UPSC Daily Current Affairs| One Liners 05-11-2026

One Liners 05-11-2026

Government Policies & Interventions

Silt Management Policy

Bihar becomes first state to introduce Comprehensive silt management policy.

• It is a collaborative environmental and infrastructural program.
• Launched under – ‘Nadi Sanjeevani’ (or Nadi Sanjivani) initiative, by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) and the Government of Bihar.
• Aim – To desilt Bihar’s rivers and waterbodies & use recovered silt, mud, & fine sediments in National Highway projects.
• It also focusing on improving river capacity, maintain river flow in Ganga, Kosi, Kamala-Balan, Gandak, Bagmati.

India’s First Road Safety research and Training Centre

• To be set up in – Saswad, Pune.
• The centre will house an Automated Vehicle Inspection Centre, a driver skills testing track and a Road Safety Training and Research Institute.
• Automated systems will be used to inspect vehicles for brakes, lights, suspension and pollution levels.

Bharatiya Vayuyan Niyam (New Aircraft rules) 2026

• Effect on – Jan 1,2027.
• Enacted under – Bharatiya Vayuyan Adhiniyam 2024, which declared Aircraft rules 1937 legally obsolete.

Aircraft rules 1937 served for 9 decades. 

• Parent act – Aircraft Act 1934.
• Key Provisions
  • Aircraft Registration
  • Aircraft Documentation
  • Restricted Articles
  • Restricted and Prohibited Areas
  • Photography & Videography
  • Flight safety
  • Aircraft security &
  • Other operational restrictions.

Infrastructure

India’s First Bharat Made Bullet Train

• India's first indigenously developed high-speed bullet train, B28.
• It has cleared an important stage of its safety evaluation and is undergoing the vehicle body shell assessment, commonly called the "squeeze test".
• Manufactured in – Bangalore.
• Speed – 320 km/h.
• Journey time – 2 hours and 7 minutes
• Route – 508-km Mumbai–Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Corridor connects Bandra Kurla Complex (Mumbai) to Sabarmati (Ahmedabad).
• 81% funded by – Japan International Cooperation Agency JICA through Official Development Assistance loan (ODA) & the rest by GOI.
• Constructed mainly by – Full Span Launching Method (FSLM).

This unique construction method, is being used for the first time in the country.

FSLM is 10 times faster than the conventional segmental construction technique used for viaduct construction.

Environment

International day for Biosphere reserves

• Observed annually – 3^rd November
• Proclaimed by – UNESCO general conference in its 41^st session.
• Objective – To build genuinely sustainable development everywhere, with full respect for nature and for the living world.

World Jelly fish day

• Observed annually – 3^rd November
• Celebrated – Since 2014
• It marking the migration of jelly fish in the oceans from Southern to Northern Hemisphere.
• It highlights jellyfish diversity, their role in marine ecosystems and the need to understand these often-misunderstood creatures.

• Key characteristics of Jelly Fish
  • They don’t have bones, heart, brain, blood.
  • Their existence is been traced back to earlier than dinosaurs

Security

5th edition of Tiger Triumph exercise 2026

• This is a bilateral tri-service humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) exercise between India and the United States.
• This year’s exercise was a Table Top eXercise (TTX)
• Held at – Maritime Warfare Centre (MWC), Vishakhapatnam on 2^nd Nov 2026.
• Objective – To enhance coordination, joint planning and interoperability between armed forces both Nations.

Sports

Tammer Boxing Tournament 2026

• Edition – 46^th International Tamper Boxing Tournament
• Held in – Tampere, Finland.
• Organised by – Tampere Boxing association since 1977.
• India’s Achievement
  • India finished at the top of the overall medal tally.
  • It won the Best Team Award and a total of 14 medals (4 gold, 2 silvers, and 8 bronze).

World Wrestling Championships 2026

• Held from – 24 October to 1 November, at the Barys Arena in Astana, Kazakhstan.

2^nd time Kazakhstan has hosted the World Championships (after Nur-Sultan in 2019).

• India’s Achievement
  • Manisha Bhanwala – 1st Indian woman secured gold medal in 59 Kg category defeating US – Abigail Nette.

Awards

9th edition - 2026 Heroes of Tomorrow: UN SDG Action Awards

• Announced by – UN SDG action Campaign.
• Aim – To honor, inidividuals, groups and organisations driving transformative action towards UNSDG
• Three categories – Changemaker, Creativity and Resilience.  

• India
• Bihar based women movement called Shikshgarha bags the award this year.
• Mothers of Courage is a grassroots campaign within Shikshagraha movement that brings together first-generation literate mothers and mothers with no formal education in rural India to help keep girls in school and prevent child marriage.