TODAYS TOP NEWS
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1. President Smt Droupadi Murmu has given her assent to the Frontier Nagaland Territorial Authority (FNTA) Bill 2026, passed unanimously by the Nagaland Legislative Assembly on 3 September. Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, who announced it on X, thanked the President and the Union Home Ministry and called it a key step towards realising the aspirations of the people of Eastern Nagaland.
2. PM Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the RBI’s Greenfield Data Centre and Cybersecurity Training Institute at Info Valley-2 in Jatni, near Bhubaneswar, and warned that modern wars are fought not only by conventional means but also by targeting economies, stressing the need to shield the banking system from cyber terrorists. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the facility will support critical financial infrastructure such as RTGS and NEFT.
3. In the 139th episode of Mann Ki Baat, marking 12 years of the programme, PM Modi said ‘Vocal for Local’ is taking Indian products to global markets — makhana from Purnia in Bihar is now reaching Greece and arhar dal from Kalaburagi in Karnataka is being exported to the Maldives. He noted that Khadi Gram Udyog sales crossed ₹28 crore in a single day on Gandhi Jayanti and urged people to buy products made by local artisans this festive season.
4. PM Modi also said about 50 crore tele-consultations have been held through e-Sanjeevani, recalled that the nation will mark the 100th birth anniversary of scientist Narinder Singh Kapany on 31 October, and urged everyone to take part in this year’s ‘Run for Unity’. He praised Punjab’s Kheti Virasat Mission, whose ‘Nav-Trinjan’ project grows naturally coloured organic cotton in the Malwa region and runs a weaving school for women.
5. PM Modi attended the final day of the ‘Wings over Ganges’ air show at Namo Ghat, Varanasi, held to mark the IAF’s 94th anniversary, with CM Yogi Adityanath and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. Tejas, LCH Prachand, Apache and Rafale took part; earlier he inaugurated a new textile manufacturing facility in Varanasi and interacted with its women staff.
6. The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has fined a company ₹1 lakh for walkie-talkie listings that did not disclose operating frequencies and licensing requirements. Over 16,000 non-compliant listings were found on e-commerce platforms; notices went to 13 entities, and final orders against 12 entities have brought cumulative penalties of ₹58 lakh.
7. NCERT has released a 20-hour, activity-based introductory module on computational thinking and artificial intelligence for Classes 9 to 12, developed with IIT Madras and IIT Jodhpur. It covers everyday uses of AI, how machines learn from examples, detecting deepfakes and the ethics of protecting personal data.
8. The National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (NICDC) launched Bihar Integrated Manufacturing City Gaya Ltd, the SPV for the Integrated Manufacturing City at Gaya, and signed 12 MoUs covering about 300 acres with proposed investments of ₹4,200 crore. Bihar CM Samrat Choudhary launched it at Bodh Gaya, along with a curtain-raiser for Bihar Business Connect 2027.
9. The National Biodiversity Authority has disbursed about ₹1.04 crore of Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) money among 27 State Biodiversity Boards and two UT Biodiversity Councils. The amount came from three companies for using pearl millet, jowar, maize, rice and bottle gourd for research and commercial purposes.
10. NITI Aayog Member Rajiv Gauba told the 2nd National Urban Conclave that “we can’t run cities from state capitals” and called for empowered city governments. He said India’s population will stabilise at about 165 crore around 2060, and the urban population is projected to rise from about 50 crore now to 85 crore by 2050.
11. Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated a J&K Bank ‘Easy Business Unit’ at village Chakra in Hiranagar, Kathua, to bring banking, welfare-scheme and digital services closer to border residents. He said J&K Bank branches in Kathua district have grown from 31 in 2014 to 55, and the Delhi–Katra Expressway will improve Hiranagar’s road connectivity.
12. IMD has issued a cyclone alert for the Andhra Pradesh and adjoining south Odisha coasts. The deep depression over the east-central Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm — to be named ‘Arnab’, a name proposed by Bangladesh — by this morning, a severe cyclonic storm by Tuesday and a very severe cyclonic storm by Wednesday, crossing the coast between Bapatla and Visakhapatnam by Wednesday forenoon with winds of 115–125 kmph gusting to 140 kmph. AP CM N. Chandrababu Naidu has set a zero-casualty target, while Odisha has kept 302 rescue teams ready and closed schools, colleges and anganwadis in Ganjam, Gajapati, Rayagada, Koraput and Malkangiri on Wednesday and Thursday.
13. Home Minister Amit Shah hit out at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge over his remarks about PM Modi’s late father at a Patna event, saying it is not the first time the Congress has used abusive language against the PM’s family and that repeated electoral defeats over 12 years have left the party frustrated. The BJP will hold nationwide protests today against the remarks.
14. The Centre has ordered the deployment of two companies of the CRPF’s Rapid Action Force to Arunachal Pradesh after the violence in Pasighat during protests against the proposed 11,200-MW Siang Upper Multipurpose Project.
15. Jammu and Kashmir LG Manoj Sinha will administer the oath to new ministers being inducted into CM Omar Abdullah’s Council of Ministers at Lok Bhavan, Srinagar, at 10:30 am on Tuesday, 27 October.
16. As many as 343 voter ID cards were found abandoned on the banks of the Narmada at Mandleshwar in Khargone district, Madhya Pradesh, during a cleanliness drive; preliminary information links them to the Rau Assembly constituency in neighbouring Indore district. The Congress has demanded an FIR and an impartial probe.
17. The Punjab Chemists Association has decided to stop selling all habit-forming medicines, including pregabalin, across the State with immediate effect, and asked members to deal with existing stocks through authorised return procedures. The move may inconvenience patients who need these medicines on prescription.
18. The Uttarakhand State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) has become the country’s first disaster response force to get ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System certification, which will standardise operations, record-keeping, training and equipment upkeep. CM Pushkar Singh Dhami congratulated the force.
19. Odia poet Dr Ashutosh Parida received the 47th Sarala Puraskar for his poetry collection ‘Bishwas De Pruthwi’ at a ceremony in Bhubaneswar. Instituted by the Indian Metals Public Charitable Trust (IMPaCT), the award carries ₹7 lakh, a copper plaque and a citation; Tamil lyricist R. Vairamuthu presented it.
20. Renowned painter and former Rajya Sabha member Jogen Chowdhury died at 87 in a Kolkata hospital after a prolonged illness. Born in Faridpur (now in Bangladesh) in 1939, he received the Kalidas Samman in 2001, served as Keeper of Art at Rashtrapati Bhavan and taught at Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati; he was a TMC Rajya Sabha MP from 2014 to 2020.
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NEW APPOINTMENT
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1. Arvind Kumar, a former Advisor at TRAI and former Director General of Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), has been appointed Director (Consumer Mobility) of BSNL, from the date he assumes charge till his superannuation on 30 April 2031.
2. Pakistan has named Ambassador Syed Haider Ali Shah, now its envoy to the Netherlands, as its next Permanent Representative to the UN in New York from 31 October, with PM Shehbaz Sharif’s approval.
3. BHEL has appointed Rajeeva Srivastava as General Manager & Head of International Operations and Amit Gupta as General Manager & Head of the Defence & Aerospace Business Group, effective 25 October, after Executive Director Jitendra Das retired on 24 October.
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LEGAL REPORT
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1. Under ‘Operation Trident’, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), in coordination with the NCB and Mizoram Police, searched 38 locations in Assam, Mizoram and Manipur and busted an international narco-hawala network linked to the cross-border trafficking of heroin, brown sugar and methamphetamine tablets from Myanmar.
It uncovered ₹100 crore of hawala transactions, froze 1,424 bank accounts, attached properties worth ₹17.82 crore and seized 500 detonators and ₹12 lakh cash; 18 people were arrested. Home Minister Amit Shah hailed the operation.
2. The Madras High Court held that life convicts in Tamil Nadu can take their 40 days of annual ordinary leave in two instalments, ruling that the word “spell” in Rule 22(2)(c) of the Tamil Nadu Suspension of Sentence Rules, 1982, must be read as “instalment”.
3. Delhi Police have registered an FIR against Congress MPs Imran Masood and Imran Pratapgarhi and Samajwadi Party MP Mohibbullah Nadvi on a complaint by Jamia Millia Islamia, which alleged that they trespassed on the campus and incited unrest during a student agitation to restore the Jamia Millia Islamia Students’ Union (JMISU), whose elections have not been held since 2006. Four students have been on hunger strike for 13 days.
4. A special MP-MLA court in Sultanpur, UP, will pronounce its verdict today in the 2018 defamation case against Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi over alleged objectionable remarks against then-BJP president Amit Shah.
5. Assam Police have arrested 13 people over the attack on a Bihu troupe during a Durga Puja idol immersion procession in Sribhumi district on Friday, DGP Harmeet Singh said. CM Himanta Biswa Sarma ordered immediate action, saying any insult to the State’s culture and heritage will not be tolerated.
6. Chennai Customs’ Air Intelligence Unit seized 1,655 g of 24-carat gold worth ₹2.09 crore, concealed as capsules inside the bodies of two passengers who arrived from Singapore on 24 October. Both passengers were arrested.
7. Police in Banda, Uttar Pradesh, arrested Mahendra Pal Verma, son of former SP minister Surendra Pal Verma, and his alleged accomplice, history-sheeter Shera, in the murder of brothers Manoj (6) and Yuvraj (4), whose bodies were found in a water-filled pit in Nandwara village on 30 September.
The post-mortem confirmed head injuries. Suspecting old enmity, police had registered an FIR against nine villagers; five of the accused were arrested earlier and sent to jail.
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1. In Sonepat, Haryana — Three Killed as Vehicle Rams Car
Tejbir (38) and Krishan (37) of Barwasni village and Sweety (37) of Nangli Sakrawati in Delhi were killed when an unidentified vehicle allegedly hit their Brezza car near a CNG pump on Gohana Road, close to Barwasni. Sadar police have registered a case against the unidentified driver.
2. In Sundargarh, Odisha — Two Drivers Burnt to Death in Trailer Collision: Drivers Mantu Yadav (35) of Jharkhand and Chandan Yadav (37) of Bihar were burnt to death when two trailers collided head-on on the coal corridor near Sargipali under Lefripada police limits at about 1 am on Sunday. A fuel leak and short circuit set the vehicles ablaze.
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DEFENCE News
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1. The Ministry of Defence has made Aadhaar-based authentication mandatory for veterans and their dependents to avail benefits under the Ex-servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) and Kendriya Sainik Board welfare schemes. Aadhaar will be needed for ECHS membership on retirement, treatment at polyclinics, service and empanelled hospitals, and claim processing.
2. The BSF apprehended four Pakistani fishermen who had entered Indian waters to catch crabs in the Sir Creek area of Kutch, Gujarat, and seized their fishing boat. They were identified as Kadir Thaimor, Muhammad Mussa, Azgar Thaimor and Ahsan Jat of Chach Jaan Khan village in Pakistan.
3. Australian High Commissioner Philip Green visited the India–Australia Army exercise AUSTRAHIND 2026 in Thiruvananthapuram, and stressed the strategic importance of the eastern Indian Ocean and closer defence cooperation for a free and open Indo-Pacific.
4. An Army helicopter helped ground rescue teams save two foreign paragliding pilots — Sebastian of Austria and Adam Wiszpyaga of Poland — stranded in the snowbound Dhauladhar range in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. Both had taken off from Bir-Billing; Sebastian spent four nights in freezing conditions and Adam two nights at about 3,800 m.
5. A Mega Ex-Servicemen Rally was held at the Artillery Centre, Nashik Road, under HQ Southern Command, with Lt Gen D.S. Kushwah, GOC Maharashtra, Gujarat & Goa Area, as chief guest. Veer Naris were felicitated, and wheelchairs and hearing aids were distributed to veterans from Nashik, Dhule and Nandurbar.
6. Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh, who retires on 31 October, told that the IAF is fully committed to jointness and integration but does not see theaterisation as permanently dividing its fighter assets geographically. He said theatre commands must suit India’s own security needs rather than copy foreign models, with “centralised control where necessary and decentralised execution where appropriate”.
7. Bitmapper Integration Technology has developed an indigenous AI-assisted Automated Gun Barrel Cleaning and Inspection Robot (ABCR) for 155 mm, 130 mm, 125 mm, 105 mm and 76.2 mm guns. The modular robot crawls through smooth-bore and rifled barrels, inspecting them with a camera before cleaning, cutting maintenance time and manual effort.
FINANCE
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INDIAN RUPEE VALUE
💷 GBP ₹127(Approx)
€ Euro : ₹106(Approx)
USD ₹ 95(Approx)
🇨🇦 Canada :CAD ₹68
🇦🇺 Australia : ₹ 67
🇦🇪 UAE Dirham : ₹ 26
🇨🇳 China Yuan ¥ : ₹ 14
🇲🇻 Maldives Rufiya : ₹ 6.14
🇧🇹 Bhutan ngultrum : ₹ 1.00
🇳🇵 Nepal Rupee : ₹ 0.62
🇧🇩 B’desh Taka* : ₹ 0.77
🇵🇰 Pak Rupee : ₹ 0.34
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Rupee : ₹ 0.29
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BSE SENSEX
73,123.83 -125.56 (0.17%)🔻
NIFTY
22,600.00 -87.65 (0.39%)🔻
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Rates in Financial Capital Mumbai
GOLD : ₹ 14,258/ 01gm (24 krt)
SILVER : ₹ 2,20,000/KG
1. Foreign portfolio investors have pulled out a net ₹48,056 crore from Indian equities so far in October — ₹53,337 crore sold through the exchanges, partly offset by ₹5,281 crore invested via the primary market.
2. RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra said at the NDTV World Summit that the RBI does not target any price or level for the rupee, but acts to curb speculation and excessive volatility. He said global growth is projected at 3.1%.
3. SIDBI’s MSME Outlook Survey (Round 8, July–September 2026) showed the MSME Business Confidence Index rising to 60.4 from 59.3, with manufacturing showing the strongest sentiment.
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
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1. Shilpa Rao’s Set Cut Short
Singer Shilpa Rao said she was “deeply hurt” after her microphone was switched off midway through her set at the 10th-anniversary Bollywood Music Project in Mumbai, which was running behind schedule ahead of a 10 pm curfew. The organisers apologised, and the AICWA condemned the incident.
2. Suriya Back in Khaki With ‘Scene’
Tamil star Suriya returns to the police genre with ‘Scene’, releasing in theatres on 6 November. He plays Inbaraj and says the film is a family entertainer not to be compared with ‘Kaakha Kaakha’ or ‘Singam’; it will clash with Nayanthara’s ‘Mookuthi Amman 2’.
3. Kriti Sanon Hits Back at Trolls
Actress Kriti Sanon said actors are the easiest targets of social media trolling, recalling the backlash over her Raksha Bandhan jewellery ad, when trolls also targeted her mother’s and sister’s accounts. She spoke on Kareena Kapoor Khan’s show ‘What Women Want’ Season 6.
26 Oct (Monday)
Vedic Ritu/ Sharad
Drik Ritu : Hemant (Prewinter)
पक्ष :: Shuklapaksh
Samvatsara : Parabhava Nama
(Purnimanta)
Vikram Samvat – 2083
Month : Ashvina 30
(In Amanta calendar)
Shaka Samvat – 1948
Month : Ashvina 15
Tithi : Purnima (up to 9:41 am)Pratipada
Nakshatra: Ashwini/
Bharani
Rahu : 07:53 AM – 09:20 AM
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