore, with Tamil Nadu taking the largest share at Rs 9,500 crore across four securities and cut-off yields spread roughly between 7.6 and 8.15 per cent. RBI also notified a re-issue of the 6.94 per cent GS 2036 for Rs 34,000 crore, with the auction on 13 November and a Rs 2,000 crore green-shoe option.

Equity markets closed the week before Diwali-Balipratipada on a mild positive note: the Sensex added 107 points to 81,107 and the Nifty gained 58 points to 25,045 on 9 November, with the rupee at 93.94 to the dollar. Both exchanges were shut on 10 November.

Index revision (not from today's cycle)

No new global index was released in the last 24 hours, so that row is a revision rather than today's news. Honest caveat: index questions in SSC CGL have been asked up to a year after release, which is exactly why a quiet news day is a good day to re-read the ranking table instead of skipping the section.

Sports

• India gets its 100th chess Grandmaster: Anuj Shrivatri of Katni, Madhya Pradesh, earned the GM title on 8 November by winning the 7th ASEAN Plus Individual Open Chess Championship at Ozamiz City in the Philippines, and the Prime Minister congratulated him on 10 November. Tag: All exams
• Third India vs New Zealand ODI washed out: The Hamilton match on 10 November was abandoned because of rain, leaving India ahead 2-0 in the five-match series. Tag: All exams
• ISSF World Championship silver in Doha: India's women's 25 m standard pistol team of Niveditha Veloor Nair, Manvi Jain and Simranpreet Kaur Brar won silver on 9 November, Niveditha added an individual bronze, and India's tally reached 7 medals. Tag: All exams
• Mandhana to lead in South Africa: Squads announced on 9 November name Smriti Mandhana captain across all three formats, with Deepti Sharma as Test and ODI deputy and Shafali Verma as the T20I deputy. Tag: All exams

One frame to keep in mind for the chess item: Viswanathan Anand became India's first Grandmaster in 1988, and it took 38 years to reach a hundred. Shrivatri is the first Grandmaster from his state, and he took the title through FIDE's direct-title route by winning the event outright rather than through three norms.

Awards

• Booker Prize 2026 to M. John Harrison: The 81-year-old British writer won on 9 November for his novel The End of Everything, becoming the oldest winner in the prize's history and taking the 50,000 pound purse. Tag: All exams
• India takes five medals at IOAA-Jr 2026: At the 5th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics Junior at Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand, from 1 to 8 November, India won 2 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze among 104 participants from 25 countries. Tag: All exams

The gold medallists at IOAA-Jr were Siddharth Laxmisha from Puducherry and Swara Srujal Patel from Gujarat. Aarna Chaplot and Krish Bhaskar took silver, and Akshara Gulab Ambone the bronze. Olympiad medal counts show up in Railway and SSC general awareness more often than aspirants expect, usually as "how many medals did India win".

Science and Defence

• IIT Jodhpur builds a lighter refractory alloy: A team led by Dr Saurabh Nene reported a niobium-rich alloy with density near 7.6 g/cm3 against 9 to 10 for the standard C-103, and oxidation weight gain of 43.48 mg/cm2 against 258 after 24 hours at 1,000 degrees Celsius, published in Materials and Design. Tag: Defence / SSC
• Annual Joint HADR Exercise 2026: The humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise begins at Air Force Station Jamnagar, Gujarat, on 17 November 2026, drawing in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and NDMA. Tag: Defence

The alloy matters because C-103 is the niobium alloy used in rocket nozzles and hot-section parts, and a lighter substitute with better oxidation resistance is a direct import-substitution story. For a Defence or SSC science question, the two numbers to hold are the density and the oxidation figure, both against C-103.

Important Days

• National Education Day on 11 November: The day marks the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, independent India's first Education Minister, and has been observed since the Ministry of Human Resource Development announced it in 2008. Tag: All exams

World Science Day for Peace and Development was proclaimed by UNESCO in 2001 and first observed in 2002. Its 2026 theme is carried as "Common ground through science diplomacy" by exam-prep sources; we could not open the UNESCO page to confirm it, so the row is marked (verify). Treat the day and the proclaiming body as safe, and the theme as provisional until UNESCO's own page is readable.

Today's 15 questions are in a separate quiz file

You will not find MCQs in this post, and that is deliberate. Reading and testing use different parts of your attention, and when the answer sits three lines below the fact, your brain recognises it instead of retrieving it. That feels like learning and scores like guessing.

So today's 15 questions live in their own set on ExamAtlas, built from these same facts and pitched slightly above the real paper. Read this page once, shut it, then attempt the set cold. The gap between how many facts you felt you knew and how many you could pull back under a timer is the only honest measure of a current-affairs day.

What to carry forward from today

If you have five minutes and not fifty, memorise four things from this page: the Swachh Survekshan edition number and city count, the Haj 2027 quota of 1,75,025, the unemployment rate of 5.1 per cent for July to September 2026, and the fact that India's 100th Grandmaster is Anuj Shrivatri. Those four have the highest chance of appearing in an SSC, RRB or IBPS paper in the next six months.

One caveat before you file this away. Several of today's figures, including the PLFS numbers and the SDL auction amounts, come from releases published late on 10 November, and revised figures sometimes follow within a week. If a mock test gives you a slightly different number for the same item, check the ministry release date before assuming the mock is wrong.

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