Current Affairs 2026 – Latest Current GK Mind Maps

Part 1

24 Oct – 25 Oct

National: 15.

Latest · 25 Oct

• 25 Oct — PM Modi was scheduled to inaugurate a new garment manufacturing unit of Arvind Limited in Varanasi on 25 October 2026, expected to create jobs mainly for women.
• 25 Oct — In the 139th Mann Ki Baat, PM Modi recalled that the programme began 12 years ago on Vijayadashami and called it a pilgrimage-like journey that lets him understand citizens' hard work and service.
• 25 Oct — The PM praised the Kheti Virasat Mission's Nav-Trinjan initiative in Punjab's Malwa region, which promotes chemical-free natural cotton, including naturally coloured cotton that needs no chemical dyeing, and runs a weaving school for women.
• 25 Oct — About 1.90 lakh Ayushman Arogya Mandirs are now working across the country as panchayat-level wellness centres, the PM said in Mann Ki Baat.
• 25 Oct — Urging organ donation, the PM cited Shivani of Narmadapuram, Madhya Pradesh, whose family chose to donate her organs after her death in a road accident.
• 25 Oct — Gujarat's Education Department ordered that visitors to government and grant-in-aid schools need the principal's prior approval and a gate-register entry, and banned unauthorised filming of students; Minister Pradyuman Vaja called it a privacy measure.
• 25 Oct — Maharashtra's animal husbandry department launched Mission Murghas: under the Magel Tyala Murghas scheme, milk producers in 19 drought-hit districts of Marathwada and Vidarbha get ₹3 per kg of silage, for five kg per animal per day over 90 days.
• 25 Oct — Himachal DGP Ashok Tiwari told all government and private schools to fix security gaps within 30 days, with CCTV inside campuses, at gates and on approach roads, visitor records, and children taught the 112 helpline.
• 25 Oct — The Kerala government exempted sections of the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) from the RTI Act, 2005, a decision that drew criticism on transparency grounds, according to reports of 24-25 October 2026.
• 25 Oct — Telangana asked all network hospitals to join the PM RAHAT scheme, and Chief Secretary Sanjay Jaju told districts to enrol more hospitals. The scheme gives cashless treatment to road accident victims.
• 25 Oct — Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy was due to meet Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on 25 October 2026 to discuss the height of the Tummidihatti barrage.
• 25 Oct — The West Bengal government aims to generate 10 lakh mandays of work from January 2027 under the VB-G RAM G rural job scheme, according to a report of 25 October 2026.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 24 Oct

• 24 Oct — The Delhi High Court rejected a review petition against the government's decision to give students cash instead of school uniforms, saying courts do not interfere with a policy unless it is extremely arbitrary.
• 24 Oct — The Satheesan Cabinet reinstated the RTI Act exemption for sensitive vigilance units (T1 and T2) of Kerala, which an earlier order had withdrawn.
• 24 Oct — The Union Home Ministry plans a civil defence network with Army support, and Kerala is one of the first two States or UTs where it will start.

Part 2

24 Oct

National: 15.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 24 Oct

• 24 Oct — West Bengal will end the extended Durga Puja holidays for government hospital staff from 2027 and bring in a duty roster, the state Health Minister announced.
• 24 Oct — Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Assam will fill 5,734 vacancies in six departments, and the recruitment tests will begin on 1 February 2027.
• 24 Oct — A four-day strike by contract staff of PRTC, PUNBUS and Punjab Roadways ended on 24 October after the state issued written orders on their demands; PRTC will also add 100 midi buses and pilot electronic ticketing machines.
• 24 Oct — Haryana's Standing Finance Committee, chaired by CM Nayab Singh Saini, approved the state's first PM-SETU plan: 12 ITI clusters covering about 60 ITIs at Rs 2,892 crore, starting with the Kurukshetra cluster of about Rs 320.44 crore.
• 24 Oct — In the first phase of Rajasthan's panchayat elections, 3,314 gram panchayats in 16 districts voted for sarpanch and ward panch; turnout was about 80 per cent, highest in the Mangta panchayat samiti of Barmer at 91.42 per cent.
• 24 Oct — Uttar Pradesh runs 25 Bachpan Day Care Centres for children aged 3 to 7 with disabilities (1,463 enrolled) and has approved 28 more for 2026-27 in the remaining districts.
• 24 Oct — Under Uttar Pradesh's Mukhyamantri Samuhik Vivah Yojana, 28,833 of the 2026-27 target of 72,540 couples have been married so far; each couple gets Rs 1 lakh, of which Rs 64,000 goes to the bride's bank account.
• 24 Oct — Delhi began a door-to-door survey of old-age pension beneficiaries by a third-party agency, due in three months; the pension is ₹2,000 a month at 60-69 years and ₹2,500 at 70+, for about 4.36 lakh people, and nearly 20% may be excluded.
• 24 Oct — The Jammu Bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal held a circuit sitting in Leh at the ADR Centre, Melongthang, and heard over 30 Ladakh cases; such sittings are held at least twice a year.
• 24 Oct — Goa notified the Rehabilitation of Acid Attack Victims Scheme: survivors get free treatment, reconstructive surgery, an immediate grant of ₹25,000 within 48 hours and a further ₹75,000 within 15 days, up to ₹1 lakh in all.
• 24 Oct — BESCOM has set 31 October as the deadline for about 16 lakh consumers to submit documents for Karnataka's Gruha Jyothi free-electricity scheme, according to a report of 24 October 2026.
• 24 Oct — The Telangana government launched an incubator programme for women self-help groups (SHGs), according to a report of 24 October 2026.
• 24 Oct — Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy announced a Rs 150 crore project in three mandals of Telangana to find a permanent solution to drought.
• 24 Oct — Tripura Food and Civil Supplies Minister Sushanta Chowdhury began free distribution of flour, sugar and semolina through ration shops for the Durga Puja and Diwali season.
• 24 Oct — Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh announced a committee representing all 36 communities of the state to promote peace, unity and inclusive development.

Part 3

23 Oct – 24 Oct

National: 15.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 23 Oct – 24 Oct

• 23 Oct — Under the Nasha Mukt J&K 100 Days Abhiyan, more than 72 lakh outreach events were held and police registered 1,187 FIRs; a three-year rehabilitation and reintegration scheme for drug-abuse victims is proposed.
• 23 Oct — Under the Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana, J&K selected 419 villages with large SC populations as model villages, of which 28 have been declared Adarsh Grams.
• 24 Oct — A State Legislative Council can have at most one-third of the Assembly's strength and never fewer than 40 members (Article 171); it is created or abolished under Article 169, and its members serve six-year terms.
• 24 Oct — The Road Transport Ministry proposed making Advanced Emergency Braking Systems (AEBS) mandatory for new passenger car models from 1 October 2030 and for existing production models from 1 October 2032.
• 24 Oct — The Rewa-Churhat (65 km, with a 3.33 km tunnel) and Satna-Devendra Nagar (53 km) rail sections, 118 km in all, were reported opened on 24 October, giving Sidhi in Madhya Pradesh its first rail link.
• 24 Oct — Telangana will host Raksha Expo 2026 on 7-9 December at Bharat Future City, Hyderabad.
• 24 Oct — Odisha CM Mohan Charan Majhi flagged off 25 electric buses under the central PM e-Bus Sewa scheme at the National Urban Conclave 2026 in Bhubaneswar on 24 October.
• 24 Oct — Haryana's new property tax policy takes effect on 1 November in all municipal corporation areas; tax is capital value x rate x usage factor, with base rates of 0.029% (residential) and 0.09% (non-residential).
• 24 Oct — The NHRC issued notices to Punjab's Chief Secretary and the Union Road Transport Ministry over unsafe AC sleeper buses used under Punjab's Mukhyamantri Tirth Yatra scheme for senior citizens.
• 24 Oct — The Bombay High Court upheld the legal validity of the Bhendi Bazaar cluster redevelopment scheme in Mumbai, an Urban Renewal Scheme of 66,264.72 sq m implemented by the Saifee Burhani Upliftment Trust.
• 24 Oct — At the 11th stakeholder meeting on Master Plan for Delhi 2047, the DDA proposed expanding the Delhi Metro from 416 km to 695 km, adding about 200 km of cycle tracks and growing Namo Bharat from 82 km to 383 km.
• 24 Oct — Delhi Social Welfare Minister Ravinder Indraj Singh distributed bicycles to girl students at Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya, Prahladpur, under the Delhi government's Vidya Vahini Yojana to ease the school commute.
• 24 Oct — The CIDs of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh joined hands in the AgriGold scam, and bond verification for victims and agents in Karnataka starts on 27 October at nine centres.
• 24 Oct — Keralam will distribute pensions of the social security and welfare fund boards from 26 October, according to a report of 24 October 2026.
• 24 Oct — Tamil Nadu plans a cake treat for school students on 14 November (Children's Day), and four firms have won the contract to supply about 62 lakh cakes.

Part 4

23 Oct

National: 15.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 23 Oct

• 23 Oct — Maharashtra's registration department linked its marriage-registration software to DigiLocker, so 1,08,870 digitally signed marriage certificates issued since 2023 can be downloaded; Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule had ordered the move.
• 23 Oct — Lucknow hosted the northern regional workshop of Sadhana Shrinkhla 2026 under Mission Karmayogi, organised by the Capacity Building Commission with UPAM. Eight states and four Union Territories took part, and the CM announced an AI Centre of Excellence at RUPAAM.
• 23 Oct — Polling was held on 23 October 2026 for 11 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council seats, five from graduate and six from teacher constituencies. Counting is set for 27 October, and the current members' terms end on 6 December 2026.
• 23 Oct — Uttar Pradesh will give about 3.80 lakh Anganwadi workers and helpers one extra saree a year at roughly ₹500 each, a cost of about ₹19.01 crore, to help them keep to the prescribed uniform.
• 23 Oct — Chhattisgarh's Mukhyamantri Gramin Bus Yojana, launched at Jagdalpur by Amit Shah on 4 October 2025, now runs 107 buses on 106 routes across 13 Bastar and Surguja districts, with a viability gap subsidy of ₹26 per km in year one.
• 23 Oct — At the fifth state NCORD meeting in Bhopal, Chief Secretary Ashok Barnwal ordered a three-year drive to dismantle drug networks and anti-drug committees in colleges with over 500 students. Madhya Pradesh destroyed about 2.74 lakh kg of narcotics in 2025-26.
• 23 Oct — Odisha prepared affordable housing plans for 10,000 urban households in nine urban local bodies, reviewed at the third meeting of the Odisha Liveable Habitat Mission chaired by ACS Usha Padhee.
• 23 Oct — CM Sukhu announced a 5% dearness allowance hike for Himachal Pradesh employees and pensioners (4% for this year plus 1% pending), benefiting about 2.75 lakh people, with Rs 10,000 arrears for Class IV staff on 1 November.
• 23 Oct — Delhi's 40th Flood Control Board meeting, chaired by minister Parvesh Verma, cleared works of Rs 622 crore, including a 4.7 km RCC wall along the Yamuna (Rs 99 crore) and three silt biomining projects (Rs 260 crore).
• 23 Oct — Delhi notified urban status for its last 48 villages under Section 507(a) of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957. Of Delhi's 357 villages, 309 were already urbanised.
• 23 Oct — Chief Minister Rekha Gupta released higher pay to about 4,000 MCD public health multi-tasking staff, based on Level 1 of the pay matrix (Rs 18,000) plus DA, under the principle of equal pay for equal work. The yearly cost is about Rs 52 crore.
• 23 Oct — Delhi's draft e-rickshaw rules propose a maximum of four passengers and a speed limit of 25 kmph, along with tighter norms for drivers, registration and safety.
• 23 Oct — Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari launched a weekly nutrition support scheme for tribal families at Kalajharia, Jhargram, giving rice, pulses, cooking oil and soya bean to about 70,000 families, with biometric verification.
• 23 Oct — At Jhargram, West Bengal also announced a rise in the monthly pension of elderly Scheduled Tribe members to Rs 1,500, tribal universities in Bankura and Jhargram, and Rs 342 crore for Jhargram's development.
• 23 Oct — The Assam Cabinet approved election rules for the Mising Autonomous Council and the Sonowal Kachari Autonomous Council and asked the State Election Commission to hold both elections in November.

Part 5

23 Oct

National: 15.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 23 Oct

• 23 Oct — In the new criminal laws (in force from 1 July 2024), Section 144 CrPC became Section 163 BNSS, Section 188 IPC became Section 223 BNS, and Section 482 CrPC became Section 528 BNSS.
• 23 Oct — The Defence Secretary inaugurated the GYANDEEP Hindi library in Delhi.
• 23 Oct — Gujarat reconstituted its Tribal Advisory Council, chaired by CM Bhupendra Patel, with Tribal Development Minister Naresh Patel as vice-chairperson.
• 23 Oct — Karnataka plans to regulate bills of private hospitals and push for uniform treatment rates. It will also frame a policy against hospitals withholding dead bodies over unpaid dues.
• 23 Oct — Keralam plans a six-month paid apprenticeship in the final semester of the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP). Kerala University plans to offer it to its students.
• 23 Oct — Keralam plans strict action against bars that serve alcohol to people below 23 years, which is the state's legal drinking age.
• 23 Oct — Tamil Nadu plans to set up four regional directorates of medical education.
• 23 Oct — Odisha moved the Supreme Court against Andhra Pradesh, which notified panchayat polls in the disputed Kotia villages. Odisha had called for a boycott, but 20 candidates still filed papers for 5 MPTC seats.
• 23 Oct — Chief Minister Revanth Reddy inaugurated the Southern Regional Police Coordination Committee meeting in Hyderabad and said Telangana is ready to share technology with the southern states to strengthen policing.
• 23 Oct — Telangana set 31 December as the deadline for verifying the PAN and Aadhaar details of state government employees and pensioners.
• 23 Oct — The West Bengal Public Service Commission issued its 2026 notification for 266 Stenographer posts in Grades A and B, and online applications have started.
• 23 Oct — Assam launched an online transfer portal for Forest Department personnel.
• 23 Oct — Jammu and Kashmir designated courts in Jammu and Srinagar as special fast-track courts to try offences linked to public examinations, such as paper leaks.
• 23 Oct — The Jammu and Kashmir government amended its Medical Attendance Rules, revising medical reimbursement and capping the treatment cost that can be claimed at private hospitals.
• 23 Oct — Ladakh's Chief Election Officer announced municipal elections for Leh and Kargil on 21 November 2026, the same day as the already scheduled panchayat polls.

Part 6

23 Oct

National: 15.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 23 Oct

• 23 Oct — The Ministry of Home Affairs invited public comments, due by 5 November 2026, on the design of a nationwide BB-PPDR (broadband public protection and disaster relief) network for the police, CAPFs, NDRF, fire and medical services.
• 23 Oct — The 8th All India GRP Chiefs Conference, organised by the RPF in New Delhi, onboarded Government Railway Police personnel to the RailMadad platform and showcased practices such as Pink Patrol and Project DISHA.
• 23 Oct — The DARPG's 22nd national e-governance webinar showcased TRINETRA, an AI surveillance system with 450+ cameras at Mahakaleshwar, Ujjain, and the Panchayat Advancement Index, both Gold winners at the National Awards for e-Governance 2026.
• 23 Oct — A national training of trainers for Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0 introduced an eight-module package, The Story of Panipur, with a facilitation manual; about 54 lakh stakeholders are proposed to be trained.
• 23 Oct — Elections to 28 seats in the Legislative Councils of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra and Karnataka were held on 23 October 2026; only six states have a Council, the other two being Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
• 23 Oct — An upgraded NMMS app, built with IIT Madras, was launched for attendance under VB-G RAM G, which has run in all rural areas since 1 July 2026. It has device security, AI verification and offline recording.
• 23 Oct — Under VB-G RAM G there have been about 46 crore person-days, 31.23 lakh worksites and 3.65 crore workers across 2.41 lakh+ gram panchayats. The Centre's 2026-27 allocation is Rs 95,692 crore.
• 23 Oct — The Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana of the Ministry of Social Justice supports 764 Senior Citizen Homes, 13 Continuous Care Homes, 17 Mobile Medicare Units and 3 Physiotherapy Clinics.
• 23 Oct — Under PM-DAKSH (Ministry of Social Justice), 1,87,305 people were trained and 96,162 placed from 2020-21 to 2023-24. It runs through NSFDC, NBCFDC and NSKFDC and was merged into PMKVY from 2024-25.
• 23 Oct — The Fisheries Secretary Abhilaksh Likhi launched the development phase of the National Plan of Action (NPOA) for small-scale inland fisheries at a workshop in Bhopal, with FAO and BOBP-IGO.
• 23 Oct — The 19th Urban Mobility India Conference is held in Bhubaneswar on 23-24 October by the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry through the Institute of Urban Transport (India). Its theme is "Urban Accessibility and Liveability in Digital Age"; MoS Tokhan Sahu inaugurated it.
• 23 Oct — New NHAI guidelines require at least one accessible toilet at every toll plaza, sanitary napkin vending machines, and QR-code feedback through the Rajmargyatra app.
• 23 Oct — The Department of Pharmaceuticals set up a committee chaired by NITI Aayog member Dr M. Srinivas to review the drug marketing code and report in two months. UCPMP 2015 was replaced by UCPMP 2024.
• 23 Oct — From January 2027 the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) will add a second-stage stratum for digital platform workers; comments are invited within 15 days. PLFS began in 2017 and was revamped in January 2025.
• 23 Oct — The Delhi High Court quashed an FIR against an SSC aspirant booked after a protest at Ramlila Maidan in August 2025, holding that taking part in a demonstration alone does not show common intention.

Part 7

21 Oct – 22 Oct

National: 15.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 21 Oct – 22 Oct

• 21 Oct — The Gujarat Cabinet raised the monthly travel allowance of about 2,900 gram sevaks from Rs 1,850 to Rs 2,700, because each gram sevak covers four to five village panchayats.
• 21 Oct — Maharashtra launched its first Annapurti Grain ATM at Nashik, with the UN World Food Programme, to give PDS foodgrains round the clock. Two more are planned, at Nagpur and Thane.
• 21 Oct — West Bengal formed a six-member Special Investigation Team led by retired Calcutta High Court judge Justice Anindita Roy Saraswati to probe the 17 October Chorbagan Durga Puja stampede in Kolkata, with a three-month deadline.
• 22 Oct — Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched the Khet Bachao Abhiyan (Rabi 2026) at Taraori, Karnal, Haryana on 22 October (a few reports say 23 October). It runs from 22 October to 30 November.
• 22 Oct — Khet Bachao Abhiyan promotes soil health through Soil Health Cards, balanced fertiliser use, crop rotation, no residue burning and a natural farming trial on at least half an acre. It aims to reach about 1 crore farmers through ATMA, ICAR and KVKs.
• 22 Oct — Centre announced Rs 1,343.06 crore for 28,422 PMAY-G houses in Haryana at the Khet Bachao Abhiyan launch in Karnal.
• 22 Oct — Home Minister Amit Shah launched Yamuna rejuvenation projects worth Rs 8,941 crore for Delhi on 22 October (10 inaugurated, 33 new). The target is a clean Yamuna by May 2029, under a joint plan of Delhi, Haryana and UP.
• 22 Oct — The Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan (Ministry of Social Justice, launched 2020) has reached over 35 crore people, including 13.94 crore youth, 10.86 crore women and 32 lakh+ educational institutions.
• 22 Oct — The Ladakh administration dissolved the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Kargil, after the Kargil Chief Executive Councillor and others resigned and Drass, Zanskar and Sankoo districts were carved out.
• 22 Oct — Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar inaugurated the three-day Swarnim Bharat Expo 2026 in Ranchi, themed "12 Years of Trust, Development and Public Welfare", which showcases central schemes and Viksit Bharat 2047.
• 22 Oct — A special session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha (13th session of 2026) began on 22 October and is scheduled to run till 27 October; Question Hour and Zero Hour matters are on the agenda.
• 22 Oct — Himachal Pradesh approved the Nutrition Policy, 2026 to tackle malnutrition, anaemia and micronutrient deficiency, with the Composite Testing Laboratory at Kandaghat to be upgraded and four more laboratories planned.
• 22 Oct — At the October State SWAGAT grievance programme on 22 October, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel told collectors to issue farmer certificates as per rules, protect government land from encroachment, and act against non-performing sarpanches.
• 22 Oct — Chief Minister Fadnavis virtually inaugurated three flyovers in Mumbai on 22 October 2026: near Sion station, near Vidyavihar station, and on the Goregaon-Mulund Link Road.
• 22 Oct — Polling for Ladakh's panchayat elections, the first since November 2018, is fixed for 21 November 2026, with notification on 26 October and the whole process to finish by 30 November.

Part 8

16 Oct – 21 Oct

National: 15.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 16 Oct – 21 Oct

• 16 Oct — With Sankoo made the 8th district, Ladakh also announced five new tehsils, Aryan Valley, Sodh, Phey, Thasgam and Himya, taking its total to 37 tehsils.
• 17 Oct — The Jharkhand Education Project Council told all government schools to prepare three-year development plans from 2027-28 by 31 October 2026. School Management Committees draft them and they feed into Gram Panchayat plans.
• 17 Oct — At a press conference in Chandigarh marking two years of his third term, CM Saini said 76 of 217 election pledges are complete; the government gave 46,500 government jobs in two years.
• 18 Oct — CJI Surya Kant inaugurated the Ladakh Bench of the J&K and Ladakh High Court at Melongthang, Leh, on 18 October; work started on 21 October. Chief Justice is Pushpendra Singh Bhati.
• 18 Oct — The Ladakh Bench is set up under the UT of Ladakh (Sitting of Bench) Regulation 2026, using Article 240 and Section 58(2) of the J&K Reorganisation Act 2019.
• 19 Oct — Delhi set up the Delhi Institute for Transformation and Innovation (DITI), modelled on NITI Aayog, to replace the Dialogue and Development Commission. The Chief Minister chairs its Governing Board and the Chief Secretary its Executive Committee.
• 19 Oct — Special officers for rural local bodies in Tamil Nadu will serve till 19 April 2027; elected bodies in nine more districts ended their terms on 19 October 2026.
• 19 Oct — Telangana formed a Cabinet Sub-Committee on drought and El Nino on 19 October 2026, chaired by Deputy CM Bhatti Vikramarka. Drought-like conditions exist in 315 mandals after a 17% monsoon deficit.
• 21 Oct — The UDAN regional connectivity scheme completed 10 years on 21 October 2026. It has operationalised 687 routes and 95 aerodromes, with the next phase of Rs 28,840 crore running till 2036.
• 21 Oct — Police Commemoration Day was observed on 21 October to honour police killed on duty. It recalls the 10 personnel killed at Hot Springs, Ladakh, in 1959. 154 personnel were commemorated this year.
• 21 Oct — Gujarat's General Administration Department ordered that digital certificates will carry the issuing authority's official round seal, so citizens need not visit offices for stamping, as part of Digital Gujarat 2.0.
• 21 Oct — On Police Commemoration Day in Lucknow, CM Yogi Adityanath raised the uniform allowance of PPS officers from ₹6,400 to ₹15,000 and the field motorcycle allowance from ₹700 to ₹1,000 a month.
• 21 Oct — The CM said Uttar Pradesh has formed three new women PAC battalions named after Veerangana Uda Devi Pasi, Jhalkari Bai Kori and Avanti Bai Lodhi, and that women in the police rose from 10,000 to 45,000.
• 21 Oct — At Ravindra Bhawan, Bhopal, CM Mohan Yadav gave 954 compassionate appointment letters to School Education Department candidates and announced 400 new school buildings, including 200 Sandipani Vidyalaya buildings for tribal areas.
• 21 Oct — At the state Police Commemoration Day parade in Bhopal, CM Mohan Yadav said aid for martyred police families will be split 50% to the spouse and 50% to the parents. Nine Madhya Pradesh personnel died on duty this year.

Part 9

13 Oct – 16 Oct

National: 15.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 13 Oct – 16 Oct

• 13 Oct — The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister met the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister on 13 October 2026 about Krishna water for Chennai (15 tmcft yearly under the 1983 agreement) and the Godavari-Krishna-Cauvery river link.
• 13 Oct — West Bengal announced 112 as the single emergency response number for its state police, bringing the state into line with the national emergency helpline system.
• 13 Oct — Lieutenant Governor V. K. Saxena chaired the first meeting of the Ladakh Advisory Council in Leh, which has an initial one-year tenure, and stressed urgent glacier protection and Project Him Sarovar.
• 14 Oct — The Bureau of Indian Standards launched a Silver Refinery Scheme on World Standards Day, extending hallmarking to silver bullion and coins with purity grades of 999.9, 999.5 and 999.0.
• 14 Oct — The Pradhan Mantri Samajik Sahayata Yojana (PM-SSY) continues and renames the National Social Assistance Programme, which began on 15 August 1995 under Article 41. The outlay is Rs 53,428 crore for 2026-31, covering about 3.20 crore beneficiaries.
• 14 Oct — Under PM-SSY the disability pension threshold falls from 80% to 40% disability, the minimum age of 18 is removed, and central aid rises from Rs 300 to Rs 375 (under 80) and Rs 500 to Rs 625 (80+). Beneficiaries rise from 8.33 lakh to 27.48 lakh.
• 14 Oct — CM Mohan Yadav released the 41st instalment of the Ladli Behna Yojana at Guruwahi village, Umaria, sending over ₹1,834 crore to about 1.25 crore women. The monthly aid has been ₹1,500 since November 2025.
• 15 Oct — PM Modi virtually inaugurated projects worth about Rs 3,350 crore in Ladakh, including the new terminal at Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport, Leh and the 298 km Nimmu-Padum-Darcha road.
• 15 Oct — The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet approved the Bhavantar Yojana for soybean (kharif 2026): farmers register on the e-Uparjan portal by 17 October and receive the gap between MSP and sale price by DBT for sales from 22 October to 15 January 2027.
• 15 Oct — The MP Cabinet approved ₹241.88 crore for student transport to 94 Sandipani schools, raising the yearly transport rate per student from ₹10,000 to ₹21,000, with a 5% annual increase.
• 15 Oct — On 15 October 2026 the Supreme Court upheld the Madras High Court ruling that set aside the 9 March 2024 Tamil Nadu order giving Backward Class Muslim status to converts.
• 15 Oct — Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma released the October instalment of the Nijut Moina and Nijut Babu student stipend schemes, Rs 58.59 crore for about 5.42 lakh students, to be extended to four more universities.
• 16 Oct — Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel inaugurated 101 new Shramik Annapurna centres across 28 districts on 16 October 2026. Under the Shramik Annapurna Yojana, eligible workers and their families get a meal for Rs 5.
• 16 Oct — Maharashtra issued a government order on 16 October 2026 to close Majhi Kanya Bhagyashree after pending claims up to March 2027, and to replace it with the Lek Ladki Yojana for families with income up to Rs 1 lakh.
• 16 Oct — In its women and child welfare revamp, Maharashtra is moving the Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Bal Sangopan Yojana to MahaDBT. It gives Rs 2,250 to eligible children needing alternative family care and Rs 250 to NGOs.

Part 10

12 Oct – 13 Oct

National: 14.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 12 Oct – 13 Oct

• 12 Oct — Lakshadweep was declared India's first fully literate Union Territory under the ULLAS adult-literacy programme. All 1,113 non-literate persons identified there passed the literacy test.
• 12 Oct — The Bihar Cabinet cleared two piped drinking-water schemes: Rs 279.51 crore for Munger using Kharagpur lake water, and Rs 506.71 crore for Mahua and Chehrakalan in Vaishali using Ganga water.
• 12 Oct — The Haridwar Cabinet also approved the Uttarakhand Flood Plain Zoning Rules, 2026, the Fire and Emergency Services Bill, 2026 and the Second Jan Vishwas (Amendment) Bill, 2026 for the Assembly.
• 12 Oct — The Uttarakhand Cabinet met at Haridwar on 12 October and approved the Horizontal Reservation Rules, 2026 for discharged Agniveers in uniformed Group C posts, with exemption from written and physical tests.
• 12 Oct — Uttarakhand approved the Chief Minister State Child Bravery Award Scheme and, in principle, a society for the Madan Mohan Malaviya Prachya Shodh Sansthan at Rishikul, Haridwar, for yoga and Ayurveda research.
• 12 Oct — The Karnataka High Court struck down Sections 3 and 4 of the 2022 SC/ST reservation Act, which raised SC quota from 15% to 17% and ST quota from 3% to 7%. Total reservation reached 56%, above the 50% ceiling of Indra Sawhney (1992).
• 12 Oct — The West Bengal Cabinet approved abolishing the Madrasah Service Commission (created by a 2008 Act) and merging it into the West Bengal School Service Commission, which will recruit teachers for madrasas; two bills are needed.
• 13 Oct — The PM GatiShakti National Master Plan completed five years on 13 October 2026. This GIS-based platform, launched in 2021, links infrastructure data of Ministries and States, and DPIIT is its nodal agency.
• 13 Oct — At its 48th meeting the Odisha Cabinet cleared the Dakshyata Vikas Yojana worth Rs 450 crore (2026-27 to 2028-29) to skill about 4.20 lakh young people, with digital and overseas-job training.
• 13 Oct — The Odisha Cabinet raised the state fisheries cadre from 445 to 774 posts and approved Stage-II of Astaranga Fishing Harbour, the Tustapalli in-stream storage project and a disaster recovery data centre at Kendujhar.
• 13 Oct — Chief Secretary Anu Garg reviewed nine proposals worth about Rs 10 crore for a women-safety initiative in Sambalpur, including 800 CCTV cameras at 210 sites and 40 pink e-rickshaws. They are not yet approved.
• 13 Oct — CM Dhami approved about Rs 81 crore of works, including Rs 61.42 crore for 18 infrastructure projects for the Kumbh Mela 2027 at Haridwar, funded through the Centre's infrastructure grant.
• 13 Oct — The Centre approved the DRISHTI project (Rs 65 crore) to speed up property rights under PM-UDAY in Delhi's unauthorised colonies, using GIS mapping and PM-UDAY cells in all 13 districts.
• 13 Oct — A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Vikram Nath reserved its order on Tamil Nadu's plea on the Cauvery shortfall, which the state put at 11.719 tmc ft up to 6 October 2026.

Part 1

23 Oct – 25 Oct

States & UTs: 15.

Latest · 25 Oct

• 25 Oct — Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav was set to give a Rs 22.89 crore bonus for the 2024 season to 9.77 lakh tendu leaf collectors at Shahdol on 25 October, along with 134 projects worth Rs 461.73 crore.
• 25 Oct — Bihar's Labour Resources Department plans risk-based factory inspections: low-risk units get no routine inspection, medium-risk units get third-party safety audits, and high-risk units are inspected by senior officials.
• 25 Oct — The Bihar State Road Transport Corporation is preparing a 'Where Is My Bus' app for online ticket booking, seat selection, refunds and GPS live tracking of government buses; no launch date has been given.
• 25 Oct — Bihar's Higher Education Department has proposed degree courses in green energy (solar, wind, green hydrogen, EVs, batteries, carbon accounting) and a separate department in universities; the plan is still at the proposal stage.
• 25 Oct — Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation plans an elevated corridor from Shahpur Darwaza to Dariapur Darwaza, later to Kalupur station, for about 7 lakh daily commuters; the route is being redrawn because it lies within 100 m of protected monuments.
• 25 Oct — Average daily ridership on the Delhi-Meerut Namo Bharat (RRTS) corridor rose 98.8% in one year, from 47,745 in July 2025 to 94,936 in July 2026, and crossed 1 lakh in September; total journeys passed 45 million.
• 25 Oct — The launch of 28 new panoramic coaches on the UNESCO World Heritage Kalka-Shimla railway is delayed after the railway safety commissioner's inspection found defects such as weak air-conditioning; the coaches are going back to RCF Kapurthala.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 23 Oct – 24 Oct

• 23 Oct — Assam's Cabinet under CM Himanta Biswa Sarma has reportedly reserved 12% of constable and equivalent posts for ex-Agniveers.
• 23 Oct — UP CM Yogi Adityanath proposed performance-linked promotions and an AI Centre of Excellence, and Nivesh Mitra 3.0 was launched.
• 23 Oct — Eight Bihar Legislative Council seats (4 graduates' and 4 teachers') were reportedly due for polling on 23 October.
• 23 Oct — The 2nd National Urban Conclave 2026 in Bhubaneswar has the theme "Urban Rising - Rethinking Urban Systems, Solutions and Delivery"; the Odisha government, HUDCO and NBCC support it and NIUA is the knowledge partner.
• 24 Oct — Uttarakhand's State Skill Development Plan prepares District Skill Development Plans for all districts. Chief Secretary Anand Bardhan reviewed it with the SETU Aayog and UKSDM.
• 24 Oct — Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, began adopting Pansalla village in Sultanganj block, Bhagalpur, as a Jardalu Mango Village and gave farmers 100 mango saplings to promote the local variety.
• 24 Oct — A Kashmiri farmer, Zafar Ahmad Bhat, was felicitated at the Bharat International Rice Conference in New Delhi for conserving Mushk Budji, a fragrant rice from Sagam in Anantnag that won a GI tag in 2023.
• 24 Oct — At the diamond jubilee of Goa Engineering College, CM Pramod Sawant said the state is considering a data centre and will spend ₹1,000 crore on infrastructure for futuristic studies; he also backed an IIT campus in Goa.

Part 2

13 Oct – 23 Oct

States & UTs: 14.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 13 Oct – 23 Oct

• 13 Oct — Delhi's Cabinet under CM Rekha Gupta approved the Delhi Industrial Policy 2026, a 10-year roadmap, with the Mukhyamantri Udyamshree Yojana of Rs 1,000 crore.
• 16 Oct — Ladakh got its 8th district, Sankoo, carved out of Kargil. Lt Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena announced it, with four tehsils including Sankoo and Taisuru.
• 16 Oct — Rajasthan CM Bhajan Lal Sharma announced 11 new chapters of the Rajasthan Foundation: six in India (Raipur, Lucknow, Patna, Siliguri, Panaji, Visakhapatnam) and five abroad (San Francisco, Zurich, Milan, Dublin, and a Nordic chapter in Stockholm).
• 19 Oct — Ladakh LG Vinai Kumar Saxena notified the LAHDC (Amendment) Regulation 2026, effective 19 October, to give hill councils to all eight districts. Cabinet approved it on 14 October and the President promulgated it on 16 October.
• 19 Oct — The amended LAHDC law creates 100 constituencies (up from 52): Leh 22, Kargil 21, Sankoo 13, Changthang 10, Nubra 9, Sham 9, Zanskar 9 and Drass 7.
• 19 Oct — Each Ladakh hill council will have 7-24 elected seats plus 4 nominated. Only Leh (1995) and Kargil (2003) had councils before; the Act of 1997 now says "Administrator" instead of "Governor".
• 19 Oct — Ladakh's new districts are Sham, Nubra, Changthang, Zanskar and Drass (created 27 April 2026) and Sankoo (announced 16 October).
• 20 Oct — UP CM Yogi Adityanath doubled the seats in the Chief Minister Farmer Scholarship Scheme and raised aid to Rs 60,000 a year.
• 22 Oct — Uttarakhand's Cabinet under CM Pushkar Singh Dhami cleared 25 proposals before a 2-day Assembly session at Gairsain from 27 October, including the Civil Code (Amendment) Rules 2026 for the UCC Act.
• 22 Oct — Uttarakhand raised the income limit for free coaching for SC/ST students from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 8 lakh, approved a stamp-duty one-time settlement, and a new Adventure Tourism Corporation Ltd.
• 22 Oct — Uttarakhand renamed its maintenance grant scheme as the Mukhyamantri Ekal Nari Samman Yojana and relaxed passing marks by 5% (to 28%) for disabled students.
• 22 Oct — Uttarakhand's One District One Sport scheme will get 14 head coaches at Rs 1.45 lakh honorarium, and award-winning athletes will get free bus travel.
• 23 Oct — Telangana CM Revanth Reddy announced a four-month special employment scheme from after Sankranti until May, amid drought and El Nino; the state will top up central funds. About 15 of 30 lakh pump sets have dried up.
• 23 Oct — Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis announced reservation for ex-Agniveers in government jobs; 282 Navy Agniveers from Maharashtra will be appointed police constables.

Part 1

22 Oct – 24 Oct

Summits, Agreements & Exercises: 15.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 22 Oct – 24 Oct

• 22 Oct — PM Modi received Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the UAE and took a call from Israeli PM Netanyahu on 22 October.
• 22 Oct — Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal visited Germany (India Centre at DGAP, Berlin) and the Netherlands with about 100 businesses.
• 23 Oct — The 2nd India-Poland Business Forum was held in Bengaluru on 23 October during Tusk's visit.
• 23 Oct — The Gujarat government and the Scottish Government signed an agreement to cooperate in renewable energy, trade, investment, sports, education and research.
• 23 Oct — The English Court of Appeal allowed the UAE investor RAKIA to go ahead with arbitration against India over an Andhra Pradesh bauxite project, rejecting India's appeal.
• 23 Oct — The Telangana government, Microsoft, 1M1B and the MeitY Startup Hub launched a green skills and AI Centre of Excellence in Hyderabad.
• 23 Oct — At the two-day Ladakh Pashmina Conclave in Leh, the Textiles Ministry and the Ladakh industries department signed an MoU, a postal stamp on GI-tagged Ladakh Pashmina was released, and a goal of 4 lakh pashmina goats in three years was set.
• 24 Oct — The 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum will be held at the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan, New Delhi, on 26-27 October 2026, with a preparatory meeting of delegation secretaries on 25 October.
• 24 Oct — The BRICS Parliamentary Forum has four sessions (Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation, Sustainability); one source gives its theme as "Strengthening Parliaments for People-Centric Development".
• 24 Oct — The 61st meeting of the International Committee of Legal Metrology (CIML) will be held in New Delhi on 26-28 October 2026, the first time in India, by the Department of Consumer Affairs with OIML (set up 1955).
• 24 Oct — Bihar's Industries Department signed MoUs with 12 industrial units for proposed investment of Rs 4,092 crore, led by Mint Life Sciences (Rs 1,500 crore) and ABIS Group (Rs 600 crore); these are proposals, not confirmed investment.
• 24 Oct — Rajasthan plans to meet the water needs of Sikar, Churu and Jhunjhunu through the Yamuna water agreement, while the Narmada water agreement is meant for Barmer, Sanchore, Jalore, Bhinmal and Raniwara.
• 24 Oct — Farmvision Pvt Ltd signed an MoU in Poland with nursery firm Jankowski to bring European nursery technology to India, with a joint venture making planting material for J&K horticulture from 2027.
• 24 Oct — NLC India Limited (NLCIL) signed an MoU with TNPL (Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Limited) for sustainable pulpwood harvesting, according to a report of 24 October 2026.
• 24 Oct — Hariom Pipe Industries signed an MoU for a Rs 700 crore steel plant in Andhra Pradesh, according to a report of 24 October 2026.

Part 2

13 Oct – 22 Oct

Summits, Agreements & Exercises: 14.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 13 Oct – 22 Oct

• 13 Oct — The 21st Maritime State Development Council met in Mumbai under Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal. It set March 2027 as the deadline for One Nation One Port reforms and Maritime Single Window integration in all ports.
• 14 Oct — The Union Cabinet approved India's accession to the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA), a regional fisheries body adopted in July 2006 and in force since June 2012, based at Le Port, Reunion.
• 14 Oct — India was a Cooperating Non-Contracting Party of SIOFA since 2022 and is reported to move to Contracting Party status; deposit of the accession is not confirmed.
• 15 Oct — Under PM-SETU, the Skill Ministry signed an agreement with AM/NS India and the Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh governments to upgrade nine ITIs. The Surat cluster will upgrade five ITIs at Rs 240 crore.
• 16 Oct — India approved the rollover of a Rs 3,000 crore (Rs 30 billion) currency swap facility for the Maldives under the SAARC Currency Swap Framework, announced by the High Commission in Male.
• 19 Oct — The 5th India-Australia exercise AUSTRAHIND 2026 began at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala (19 October to 1 November). Around 240 personnel take part.
• 19 Oct — Defence Minister Rajnath Singh represented India at the 25th SCO Council of Heads of Government meeting in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and announced India will host the first SCO Civilisational Dialogue Forum by end-2026.
• 20 Oct — The India-New Zealand free trade agreement came into force on 20 October 2026, and the first consignment under it was flagged off from Chennai.
• 22 Oct — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk visited India on 21-23 October, the first visit by a Polish PM since 2010. He held talks with PM Modi at Hyderabad House, New Delhi, on 22 October.
• 22 Oct — India and Poland aim to double bilateral trade by 2030 from about US$6 billion. They plan a defence industry dialogue and a counter-terrorism dialogue, and both condemned terrorism, including the Pahalgam attack (22 April 2025).
• 22 Oct — India and Poland plan cooperation in space, nuclear energy, semiconductors, AI, quantum and critical minerals, with an MoU on geology, mining and critical minerals to be negotiated. Reports differ on whether any MoUs were signed.
• 22 Oct — Poland said it intends to join the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), and India invited it to the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI). Both countries also agreed to revive the agriculture working group and discuss direct flights.
• 22 Oct — India and Poland have had diplomatic ties since 1954. Their Strategic Partnership began in August 2024 during Modi's Warsaw visit, and an Action Plan covers 2024-2028. Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the EU in 2004.
• 22 Oct — India-Poland history includes the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar sheltering about 1,000 Polish children at Balachadi (Jamnagar) in World War II, and the Valivade camp (Kolhapur) hosting over 5,000 refugees. Poland also helped evacuate Indian students in Operation Ganga (2022).

Part 1

24 Oct – 25 Oct

Economy & Banking: 16.

Latest · 25 Oct

• 25 Oct — Under Vocal for Local, Purnia (Bihar) makhana now reaches Greece and Kalaburagi (Karnataka) arhar dal goes to the Maldives; the PM also noted that tribal brand Shabari Naturals of Maharashtra won Japan's Good Design Award for its packaging.
• 25 Oct — The PM said sales of Khadi and village industry products crossed Rs 28 crore in a single day on Gandhi Jayanti, about Rs 1.5 crore more than the previous year.
• 25 Oct — WAPCOS Ltd has been given time until March 2027 to prepare the feasibility report (FSR) and detailed project report (DPR) for Keralam's 800 MW Idukki Extension Scheme.
• 25 Oct — Telangana is aiming to finish repairs at the Kaleshwaram project before the 2027 monsoon, according to a report of 25 October 2026.
• 25 Oct — Assam is targeting a record 8.49 lakh MT of paddy procurement for the KMS 2026-27 season, and the procurement process begins on 1 November.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 24 Oct

• 24 Oct — The Centre sanctioned Rs 27 crore for the Bairakkuppa bridge, which links Keralam and Karnataka, after a wait of about 30 years.
• 24 Oct — The Tamil Nadu government ordered 50,000 new farm power connections and told the power utility TNPDCL to check misuse of agricultural connections.
• 24 Oct — BPCL will set up a subsidiary company for its proposed refinery and petrochemical complex in Andhra Pradesh.
• 24 Oct — Telangana will set up a Common Facility Centre (CFC) at Gachibowli and tanneries at Karimnagar to strengthen its leather industry.
• 24 Oct — West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announced a Rs 1,200 crore plan for the Sundarbans at Kakdwip, and said the Muriganga bridge, giving smooth access to Gangasagar, will open in 2029.
• 24 Oct — Assam amended its Legal Metrology Rules, tightening the norms for registration and verification of weighing and measuring instruments.
• 24 Oct — The Tamil Nadu government under Chief Minister Vijay has cut the state VAT on aviation turbine fuel (ATF), reported to be 16 per cent. Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu thanked the state.
• 24 Oct — The Centre backed Andhra Pradesh's semiconductor push and approved rail links for nine ports, according to a report of 24 October 2026.
• 24 Oct — Chief Minister Revanth Reddy said Telangana will soon unveil its Aerospace and Defence Policy 2.0 and aims to build the largest zone for the defence industry while promoting Raksha Expo 2026.
• 24 Oct — CM Mohan Yadav inaugurated the ₹2,387.60 crore Narmada-Jhabua-Petlawad-Thandla-Sardarpur micro-lift irrigation project at Sardarpur, Dhar. It covers 260 villages and irrigates 57,422 hectares in Dhar and Jhabua.
• 24 Oct — Delhi's Excise Department now requires a P-10 temporary permit, costing Rs 15,000 per event, to serve liquor at weddings and parties in banquet halls and farmhouses. Registration camps run from 27 October to 16 November.

Part 2

23 Oct – 24 Oct

Economy & Banking: 16.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 23 Oct – 24 Oct

• 23 Oct — Madhya Pradesh issued land letters of intent to five firms for projects worth ₹9,625 crore, including Cytech RE's ₹6,415 crore hyperscale data centre at Ganga Malanpur, Gwalior, and Kaynes Electronics' unit.
• 23 Oct — Madhya Pradesh will give industry status to fisheries under its Integrated Fisheries Policy 2026, announced at the National Fisheries Conference in Bhopal, where investment proposals of about ₹40,000 crore were reported.
• 23 Oct — Madhya Pradesh plans ₹7,430 crore of cage culture at four reservoirs: Indira Sagar, Bargi, Bansagar and Barna. Its fish output in 2025-26 passed 4.95 lakh tonnes, and 500 cage units were launched at Barna (Raisen).
• 23 Oct — Industries Minister Shreyasi Singh said Bihar has received 1,091 investment proposals worth Rs 1,21,863 crore since 2025, which could create over 68,800 jobs.
• 23 Oct — At the Samakhya 2026 business meet in Hyderabad, CM Revanth Reddy restated the Telangana Rising-2047 goal of a $3 trillion economy through three zones: CURE, PURE and RARE.
• 23 Oct — The PURE (peri-urban) zone of Telangana covers about 10,500 sq km between the Outer Ring Road and the proposed 360-km Regional Ring Road; the HILT policy moves polluting industries beyond the ORR.
• 23 Oct — The Assam Cabinet approved a Rs 303.69 crore investment by Weetek Plastic (Welspun Group) for a manufacturing unit at Rangia, Kamrup, expected to create about 300 jobs.
• 23 Oct — The Assam Cabinet amended the Assam Mineral Regulation and Dealers Rules (2020) so that limestone royalty depends on grade (high, medium or base cement grade) instead of one uniform rate.
• 24 Oct — PM Modi was scheduled to open the RBI's greenfield data centre (about Rs 169 crore, 18.55 acres, Tier IV certified) and a cybersecurity training institute near Bhubaneswar, Odisha on 25 October 2026.
• 24 Oct — Bihar introduced a 100-point performance assessment index to rank the banks working in the state; IDFC First Bank reportedly topped the first ranking with 74 points.
• 24 Oct — Jio Platforms IPO shares will be allotted on 26 October, with listing tentatively on 28 October. Subscription figures reported on 23 October varied.
• 24 Oct — Bihar CM Samrat Choudhary launched Bihar Integrated Manufacturing City Gaya Limited and its web portal; the city covers about 1,670 acres in Dobhi block, with projected investment potential of Rs 16,500 crore and about 1.1 lakh jobs.
• 24 Oct — The Bodh Gaya event was the curtain-raiser for Bihar Business Connect 2027, planned for 17-18 February 2027; Bihar also plans air links from Gaya to Dubai and Kathmandu, and the Gaya city lies on the Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor.
• 24 Oct — At the Shekhawati Heritage and Development Summit in Jaipur, Rajasthan CM Bhajan Lal Sharma said the Ram Jalsetu Link Project has about Rs 1 lakh crore of proposed works, of which around Rs 41,000 crore have already started.
• 24 Oct — Rajasthan's CM said agreements worth over Rs 9 lakh crore have begun out of about Rs 35 lakh crore expected from the Rising Rajasthan summit, and the Kotputli-Kishangarh and Bikaner-Kotputli expressways are under way.
• 24 Oct — CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu launched the Pangi apple brand for naturally grown apples from Himachal's tribal Pangi region, which was declared the state's first natural farming sub-division.

Part 3

23 Oct

Economy & Banking: 16.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 23 Oct

• 23 Oct — Brent crude was reported near $114 a barrel on 23 October; SBI research said a 50 bps repo rate hike was possible in December.
• 23 Oct — Uttar Pradesh approved incentives for four units: JK Cement Rs 10.11 crore, Britannia Rs 12.77 crore, Kanodia Cement Rs 7.41 crore and Ankur Udyog Rs 25.97 crore, as net State GST reimbursement, capital-interest subsidy or electricity-duty exemption.
• 23 Oct — Beyond Bina, Madhya Pradesh is building a chemicals cluster: a PM MITRA textile park in Dhar, gas processing and green hydrogen at Vijaypur, a GAIL petrochemical project at Ashta (Sehore), chemicals at Nagda and a new petrochemical project at Dewas.
• 23 Oct — At India Chem 2026 in Mumbai, Odisha said that in two years 56 companies have proposed about Rs 1.93 lakh crore of investment, and 27 projects worth Rs 60,825.34 crore, creating 35,351 jobs, are already grounded or inaugurated.
• 23 Oct — The Tata Power Global Capability Centre in Khordha, Odisha, will build AI-driven digital solutions for the energy sector, using AI, machine learning, generative AI and agentic AI, and is expected to be fully working in about three months.
• 23 Oct — Odisha's Global Capability Centre Policy names regional hubs at Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Puri, Paradip, Bargarh, Jharsuguda and Sambalpur, and aims to attract more than Rs 1,000 crore of GCC investment.
• 23 Oct — Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel inaugurated the 15th India Industrial Fair (Udyam 2026) in Gandhinagar; the four-day event runs from 23 to 26 October with over 500 exhibitors.
• 23 Oct — A variable surcharge of 3.99% was reported to be added to Gujarat's power adjustment levy, which will raise electricity bills for households, businesses and industries.
• 23 Oct — A Gujarat delegation led by Deputy CM Harsh Sanghavi held a textile roundtable in Daegu, South Korea, and invited investment into the PM MITRA Park.
• 23 Oct — Keralam is seeking central funds for three industrial parks in the Kannur and Ernakulam districts, according to a report of 23 October 2026.
• 23 Oct — The Visakhapatnam Port Authority has asked for a stake in Andhra Pradesh's Mulapeta port project, according to a report of 23 October 2026.
• 23 Oct — Assam aims to settle 3.49 lakh Kisan Credit Card (KCC) accounts under a farmer loan resolution plan, according to a report of 23 October 2026.
• 23 Oct — Jammu and Kashmir Bank signed an MoU with the J&K government for banking services to employees and raised the accident cover for government employees to Rs 1 crore.
• 23 Oct — A Rs 31,427 crore power project is planned to give Ladakh its second link to the national grid, according to a report of 23 October 2026.
• 23 Oct — The first Kazakhstan charter of the season, flown by SCAT Airlines from Almaty, landed at Dabolim with 189 passengers; about 63 charters from Kazakhstan are planned this season, with FlyArystan starting on 26 October.
• 23 Oct — CM Mohan Yadav opened the MP Semiconductor Summit at Indore on 23 October. Proposals of about ₹5,800 crore and over 10,000 jobs came from 12+ firms, such as Una Ecosystems and Spintronics AI Semiconductors.

Part 4

21 Oct – 23 Oct

Economy & Banking: 16.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 21 Oct – 23 Oct

• 21 Oct — The PM-SETU steering committee approved ITI clusters in Pune (Rs 241 crore, partner BVG India) and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Rs 238.01 crore, partner Belrise Industries), each with one hub ITI and four spoke ITIs.
• 21 Oct — The cooperative BHARAT TAXI service was launched at Navi Mumbai International Airport on 21 October 2026 to widen passenger transport options.
• 22 Oct — NCDEX launched two equity indices, NDEX and FINNDEX, in New Delhi.
• 22 Oct — At the Urban Challenge Fund Conclave in Raipur, Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo Sai said the state aims to grow its economy from Rs 6 lakh crore to Rs 75 lakh crore, linking planned, modern cities to the Viksit Bharat 2047 goal.
• 22 Oct — At the Urban Challenge Fund Conclave in Raipur, Chhattisgarh signed MoUs with HUDCO and CEPT University for urban planning support. CM Sai stressed drainage, sewerage, underground cabling and regular drinking water.
• 22 Oct — Maharashtra plans a mega chemical park near Vadhvan Port and has asked the Centre to approve allotment of 2,500 to 5,000 acres of land for it.
• 22 Oct — Fadnavis praised the Avaada solar manufacturing facility in Nagpur, where 3 GW of N-type TOPCon solar cell capacity is operating, and said Nagpur can become a national hub for solar equipment manufacturing.
• 23 Oct — The 30th meeting of the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC), chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi, reportedly discussed tokenisation, fintech, cyber resilience and digital KYC for NRIs and FPIs.
• 23 Oct — The inland fisheries plan targets 30 million tonnes of fish in five years and Rs 1.25 lakh crore of seafood exports. A Fisheries Investors and Exporters Conclave 2026 was also held in Bhopal.
• 23 Oct — Indian Railways set an all-time high in coal loading: October loading was up 22.5% until 18 October, and the first-half average was 430 rakes a day to thermal plants.
• 23 Oct — Oil India reportedly announced a natural gas discovery in the shallow offshore block KG-DSF/GSKW/2018 in the Krishna-Godavari Basin.
• 23 Oct — NHPC sought forest clearance for 3,278 hectares for its 1,720 MW Kamala hydroelectric project in Kamle district, Arunachal Pradesh.
• 23 Oct — The final redemption price of Sovereign Gold Bond 2018-19 Series II, maturing on 23 October 2026, is Rs 14,425 per unit.
• 23 Oct — The Jio Platforms IPO of Rs 30,213 crore is India's biggest ever, ahead of Hyundai Motor India's Rs 27,870 crore (2024). It was open on 21-23 October with a price band of Rs 1,065-Rs 1,119 and a lot of 12 shares.
• 23 Oct — The flash PMI (Reuters) showed private-sector activity at a four-month high in October.
• 23 Oct — Core sector growth for September 2026 was 7.9%. The Eight Core Industries are coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertilisers, steel, cement and electricity.

Part 5

19 Oct – 21 Oct

Economy & Banking: 16.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 19 Oct – 21 Oct

• 19 Oct — The CBDT notified Form 173A through the Income-tax (Seventh Amendment) Rules 2026, effective 19 October.
• 19 Oct — CM Bhagwant Mann launched two new canned products of MARKFED's SOHNA brand, chickpeas and red kidney beans in brine, at SIAL Paris 2026 to push Punjab's agri-food exports.
• 19 Oct — MARKFED, Punjab's cooperative marketing federation, has a turnover above Rs 21,248 crore, serves about 20 lakh farmers and exports to over 20 countries; its Verka brand belongs to Milkfed.
• 20 Oct — The India-New Zealand FTA, in force from 20 October 2026, is reported as India's 17th free trade agreement. India and NZ also signed a Memorandum of Cooperation on electronic exchange of origin data, by CBIC Chairman Vivek Chaturvedi and NZ Customs chief Christine Stevenson.
• 20 Oct — Rail reached Rowghat in Kanker district for the first time since Independence when CM Sai opened the Tadoki-Rowghat section, completing the 95 km, ₹1,628 crore Dallirajhara-Rowghat line.
• 20 Oct — Chhattisgarh's railway allocation for 2026-27 is ₹7,470 crore, and rail projects worth ₹51,080 crore are under way, including the 278 km Kharsia-Naya Raipur-Parmalakasa line, according to state government figures.
• 20 Oct — Adperma, a subsidiary of Haldia Petrochemicals, opened a Rs 6,000 crore phenol and acetone plant at Haldia, with a yearly capacity of 3.45 lakh tonnes of phenol and 2.15 lakh tonnes of acetone.
• 20 Oct — PepsiCo India opened an Eri silk development hub at Chengnoi village, Nalbari, under its RevolutioNari women's programme; Eri silk, from the Philosamia ricini worm, is called the "world's only vegan silk".
• 21 Oct — Sunil Kumar, the next ONGC chairman, joined ONGC in 1991 and has been Executive Director and Asset Manager of the Mehsana Asset since 8 January 2025. His tenure runs to his retirement on 31 December 2028, then on contract.
• 21 Oct — ONGC is a Maharatna public sector company, set up in 1956, with its headquarters in New Delhi.
• 21 Oct — The Department of Financial Services runs the Financial Inclusion Saturation Campaign from 21 October to 31 December 2026 in about 2.70 lakh Gram Panchayats and urban local bodies, under the slogan "Aapki Poonji, Aapka Adhikar".
• 21 Oct — The Financial Inclusion Saturation Campaign covers PMJDY, re-KYC, PMJJBY, PMSBY, APY, PMFBY and Kisan Credit Cards for PM-KISAN beneficiaries.
• 21 Oct — The RBI's MPC minutes (21 October) show the 25 bps repo rate hike to 5.50% was unanimous, while the stance change to "calibrated tightening" passed 4-2. The SDF rate is 5.25% and the MSF rate and Bank Rate are 5.75%.
• 21 Oct — CM Sukhu flagged off the Shimla-Rampur-Reckong Peo helicopter service from Sanjauli heliport; it flies on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays under Viability Gap Funding, with Hamirpur, Chamba and Palampur to follow in 3-4 months.
• 21 Oct — Gujarat's Cabinet approved an extra state subsidy on rooftop solar under PM Surya Ghar: general consumers pay about 10% of the benchmark cost and SC/ST consumers 5%. It covers over 3 lakh families at about Rs 1,000 crore.
• 21 Oct — Gujarat's post-settlement GST revenue for September 2026 was Rs 8,167 crore, about 35% higher than a year earlier. The state earned Rs 49,858 crore in the first six months of the financial year.

Part 6

14 Oct – 18 Oct

Economy & Banking: 16.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 14 Oct – 18 Oct

• 14 Oct — Tamil Nadu recorded a peak power demand of 21,724 MW on 14 July 2026, about 3,000 MW more than last year. The state bought up to 1,000 MW for the evening peak from 15 to 31 October.
• 14 Oct — The Assam Inland Waterways Company signed a deal for a shipyard at Dharapur near Guwahati, run by a new company, Assam Shipyard Pvt Ltd, with Rs 75 crore initially and a plan to build 40 barges in five years.
• 15 Oct — The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet created the state-owned Jabalpur-Indore Economic Corridor Development Company Ltd with ₹100 crore initial capital to plan land and infrastructure for industrial, food-processing, logistics and IT parks.
• 15 Oct — Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary inaugurated the Rs 140.95 crore Mega Leather, Footwear and Accessories Cluster at Mahwal, Muzaffarpur. An MoU was signed with the Footwear Design and Development Institute (FDDI).
• 15 Oct — Chief Minister Vijay laid the foundation of the Chennai ring main at Sholinganallur. The Rs 3,108.55 crore project, with Asian Development Bank help, links nine water sources through 91.2 km of pipelines.
• 15 Oct — Telangana's peak power demand touched a record 20,003 MW on 15 October 2026, against 18,548 MW in the last financial year; Greater Hyderabad peaked at 4,220 MW.
• 16 Oct — India's forex reserves fell by US$5.011 billion to US$721.016 billion in the week ended 16 October 2026; foreign currency assets stood near US$591.8 billion and gold near US$105.8 billion.
• 16 Oct — Uttar Pradesh is putting up five Doppler weather radars at Azamgarh, Lucknow, Jhansi, Aligarh and Varanasi for ₹22.45 crore. Those at Azamgarh and Varanasi are installed, and the rest are under way.
• 16 Oct — Yash Fans and Appliances began work on a ₹152.74 crore fan and kitchen-appliance factory at Nava Raipur, Chhattisgarh, in the presence of CM Vishnu Deo Sai. It should create about 3,500 jobs.
• 17 Oct — Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma launched four Rajasthan Housing Board projects with 457 units in Jaipur, Kishangarh and Bhiwadi, including 144 flats for accredited journalists at Jagatpura, Jaipur.
• 17 Oct — CM Mohan Yadav announced a roughly 600 km industrial corridor linking Jabalpur, Bhopal and Indore. By March 2028 it aims for 10,000 acres of industrial land, ₹1 lakh crore investment and over 3 lakh jobs.
• 17 Oct — Haryana's government said it was the first state to give MSP on 24 crops, and that investment proposals of about Rs 4,000 crore from Sweden and Rs 5,500 crore from Singapore came after the CM's visits.
• 17 Oct — The Karnataka Cabinet gave administrative approval to an international-standard Film City at Immavu Industrial Area, Nanjangud taluk, Mysuru district, at an estimated cost of Rs 729.43 crore under the PPP model.
• 17 Oct — The Karnataka Cabinet also approved a Tunga river barrage near Sringeri Sharadamba Mutt in Chikkamagaluru (Rs 83.4 crore) and a horticulture college at Dambal in Gadag district (Rs 23.6 crore).
• 17 Oct — Northeast India's first Visa Application Centre, run by VFS Global, was inaugurated in Guwahati by the Assam Chief Minister; it handles visas for 14 countries including the UK, France, Italy and Japan.
• 18 Oct — Chief Minister Satheesan opened the 800-metre Makkekadavu-Nere Kadavu bridge across Vembanad Lake, linking Alappuzha and Kottayam, and announced that Aroor will become a blue economy hub under Mission Samudra.

Part 7

12 Oct – 14 Oct

Economy & Banking: 14.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 12 Oct – 14 Oct

• 12 Oct — RBI approved a special forex window for the oil marketing companies IOC, HPCL and BPCL from 12 October. From the fortnight beginning 16 October, banks must keep 99% (up from 90%) of required CRR every day.
• 12 Oct — Ipca Laboratories proposed about ₹1,080 crore to expand drug manufacturing in Madhya Pradesh: roughly ₹1,000 crore at Dewas (1,000 jobs) and ₹80 crore at Vikram Udyogpuri, Ujjain (500 jobs).
• 12 Oct — The Bihar Cabinet approved buying about 50 acres near Darbhanga International Airport for a logistics park and cargo hub, at a compensation of roughly Rs 225.91 crore. In all, 23 agenda items were cleared.
• 12 Oct — The Bihar Cabinet approved a new grid substation at Pipra, Supaul, costing Rs 575.36 crore, and a Rs 75 crore grant to the Khagaria District Central Cooperative Bank to reach 9% CRAR.
• 13 Oct — The Go-Delhi Foundation, with a corpus of Rs 50 crore, will be a Section 8 not-for-profit company run on a hub-and-spoke model. It follows the Delhi Start-up and Incubation Policy of July 2026, a Rs 400 crore, five-year plan.
• 13 Oct — The Odisha Cabinet approved a Rs 1,360 crore corpus fund for fertilisers and seeds, a Rs 500 crore urban storm-water drainage programme and Rs 133.72 crore for Mahanadi Waterfront Development at Cuttack.
• 13 Oct — Gujarat and Maharashtra, with Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, got permanent seats on the new 12-state GST Standing Committee. The other seven seats rotate every two years.
• 13 Oct — Two shipbuilding insurance policies were launched at the Mumbai meeting: SbPCP by ECGC for export projects and BCSPS by New India Assurance for domestic projects, under the National Shipbuilding Mission.
• 13 Oct — The Delhi government launched infrastructure works worth Rs 170 crore in nine industrial areas on 13 October 2026 to improve roads, drainage and long-pending civic problems.
• 14 Oct — The Union Cabinet approved the sale of a 60.72% stake in IDBI Bank to a subsidiary of Canada's Fairfax Financial for about Rs 52,878 crore. The stake includes 30.48% of the Government and 30.24% of LIC.
• 14 Oct — Chief Minister Majhi inaugurated or laid foundation stones for 46 industrial projects worth Rs 39,383 crore in 14 districts at an event in Kalinganagar, Jajpur. They are expected to create 42,512 jobs.
• 14 Oct — The MP Urban Conclave 2026 is set for 28 October at Brilliant Convention Centre, Indore. Urban Challenge Fund projects worth ₹2,753.10 crore and preparations for Simhastha 2028 in Ujjain are on its agenda.
• 14 Oct — CM Sukhu inaugurated Himachal's first solar plant with battery storage, a 2 MW plant with 1 MWh storage at Rongtong near Kaza (Spiti, about 3,600 m), built for Rs 4.42 crore to yield about 36 lakh units a year.
• 14 Oct — Under the Delhi Industrial Policy 2026, IT firms can get incentives up to Rs 10 crore (Rs 12 crore for women-led units), capability centres up to Rs 50 crore, and large hospitals up to Rs 100 crore. Invest Delhi is the single point of contact.

Part 1

23 Oct – 25 Oct

Science & Technology: 16.

Latest · 25 Oct

• 25 Oct — The PM said the e-Sanjeevani telemedicine platform has enabled about 50 crore tele-consultations, citing a Jarawa child on Baratang Island (Andaman and Nicobar) who was diagnosed with pneumonia through a remote specialist.
• 25 Oct — He highlighted the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre at IIT Madras, which aims to build 3D maps of 100 human brains using the Param Shakti supercomputer and share the data openly with scientists worldwide.
• 25 Oct — AIIMS Nagpur received a ₹30 crore sanction from the National Centre for Disease Control for a Biosafety Level-III laboratory, expected to start in about a year and reduce dependence on NIV Pune.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 23 Oct – 24 Oct

• 23 Oct — SKUAST-Kashmir set up two community units in Batlan village, Tangdhar, to conserve the indigenous Karnah sheep, each with four ewes and one ram, under the ICAR-NBAGR network project on animal genetic resources.
• 23 Oct — The Uttar Pradesh State Institute of Forensic Science (UPSIFS), Lucknow, hosted the three-day TechSangam (23-25 October) on AI, quantum technology, cybercrime and deepfakes, with CM Yogi Adityanath as chief guest on day two.
• 24 Oct — Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated AATAL, the Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosol Toxicity Analysis Laboratory, at IITM Delhi under Mission Mausam; it will trace the sources of air pollutants in real time.
• 24 Oct — ISRO is scheduled to launch the NVS-03 navigation satellite on 30 October 2026 aboard a GSLV Mk II from Sriharikota; it is the third satellite of the second-generation NavIC series.
• 24 Oct — Gujarat launched healthcare projects worth about Rs 500 crore across the state, including a Rs 223 crore neuroscience centre in Ahmedabad.
• 24 Oct — Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda said the Centre approved 320 new PG medical seats in six Himachal Pradesh colleges with about Rs 415 crore under the Rs 15,000 crore scheme to add 10,000 seats in five years.
• 24 Oct — ARTPARK, the Karnataka-backed AI and robotics technology park in Bengaluru, plans to expand, with BRAINZ (Bangalore Robotics and AI Innovation Zone), ArtGarage and ArtLabs driving its next phase.
• 24 Oct — Keralam introduced a generic medicine for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare genetic muscle disease. The health minister said there is no cause for concern and will clarify in the Assembly on 26 October.
• 24 Oct — Tamil Nadu is preparing AI-enabled e-Sevai 2.0, a platform meant to bring about 1,000 government services under one roof.
• 24 Oct — Andhra Pradesh plans two space cities, one near Tirupati and one at Lepakshi, according to a report of 24 October 2026.
• 24 Oct — Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) performed the Northeast's first liver transplant at a government hospital, a first for Assam's public health system.
• 24 Oct — The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations (CIRI) of the University of Kashmir was given Centre of Excellence status by the ICMR for its biomedical research.
• 24 Oct — Telangana unveiled an AI avatar of IT Minister D. Sridhar Babu, presented as its 'AI minister', at DevFest 2026 in Hyderabad as the state aims to become a global AI hub.

Part 2

12 Oct – 23 Oct

Science & Technology: 16.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 12 Oct – 23 Oct

• 12 Oct — Scientists of the Birbal Sahni Institute described a new fossil plant, Tetrameristophyllum makumensis, from the Makum Coalfield in Tinsukia; the leaf is about 24 million years old, from the Late Oligocene.
• 15 Oct — The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet cleared ₹1,697.62 crore for the National Ayush Mission and ₹3,535 crore for Ayush colleges and hospitals, as part of about ₹27,050 crore of proposals approved on 15 October.
• 15 Oct — The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune hosted the APARC Early Career Researcher Workshop 2026, a curtain-raiser for the Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave (ESTIC 2026).
• 16 Oct — Orissa High Court Chief Justice Harish Tandon flagged off two Mobile e-Sewa Vans with internet and video-conferencing so witnesses can record testimony remotely. They also support Mobile Lok Adalats.
• 16 Oct — NIT Rourkela researchers got a patent for a technology that removes fluoride from water using zirconium-modified activated carbon from jackfruit peel, which removed 90 to 97% in lab tests.
• 19 Oct — Three Bodoland University teachers, Hemen Sarma, Sanjay Basumatary and Sanjib Baruah, were named in the 2026 Stanford-Elsevier list of the world's top 2% scientists, which is built from Scopus citation data.
• 20 Oct — Japan's MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) probe was launched on an H3 rocket from Tanegashima on 20 October (JST) to study Mars's moons Phobos and Deimos. It carries the French-German IDEFIX rover.
• 20 Oct — The Madhya Pradesh Semiconductor Summit 2026 was announced for 23-24 October at Indore. The state's Semiconductor Policy 2025 reportedly offers a 25% subsidy and electricity at ₹2 per unit for 10 years.
• 22 Oct — CSIR-CCMB found that DZIP3 is part of a cellular antiviral alarm switch.
• 22 Oct — Phage therapy was used on a 72-year-old with a resistant knee-implant infection at Guntur, Andhra Pradesh.
• 22 Oct — The Union Health Ministry approved the start of Ladakh's first medical college at Leh from the academic year 2027-28, with phased recruitment against 103 sanctioned regular posts.
• 23 Oct — MoS Jitin Prasada opened an STPI incubation facility of about 30,000 sq ft at the IT Park, Sahastradhara Road, Dehradun.
• 23 Oct — The Indian Airport Pavement Symposium (IAPS) 2026 was inaugurated at CSIR-CRRI, New Delhi by CSIR Director General Dr N. Kalaiselvi.
• 23 Oct — ISRO conducted IMAT-05, the fifth Integrated Main Parachute Airdrop Test for Gaganyaan, at ADRDE, Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh.
• 23 Oct — Maharashtra recorded its 50th deceased organ donation of 2026 at Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai (22 October), and the 51st followed at Jupiter Hospital, Thane on 23 October, under state allocation guidelines of the ZTCC Mumbai.
• 23 Oct — The Jammu and Kashmir government stepped up action to make the Union Territory TB-free under the PM TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan.

Part 1

22 Oct – 25 Oct

Environment & Ecology: 16.

Latest · 25 Oct

• 25 Oct — He cited the revival of the Havel river in Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, through rainwater harvesting, groundwater recharge and large-scale tree planting, which also brought back dozens of natural water sources.
• 25 Oct — Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena declared Ladakh India's first 100% organic Union Territory; the sale and use of chemical and synthetic fertilisers had been banned across the UT in July 2026.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 22 Oct – 24 Oct

• 22 Oct — Two new blind subterranean fish, Gitchak nakana and Rakthamichthys anchi, were found in wells in Goalpara district, Assam, showing the value of groundwater ecosystems.
• 23 Oct — The 7th Agrivoltaics World Conference, on 21-23 October at Bharat Mandapam, was organised by MNRE, the first time in the Global South. The theme was "Powering the Global South", and it links to PM-KUSUM.
• 23 Oct — India's Snow Leopard Population Assessment (SPAI) counted 718 snow leopards: Ladakh 477, Uttarakhand 124, Himachal Pradesh 51, Arunachal Pradesh 36, Sikkim 21 and Jammu and Kashmir 9.
• 23 Oct — The snow leopard is the state animal of Himachal Pradesh and the animal symbol of Ladakh. It is Vulnerable on the IUCN list and has been in CITES Appendix I since 1975.
• 23 Oct — Gujarat will install rooftop solar systems at 800 offices of its Agriculture and Animal Husbandry department, expected to generate about 31.94 lakh units a year and save around Rs 2.5 crore on power bills.
• 23 Oct — Assam plans to use satellite and AI surveillance to detect forest encroachment early, and has ordered such monitoring for the state's forests.
• 23 Oct — Maharashtra Environment Minister Pankaja Munde announced a clean air action programme for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region; the department also plans a state-wide M-CAP with ₹200-300 crore from MPCB funds, modelled on the 2019 National Clean Air Programme.
• 23 Oct — Gauhati University researchers identified a new flowering plant, Osbeckia assamensis, in the grasslands of Manas National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Baksa and Chirang districts.
• 24 Oct — A Rs 12 crore, 12-acre rain forest project near the Statue of Unity in Gujarat is scheduled to be inaugurated by PM Modi on 31 October.
• 24 Oct — Naz Ozair of Kurhani block, Muzaffarpur, makes cups, plates and straws from waste corn husks to replace single-use plastic; his patent certificate is dated 21 February 2024 and his startup is MNO Swadeshi India.
• 24 Oct — Himachal's State Board for Wildlife, at its 12th meeting chaired by CM Sukhu, approved forest land for ITBP border outposts in Lahaul-Spiti and Kinnaur and 0.2750 ha in the Rakchham-Chhitkul sanctuary for an Army post near Nagasti.
• 24 Oct — On World Gibbon Day, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the Hoolock gibbon holds a special place in the state's natural heritage and highlighted the canopy bridge initiative for the animals.
• 24 Oct — Chief Minister Rekha Gupta announced a 'No PUC, No Fuel' policy to curb winter pollution. Delhi's Winter Action Plan may also bar certain vehicles from 1 November 2026.
• 24 Oct — A low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal is expected to cross the south Odisha-north Andhra Pradesh coast by 28 October 2026, and forecasters expect it to become a cyclone to be named Arnab.

Part 2

14 Oct – 22 Oct

Environment & Ecology: 16.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 14 Oct – 22 Oct

• 14 Oct — Chhattisgarh approved moving 50 blackbucks from Barnawapara (Baloda Bazar) to Gomarda Wildlife Sanctuary (Sarangarh-Bilaigarh), where the species vanished over five decades ago. Barnawapara's herd began with 77 animals in 2017-18.
• 15 Oct — Asiatic lions have returned to Barda Wildlife Sanctuary after about 144 years, with an estimated 17 lions (six adults and 11 cubs). Barda lies in Porbandar and Devbhumi Dwarka districts, was notified in 1979, and covers 192.31 sq km.
• 15 Oct — The northeast monsoon set in over Tamil Nadu about five days before its normal date of 20 October. The southwest monsoon had ended with a 20% rainfall deficit in the state.
• 15 Oct — Researchers described a new damselfly species, Dysphaea assamensis, from Karbi Anglong; it was earlier mistaken for the Sapphire Torrent Dart (Dysphaea walli), based on five male specimens.
• 15 Oct — The Assam Forest Department launched the Nameri Wild Classroom at Nameri Tiger Reserve (Sonitpur) for students of Class 8 and above, with birdwatching, forest walks and rafting on the Jia-Bharali river.
• 15 Oct — Among the Ladakh projects opened by the PM on 15 October were India's first Petroglyph Conservation Park at Sindhu Ghat, Leh, the 9 MW Hanu small hydro project and Project Him Sarovar covering 40 water bodies in 40 villages.
• 17 Oct — Parrys in Chennai recorded 36 cm of rain on the night of 17 October 2026, the highest in the city. The IMD said it was not a cloudburst but heavy rain from an upper-air circulation.
• 20 Oct — WWF-India (EIACP PC-RP), with the Environment Ministry's support, runs the Green Diwali Campaign 2026 from 20 October to 8 November in 130 NCAP cities.
• 20 Oct — The Green Diwali Campaign is linked to Mission LiFE, which was announced at COP26 Glasgow in 2021 and launched on 20 October 2022 at Ekta Nagar, Gujarat.
• 20 Oct — Gujarat approved a Centre of Excellence for Joint Forest Management at Balethi village in Surat district. It will train about 7,500 members of forest committees over five years using the village's community forest model.
• 20 Oct — Gauhati University botanists rediscovered the shrub Ardisia colorata at Abhaypuri, Bongaigaon, its first confirmed record in India in about 204 years; only 12 plants were found.
• 21 Oct — The Commission for Air Quality Management enforced GRAP Stage 1 in Delhi-NCR on 21 October 2026 after Delhi's AQI rose to 244 from 179 a day earlier. Stage 1 applies when the AQI is between 201 and 300.
• 22 Oct — The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) reviewed stubble burning with Punjab and Haryana in Chandigarh under Chair Rajesh Verma, referring to its Directions No. 99 and No. 92.
• 22 Oct — Punjab recorded 510 stubble-burning incidents by 22 October 2026, with Tarn Taran (247) and Amritsar (136) leading; environmental compensation was imposed in 184 cases, against 5,114 cases in the whole of last season.
• 22 Oct — The Bombay High Court called Mumbai's air quality an emergency on 22 October 2026 and ordered civic bodies to submit an action plan on dust control and industrial emissions.
• 22 Oct — The Arignar Anna Zoological Park, Vandalur, was closed on 22 and 23 October after H5N1 avian influenza was confirmed in its water birds. Seven birds died between 3 and 7 October.

Part 1

24 Oct – 25 Oct

Sports: 13.

Latest · 25 Oct

• 25 Oct — Punjab hosts the Hero Asian Champions Trophy (men's hockey) from 27 October to 5 November: league matches at Jalandhar's Surjit Singh stadium, and semi-finals and final at the Balbir Singh stadium, Mohali.
• 25 Oct — Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann felicitated 17-year-old Jagsher Singh Khangurra of Nabha, who won bronze in the boys' singles at the BWF World Junior Championships in Cairo.
• 25 Oct — The third Kashmir International Marathon was flagged off in Srinagar by CM Omar Abdullah with about 2,000 runners; Kenyans Kanab Kalob Omolo and Lemensa Harpaa won the men's and women's full marathons.
• 25 Oct — The Kerala School Sports Meet opened in Kozhikode on 25 October 2026, with 9,309 athletes competing across 10 venues.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 24 Oct

• 24 Oct — Coming up: the Summer Youth Olympics will be held in Dakar, Senegal, from 31 October to 13 November.
• 24 Oct — Coming up: the 3rd T20I between India and New Zealand is reported to be on 27 October at Wellington.
• 24 Oct — The ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup 2027, its 3rd edition, will be held on 21 January-6 February 2027 with 16 teams, jointly hosted by Bangladesh and Nepal. The final is at the Matiur Rahman Stadium, Chattogram.
• 24 Oct — India won the U19 Women's T20 World Cup in 2023 (South Africa) and 2025 (Malaysia). In 2027 India are in Group A with Ireland, West Indies and Nepal and open against West Indies on 22 January at Kirtipur.
• 24 Oct — A team of 11 youths from Mumbai's chawls and slums was reported to have won gold at the first Box Langdi World Cup in Nepal (23-25 October), beating Thailand 19-15 in the final.
• 24 Oct — Two-time Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra met children at Sports University Haryana, Sonepat, for the UBS Athletics Kids Cup (ages 7-15) and said he plans to return to competition in May 2027 after an ankle injury.
• 24 Oct — Karnataka's Tejas Nandkumar won a bronze medal in the 100 m backstroke S7 event at the Asian Para Games, according to a report of 25 October 2026.
• 24 Oct — Kerala Blasters FC were allotted the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi, for their 2026-27 ISL home matches at Rs 3.5 lakh per game after the government stepped in to reduce the rent.
• 24 Oct — Odisha's Jayanti Behera won silver in the women's 400 m T47 at the Asian Para Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, in 1:00.65. Odisha's Payal Nag also took silver in women's para compound doubles.

Part 2

23 Oct – 24 Oct

Sports: 13.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 23 Oct – 24 Oct

• 23 Oct — Suvarna Raj won the women's discus throw F54 gold at the Asian Para Games.
• 23 Oct — Sachin Sarjerao Khilari won the men's F46 shot put gold at the Asian Para Games.
• 23 Oct — Para badminton golds on 23 October: Nitesh Kumar (men's singles SL3, beat Pramod Bhagat 21-18, 21-16), Naveen Sivakumar (SL4, beat Indonesia's Fredy Setiawan 21-9, 21-17) and Thulasimathi Murugesan with Manasi Joshi (women's doubles SL3-SU5).
• 23 Oct — Para badminton classes: WH1 and WH2 are wheelchair classes, SL3 and SL4 are standing lower-limb classes, SU5 is upper limb, and SH6 is short stature.
• 23 Oct — Simran won gold in both the women's 100 m and 200 m T12 at the Asian Para Games, setting a Games record.
• 23 Oct — Harmeet Desai and Yashaswini Ghorpade won bronze in mixed doubles at the 29th ITTF-ATTU Asian Table Tennis Championships in Tashkent, India's first mixed doubles medal there in 72 years. They lost the semi-final to Japan's Sora Matsushima and Miwa Harimoto 9-11, 9-11, 8-11.
• 23 Oct — The inaugural Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026 is held on 23-31 October at the Veer Savarkar Sports Complex, Ahmedabad, with 13 nations, 23 squads, over 400 athletes and 62 matches (39 men's, 23 women's).
• 23 Oct — The Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship is organised by the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India (AKFI) with approval of the International Kabaddi Federation (IKF). Semi-finals are on 30 October and finals on 31 October.
• 23 Oct — Nations at the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship: India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, Uganda, England, Scotland and Australia.
• 23 Oct — India's captains for the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship are Surjeet Singh (men, vice-captain Naveen Kumar) and Nidhi Sharma (women, vice-captain Ritu).
• 23 Oct — The Khelo India Games will be held in Telangana from 11 December, and the state has stepped up its preparations for the event.
• 23 Oct — Delhi Education and Sports Minister Ashish Sood inaugurated the 70th National School Games at Thyagraj Stadium. The games cover 14 sports, expect over 14,000 players and officials, and are organised by the School Games Federation of India.
• 24 Oct — P V Sindhu beat Japan's Hina Akechi 21-10, 20-22, 21-16 in the semi-final of the French Open Super 750 in Paris, and was to meet world No. 1 An Se-young of South Korea in the final on 25 October.

Part 3

22 Oct – 23 Oct

Sports: 13.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 22 Oct – 23 Oct

• 22 Oct — Para-archer Sheetal Devi of Kishtwar won silver in the women's doubles archery with Payal Nag at the Asian Para Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.
• 23 Oct — Pankaj Advani won the WBL World Billiards Championship by beating England's Robert Hall 1,906-1,206 in the final at Great Wyrley, England. It is his 29th world title across billiards and snooker and his 21st in billiards.
• 23 Oct — Shruthi Lakshminarayanan retained the women's title at the same world billiards championship, winning it for the third year in a row.
• 23 Oct — At the European Chess Club Cup in Budva, Montenegro (17-23 October), Nihal Sarin won individual gold on Board 2 in the open section with 5/6, and Koneru Humpy took gold on Board 2 in the women's section with 4.5/6.
• 23 Oct — The AITA all-women coaches course in Delhi was addressed by MoS Sports Raksha Khadse under the ACE 2032 initiative; ASMITA women's leagues under Khelo India have reached over 3 lakh women since 2021.
• 23 Oct — Haryana's athletes won 32 medals, including 14 of India's 21 golds, at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan; gold winners from the state include Parveen Hooda (boxing) and Sujeet Kalkal (wrestling).
• 23 Oct — India's earlier best at the Asian Para Games was at Hangzhou 2023; reports give 111 medals, or 108 after three medals were removed for doping. India sent 168 athletes to Japan, against 309 to Hangzhou.
• 23 Oct — By sport, India's Asian Para Games 2026 medals included para athletics 65 (22 gold, 19 silver, 24 bronze), para badminton 16 (3 gold), para swimming 11, para table tennis 7 bronze, para archery 6 and para shooting 5.
• 23 Oct — Sandeep Kumar won the men's 400 m T64 gold at the Asian Para Games with a world record time of 52.28 seconds.
• 23 Oct — India swept the men's javelin podium at the Asian Para Games: Sumit Antil gold, Mahendra Gurjar silver and Sandip Sanjay Sargar bronze. Gurjar and Sargar both set Games records.
• 23 Oct — Sheetal Devi won the women's compound individual para archery gold, and the compound mixed team gold with Toman Kumar by beating Indonesia 151-148. Their ranking-round total of 1,402 beat the old record of 1,400.
• 23 Oct — Swati Chaudhary won silver in the women's individual W1 archery, reported as India's first W1 medal at the Asian Para Games.
• 23 Oct — Pooja Jatyan and Bhawna Choudhary won silver in the women's recurve doubles, India's first medal in that event. Harvinder Singh and Vijay Sundi won the recurve doubles gold.

Part 4

16 Oct – 22 Oct

Sports: 11.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 16 Oct – 22 Oct

• 16 Oct — At Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar, Odisha gave Rs 5.61 crore to India's gold-winning Asian Games men's and women's hockey teams, plus Rs 20 lakh each to Odisha's Amit Rohidas, Shilanand Lakra and Sunelita Toppo.
• 19 Oct — Mizoram's Chinmay Sutar made his unbeaten Ranji Trophy 400 off 517 balls against Nagaland at Sovima. The only higher Ranji score is Bhausaheb Nimbalkar's 443 not out (1948); next come Prithvi Shaw 379, Sanjay Manjrekar 377, and M.V. Sridhar and Tanmay Agarwal 366.
• 19 Oct — Mona Agarwal won gold in women's 10 m air rifle standing SH1 with a Games record 250.0; Avani Lekhara took silver with 249.6. Mona's qualifying score of 629.1 was a Games qualification record; the world record is 629.4.
• 19 Oct — The Ranji Trophy is run by the BCCI and named after Ranjitsinhji. It was announced in 1934, its first season was 1934-35, and the trophy was donated by Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala.
• 21 Oct — The first Chhattisgarh Hockey League runs from 21 October to 1 November at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Hockey Stadium, Raipur; Union MoS Raksha Khadse inaugurated it and its tagline is "Chalo Re Sangi, Hockey Khelbo".
• 22 Oct — India beat New Zealand by 4 wickets with 2 balls left in the 1st T20I at Hagley Oval, Christchurch. NZ made 225/4 (Glenn Phillips 82 off 40) and India 230/6. Sanju Samson was Player of the Match, and Naman Dhir also contributed. India lead the 5-match series 1-0.
• 22 Oct — Reports name Shreyas Iyer as India's captain and Mitchell Santner as New Zealand's captain for the T20 series in New Zealand.
• 22 Oct — England's Harry Brook scored 202 off 116 balls against Sri Lanka at Rawalpindi, the fastest men's ODI double century (200 in 114 balls, beating Shubman Gill's 117). He is the first England batter with a men's ODI double century.
• 22 Oct — Sri Lanka chased England's 433/8 and won by two wickets at Rawalpindi on 22 October. Brook's 202 passed the previous England best men's ODI score, 182 by Ben Stokes.
• 22 Oct — Rajgir hosts an India versus New Zealand U20 rugby series from 22 to 28 October 2026, with Rugby Sevens matches on 27 October. It marks 100 years of India-New Zealand sporting ties.
• 22 Oct — Ahmedabad hosts the Western Asian Youth and Junior Chess Championships from 22 to 31 October 2026 at Rajpath Club, organised by the Gujarat State Chess Association, with Open and Girls sections from Under-8 to Under-20.

Part 1

23 Oct – 25 Oct

Important Days: 14.

Latest · 25 Oct

• 25 Oct — The 139th episode of Mann Ki Baat, PM Modi's monthly radio programme, was scheduled to air on 25 October 2026 at 11 AM.
• 25 Oct — Vigilance Awareness Week runs from 26 October to 1 November 2026 under the theme "Probity for Prosperity", in the week of Sardar Patel's birth anniversary (31 October).
• 25 Oct — India will mark the 100th birth anniversary of Narinder Singh Kapany, the "Father of Fiber Optics" born in Moga, Punjab, on 31 October 2026; the PM urged youth to read about him.
• 25 Oct — The PM recalled that Bhai Parmanand, an Arya Samaj leader and a founding member of the Ghadar Party, has his birth anniversary on 4 November.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 23 Oct – 24 Oct

• 23 Oct — The death anniversary of freedom fighter Nellie Sengupta falls on 23 October.
• 23 Oct — Uttar Pradesh planned to mark Valmiki Jayanti on 26 October 2026 in all 75 districts with Deepdaan and Ramayana recitations, with major events at Chitrakoot, Ayodhya, Kanpur (Bithoor), Shravasti and Prayagraj.
• 24 Oct — Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week is observed from 24 to 31 October; its 2026 theme is "We All Play a Part - Media and Information Literacy for the People", and it is led by UNESCO.
• 24 Oct — United Nations Day (24 October) marks the 81st anniversary of the UN Charter coming into force on 24 October 1945. The UN has 193 members, South Sudan the newest (2011), and its HQ is in New York.
• 24 Oct — World Polio Day (24 October) marks Jonas Salk's birth anniversary and is led by Rotary International. India was declared polio-free on 27 March 2014; its last case was on 13 January 2011 in Howrah.
• 24 Oct — ITBP Raising Day (24 October) marks the 65th anniversary of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, raised in 1962, which guards about 3,488 km of the LAC.
• 24 Oct — Coming up: J&K Accession Day on 26 October (1947) and Infantry Day (Shaurya Diwas) on 27 October, marking the landing of the 1st Sikh Regiment at Srinagar in 1947.
• 24 Oct — Coming up: National Unity Day on 31 October, the 151st birth anniversary of Sardar Patel (Statue of Unity, Kevadia), and World Cities Day on the same day.
• 24 Oct — Coming up: Public Service Broadcasting Day on 12 November. World Tsunami Awareness Day is observed on 5 November.
• 24 Oct — The 225th anniversary of the hanging of Periya and Chinna Marudhu at Tiruppathur fort on 24 October 1801 was recalled; their Jambudweep Proclamation was issued on 16 June 1801.

Part 2

12 Oct – 23 Oct

Important Days: 14.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 12 Oct – 23 Oct

• 12 Oct — World Arthritis Day on 12 October 2026 had the theme "Achieve Your Dreams". It was set up in 1996 by Arthritis and Rheumatism International.
• 12 Oct — Bihar will observe the birth anniversary of Kailashpati Mishra, a former minister and former Governor, as a state function every year on 5 October, the Bihar Cabinet decided on 12 October.
• 12 Oct — The 135th birth anniversary of Tamil scholar S. Vaiyapuri Pillai (1891-1956) was marked on 12 October 2026. He edited the University of Madras Tamil Lexicon of 1,17,762 words.
• 13 Oct — International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on 13 October 2026 had the theme "Resilience Starts at Home". The UN General Assembly designated the day in 2009.
• 14 Oct — World Standards Day is observed on 14 October by the IEC, ISO and ITU. The 2026 theme focused on affordable and clean energy (SDG 7).
• 15 Oct — World Students' Day is observed on 15 October on the birth anniversary of Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. In 2026 it was his 95th birth anniversary.
• 15 Oct — International Day of Rural Women on 15 October 2026 had the theme "Rural Women Farmers Caring for Mother Nature". The UN designated the day in 2007.
• 16 Oct — World Food Day on 16 October 2026 marked the 81st anniversary of the FAO with the theme "Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow." The global event was held in Rome.
• 16 Oct — Veerapandiya Kattabomman, the Palayakkarar of Panchalankurichi who refused to pay tribute to the British, is remembered on 16 October. He was hanged at Kayathar in 1799.
• 18 Oct — International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week is observed on 18-24 October. The 14th edition has the theme "From Detection to Prevention".
• 21 Oct — On Police Commemoration Day, 21 October 2026, Amit Shah flagged off a nationwide police motorcycle rally themed Fight Against Drugs. The riders will gather at Ekta Nagar, Gujarat, on 31 October.
• 21 Oct — On Police Commemoration Day (21 October) Chief Minister Vijay gave Rs 5.96 crore to families of police killed on duty; six Tamil Nadu police died on duty this year, of 154 nationally.
• 22 Oct — International Stuttering Awareness Day is observed on 22 October. The 2026 theme is "SHADES OF STUTTERING - What's yours?"; it was first observed in 1998.
• 23 Oct — International Snow Leopard Day is observed on 23 October. It follows UNGA resolution A/RES/79/143 of 12 December 2024 and the 2013 Bishkek Declaration signed by the 12 range countries.

Part 1

24 Oct – 25 Oct

Art, Culture & Tourism: 13.

Latest · 25 Oct

• 25 Oct — Two friends in Khanduli village, West Jaintia Hills (Meghalaya) make cookies, cakes and muffins from millet, which has raised demand for millet among local farmers, the PM noted.
• 25 Oct — Ayodhya's Ram Ki Paidi is being remodelled for Rs 2,367.60 lakh by the UP Projects Corporation for the Tourism Department, with red sandstone flooring, a Surya Stambh and a mural wall, ahead of Deepotsav.
• 25 Oct — Ayodhya Deepotsav 2026 is planned for 7 November, with about 3.3 million earthen lamps at the designated ghats; 792 sanitation workers will collect the lamps and clean the ghats afterwards.
• 25 Oct — Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel attended the foundation-stone ceremony of the ISKCON Varachha temple at Kosamda in Surat, which is estimated to cost about ₹125 crore.
• 25 Oct — The Tripura government is partnering with the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) to build a world-class Tripura Film and Television Institute (TFTI) in Agartala.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 24 Oct

• 24 Oct — Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar flagged off the 2026-27 season of the Golden Chariot, Karnataka's luxury tourist train called the 'Pride of Karnataka'. Its first journey left with 75 guests.
• 24 Oct — Officials of Tamil Nadu and Keralam met to finalise the route plan and safety measures for the Sabarimala pilgrimage season.
• 24 Oct — Works have begun along the river course in Telangana for the Godavari Pushkaralu, the river festival held once in 12 years; the previous one was in 2015.
• 24 Oct — West Bengal has begun preparations for the Gangasagar Mela, the first to be held under the BJP government led by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari.
• 24 Oct — Scotland's First Minister John Swinney presented copies of four 1930s letters from Mahatma Gandhi to Lord Lothian to the Sabarmati Ashram archives in Ahmedabad; three of the four are missing from Gandhi's Collected Works.
• 24 Oct — A drone show at the Mysuru Dasara celebrations set a Guinness World Record using 3,473 drones that together formed a giant peacock, according to reports of 24 October 2026.
• 24 Oct — Chief Minister Manik Saha inaugurated Maayer Gaman 2026, Tripura's Durga carnival, which he said showcases the state's cultural heritage, unity and communal harmony.
• 24 Oct — The Mera Hou Chongba festival fair began in Manipur, where the chairman of the Manipur Handloom and Handicrafts Development Corporation (MHHDC) urged people to buy local goods during the festive season.

Part 2

23 Oct – 24 Oct

Art, Culture & Tourism: 13.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 23 Oct – 24 Oct

• 23 Oct — The birth anniversary of Kittur Rani Chennamma, who fought the East India Company in 1824, and the 202nd Victory Celebration (Vijayotsav) were marked at Prerana Sthal, Parliament, with Speaker Om Birla.
• 23 Oct — PM Modi inaugurated the Chinmaya Amrit Mahotsav Global Sammelan at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. It runs on 23-25 October with over 9,000 participants, and Swami Chinmayananda's part in the Vivekananda Rock Memorial was noted.
• 23 Oct — For Kashi Tamil Sangamam 5.0 (28 November to 12 December 2026, Uttar Pradesh), a students' engagement programme will cover 1,000 higher education institutions, and the National Book Trust will run reading and storytelling activities with Rashtriya e-Pustakalaya.
• 23 Oct — Earlier Kashi Tamil Sangamam editions linked to Uttar Pradesh: KTS 3.0 (2025) had the theme of Sage Agasthyar with about 1,200 Tamil Nadu participants, and KTS 4.0 had the theme "Let us Learn Tamil" and ended at Rameswaram.
• 23 Oct — Karnataka plans to develop Kittur, the seat of Rani Channamma, and Kakati, her birthplace, as tourist destinations, according to a report of 23 October 2026.
• 23 Oct — The third Surajkund Diwali Mela is held from 23 to 26 October 2026 at the Surajkund Mela Ground, Faridabad, organised by the Haryana Tourism Department, with crafts, food and folk music.
• 23 Oct — Chief Minister Omar Abdullah inaugurated the autumn edition of the Know Your Artisan handicrafts event at the Chrysanthemum Garden, Srinagar, to attract tourists.
• 24 Oct — The Kashi Tamil Sangamam 5.0 registration portal was opened by the Ministry of Education. The edition runs on 28 November-12 December 2026 with the theme "Thirukkural Payilvom".
• 24 Oct — Kashi Tamil Sangamam is organised by IIT Madras, BHU, CICT Chennai and the UP government under Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat. The 1st edition was in 2022 at BHU and the 2nd in 2023 at Namo Ghat.
• 24 Oct — The Shilp Samagam Mela supports beneficiaries of NSFDC, NSKFDC and NBCFDC and promotes the BHARAT-TULIP (Traditional Artisans' Upliftment Livelihood Programme) initiative.
• 24 Oct — Rajasthan is conserving 662 havelis in the Shekhawati region and plans a heritage tourism circuit for Sikar, Jhunjhunu and Churu; a Shekhawati Heritage Meet on 8 December will link migrants with heritage, tourism and investment.
• 24 Oct — Gujarat plans a Rs 16 crore Ekta Cruise service on the Narmada near the Statue of Unity to boost river tourism.
• 24 Oct — CM Sukhu virtually inaugurated water sports at the Kol Dam reservoir at Aehan in Mandi, with speedboats and a mini cruise boat; the activities will extend over about 35 km up to Tattapani.

Part 3

21 Oct – 23 Oct

Art, Culture & Tourism: 13.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 21 Oct – 23 Oct

• 21 Oct — Lalit Kala Akademi was inaugurated on 5 August 1954 by Maulana Azad and became a statutory body in 1957. It is under the Ministry of Culture, has its HQ in New Delhi and regional centres at Chennai, Lucknow, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar and Garhi.
• 21 Oct — The week-long International Kullu Dussehra began on 21 October at Dhalpur Maidan with the Rath Yatra of Lord Raghunath; Governor Kavinder Gupta inaugurated it, and it runs till 27 October.
• 21 Oct — Elephant Prashantha carried the 750-kg golden howdah in the Mysuru Dasara Jamboo Savari on Vijayadashami, 21 October 2026. It was his first time as howdah elephant, after Abhimanyu was retired on turning 60.
• 21 Oct — The 11-day Mysuru Dasara, the state festival of Karnataka called Nada Habba, ended on 21 October 2026. It was begun in 1610 by Raja Wodeyar I at Srirangapatna.
• 22 Oct — President Droupadi Murmu released a Rs 200 commemorative coin at Lok Bhavan, Raipur, for the 200th birth anniversary of Mata Sahib Hasi Devi Ji, the fifth spiritual head of Shadani Darbar.
• 22 Oct — The Rs 200 coin for Mata Hasi Devi Ji shows her portrait on the obverse and the Lion Capital of Ashoka on the reverse.
• 22 Oct — Jharkhand Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar inaugurated the 15th All India Police Archery Competition at the Mega Sports Complex, Khelgaon, Ranchi, on 22 October 2026, with the state police chief present.
• 22 Oct — President Droupadi Murmu attended the Seva Samman Parv and Yuva Prabodhan during Nuakhai celebrations at Raipur. She said former Maoists are joining the mainstream and urged youth to work for a developed India by 2047.
• 22 Oct — Haryana will double the number of pilgrims given financial aid under the Guru Darshan, Kailash Mansarovar and Sindhu Darshan yatras from 50 to 100 each a year, with online registration, CM Saini decided on 22 October.
• 22 Oct — The NFDC-National Film Archive of India held a four-day retrospective of filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak in Pune, showing films restored and digitised under the National Film Heritage Mission.
• 22 Oct — Four deep grooves near Banda Juvvi Watch Tower in Mrugavani National Park, Rangareddy district, may be a Neolithic tool-sharpening site, though this needs scientific checking.
• 22 Oct — Minister Sakeena Itoo led the J&K delegation to ITB Asia 2026 in Singapore, promoting pilgrimage, adventure and winter-sports tourism, and co-inaugurated the India Pavilion.
• 23 Oct — During her Chhattisgarh visit (22-23 October), President Murmu went to Jagdalpur for Bastar Dussehra, which includes the Muriya Darbar and prayers at the Maa Danteshwari Temple.

Part 4

12 Oct – 20 Oct

Art, Culture & Tourism: 12.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 12 Oct – 20 Oct

• 12 Oct — Akie Abe, widow of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, inaugurated the Shinzo Abe Memorial Corridor at the Rudraksh Convention Centre in Varanasi with CM Yogi Adityanath. The year 2027 marks 75 years of India-Japan ties.
• 13 Oct — Uttarakhand plans a flagship geothermal tourism project at Madkot, Pithoragarh; the Wadia Institute has identified 40 active geothermal springs in the state, with about 10 along a 13-km belt on the Gori Ganga.
• 13 Oct — The fourth World Hindu Congress will be held in December 2026 at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai, with more than 4,000 delegates from over 60 countries expected.
• 14 Oct — Governor Kavinder Gupta opened the Shimla theatre festival Mukhautasur on 14 October and urged protection of forests, rivers and mountains along with local dialects, folk traditions and festivals.
• 18 Oct — The nine-day Bathukamma floral festival of Telangana ended with Saddula Bathukamma on 18 October 2026, with women immersing flower stacks at Tank Bund, Hyderabad.
• 18 Oct — Organisers said a 72-foot floral Bathukamma at Amberpet, Hyderabad, earned recognition from the Universal Book of Records; Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy led the celebrations.
• 20 Oct — Jaipur was founded in 1727 by Sawai Jai Singh II, with Vidyadhar Bhattacharya as architect, and its walled city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2019. The Jaipur Literature Festival will be held on 14-18 January 2027.
• 20 Oct — The Andaman Subduction Volcanoes entry on India's UNESCO Tentative List covers Narcondam and Barren Island; Narcondam is part of this entry, not a separate site. Barren Island is India's only confirmed active volcano.
• 20 Oct — Sirpur (Mahasamund, Chhattisgarh) was the capital of South Kosala from the 5th to 12th century. It has Sharabhapuriya copper-plate inscriptions, was visited by Xuanzang, and has nine sites in its core zone, including the Lakshmana Temple.
• 20 Oct — Sirpur is proposed for UNESCO listing under criteria II and IV. Reports say India had 45 World Heritage Sites in July 2026 (37 cultural, 7 natural, 1 mixed); India signed the World Heritage Convention on 14 November 1977.
• 20 Oct — Chhattisgarh plans the Aastha Path, a roughly 1,000 km pilgrimage corridor linking five Shaktipeeths (Ratanpur, Dongargarh, Dantewada, Kudargarh and Chandrapur), with ₹5 crore in the 2026-27 budget and a ₹200 crore Ratanpur plan under PRASAD.
• 20 Oct — At Ujjain, CM Mohan Yadav opened projects worth ₹22.34 crore at Maa Chamunda Dham and announced a project to conserve peacocks. He said works worth about ₹25,000 crore for Simhastha 2028 are under way.

Part 1

22 Oct – 24 Oct

Awards & Honours: 14.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 22 Oct – 24 Oct

Part 2

12 Oct – 22 Oct

Awards & Honours: 13.

Earlier: Everything below is from earlier dates (before 25 Oct). The newest news is above this note.

Earlier · 12 Oct – 22 Oct