Daily and monthly current affairs mapped to syllabus topics and related PYQs.
On 3 October 2026 the Ministry of Education approved five Centres of Excellence for Classical Assamese, Bengali, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit, hosted by Tezpur University, Visva-Bharati, Deccan College Pune, Central University of Odisha and Central University of Gujarat. These five got classical status in October 2024, taking India's total to 11 classical languages.
3 Oct 2026
QNu Labs, with BISAG-N and IIT Gandhinagar, demonstrated India's first free-space quantum key distribution (QKD) link over 5.56 km on the night of 27-28 September 2026. The quantum bit error rate stayed below 5 per cent and secure keys were made at 230-260 bps, then used with BISAG-N's Vedic Kavach post-quantum cryptography platform.
3 Oct 2026
On 1 October 2026 NABKISAN Finance, a NABARD subsidiary, listed India's first social bond dedicated only to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) on the NSE. The issue was oversubscribed 1.8 times and raised ₹180 crore. The five-year bond pays 8.10 per cent, matures in September 2031 and is rated CRISIL AAA and CARE AAA.
3 Oct 2026
PM-SETU, launched on 4 October 2025 to upgrade 1,000 Government ITIs through a hub-and-spoke model, has identified 850 ITIs and approved 14 ITI clusters worth ₹3446 crore in its first year. The scheme has a ₹60,000 crore outlay shared by the Centre, States and industry, and also upgrades five NSTIs.
3 Oct 2026
At the G20 Trade Ministers' Meeting in Milwaukee, USA, concluding on 2 October 2026, India said it has no structural excess capacity in the sectors named by the G20 Presidency. It argued that trade distortions should be handled through WTO-consistent anti-dumping and countervailing duties, backed MFN and consensus, and wanted the two-tier dispute settlement system restored.
2 Oct 2026
On 2 October 2026 the Ministry of Mines reported that two limestone blocks in Anantnag, Koot-Kapran and Wantrag, had been auctioned, a first for the UT of Jammu and Kashmir. The J&K Government entrusted the auction to the Union Ministry of Mines, which used a transparent competitive process under the Central mineral auction system.
2 Oct 2026
On 2 October 2026 the Mumbai Port Authority declared its Jawahar Dweep Marine Oil Terminal plastic-free, making it India's first plastic-free oil terminal. The Union Ports Minister marked it at the port's Swachhata Abhiyan on Gandhi Jayanti, honoured sanitation workers and dedicated the port's Oil Spill Response facilities to the nation.
2 Oct 2026
On 2 October 2026 tigress T138, translocated from Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Bihar, was released in Buxa Tiger Reserve, West Bengal. It begins a phased Tiger Reintroduction Programme to rebuild a self-sustaining tiger population in Buxa, after years of prey build-up, grassland restoration and community work under a project supported by NTCA and WII.
2 Oct 2026
On 2 October 2026 the Government, in consultation with the UT of Ladakh, identified 28 places and features in Ladakh by standard names on the official Survey of India map. They include peaks such as Atisha Giri, Kanishka Peak and Zorawar Peak, the Chapchingal and Shachmirk passes, Skamri Glacier, Guru Rinpoche Lake and Yangpa River.
2 Oct 2026
The Centre released ₹1,423.30 crore to States and UTs over 2022-23 to 2024-25 to implement the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 and the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. States report 217 Exclusive Special Courts in 15 States and UTs. Yet 65,646 cases were registered in 2024 and 3,92,006 were pending trial at year end.
1 Oct 2026