Daily and monthly current affairs mapped to syllabus topics and related PYQs.
On 5 October 2026 the President appointed three High Court Chief Justices as judges of the Supreme Court: Justice Sunita Agarwal (Gujarat), Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya (Delhi) and Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh (Telangana). The first two have Allahabad as their parent High Court and the third Jharkhand.
5 Oct 2026
On 5 October 2026 a barge with 540 tonnes of methanol from Assam Petro-Chemicals, Namrup, left Bogibeel terminal in Dibrugarh for Dhaka. It travels about 768 km on National Waterway-2 and then the Indo-Bangladesh Protocol Route, about 1,300 km in all. It is the first cargo from upper Assam to a foreign port since 1947.
5 Oct 2026
India and Japan launched the Operational Manual for their Joint Crediting Mechanism in New Delhi on 30 September 2026. Under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement, the mechanism lets Japanese low-carbon technology be deployed in India and the resulting emission cuts be issued as credits. The manual sets the full project cycle, from idea note to credit issuance.
5 Oct 2026
During the Swiss President's State Visit to India from 5 to 7 October 2026, the two countries signed a Migration and Mobility Partnership offering multiple-entry visas of up to five years and renewable one-year student permits. A Young Professionals agreement allows 300 exchanges a year each way, which may rise to 500. A transport technology MoU was also signed.
5 Oct 2026
On 5 October 2026 KJP21, a 32-month-old Indian-born female cheetah, gave birth to five cubs at Kuno National Park. India now has 60 cheetahs, 41 of them born in India. KJP21 is the third Indian-born female to breed, and the father is from Botswana, starting a Botswanan lineage in India.
5 Oct 2026
The Department of Telecommunications' Sanchar Saathi portal, launched in May 2023, has crossed 30 crore visits. It has blocked 60.96 lakh lost or stolen phones, traced 37.85 lakh and helped recover over 14 lakh. Citizen reports through Chakshu feed the Financial Fraud Risk Indicator, which has helped prevent suspected losses of over ₹5,000 crore.
5 Oct 2026
On 3 October 2026 four CAQM flying squads inspected 25 stretches, about 35 km, of Delhi's Inner and Outer Ring Road managed by PWD. They found 17 violations of heavy visible road dust and construction and demolition waste. CAQM directed agencies to clean roads regularly to stop traffic from lifting dust back into the air.
4 Oct 2026
The Textiles Ministry, through the Cotton Corporation of India, held a reform showcase in Hyderabad on 6 October 2026 under Reform Utsav 2026. It covered the Kapas Kisan digital platform for registration, slot booking and Aadhaar-enabled payments, traceability and the Kasturi Cotton Bharat brand, and the High-Density Planting System to lift yields.
4 Oct 2026
A PIB backgrounder says the National Supercomputing Mission, launched in April 2015, had deployed 40 supercomputers with a combined 68 petaflops by September 2026, including 13 above 1 petaflop. The target is 50 systems above 123 petaflops. India now makes its own Rudra servers, interconnects, cooling and system software.
4 Oct 2026
On 4 October 2026 two captive-bred male Great Indian Bustards were released into the wild at Sam in Desert National Park, Jaisalmer. The breeding centres at Sam and Ramdevra hold 97 birds, 57 of them bred in captivity. The release marks a shift in the decade-old recovery programme from breeding birds to putting them back in the wild.
4 Oct 2026