*TODAYS TOP NEWS*
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1. Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched an upgraded NMMS app, developed with IIT Madras support, with liveness detection, refined AI-based face verification and offline attendance for the VB-G RAM G rural jobs scheme. He said nearly 46 crore person-days have been generated for over 3.65 crore workers, the Centre has allocated ₹95,692 crore for 2026-27, and 10.997 crore Farmer IDs have been created.
2. Under a first-of-its-kind Home Ministry pilot, the Indian Army will train 600 Civil Defence Master Trainers — 50 each from 12 States and UTs, including J&K, Punjab, Delhi, Assam, Kerala and Tamil Nadu — by the second week of November. Each Master Trainer will then train 100 Civil Defence volunteers; the training covers threat awareness, protection and emergency response, and communication and coordination.
3. Under the Integrated Programme for Senior Citizens of the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana (AVYAY), 764 Senior Citizen Homes, 13 Continuous Care Homes, 17 Mobile Medicare Units and 3 physiotherapy clinics are being supported, the Social Justice Ministry said. Each Regional Resource and Training Centre gets ₹19.58 lakh a year to strengthen outreach, capacity building and service delivery.
4. Fisheries Secretary Dr Abhilaksh Likhi launched the development phase of India’s National Plan of Action for small-scale inland fisheries in Bhopal, prepared under the FAO framework with the Bay of Bengal Programme Inter-Governmental Organisation. He said India has set a target of 30 million tonnes of fish production in the next five years.
5. Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal opened the corporate office of Sagarmala Finance Corporation Ltd (SMFCL), India’s first maritime NBFC, in New Delhi. As on 30 September it had sanctioned ₹11,563 crore and disbursed ₹5,107 crore, and aims for ₹60,205 crore of disbursements by FY2031; the Maritime Development Fund is moving towards a first close of ₹5,000 crore.
6. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and MP Chief Minister Mohan Yadav will today inaugurate the Satna–Devendra Nagar (53 km) and Rewa–Churhat (65 km) rail sections and flag off the Devendra Nagar–Churhat train. Sidhi district will be connected to the rail network for the first time since Independence.
7. Inaugurating the Chinmaya Amrit Mahotsav Global Sammelan at Bharat Mandapam, PM Narendra Modi said India has brought back more than 650 stolen ancient idols and antiquities from abroad in the past 12 years. The Sammelan marks the culmination of year-long celebrations of 75 years of the Chinmaya Mission, founded by Swami Chinmayananda in 1951.
8. At the Bastar Dussehra festival in Jagdalpur, President Smt Droupadi Murmu said Chhattisgarh has been freed from Naxalism through the combined efforts of the Central and State governments. Attending the Muria Darbar, held as part of the 75-day-long Bastar Dussehra, she called the tribal tradition an outstanding example of democracy at the grassroots.
9. PM Shri Narendra Modi will visit Odisha on 25 October to inaugurate the Reserve Bank of India’s ₹169-crore data centre at Info Valley-II in Jatni, on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar. It will be the RBI’s second such facility after Navi Mumbai.
10. The Road Transport Ministry has proposed draft amendments to the Central Motor Vehicles Rules under which driving licences will be laminated or PVC cards with separate formats for Indian and foreign nationals, carrying the holder’s blood group, mobile number and emergency contact numbers. The qualifying score for the safe-driving tutorial assessment would rise from 60% to 75%, and fees for changing personal details such as name and address would be scrapped, with such requests to be decided within 15 days.
11. The National Statistics Office has proposed changes to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2027, including a separate sampling stratum for digital platform workers and new questions on unpaid household and caregiving work, volunteer work and unpaid trainee work. Comments are invited within 15 days.
12. The Department of Pharmaceuticals has set up a committee chaired by NITI Aayog Member Dr M. Srinivas, with former Health Secretary Preeti Sudan and Medanta CMD Dr Naresh Trehan, to review the Uniform Code for Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices (UCPMP) and curb unethical marketing. It will report within two months of its first meeting.
13. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) flagged 330 drug samples as ‘not of standard quality’ in September — 42 identified by Central Drugs Laboratories and 288 by State laboratories. It said the finding is limited to the batches tested and does not raise concerns about other drugs in the market.
14. IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said India will have an Indian-designed, Indian-manufactured and Indian-branded mobile phone by 23 October 2028. He also said India now makes tunnel-boring machines of 8 m and 15 m diameter and is preparing to build machines above 16 m.
15. Ladakh’s Chief Electoral Officer Rahul Sharma announced elections to the municipal committees of Leh (21 wards) and Kargil (17 wards) on 21 November. The notification will be issued on 29 October and nominations close on 5 November.
16. The Home Ministry has extended, for the second time, the deployment of 273 CAPF companies in Delhi till 31 October, at the request of Delhi Police, over the possibility of ‘flash protests’. They include 125 CRPF companies (20 of them women’s units), 20 RAF, 46 BSF, 39 ITBP, 31 SSB and 12 CISF companies.
17. IMD said a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal is likely to become a depression today and intensify into a cyclonic storm, to be named ‘Arnab’ (a name contributed by Bangladesh), by 26 October morning, before moving towards the north Andhra Pradesh–south Odisha coasts around 28 October. The Amaravati Met Centre said it would be at least a severe cyclonic storm; red warnings for extremely heavy rain have been issued for parts of coastal Andhra Pradesh on 27 and 28 October, and fishermen have been asked to return to shore.
18. Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy warned of a severe water and power crisis for eight to ten months, until July–August, due to El Niño, with reservoir storage below 20% of capacity. He urged farmers to avoid rabi paddy and directed officials to restrict the use of air-conditioners and lights in government offices.
19. On International Snow Leopard Day, MoS for Environment Kirti Vardhan Singh said India’s first Snow Leopard Population Assessment found 718 snow leopards across the Indian Himalayas, 477 of them in Ladakh.
20. Nine of Tamil Nadu’s 12 recognised parties, including the ruling TVK and the DMK, walked out of a meeting on the Special Summary Revision of electoral rolls called by CEO Archana Patnaik, calling last year’s SIR ‘flawed’ and demanding the resignation of CEC Gyanesh Kumar. In Karnataka, the final SIR roll will be published on 27 October.
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*LEGAL REPORT*
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1. The Delhi High Court dismissed AISA president Neha Bora’s plea against a notice asking her to execute a ₹10,000 personal bond to keep the peace, issued under BNSS Sections 126 and 130 after her detention at Mandi House. Justice Subramonium Prasad said ‘adequate safeguards’ exist and directed the Special Executive Magistrate to give her all relevant material before passing any order.
2. In the firing at actor Tiger Shroff, a Mumbai court remanded Ankit Khatar, Sameer Khatri and Jatin Panchal, arrested from Sonepat, Haryana, in police custody till 28 October. Police said Khatar carried out reconnaissance, while Khatri and Panchal were in touch with wanted accused Anil Pandit and helped procure weapons.
3. A special CBI court in Mohali remanded Ashwani Kumar, his son Laddi Singh and Vipin Garg to five days’ police custody, and his wife Neelam Rani to four days, in the Parminder Jhota murder case. They were brought from Central Jail, Bathinda, under high security; the CBI recently took over the case from the Punjab government.
4. The CBI arrested Enforcement Directorate enforcement officer Deepak Kumar and head constable Manoj Dwivedi, both of the ED’s Lucknow Zonal Office, for allegedly demanding a ₹5 lakh bribe from a complainant. Dwivedi, on deputation from the CRPF, is not an ED cadre officer.
5. The ED arrested Rajan Singh Katodiah, partner of Sawan Jewellers in Chandigarh, in the ₹645 crore IDFC First Bank scam involving Haryana government funds. His firm allegedly received about ₹332 crore; the Special PMLA Court, Panchkula, granted the ED four days’ custody.
6. Kolkata Police arrested Sanjib Raha, treasurer of the Chorbagan Durga Puja committee, and Kushal Majumdar for allegedly announcing that part of the pandal was collapsing, which triggered the stampede that killed 19 people. Nine people have been arrested so far.
7. The Allahabad High Court ruled that a POCSO survivor cannot be denied compensation merely because the medical report records no physical injuries. A Bench of Justices Shekhar B. Saraf and Amitabh Kumar Rai ordered ₹3 lakh to be paid to the minor under the Rani Lakshmi Bai Mahila Samman Kosh within ten days.
The court set aside the district steering committee’s decision to withhold the compensation, holding that physical injuries are not a necessary condition for establishing penetrative sexual assault under Section 3 of the POCSO Act.
—— *MISHAPS*———-
1. In Shivamogga, Karnataka — Four Killed in Car-Lorry Collision
Four people — Lalithamma (65), Ujjappa (77), Jayamma (64) and car driver Siddhu Valmiki (35) — were killed when their car collided head-on with an arecanut-laden lorry near Taralaghatta in Shikaripur taluk on Friday, while returning from a hospital in Shivamogga. Jayamma’s husband Hanumantappa was seriously injured.
2. In Haldwani, Uttarakhand — Two Killed as Speeding Car Overturns: Two men were killed and a man and a woman critically injured when a car heading from Kathgodam to Lalkuan hit a divider and overturned on the Gaula flyover around 4 pm on Friday. The two men died on the spot, while the injured man and woman were admitted to Sushila Tiwari Hospital in Haldwani.
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*DEFENCE News*
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1. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh released the Indian Army’s Land Warfare Doctrine at the Army Commanders’ Conference in New Delhi and said land forces will remain indispensable. He said defence production touched a record ₹1.78 lakh crore and defence exports about ₹38,000 crore in 2025-26.
2. Nagpur-based Solar Defence and Aerospace Ltd has begun delivering its indigenous Nagastra-2 anti-tank loitering munition to the Army. Combining surveillance and strike in one platform, it has day-and-night cameras, a 50-km strike range with ECCM capability, and a 4-kg tandem shaped-charge warhead that can penetrate up to 650 mm of rolled homogeneous armour.
3. C-DAC demonstrated drone-based quantum-secure communication at the Military College of Telecommunication Engineering, Mhow, combining Post-Quantum Cryptography with entanglement-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) using an airborne quantum payload carried by an unmanned aerial platform. The system was developed by C-DAC Pune’s HPC Technologies Group under a MeitY-supported project.
4. The India–Russia naval exercise INDRA 2026 concluded, and INS Sahyadri left Vladivostok on 20 October. The harbour and sea phases included coordinated manoeuvres, integrated communications, helicopter operations and medical evacuation drills.
5. The Navy will host the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue (IPRD-2026) from 3 to 5 November on the theme ‘Science, Technology and Academic Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific’, with experts from 18 countries. Organised with the National Maritime Foundation at the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi, it will be addressed by Rajnath Singh.
6. Navy Chief Admiral Krishna Swaminathan held talks with Italian Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Giuseppe Berutti Bergotto in New Delhi after a ceremonial Guard of Honour at the South Block Lawns. The talks focused on institutionalising navy-to-navy engagements, deepening operational cooperation and strengthening professional exchanges under the India–Italy Special Strategic Partnership.
7. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh said India is buying unmanned systems, counter-drone equipment, mobile artillery and mobile radars under the emergency procurement route, citing lessons from the Russia-Ukraine war and West Asia conflicts. He said India has emerged as the third-largest arms exporter to Europe, and a blueprint for theatre commands has been prepared and is awaiting approval at the highest level.
*FINANCE*
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*INDIAN RUPEE VALUE*
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1. The ₹30,213 crore Jio Platforms IPO, India’s largest ever, closed subscribed 22.19 times, and became the first public offer globally to cross one crore applications. Qualified institutional buyers bid 70.55 times their quota, non-institutional investors 14 times and retail investors 2.72 times; listing is expected on 28 October.
2. India’s foreign exchange reserves fell by USD 5 billion to USD 721 billion in the week ended 16 October, RBI data showed. Foreign currency assets dropped USD 5.7 billion to USD 591.8 billion, while gold reserves rose USD 706 million to USD 105.8 billion.
3. India’s engineering exports crossed USD 70 billion in April–September 2026-27, nearly 20% higher than a year earlier, the Commerce Ministry said. Total exports of goods and services grew 14% to USD 476.20 billion in the period.
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*ENTERTAINMENT NEWS*
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1. *Diljit’s Delhi Concert Cleared*
Delhi Police reversed its decision and granted permission for Diljit Dosanjh’s 30 October concert at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium after a meeting with organisers BookMyShow Live, who promised extra safety, traffic and crowd-control measures.
2. Bomb Threat Names Bachchan’s Home
Mumbai Police are on high alert after a bomb-threat email to Mayor Ritu Tawde’s office named Amitabh Bachchan’s Jalsa bungalow, BMC offices and the venue of Diljit Dosanjh’s 27 November concert at Mahalaxmi Racecourse.
3. *Doctors Slam ‘Suryaa’ Teaser*
The Indian Medical Association and AIIMS Delhi resident doctors condemned the teaser of Sunny Deol’s ‘Suryaa: Ant Se Aarambh Tak’, saying it generalises corruption in the medical profession and risks justifying violence against doctors, and sought an impartial review.
*24 Oct (Saturday)*
*Vedic Ritu/* Sharad
*Drik Ritu* : Hemant (Prewinter)
पक्ष :: *Shuklapaksh*
*Samvatsara* : Parabhava Nama
(Purnimanta)
*Vikram Samvat – 2083*
*Month* : Ashvina 28
(In Amanta calendar)
*Shaka Samvat – 1948*
*Month* : Ashvina 13
*Tithi* : Trayodashi (up to 1:36 pm)Chaturdashi
*Nakshatra*: Uttara Bhadrapada/Revati
*Rahu* : 09:16 AM – 10:41 AM
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