Daily Current Affairs 2 November 2026

The 2 November 2026 edition opens with two deep dives. The first is the Ministry of Defence’s contracts for eight Next Generation Corvettes, worth Rs 53,866.50 crore, with GRSE (five ships) and GSL (three), which the Ministry of Defence calls the first project in which the ships will be designed by the Indian Navy and built by DPSUs selected through a competitive process. The second is the Supreme Court’s dismissal of the Centre’s appeal on the Ravva foreign arbitral awards, which leaves in place the Delhi High Court’s judgment of 1 July 2026 permitting enforcement of the 2004 and 2016 awards in favour of Vedanta and Ravva Oil (Singapore), Bar & Bench reported.

The roundup covers the Supreme Court setting aside the Rajasthan State Election Commission’s refusal of a voter awareness campaign before the Panchayati Raj polls, the VB-G RAM G Grievance Redressal Rules, 2026, gross GST of over ₹2.31 lakh crore in October, Coal India’s highest-ever monthly output of 67.2 MT and Severe Cyclonic Storm Murasu, expected to cross the south Andhra Pradesh coast, with Digi Yatra trials for international flyers, Soreng’s Organic Fisheries Cluster, Bhutan’s 108 Stupas at Gelephu, the extradition of Sourabh Chandrakar and Kimi Antonelli’s Formula 1 title. Two editorials complete the edition: from The Hindu, Anukriti Negi, Priyabrata Sahoo and Santosh Kumar Dash on why falling unemployment hides a lack of decent work; and from The Indian Express, Montek S Ahluwalia, Shishir Gupta and Rishita Sachdeva on India’s steel policy for 2047, protection against competitiveness. A UPSC-pattern quiz closes the day.