Current affairs compilation: October 2025
Pick a date on the calendar to read that day's current affairs. Full month list below for revision.
Friday, 31 October 2025
5 items- Sardar Patel’s 150th JayantiGS1 · Modern history
- India-US defence framework talks at ADMM-PlusGS2 · India-US
- First fully digital Marine Fisheries CensusGS3 · Fisheries
- Delhi’s best Jan-Oct air quality in eight yearsGS3 · Air pollution
- Central accounts to September: 49.5% of receipts inGS3 · Budget
Full October list
1 October
- FIU-IND notices 25 offshore crypto exchanges
- India-EFTA TEPA comes into force
- Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses: ₹11,440 crore, 2025-31
- Rabi MSP 2026-27: wheat at ₹2,585
- RBI holds repo at 5.50%; growth forecast raised to 6.8%
2 October
- National Consumer Helpline: 3,981 GST 2.0 complaints and queries
- NPS Diwas: 9 crore subscribers, ₹15.5 lakh crore AUM
3 October
- ₹62,000 crore youth initiatives; 1,200 skill labs in JNVs and EMRSs
- NITI tax paper on permanent establishment for foreign investors
- Swasth Nari Sashakt Parivar Abhiyaan: 18 lakh health camps
- Textile PLI window extended to 31 December 2025
4 October
- Employment up 16.83 crore in six years, says Labour Ministry
- How should free PDS grain enter the CPI?
- India-Singapore at 60
5 October
- Arunachal Pradesh gets its first commercial coal mine
- Health Ministry meets states on cough syrup safety
- Leprosy prevalence down to 0.57 per 10,000
- People’s Plan Campaign and Gram Panchayat Development Plans
6 October
- Kautilya Economic Conclave 2025
- NATPOLREX-X oil spill exercise off Chennai
- NITI Trade Watch: trade at USD 441 billion in Q4 FY25
- Wildlife Week 2025: human-wildlife coexistence
7 October
- DRDO releases Indian Radio Software Architecture standard
- Four rail multitracking projects worth ₹24,634 crore
- India-Brazil Trade Monitoring Mechanism meets
- MeitY workshop on takedown notices under the IT Act
- PM Surya Ghar: PSBs sanction 5.79 lakh rooftop solar loans
8 October
- 93rd Air Force Day: CDS on Operation Sindoor and IACCS
- Draft Shram Shakti Niti 2025 put out for comments
- Navi Mumbai International Airport inaugurated
9 October
- First India-Australia Defence Ministers’ Dialogue
- India launches National Red List Roadmap at IUCN Congress
- NPS and APY assets cross ₹16 lakh crore
- Starmer in India: India-UK joint statement
10 October
- Bharat Taxi: cooperative ride-hailing with NeGD support
- G20 Trade and Investment Ministers meet in Gqeberha
- NITI paper on decriminalising tax offences
- Tele-MANAS app in 10 more languages
- India-Afghanistan joint statement after FM Muttaqi’s visit
11 October
- ICGS Sachet visits Maputo with relief supplies
- New Delhi 6G declaration: 6G as a global public good
- PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana launched
12 October
- AI in India: ₹10,300 crore mission, 38,000 GPUs
- Purple Fest: accessibility tools for persons with disabilities
13 October
- Codex spices committee meets in Guwahati
- Defence capex: 51% used by September
- First National Household Income Survey from February 2026
- LEAPS 2025 launched on PM GatiShakti’s 4th anniversary
- India and Canada agree a New Roadmap
14 October
- Google AI hub with gigawatt-scale data centre in Visakhapatnam
- GRAP Stage I invoked as Delhi AQI turns “Poor”
- India hosts UN troop contributors’ Chiefs Conclave
- WPI inflation at 0.13% in September 2025
- Mongolia President’s State Visit: 70 years of ties
15 October
- Draft rules under the National Sports Governance Act, 2025
- DRDO’s combat parachute tested at 32,000 feet
- Exports April-September 2025 at USD 413 billion
- Grants for ex-servicemen doubled
- World Food Day 2025
16 October
- G20 environment ministers meet in Cape Town
- India and Brazil agree to deepen the MERCOSUR-India PTA
- India at WHO SEARO: healthy ageing through primary care
17 October
- 100th Network Planning Group meeting under PM GatiShakti
- “Aapki Poonji, Aapka Adhikar”: unclaimed assets campaign
- HAL Nashik: third Tejas Mk1A line, second HTT-40 line
18 October
- First BrahMos batch from Lucknow facility
- Nafithromycin: India’s first indigenously discovered antibiotic
- Police Commemoration Day: the Hot Springs ambush of 1959
- Titanium and superalloy plant opens in Lucknow
19 October
- DRI seizes Chinese firecrackers at Tuticorin
- GRAP Stage II invoked as Delhi AQI nears 300
- Notaries (Amendment) Rules, 2025 raise caps in four states
- SDRF advance of ₹1,950.80 crore to Karnataka and Maharashtra
20 October
- PM’s Diwali on INS Vikrant
- RBI Bulletin: CPI at lowest since June 2017; steel dumping study
- RBI Bulletin: CPI at lowest since June 2017; steel dumping study
21 October
- PFRDA consults on valuing G-secs in NPS
- UDAN at 9: 649 routes, 93 airports
- XV FC grants of ₹730 crore to rural local bodies in Gujarat and Haryana
22 October
- Benefit sharing: ₹67 lakh to Dapur BMC for soil microbes
- Goyal at UNCTAD XVI in Geneva
- India 9th in forest area, 3rd in annual forest gain: FAO
- NHAI to survey 20,933 km with network survey vehicles
23 October
- Banking Laws Amendment: up to four nominees from 1 November
- DAC clears ₹79,000 crore proposals
- DAY-NRLM: 10 crore households in 90.9 lakh SHGs
- Defence Procurement Manual 2025 released
- International Snow Leopard Day: #23for23
- IT Rules amended: safeguards on takedown orders
24 October
- Bharat International Rice Conference 2025
- Draft ISI Bill, 2025: comments till 3 November
- INS Vikrant: 76% indigenous content
- LC75 and BLC options for central employees under NPS/UPS
- National Blockchain Framework: 34 crore documents verified
25 October
- 22 languages, digitally: Bhashini and BharatGen
- Centre’s strategy against Naxalism: target March 2026
- Maha MedTech Mission launched by ANRF, ICMR and Gates Foundation
- Two more Centres of Excellence under critical mineral mission
26 October
- 22nd ASEAN-India Summit: Timor-Leste joins ASEAN
- Jal Jeevan Mission: 15.72 crore homes with tap water
- Maritime India: 95% of trade by volume goes by sea
27 October
- ₹15,096 crore pulses and oilseeds procurement for four states
- ECMS first batch: seven projects, ₹5,500 crore
- EAM at the 20th East Asia Summit
28 October
- Central Supervisory Board on the PC&PNDT Act
- IIP grows 4.0% in September 2025
- Rabi NBS rates: ₹37,952 crore
- Red sanders farmers get benefit-sharing money
- Terms of Reference for the 8th Central Pay Commission
29 October
- DRDO hands 12 technology licences to industry at SAMANVAY
- GI-tagged Indi and Puliyankudi limes flown to UK
- India-Russia military cooperation working group meets
- NeVA: paperless legislatures conference
- Rajnath to attend 12th ADMM-Plus