Current Affairs 12 November 2026: 20 Facts Worth Your Revision Time

The Union Cabinet cleared a package it priced at 77,101 crore rupees on 11 November 2026, and buried inside it was the one decision that matters most to banking aspirants: Stand-Up India lives on until 31 March 2031. That single extension has already appeared in IBPS and SBI papers in earlier cycles, so treat it as a confirmed question, not a maybe.

Below are 20 facts from the last 24 hours, each tagged with the exam that is most likely to ask it. Read the tag before you memorise the fact. An SSC aspirant does not need the guarantee fee on a Stand-Up India loan, and a Banking aspirant does not need the built up area of a new museum.

National

• Cabinet package of 77,101 crore rupees: the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved projects and schemes worth this amount on 11 November 2026. (All exams) (verify the headline total)
• Noida to Greater Noida Metro: the Aqua Line extension runs 8.45 km from Noida Sector 51 to Greater Noida Sector 4 at a cost of 2,390 crore rupees, with five elevated stations. (SSC / Railway)
• Yuge Yugeen Bharat National Museum: approved at 3,230 crore rupees in New Delhi, to be built inside the historic North Block and South Block, with completion targeted by March 2031. (SSC / All exams)
• One Nation One Ration Card: a Press Information Bureau backgrounder dated 12 November 2026 put the scheme at all 36 States and Union Territories, with roughly 3.27 crore portability transactions every month. (SSC / Railway)
• Black mass export ban: the Directorate General of Foreign Trade moved lithium ion battery black mass under ITC (HS) code 85491400 from Free to Prohibited, effective 10 November 2026. (SSC / All exams)

The museum figure is the one to watch. It takes over the North Block and South Block, the buildings that housed central ministries for decades, and the first gallery, called Adornment, is expected to open in the second half of 2027. Built up area is about 1.92 million square feet, designed for up to one crore visitors a year.

On the ration card side, the digitisation numbers are the examinable part. The release counts 20.51 crore ration cards in the central system, 98.8 percent of them Aadhaar linked, and 71.52 crore e-KYC completions as on 30 September 2026. Electronic point of sale devices now run at 5.50 lakh of the country's 5.51 lakh fair price shops. Two scheme names sit under it that papers like to ask: SARTHAK-PDS for ration transport support, and SMART-PDS for technology modernisation.

International

• Iran and Argentina: Iran's Foreign Ministry designated the Argentine Navy and Air Force as terrorist organisations on 11 November 2026, calling the step reciprocal. (All exams)
• Greenland tsunami warning: researchers flagged two unstable slopes in the Uummannaq Fjord system of central West Greenland as capable of triggering tsunamis, in a study published in Communications Earth and Environment. (SSC / All exams)

The Greenland study is worth one line of your notes because of the journal, not the geography. Examiners pair a place name with a publication name, and Communications Earth and Environment is the detail most candidates drop.

Economy and Banking

• Stand-Up India extended: the Cabinet gave the scheme a five year extension to 31 March 2031, backed by a credit guarantee corpus of 4,111 crore rupees and a target of 2.5 lakh additional entrepreneurs. (Banking)
• Fertiliser subsidy: 62,370 crore rupees approved for phosphatic and potassic fertilisers for the Rabi 2026-27 season, running 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027. (SSC / Banking)
• Treasury Bill cut-offs: at the Reserve Bank auction of 11 November 2026, the implicit yield came to 5.8681 percent on the 91 day bill, 6.5183 percent on the 182 day, and 6.6394 percent on the 364 day. (Banking)
• Steel scrap futures: the National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange launched India's first price reporting agency based steel scrap futures on 11 November 2026, on the HMS 80:20 grade. (Banking)

The loan window is the first thing to fix in your memory. Stand-Up India lends above 10 lakh rupees and up to 1 crore rupees, covering as much as 85 percent of project cost, and it is meant for women, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe entrepreneurs setting up new units in manufacturing, services, trading or agriculture allied work. The same Cabinet decision also carried the Credit Guarantee Fund for Micro Units to 31 March 2031, with a corpus of 5,000 crore rupees.

Here is the part of the Stand-Up India fine print that separates a prepared candidate from a guesser. The guarantee fee is 0.5 percent with no extra risk premium, the guarantee covers 85 percent of the loan, repayment runs to a maximum of seven years including a moratorium of up to 18 months, and the fund is administered by the National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company. For a company rather than an individual, at least 51 percent of shareholding and control must sit with a woman or an SC or ST entrepreneur. The scheme has reached more than 2.75 lakh such borrowers since launch, at a design rate of two loans per bank branch.

Two more Reserve Bank items from 11 November 2026 round out the banking section. The central bank announced a conversion and switch of government securities worth 25,000 crore rupees, with the auction set for 16 November 2026 on the e-Kuber platform and settlement the following day. Separately, the liquidity corridor held with the Standing Deposit Facility at 5.25 percent and the Marginal Standing Facility at 5.75 percent, which places the policy repo rate at 5.50 percent. The average daily cash reserve requirement for the fortnight ending 15 November 2026 stood at 8,16,655 crore rupees.

Sports

• India at the Youth Olympics: at the Dakar 2026 Summer Youth Olympics in Senegal, India stood at three silver and five bronze for a total of eight medals, with no gold. (All exams)
• Dhinidhi Desinghu's double: the swimmer took bronze in both the women's 100 m freestyle and the women's 200 m freestyle. (All exams)

Tanvi Patri's silver in badminton women's singles on 5 November 2026 is the third of India's three silvers, alongside Khushbu Darjada in judo and Taniya in beach wrestling.

An honest caveat on this table. The Games close on 13 November 2026, so the tally can still move, and India has not won a medal since 8 November. Learn the athlete and the event rather than the running total, because the total is the part that will be stale by the time you sit your paper.

Awards and Honours

No major national award was announced in the last 24 hours. That happens, and padding the section with an older award would only waste your revision time. Two honours worth noting did land:

• Abhishek Awasthi: aged 43, he was elected Mayor of the City of Greater Bendigo in Victoria, Australia, for the 2026-27 term, taking the oath on 9 November 2026, and is reported as the first person of Indian origin in the post. (All exams)
• Goa tops an access index: Goa ranked first among States and Union Territories on the Access (In)Equality Index from the Centre for New Economics Studies at O. P. Jindal University, with a score of 0.67. (SSC / All exams) (verify the edition year)

Science and Defence

• Sea Vigil 26 begins: the fifth edition of the pan India coastal defence exercise started on 11 November 2026 and runs to 19 November, led by the Indian Navy and involving 21 agencies. (Defence / All exams)
• INS Betwa refit contract: the Ministry of Defence signed a 498.58 crore rupee contract with Cochin Shipyard Limited in New Delhi on 11 November 2026 for the normal refit and re-powering of the ship. (Defence)
• Technology Development Board funding: a Press Information Bureau release of 12 November 2026 recorded a Technology Development Board agreement with Astrom for research, development and innovation support of 64.05 crore rupees. (SSC / All exams)
• Coldest condensate on record: a Chinese team cooled rubidium atoms aboard the Tiangong space station to 9.7 picokelvins, a record low for a Bose Einstein condensate. (All exams)

Sea Vigil runs in two parts, and the split is the sort of detail a Defence paper asks. The Coastal Defence and Security Readiness Evaluation phase covers 11 to 17 November, and the Sea Phase falls on 18 and 19 November. Five ministries take part: Defence, Home Affairs, Ports Shipping and Waterways, Petroleum and Natural Gas, and Fisheries Animal Husbandry and Dairying. The exercise was conceptualised in 2018 after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, and it sets the stage for the Navy's biennial TROPEX exercise.

One space item from slightly outside the window is still worth your notes, because it keeps appearing in papers. On 30 October 2026, GSLV-F18 placed the NVS-03 navigation satellite in its intended orbit.

Important Days

• National Education Day: the Ministry of Human Resource Development announced on 11 September 2008 that 11 November would be observed every year from 2008 onwards. (SSC / Railway)

World Pneumonia Day, today's observance, was first held on 12 November 2009, when more than 100 organisations came together as the Global Coalition against Child Pneumonia.

For National Education Day, remember the tenure and not just the name. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad served as education minister from 15 August 1947 to 2 February 1958, and that date pair is the harder half of the question.

Why today's 15 questions sit in a separate quiz

You will not find a single multiple choice question in this post. Today's 15 questions are published as a separate quiz set on ExamAtlas, and that split is deliberate.

Reading and testing use different parts of your preparation. When the answer sits four lines below the fact, your brain recognises it instead of recalling it, and recognition feels like knowledge without being knowledge. Sit the quiz cold, a few hours after reading this, and the score you get is the score you would get in an exam hall.

ExamAtlas keeps the daily quiz free, and the AI analytics on it show you topic wise accuracy, so a weak run on schemes and a strong run on sports show up as separate lines rather than one blended percentage.

Final word

If you have only ten minutes with this page, spend them on the Economy and Banking section. Six of today's 20 facts sit there, the figures are precise enough to be asked verbatim, and scheme extensions like Stand-Up India tend to be asked in the very next cycle after approval.

One caution before you file these away. The 77,101 crore rupee headline total did not reconcile against the individual components we could confirm, and the official Cabinet release was not readable at the time of writing, so check that number on pib.gov.in before you quote it in a test. The component figures are solid. The total carries a question mark, and you are better off knowing which is which.

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