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UPSC Current Affairs, 6 November 2026

10 stories from the news of the day, each in short with why it matters for Prelims and Mains. Practise their UPSC-style questions and take the daily quiz in CAShorts.

Sci-TechPrelimsGS2

TRAI recommends satellite network provider authorisation and direct-to-device services

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on 5 November 2026 recommended that the Centre create an authorisation for companies that run satellite networks and rent them to telecom operators. It also backed letting ordinary phones connect straight to satellites, over both mobile-satellite and mobile-network spectrum. The Department of Telecommunications is yet to decide.
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PolityGS2Prelims

Supreme Court: Article 22(2)'s 24 hours run from detention, not arrest

The Supreme Court held on 5 November 2026 that the 24 hours to produce a person before a magistrate under Article 22(2) start when police first detain them, not when they record the arrest. Only travel time to the court is left out. Anyone held longer without being produced must be released.
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Sci-TechGS3

CERT-In issues AI security audit guidelines with six-hour incident reporting

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) issued AI Security Auditing Guidelines on 4 November 2026 for AI systems run in India or handling Indian data. Reportable AI security incidents must reach CERT-In within six hours. Systems fall into four risk tiers, Low to Critical. Audits cover nine domains, and logs must be kept for 180 days.
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World & IRPrelimsGS3

US sanctions India-based network over fake registries for Iran's shadow fleet

The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on 4 November 2026 sanctioned four Indian citizens and nine linked entities. It says the Chandigarh-based network supplied false flags and certificates to sanctioned vessels carrying Iranian petroleum. According to the Treasury, the network posed as the ship registries of Guyana, Eswatini, Laos and other countries.
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NationalGS3GS2

Eleven arrested after 100-day dharna for rehabilitation at LPAI land port

Police arrested 11 adivasi residents of Torsa Tea Garden, four women and seven men, on 3 November 2026. They were protesting at a Land Ports Authority of India (LPAI) site in West Bengal's Alipurduar district, on the India-Bhutan border. Residents had held a dharna there for over 100 days seeking rehabilitation and compensation. The FIR followed an LPAI engineer's complaint.
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PolityGS2Prelims

UP Chief Electoral Officer orders Assembly and local body rolls matched

Uttar Pradesh's Chief Electoral Officer said on 4 November 2026 that district officers must match the State's Assembly electoral rolls with panchayat and urban local body rolls. Election Commission sources put the gap between panchayat rolls and the rural Assembly count at nearly 2.4 crore voters. Eligible citizens found missing will be enrolled through Form 6.
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EconomyPrelimsGS2

SEBI allows digital KYC from abroad for NRIs, OCIs and foreign nationals

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on 4 November 2026 relaxed KYC rules for overseas individual investors. Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs), Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and foreign nationals living in FATF-compliant countries will be able to complete KYC digitally without coming to India. Clients in non-compliant countries stay on the existing process.
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EnvironmentPrelimsGS3

India issues guidelines to recognise OECMs towards the 30x30 target

India released guidelines on 3 November 2026 for recognising its Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures (I-OECMs), at a side event of CBD COP-17 in Yerevan, Armenia. Sacred groves, community tanks and seagrass beds outside protected areas, once recognised, count towards the global 30x30 target. Recognition changes neither ownership nor legal status.
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PolityGS2

Supreme Court leaves rotation of SC/ST-reserved seats to Parliament

The Supreme Court on 4 November 2026 declined to order rotation of seats reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The plea covered Parliament and State Assemblies. A Bench led by the Chief Justice of India agreed with the Allahabad High Court. That court had held that rotation, though ideal, is for Parliament to decide.
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NationalPrelimsGS2

Draft Drugs Rules change proposes immediate licence suspension for NSQ drugs

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has put out draft amendments to the Drugs Rules, 1945. A drug's manufacturing licence would be suspended at once when it is declared Not of Standard Quality (NSQ) in a critical test. Today a show-cause notice comes first. The draft, announced on 4 November 2026, invites objections for 30 days.
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