Daily Current Affairs Quiz: November 10, 2026

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Manipur became the first state in Northeast India to establish an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled Career Intelligence Hub. The hub was established under the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS). It aims to integrate artificial intelligence into the state’s education and career guidance ecosystem. The facility will provide students with technology-driven career guidance, personalised counselling and information about emerging career opportunities. The initiative aims to prepare students for changing employment opportunities and future career challenges through AI-based guidance.

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Botanists discovered a new species of wild flowering plant named Begonia siangensis in the Siang Valley of Arunachal Pradesh. The species was found at an altitude of approximately 600 metres in the Upper Siang district, between Bomdo and Jengging. The plant has pale-pink flowers, creeping stems and dark-green, non-variegated leaves. Its scientific name, Begonia siangensis, honours the Siang River Valley, where the species was originally discovered. It belongs to the genus Begonia and the section Platycentrum. It closely resembles Begonia iridescens but differs in its dark-green leaves, rough and corrugated leaf undersides, drooping female flowers and distinctive three-winged seed chambers.

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Resource group for Education and Advocacy for Community Health (REACH), an Indian non-profit organisation working to strengthen the country’s tuberculosis (TB) response, received the Kochon Prize 2026. REACH became the first civil society, non-profit organisation from India to receive this prestigious international recognition. The Kochon Prize is presented by the Kochon Foundation, an independent South Korean non-profit foundation, in partnership with the Stop TB Partnership. The award recognises individuals and organisations making significant contributions to the global fight against tuberculosis.

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A team of Indian astronomers discovered that UBC 63, previously considered a single star cluster, actually consists of two distinct star clusters named UBC 63A and UBC 63B. The star clusters are located approximately 4,892 light-years from Earth in the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery was made using data from the Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). The research combined astronomical observations, machine learning techniques and advanced computer simulations to identify the two separate stellar populations. The two clusters have different ages: UBC 63A is approximately 21 million years old, while UBC 63B is around 562 million years old. Researchers found that the two clusters passed within approximately 23 light-years of each other around six million years ago.

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Anuj Shrivatri, a 22-year-old chess player, became India’s 100th Chess Grandmaster (GM) in November 2026. He achieved this milestone by winning the 7th ASEAN+ Individual Open Chess Championship held in Ozamiz City, the Philippines. He scored 7 points out of 9 rounds to win the championship, despite losing his opening-round match. Anuj Shrivatri also became the first Grandmaster from Madhya Pradesh. India’s legendary chess player Viswanathan Anand became the country’s first Grandmaster in 1988. Before Anuj, S. Aswath and V. S. Rathanvel had become India’s 98th and 99th Grandmasters, respectively.