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Kerala

15 Oct

• Sudha Pillai panel finds no case for KIIFB to keep borrowing or funding projects
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Kerala High Court suspends four-year sentence of former DGP Tomin J. Thachankary
  15 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala High Court dismisses applications to appeal against FIR order in CMRL-Exalogic case
  15 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala government tells Assembly only illegal fencing was removed in Chinnakkanal
  15 Oct Agriculture & Rural Environment & Climate Polity & Governance
• Kerala Assembly sees adjournment motion and Opposition walkout over power shortage
  14 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Padma Shri Cheruvayal Raman, conserver of Wayanad's traditional paddy, dies
  14 Oct Agriculture & Rural Awards & Persons Environment & Climate
• Kerala High Court seeks practical road safety inputs from Transport Commissioner and other authorities
  15 Oct Polity & Governance Science & Technology
• Special voter enrolment drive opens in Kerala with Form 6 and digital help desks
  15 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala High Court allows Aadhaar fingerprint comparison in Sreekrishnapuram double murder case
  14 Oct Polity & Governance Science & Technology
• Palakkad: the landlocked granary district that opens Kerala through a mountain gap
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National

15 Oct

• Defence Ministry signs Rs 4,106 crore contracts for GSAT-7C satellite and Varunastra torpedoes
  15 Oct Defence & Security Science & Technology
• India's total exports cross US$ 476 billion in the first half of the fiscal year
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• Unemployment rate steady at 5.0 per cent, says PLFS monthly bulletin
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• National Strategic Trade Command Centre launched at Vanijya Bhawan
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• NHAI makes independent design checking compulsory for major bridges
  15 Oct Polity & Governance Science & Technology
• Technology Development Board backs indigenous 32-slice CT scanner
  15 Oct Health & Medicine Science & Technology
• Prime Minister inaugurates development projects worth Rs 3,350 crore in Ladakh
  15 Oct Environment & Climate Polity & Governance
• NITI Aayog's Frontier Tech Hub unveils Data Centre Evaluation Framework for states
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Environment & Climate Science & Technology
• Education Ministry reviews National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme implementation
  15 Oct Education & Exams Polity & Governance
• RBI reports a monthly current account deficit of US$ 5.2 billion
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• RBI issues FAQs on the Foreign Exchange Risk Reserve
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• States offer Rs 24,400 crore of securities in RBI auction
  15 Oct Economy & Banking

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International

15 Oct

• Djibouti faces movement in both directions as Yemenis flee and Ethiopian migrants head the other way
  15 Oct Polity & Governance
• WHO says lead exposure kills more than 3.5 million people a year
  15 Oct Environment & Climate Health & Medicine
• UN Security Council renews Haiti sanctions regime
  14 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Cholera cases spike in the Democratic Republic of the Congo amid Ebola outbreak
  14 Oct Health & Medicine
• WFP warns 800,000 people in Yemen are now beyond the reach of aid
  14 Oct Agriculture & Rural Health & Medicine
• UN Security Council hears of encouraging progress in Libya's political process
  14 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• WHO chief calls for urgent health action across the Eastern Mediterranean
  14 Oct Health & Medicine
• UN experts urge reparations after Colombia's peace court ruling on Ecopetrol
  14 Oct Polity & Governance
• OCHA says Gaza winter preparations are outpaced by needs and restrictions
  14 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• WHO launches AI-powered hub to help health workers discuss alcohol risks
  14 Oct Health & Medicine Science & Technology
• FAO's Hand-in-Hand Investment Forum opens with a record 20.16 billion dollars in proposals
  13 Oct Agriculture & Rural Economy & Banking
• Study shows bleached coral recovers when it touches a healthy neighbour
  14 Oct Environment & Climate Science & Technology

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State Focus Puducherry

15 Oct

• Arikamedu, the French and the making of Puducherry
  Background Art, Culture & History Polity & Governance
• How the Union Territory of Puducherry is put together
  Background Polity & Governance
• Puducherry: a 479 sq km Union Territory with a legislature
  Background Polity & Governance Reports & Indices
• From 138 years of French rule to an Indian Union Territory
  Background Art, Culture & History Polity & Governance
• Where Puducherry's four regions sit on the map of South India
  Background Environment & Climate Polity & Governance
• Bastille Day, Masi Magam and the festivals of Puducherry
  Background Art, Culture & History
• Yanam, the Puducherry region where the Coringa branches off the Gauthami
  Background Environment & Climate Polity & Governance
• Mahe or Mayyazhi, the Puducherry region on the Arabian Sea
  Background Art, Culture & History Polity & Governance
• Puducherry town, built on the model of a French bastide
  Background Art, Culture & History

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Country Focus Egypt

15 Oct

• Colossal Ramses II statues unearthed at Behbeit al-Hagar in the Nile Delta
  15 Oct Art, Culture & History
• Egypt holds on to WHO gold tier status on the path to eliminating hepatitis C
  15 Oct Health & Medicine Reports & Indices
• India and Egypt: the 1955 Friendship Treaty and the Non-Aligned Movement
  Background Polity & Governance
• India and Egypt upgraded their ties to a Strategic Partnership
  Background Polity & Governance
• India-Egypt trade, Indian investment and the Rupee Vostro account
  Background Economy & Banking
• Egypt: Cairo, the Arab League and BRICS
  Background Environment & Climate Polity & Governance
• The Aswan High Dam, Lake Nasser and the Nubian monuments
  Background Art, Culture & History Environment & Climate
• The Suez Canal links the Mediterranean and the Red Sea
  Background Economy & Banking Environment & Climate
• Egypt and India: diplomatic ties, the strategic partnership and trade
  Background Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Exercise Cyclone and Bright Star: the India-Egypt defence calendar
  Background Defence & Security
• The Suez Canal: from the 1859 digging to the 1975 reopening
  Background Art, Culture & History Economy & Banking
• Egypt in the United Nations and UNESCO: dates and heritage counts
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Kerala

15 Oct

• Kerala launches the 'Janasparsham' file adalat to clear 2.76 lakh pending files by 31 December
  15 Oct Polity & Governance
• KSFE launches 'Pink Chitties' open only to women and transgender persons
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• New power connection in Kerala now costs a flat Rs 2,000 for domestic loads up to 2 kW
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Kerala High Court orders photographs and videos of illegal vehicle modifications to be uploaded on the e-DAR portal
  15 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala declares 30 colleges 'Drug Free Campuses' in the first phase of 'Mayangilla Keralam'
  15 Oct Education & Exams Health & Medicine
• Kerala State Biodiversity Board brings out a Red List assessment of the State's unique ecosystems
  15 Oct Environment & Climate Reports & Indices
• Kerala launches the 'Tech Kerala' brand and an IT Park Affiliation scheme
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Science & Technology
• Kerala's SC-ST and Backward Classes Welfare Department completes all 32 projects of the 100-day plan, with Dakshayani and Priyadarshini among them
  15 Oct Agriculture & Rural Polity & Governance
• Kerala to consider 10,000 applications in the first phase of housing for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe families
  15 Oct Agriculture & Rural Polity & Governance
• Kerala starts Rs 500 crore worth of fisheries works at Vizhinjam, including a new fishing harbour of Rs 260 crore
  15 Oct Agriculture & Rural Economy & Banking
• Kerala to give Janakeeya Arogya Kendrams their own buildings, with 100 medicines free at each
  15 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• Rs 21.52 crore critical care block sanctioned for Alappuzha Government T.D. Medical College Hospital
  15 Oct Health & Medicine

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National

15 Oct

• Reserve Bank fixes premature redemption price of Sovereign Gold Bond 2019-20 Series V at Rs 14,725 per unit
  15 Oct Economy & Banking
• Supreme Court directs Indian Railways to insure tickets bought at counters on the same terms as online tickets
  15 Oct Polity & Governance
• Competition Commission clears GRT Jewellers' acquisition of a majority stake in Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri
  15 Oct Economy & Banking
• Vice President releases Ananda Shankar Jayant's memoir and sets out the spread of India's cancer care network
  15 Oct Health & Medicine
• CSIR-NGRI and Manipur University begin a five-day training programme on seismic hazards at Imphal
  15 Oct Education & Exams Science & Technology
• Reserve Bank opens a special window to meet the full daily dollar needs of three public sector oil marketing companies
  15 Oct Economy & Banking
• Reserve Bank cuts the no-documentation hedging limit from USD 100 million to USD 5 million and orders a 20 per cent risk reserve
  15 Oct Economy & Banking
• Eastern Railway notifies 1,354 special train trips for the festive rush, up 12.08 per cent on last year
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Department of Telecommunications and ITU hold AI for Good Build-a-thon 5.0 at India Mobile Congress
  15 Oct Science & Technology
• IGNCA opens an international conference on India's cultural links abroad as the Greater India Society turns a hundred
  15 Oct Art, Culture & History
• How a Sovereign Gold Bond is redeemed early: the fifth-year rule and the three-day gold price average
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International

15 Oct

• China's exports jump 36.3 per cent in September as high-technology demand drives trade
  15 Oct Economy & Banking
• Nature paper reports a one-year blind test of satellite methane detection over 746 events
  15 Oct Environment & Climate Science & Technology
• FAO's Hand-in-Hand Investment Forum opens with a record $20.16 billion in proposed agrifood investments
  15 Oct Agriculture & Rural Economy & Banking
• UNESCO gender report says the share of girls married before 18 fell from 25 to 18 per cent, but early marriage still blocks schooling
  15 Oct Education & Exams Reports & Indices
• Nature reports de novo designed cysteine proteases, built on folds unlike any natural enzyme
  15 Oct Health & Medicine Science & Technology
• World Bank Group launches a Philanthropy Hub in Bangkok as a single entry point for philanthropic capital
  15 Oct Economy & Banking
• UNESCO's fifth Global Forum Against Racism and Discrimination to be held in The Hague on 29 and 30 October
  15 Oct Polity & Governance
• Federal Reserve Board publishes the minutes of its discount rate meetings of August and September
  15 Oct Economy & Banking
• United States consumer prices rise 0.6 per cent in September, taking annual inflation to 3.7 per cent
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• Nature study finds early tetrapods could barely turn their heads, using sturgeon as a living analogue
  15 Oct Science & Technology
• Winners of the UNESCO-patronised youth festival The Planet of Art 2026 honoured at Almaty
  15 Oct Art, Culture & History Awards & Persons

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State Focus Ladakh

15 Oct

• Prime Minister to dedicate five Ladakh projects worth about Rs 3,350 crore on 15 October
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• New passenger terminal at Leh's Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport built at Rs 640 crore, designed for 35 lakh passengers a year
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Science & Technology
• Border Roads Organisation's 298-km Nimmu-Padum-Darcha road through Zanskar and Shinkun La to be dedicated to the nation on 15 October
  15 Oct Defence & Security Economy & Banking
• Hanu small hydroelectric project of 9 MW and the 66 kV Dah-Hanu-Khaltsi line to be dedicated in Ladakh on 15 October
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Environment & Climate
• Project Him Sarovar brings 40 water bodies to 40 Ladakh villages under Mission Amrit Sarovar
  15 Oct Agriculture & Rural Environment & Climate
• Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena chairs the first meeting of the Ladakh Advisory Council
  15 Oct Polity & Governance
• Ladakh extends a 25 per cent subsidy to pashmina growers and targets a goat population of 4 lakh
  15 Oct Agriculture & Rural Economy & Banking
• Kargil unit sends a 20 metric tonne sea buckthorn pulp consignment to Delhi as Ladakh's production reaches 2,200 tonnes
  15 Oct Agriculture & Rural Economy & Banking
• Ladakh raises the maximum age for Nambardars from 60 to 63 years
  15 Oct Polity & Governance
• Ladakh's municipal draft electoral rolls open for claims and objections until 15 October
  15 Oct Polity & Governance
• 'Vision from the Highlands' report on Changthang's rangelands, wildlife and communities released at Leh
  15 Oct Agriculture & Rural Environment & Climate
• India's first Petroglyph Conservation Park at Sindhu Ghat in Leh to be dedicated on 15 October
  15 Oct Art, Culture & History Environment & Climate

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Country Focus Yemen

15 Oct

• Security Council told Yemen has fallen back into full-scale war as Government forces say they have retaken Mocha
  15 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• WFP says fighting has put 800,000 people in Yemen beyond the reach of food aid
  15 Oct Agriculture & Rural Health & Medicine
• Yemen reports 8,034 suspected cholera cases as the siege of Taiz tightens
  15 Oct Health & Medicine
• WHO raises its immediate funding need for Yemen from $9 million to $31 million
  15 Oct Health & Medicine Reports & Indices
• IOM records more than 184,000 people displaced in Yemen since the start of August
  15 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• WFP staff member freed in Yemen while 72 UN personnel remain detained
  15 Oct Polity & Governance
• UNICEF says renewed hostilities push over 12 million children in Yemen deeper into crisis
  15 Oct Education & Exams Health & Medicine
• World Bank's Yemen Economic Monitor records a 1.5 per cent fall in real GDP and projects a further 0.5 per cent contraction
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• Socotra Archipelago: Yemen's natural World Heritage site in the Indian Ocean
  Background Environment & Climate
• Old City of Sana'a: a World Heritage site in Yemen's capital
  Background Art, Culture & History
• Old Walled City of Shibam, the "Manhattan of the desert"
  Background Art, Culture & History
• Landmarks of the Ancient Kingdom of Saba at Marib
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Kerala

15 Oct

• Kerala asks the Centre to cut the seven-year wait for a death certificate for those lost at sea
  15 Oct Agriculture & Rural Polity & Governance
• Kerala plans a single housing scheme for fishermen, merging Punargeham into it
  15 Oct Agriculture & Rural Economy & Banking
• TRIDA invites retired officers for five contract posts, with 26 October as the last date
  15 Oct Polity & Governance
• 2025 Kerala Puraskarams to be presented at Lok Bhavan on 22 October, with Kerala Jyothi for Dr. M.R. Raghava Warrier
  14 Oct Awards & Persons
• Ambedkar Grama scheme completes work in 546 of 860 nagars; Panchami Grama to get ₹40 lakh a village
  14 Oct Agriculture & Rural Polity & Governance
• Kerala Police gets 164 new vehicles for anti-narcotic and anti-terror work
  14 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• State Information Commission seeks an explanation from Kochi Corporation over sharing RTI applicants' details with Vigilance
  14 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala Maritime Board (Amendment) Bill makes the Chief Minister the board's chairperson and creates a maritime land bank
  14 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Kerala Motor Vehicles Taxation (Amendment) Bill, 2026 provides seizure yards in every taluk
  14 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala to restart river desilting by December-end or early January, Revenue Minister tells the Assembly
  14 Oct Environment & Climate

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National

15 Oct

• Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs clears sale of 60.72 per cent of IDBI Bank to a Fairfax arm for Rs.52,878.0806181 crore
  15 Oct Economy & Banking
• Advanced chemicals, petrochemicals and material technologies brought under the Rs 1 lakh crore RDI Scheme
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Science & Technology
• Law Ministry brings nineteen National Law Universities into a mission on criminal case backlogs in 100 districts
  15 Oct Education & Exams Polity & Governance
• India and Brunei Darussalam hold their third Joint Trade Committee meeting
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• MEA and CSIR launch a Tech Familiarization Programme with 33 ambassadors and embassy officials from 29 countries
  15 Oct Polity & Governance Science & Technology
• Centre sets up a committee under Prof. Ramesh Chand on sugarcane farmers and the sugar sector
  15 Oct Agriculture & Rural Economy & Banking
• Central Electricity Authority launches Vidhyut Dwar portal and names 54 AI brand ambassadors for the power sector
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Science & Technology
• IIT Kanpur's 'Greater Than Us' campaign launched with a US$1 billion target by March 2029; Rajnath Singh speaks at the event
  15 Oct Defence & Security Education & Exams Science & Technology
• Bureau of Indian Standards: the national standards body set up under the BIS Act 2016, with a branch office at Kochi
  Background Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• The National Tiger Conservation Authority is the statutory body that gives Project Tiger its legal authority
  Background Environment & Climate Polity & Governance
• Aditya-L1, India's first space-based solar mission, watches the Sun from a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 point
  Background Science & Technology
• National Food Security Act entitlements: 35 kg a month for an Antyodaya household and 5 kg a person for priority households
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International

15 Oct

• WHO publishes quality standards for the WHO Academy's learning offer
  15 Oct Education & Exams Health & Medicine
• US Justice Department charges an OpenAI engineer over a hidden audio recording device
  15 Oct Polity & Governance Science & Technology
• Federal Reserve's 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances puts median US family net worth at $215,900
  15 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• UN Security Council renews the Haiti sanctions regime and extends its committee's work by 13 months
  14 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Guterres proposes a $3.3 billion UN programme budget for 2027, 1.2 per cent below 2026
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Disasters cost $228 billion a year in housing losses, UN says on the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction
  13 Oct Environment & Climate Reports & Indices
• UNDP warns 800 million young people in developing economies may find no jobs and launches two initiatives
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• Argentina asks the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to halt the UK's Sea Lion oil project near the Falklands
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• WHO says DR Congo has recorded over 51,000 suspected cholera cases this year as it also fights Ebola
  14 Oct Health & Medicine
• Monetary Authority of Singapore keeps the rate of appreciation of its S$NEER policy band unchanged
  14 Oct Economy & Banking
• Nature study estimates conservation areas already cover 26.81 per cent of the world's land, near the 30 by 2030 target
  14 Oct Environment & Climate Science & Technology

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State Focus Jammu and Kashmir

15 Oct

• SKUAST-Kashmir hosts the 13th All India Sustainable Mountain Development Summit on the draft J&K mountain policy
  13 Oct Environment & Climate Polity & Governance
• Omar Abdullah reviews the Darbar Move; the convoy of offices to Jammu is set for October 31 and November 1
  13 Oct Art, Culture & History Polity & Governance
• Jammu and Kashmir auctions its first two mineral blocks, both limestone, through the Ministry of Mines
  2 Oct Economy & Banking
• Jammu and Kashmir reorganised into two union territories
  Background Polity & Governance
• Kashmir Saffron, a registered geographical indication
  Background Agriculture & Rural Economy & Banking
• Dachigam National Park, the home of the hangul
  Background Environment & Climate
• Chenab bridge, the highest railway bridge on the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla link
  Background Economy & Banking Science & Technology
• Wular Lake, the Ramsar wetland that absorbs the Kashmir Valley's flood waters
  Background Environment & Climate
• Purple Revolution: lavender cultivation under CSIR's Aroma Mission in Jammu and Kashmir
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Country Focus Syria

15 Oct

• UN Security Council hears that 5.5 million Syrians remain displaced, about 800,000 of them in camps
  15 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• OPCW Director-General Sabrina Dallafior visits Damascus after the first verified destruction of Syria's chemical weapons
  15 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• OPCW verifies the destruction of 42 Syrian aerial bombs, its first such verification in the country
  15 Oct Defence & Security
• IAEA closes its investigation into Syria's nuclear non-compliance
  15 Oct Defence & Security Science & Technology
• WHO says 16.5 million people in Syria will need humanitarian assistance
  15 Oct Health & Medicine
• Syria's President tells the UN General Assembly that more than three and a half million have returned home
  15 Oct Polity & Governance
• Damascus: Syria's capital and its World Heritage Ancient City
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• Palmyra: the desert oasis city on Syria's World Heritage List
  Background Art, Culture & History
• Syria on the map: five neighbours, a Mediterranean coast and the Euphrates
  Background Environment & Climate
• Syria in UNESCO: six World Heritage sites and a place in the Arab States group
  Background Art, Culture & History Education & Exams
• Syria is an original Member of the United Nations, and resumed separate membership after the United Arab Republic
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• Crac des Chevaliers and Qal'at Salah El-Din, the Crusader-era castles on Syria's World Heritage List
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National

14 Oct

• Union Cabinet continues the National Social Assistance Programme as Pradhan Mantri Samajik Sahayata Yojana with a ₹53,428 crore outlay
  14 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Cabinet clears a 78-day productivity-linked bonus for 11.40 lakh railway employees costing ₹2,009.61 crore
  14 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Indian Navy to hand over command of Combined Task Force 154 at Manama after eight months in charge
  14 Oct Defence & Security
• Ministry of Cooperation notifies MSCARO 2026, a CARO-style audit reporting order for multi-state cooperative societies
  14 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Prime Minister to dedicate five Ladakh projects worth about ₹3,350 crore, including India's first petroglyph conservation park
  14 Oct Environment & Climate Polity & Governance
• Supreme Court quashes Ghaziabad police notice to X seeking three months of a journalist's account data
  14 Oct Polity & Governance
• Archaeological Survey of India: Alexander Cunningham became the first Archaeological Surveyor in 1861 and the Survey was revived under him in 1871
  Background Art, Culture & History
• National Legal Services Authority: the Chief Justice of India is Patron-in-Chief of the body that gives free legal aid under Article 39A
  Background Polity & Governance
• Indian Council of Medical Research: it began as the Indian Research Fund Association in 1911 and was renamed
  Background Health & Medicine Science & Technology
• DRDO: formed in 1958 from the Army's Technical Development Establishments, the DTDP and the Defence Science Organisation
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International

14 Oct

• Nature analysis finds China overtook the United States as the largest spender on research and development on a purchasing power parity basis
  14 Oct Reports & Indices Science & Technology
• Solar Orbiter traces the origin of magnetic switchbacks in the solar wind to interchange reconnection at the Sun
  8 Oct Science & Technology
• Nikon disqualifies the winning Small World in Motion video over artificial intelligence post-processing
  12 Oct Science & Technology
• Eurodoc report finds wide gaps in what first-year doctoral candidates earn across 26 European countries
  12 Oct Education & Exams Reports & Indices
• Drug makers take GLP-1 compounds into trials for addiction and psychiatric conditions
  13 Oct Health & Medicine Science & Technology
• UN Special Envoy Huang Xia tells the Security Council the Great Lakes situation continues to deteriorate despite progress on peace processes
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders meet under UN auspices in the UN Protected Area
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Chinese court sentences three members of a Myanmar-based scam syndicate to death and jails fifty-eight others
  13 Oct Polity & Governance

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Kerala

14 Oct

• Cheruvayal Raman, the Wayanad tribal farmer who guarded native paddy, dies at 74
  14 Oct Agriculture & Rural Awards & Persons

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State Focus Delhi

14 Oct

• Delhi Police de-notify Jantar Mantar as a protest site and designate Ramlila, Burari and CBD Ground East Delhi
  14 Oct Polity & Governance
• Delhi High Court calls first come, first serve allotment of Ramleela grounds unreasonable
  13 Oct Art, Culture & History Polity & Governance
• Delhi High Court seeks the stand of FSSAI and the Delhi food safety department on dairy analogues sold as paneer
  14 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• Delhi High Court says the rigours of Section 37 NDPS need not apply when the seizure is only marginally above commercial quantity
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Delhi High Court raises an elderly homemaker's accident compensation to ₹20,79,307, rejecting the age stereotype
  14 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Delhi High Court issues directions to all Delhi trial courts against declaring an accused an absconder without cogent grounds
  10 Oct Polity & Governance

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Country Focus Iraq

14 Oct

• Iraq's six World Heritage properties, from Hatra to Babylon
  Background Art, Culture & History
• The Ahwar of Southern Iraq: four marshes and three Sumerian cities in one property
  Background Art, Culture & History Environment & Climate
• Iraq is an original Member of the United Nations, admitted on 21 December 1945
  Background Polity & Governance
• Iraq is India's second-largest crude oil supplier, with trade of US$27.51 billion in the last financial year
  Background Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Oil supplies 88 per cent of Iraq's government revenue and 91 per cent of its merchandise exports
  Background Economy & Banking
• Ashur, Iraq's Assyrian capital on the Tigris, has been on the Danger List since the year it was inscribed
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• The Code of Hammurabi, cut on a black basalt stela and now kept in the Louvre
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Kerala

14 Oct

• Keralam sanctions ₹63.37 crore to clear Supplyco's paddy procurement liability
  13 Oct Agriculture & Rural Economy & Banking
• NIT Calicut: a Regional Engineering College of 1961 that became an NIT in 2002, an institution of national importance under the NIT Act 2007
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• IIM Kozhikode: the fifth IIM, founded in 1996, with a first batch of 42 and a hill-top campus at Kunnamangalam
  Background Education & Exams
• Kerala State Planning Board: first constituted in September 1967 with Chief Minister E. M. S. Namboothiripad as Chairperson
  Background Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Thrissur, the cultural capital of Kerala and land of Poorams: 3,032 sq km, with literacy of 95.32% in the Census figures
  Background Art, Culture & History Polity & Governance
• Malappuram, the land atop the hills: 3550 sq km, 9.13% of Kerala and third in the State by area
  Background Environment & Climate Polity & Governance
• The University of Kerala, founded as the University of Travancore and among the first 16 universities in India
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• Malayalam among India's Classical Languages, and the Linguistic Experts Committee that recommends the status
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• Kottayam, the Akshara Nagari that was India's first fully literate town
  Background Art, Culture & History Education & Exams
• Malappuram, the land atop the hills, and the four rivers that cross it
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• Pathanamthitta, the thirteenth revenue district of Kerala
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14 Oct

• Ministry of Mines invites bids for two Andaman Sea offshore mineral blocks covering 1,632 square km
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Environment & Climate
• Rajnath Singh offers ASEAN co-development of patrol vessels, radars and air defence at the first ASEAN-India Defence Think Tank Forum
  14 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Wholesale price inflation rises to 11.39 per cent in September, with Fuel and Power at 25.85 per cent
  14 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• India tells China that Ladakh is an integral and inalienable part of the country after Beijing objects to 28 standard names
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• DGCA bars the MOBIKINS MK-PB-04 power bank from all flights to, from and within India, citing a recent fire incident
  14 Oct Polity & Governance Science & Technology
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to visit Mumbai and Jamnagar for energy talks after the C5+1 meeting in Samarkand
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• NIFTEM-Kundli hosts an India-Canada roundtable on pulse protein innovation with Saskatchewan's Advanced Education Minister
  13 Oct Agriculture & Rural Economy & Banking
• HNLU Raipur plans a ₹30 crore International Arbitration and Mediation Institute and signs an MoU with IAMC Hyderabad
  13 Oct Education & Exams Polity & Governance
• India and the UK hold talks on animal husbandry cooperation and market access under CETA
  14 Oct Agriculture & Rural Polity & Governance
• National Green Tribunal: set up on 18 October 2010, it aims to decide cases within 6 months and is guided by natural justice
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14 Oct

• Ukrainian ex-officer Serhii K. goes on trial in Hamburg over the Nord Stream pipeline blasts
  14 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv for a second night, striking Darnytska CHP-4 power plant; Zelensky says Ukraine had no early warning
  14 Oct Defence & Security
• Saudi-led coalition strikes the al-Sabaha fuel depot near Sanaa as missiles and drones are intercepted over Riyadh
  14 Oct Defence & Security Economy & Banking
• US Treasury imposes more than $1.21 billion in penalties on Bank of America for anti-money laundering and sanctions failures
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• Vatican says Pope Leo XIV has lung adenocarcinoma after surgery removed the lower lobe of his right lung
  13 Oct Awards & Persons Health & Medicine
• Russia arrests Hokkaido Shimbun journalist Yuki Imai on Sakhalin on suspicion of spying as Russia-Japan tensions rise
  14 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Singapore's economy grows 5.4 per cent in the third quarter, down from 6.2 per cent in the second
  14 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• UNESCO's Constitution was adopted in London on 16 November 1945 and sets up a General Conference, an Executive Board and a Secretariat
  Background Art, Culture & History Education & Exams Polity & Governance
• The World Food Programme was established in 1961, launched its first development programme in Sudan in 1963 and won the Nobel Peace Prize
  Background Agriculture & Rural Awards & Persons Health & Medicine
• Challenger Deep, at the southern end of the Mariana Trench, is the deepest part of the ocean at about 10,935 metres
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• The African Union is a continental body of 55 member states that works through the Assembly, the Executive Council and its Commission
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• The International Telecommunication Union, the oldest agency in the UN family, allocates global radio spectrum and satellite orbits
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State Focus West Bengal

14 Oct

• Calcutta High Court asks the State Election Commission to report on the EVM and VVPAT shortage before municipal polls
  12 Oct Polity & Governance
• Sundarbans National Park: the natural World Heritage Site of West Bengal
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• Santiniketan: Tagore's school in West Bengal on the World Heritage List
  Background Art, Culture & History Education & Exams
• Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata: the house that Mahalanobis built
  Background Education & Exams Science & Technology
• Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata: the only riverine port of the country
  Background Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Farakka Barrage: the Ganga works that keep the Kolkata Port navigable
  Background Environment & Climate Polity & Governance
• Sundarbans: the world's largest mangrove forests and a home of tigers
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• Darjeeling Himalayan Railway: a narrow-gauge World Heritage railway
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14 Oct

• Qatar's Amir cites projects and investment opportunities worth QAR 221 billion over the next five years
  13 Oct Economy & Banking
• Non-hydrocarbon sectors make up about 80 per cent of Qatar's real GDP despite disrupted energy exports, says the Amir
  13 Oct Economy & Banking
• Qatar chairs the final preparatory meeting ahead of the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference to be held in Doha
  14 Oct Polity & Governance Science & Technology
• Qatar's Amir calls GCC states' security and sovereignty non-negotiable and urges safe navigation in the Gulf and Strait of Hormuz
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Qatar and Saudi Arabia sign an energy cooperation MoU in Riyadh
  11 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Al Zubarah Archaeological Site, Qatar's walled pearling town on the UNESCO World Heritage List
  Background Art, Culture & History
• Qatar: Doha the capital, Arabic the official language, and a land area of about 11,636.8 sq km
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• Qatar's gas wealth sits in the offshore North Gas Field, and it left OPEC
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• Qatar is India's largest LNG supplier and host to an Indian community of around 830,000
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• Qatar is a peninsula about 100 km wide and 200 km long on the Arabian Gulf, sharing its southern border with Saudi Arabia
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Kerala

14 Oct

• Keralam sanctions ₹12.5 lakh to Muthanga custodial torture survivor K K Surendran, to be recovered from two former police officers
  14 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala High Court asks the State to fast-track 229 posts for consumer commissions after a ₹1 crore modernisation sanction
  14 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala High Court directs the Union Government to review Kerala's pending AIIMS proposal
  14 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• Sabarigiri storage falls to 61% as Keralam turns to NTPC for long-term power supply
  14 Oct Economy & Banking Environment & Climate
• Kerala High Court lets the Crime Branch probe into a State Planning Board recruitment exam go on
  14 Oct Education & Exams Polity & Governance
• Kerala High Court orders a further CBI investigation into violinist Balabhaskar's death
  14 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala High Court upholds Section 69 of the Succession Act on automatic revocation of wills by marriage
  8 Oct Polity & Governance
• High Court sets aside order allowing co-education at Erattupetta girls' school and orders status quo
  8 Oct Education & Exams Polity & Governance
• Kerala High Court designates P.B. Menon, the world's longest-serving lawyer, as Senior Advocate
  14 Oct Awards & Persons Polity & Governance
• Kasaragod, formed from the Hosdurg and Kasaragod taluks of Kannur, and the Nileswaram seat of Kerala's first Chief Minister
  Background Art, Culture & History Polity & Governance
• Kerala Forest Research Institute: founded in 1975 at Peechi in Thrissur, a KSCSTE institution since 2002
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• The Kerala Public Service Commission, formed when the State was created, and the Travancore and Cochin bodies before it
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14 Oct

• Supreme Court declines an Article 32 petition and directs the petitioner to the High Court first
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Supreme Court seeks Intelligence Bureau inputs on a convict's plea to be moved from Tihar Jail to Punjab
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• India and the Czech Republic agree to deepen defence industry cooperation through their Joint Defence Committee
  13 Oct Defence & Security
• Navy to commission Samarthak, the first of four multi-purpose vessels, at Karwar
  13 Oct Defence & Security Science & Technology
• A victim of crime has standing to ask the High Court for a speedy trial, holds the Supreme Court
  12 Oct Polity & Governance
• Supreme Court directs UGC and all regulators to issue public advisories on verifying educational institutions
  12 Oct Education & Exams Polity & Governance
• Reserve Bank sells government securities worth the full notified ₹25,000 crore in an open market operation
  14 Oct Economy & Banking
• Overnight VRRR auction draws ₹71,580 crore against a notified ₹1,50,000 crore at a 5.49 per cent cut-off
  14 Oct Economy & Banking
• Indian Navy commissions INS Mangrol, the third Mahe-class anti-submarine warfare shallow water craft
  14 Oct Defence & Security Science & Technology
• India Meteorological Department dedicates a Cyclone Warning and Marine Weather Services Decision Support System to the nation
  14 Oct Environment & Climate Science & Technology
• ICAR soybean varieties NRC 268 and NRC 270 give about 20 quintals a hectare in harvest trials at Indore
  14 Oct Agriculture & Rural Science & Technology
• Supreme Court stays trial court proceedings in the criminal defamation case against Rahul Gandhi
  14 Oct Polity & Governance

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International

14 Oct

• ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot returns after 237 days in space, a European record
  14 Oct Science & Technology
• WMO says El Nino is strengthening rapidly and could be one of the strongest since 1950
  14 Oct Environment & Climate Reports & Indices
• WHO reports 8,728 confirmed Bundibugyo Ebola cases in DR Congo across seven provinces
  14 Oct Health & Medicine
• EU data protection board issues a statement on smart glasses and asks makers to signal recording clearly
  14 Oct Polity & Governance Science & Technology
• Haze from Indonesian fires makes Singapore and Kuala Lumpur the world's two most polluted cities
  14 Oct Environment & Climate Polity & Governance
• Mauritius imposes an overnight curfew in Port Louis after unrest over a police shooting
  14 Oct Polity & Governance
• The WTO replaced the GATT, a provisional trade agreement that endured after the planned International Trade Organization failed
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• The African Union succeeded the Organisation of African Unity, which 32 heads of state founded in Addis Ababa
  Background Polity & Governance
• In the UN General Assembly each member has one vote, important questions need two-thirds, and the presidency rotates among regional groups
  Background Polity & Governance
• The World Health Assembly is WHO's decision-making body: it sets policy, appoints the Director-General and approves the programme budget
  Background Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• Chapter VII of the UN Charter lets the Security Council impose measures short of force under Article 41 and use force under Article 42
  Background Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• The International Court of Justice has 15 judges, elected for nine-year terms by both the UN General Assembly and the Security Council
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14 Oct

• Dr. Dhal Singh Bisen appointed Governor of Uttarakhand in a six-state round of Raj Bhavan appointments
  14 Oct Polity & Governance
• Uttarakhand Deep-Tech 2030 programme opened at Lok Bhavan, Dehradun
  14 Oct Polity & Governance Science & Technology
• Uttarakhand closes Wildlife Week on the theme 'Connected Habitats, Thriving Wildlife'
  14 Oct Environment & Climate
• Uttarakhand marks the twenty-first anniversary of the Right to Information Act at Lok Bhavan
  14 Oct Polity & Governance
• Mufti Shamoon Qasmi, newly appointed Chairman of the Uttarakhand Minority Hunar Council, calls on the Governor
  14 Oct Education & Exams Polity & Governance
• National Conference and Policy Dialogue on Tuberculosis held at AIIMS Rishikesh
  14 Oct Health & Medicine
• Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks, Uttarakhand's natural World Heritage property
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• Corbett National Park, the first national park of India
  Background Environment & Climate
• Devprayag, where the Bhagirathi and the Alaknanda meet to become the Ganga
  Background Environment & Climate
• Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, and the beginnings of scientific forestry in India
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• The High Court of Uttarakhand at Nainital, the eighteenth High Court of the country
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14 Oct

• Turkiye's policy rate is the one-week repo auction rate, standing at 37.00 per cent
  14 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Turkiye's annual consumer inflation eases to 29.73 per cent, with a monthly rise of 1.84 per cent
  14 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• Turkiye posts record nine-month exports of $211 billion and a September record of $25.98 billion
  14 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Turkiye to host the 13th Summit of the Organization of Turkic States in Ankara
  14 Oct Polity & Governance
• Turkey's currency is the Turkish lira, now in its Ninth Emission Group
  Background Economy & Banking
• Turkiye joined NATO in 1952, three years after the Washington Treaty
  Background Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Historic Areas of Istanbul: a World Heritage Site on the Bosphorus peninsula
  Background Art, Culture & History Environment & Climate
• India and Turkiye: a trade agreement of 1973 and the JCETC of 1983
  Background Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• The Montreux Convention lets merchant ships pass the Turkish Straits freely but bars aircraft carriers
  Background Environment & Climate Polity & Governance
• Gobekli Tepe, the megalithic monument of hunter-gatherers in south-eastern Anatolia
  Background Art, Culture & History
• Goreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia, a mixed World Heritage property in central Anatolia
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• Turkiye is a founding member of the OECD, the Paris-based body of 38 members
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Kerala

13 Oct

• Om Prakash Mathur named Governor of Kerala; Rajendra Arlekar moved to Tamil Nadu
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala Assembly passes resolution seeking removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala publishes revised Western Ghats eco-sensitive map proposing to cut the area to 8,590.69 sq km
  13 Oct Environment & Climate
• Kerala High Court Division Bench hears appeals against Single Bench order for FIR in CMRL-Exalogic matter
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala High Court Division Bench admits State's appeal on restructuring of police associations
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala Assembly asks Centre to return the Private Universities Bill, 2025 pending before the President
  13 Oct Education & Exams Polity & Governance
• Mascot 'Kuttu' unveiled for the 68th Kerala State School Sports Meet at Kozhikode
  13 Oct Education & Exams Sports
• Kerala considers extending Pay Revision Commission's term; DA arrears put at Rs 21,670 crore
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Kerala High Court expects Data Protection Board to be made functional within eight weeks in Digi Yatra PIL
  13 Oct Polity & Governance Science & Technology
• Kerala High Court upholds Section 69 of the Indian Succession Act, which revokes a Christian's will on marriage
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala publishes a revised cadastral map cutting the proposed ecologically sensitive area to 8,590.69 sq km
  13 Oct Environment & Climate Polity & Governance
• Excise Minister tells the Assembly cases are registered against three bars over liquor served before the Nedumbassery crash
  13 Oct Polity & Governance

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13 Oct

• First BIMSTEC Home Ministers' Meeting in New Delhi adopts the Delhi Declaration
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• PM Modi presents 'Power to Empower' at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New Delhi
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Science & Technology
• PM GatiShakti National Master Plan completes five years
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Science & Technology
• Indian Railways loads 135.35 million tonnes of freight in September, a rise of 6.14%
  13 Oct Economy & Banking
• Indian Navy set to commission the indigenous multi-purpose vessel Samarthak
  13 Oct Defence & Security
• Rajnath Singh and Czech Deputy Prime Minister Havlíček agree to expand defence industrial collaboration
  13 Oct Defence & Security Economy & Banking
• EPFO urges PF Trusts to use the Amnesty window under the EPF Scheme 2026
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• DARPG's 53rd CPGRAMS report: 2,38,579 grievances redressed by Central Ministries in September
  13 Oct Polity & Governance Reports & Indices
• 21st Maritime State Development Council meets in Mumbai, first since gaining statutory status
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• P. K. Mishra delivers keynote at MoSPI's Conference of State Planning, Finance and IT Secretaries
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance Reports & Indices
• PM GatiShakti National Master Plan completes five years with 421 projects worth ₹20.23 lakh crore evaluated
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Indian Railways registers 6.14% growth in freight loading
  13 Oct Economy & Banking

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International

13 Oct

• Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for explaining how molecular handedness can emerge
  13 Oct Awards & Persons Science & Technology
• Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford win the economics Nobel for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation
  13 Oct Awards & Persons Economy & Banking
• Nobel Peace citation: Navi Pillay's influence behind Rwanda tribunal finding that rape can be genocide, and first incitement-by-propaganda charge
  13 Oct Awards & Persons Polity & Governance
• Two merchant ships hit by drones off Bulgaria, one sinks, and Sofia summons the Russian ambassador
  13 Oct Defence & Security
• Former DR Congo president Joseph Kabila is named leader of a new rebel coalition, the FRN, with M23 leader Sultani Makenga among four deputies
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• UN General Assembly adopts a pandemic declaration by 153 votes to three after consensus was blocked
  12 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• IMF raises 2026 global growth forecast to 3.1 per cent but warns the economy is nearing the limits of its resilience
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• IPC alert: drought and war are increasing the risk of famine in Sudan's Darfur and Kordofan
  12 Oct Agriculture & Rural Reports & Indices
• IOM: Djibouti shipwreck toll rises to 139 dead with 84 still missing
  11 Oct Reports & Indices
• Russia strikes six Ukrainian energy sites within hours of Trump announcing an energy ceasefire, Zelensky says
  12 Oct Defence & Security
• UN General Assembly adopts the Political Declaration on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response
  13 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• WHO Pandemic Hub strategy sets a goal of detecting new outbreaks within 24 hours by 2030
  13 Oct Health & Medicine Science & Technology

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State Focus Uttar Pradesh

13 Oct

• Uttar Pradesh Cabinet approves renaming Noida International Airport at Jewar as Narendra Modi International Airport, Noida-Jewar
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Allahabad High Court dismisses PIL against electoral rolls for Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council graduates' and teachers' seats, citing Article 329
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Uttar Pradesh Cabinet clears a Rs 265 crore integrated city bus terminal with commercial facilities at Vrindavan Yojana, Lucknow
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Allahabad High Court holds hookah service prohibited in Uttar Pradesh restaurants, even in designated smoking areas
  13 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• Allahabad High Court upholds Uttar Pradesh's Special TET for in-service teachers as consistent with Articles 14 and 16
  13 Oct Education & Exams Polity & Governance
• Yogi Adityanath backs the Special Intensive Revision; Uttar Pradesh's final voter roll of 10 April 2026 listed 13,39,84,792 voters
  13 Oct Polity & Governance Reports & Indices
• Bhadohi district to be called Sant Ravidas Nagar Bhadohi, Yogi Adityanath announces
  13 Oct Art, Culture & History Polity & Governance
• Uttar Pradesh transfers ₹493 crore in crop-loss assistance to 9,18,091 farmers hit by floods and excessive rain
  13 Oct Agriculture & Rural Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Noida Authority plans a 20,000-hectare 'New Noida' as land in the existing city runs short
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Uttar Pradesh orders hospital pharmacies to display actual purchase and sale prices of medicines from 1 November
  13 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• Allahabad High Court holds that misbehaving with a government advocate conveying its order amounts to contempt
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Lucknow Bench lays down need assessment and transparent merit criteria for appointing Uttar Pradesh State Law Officers
  13 Oct Polity & Governance

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13 Oct

• Israel is set to go to the polls on 27 October after the Knesset's dissolution
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Unexploded munition detonates on school hike near Israel's Lebanon border
  13 Oct Defence & Security
• Israel's Supreme Court overturns the Central Elections Committee's ban on two Arab party lists
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Israel and Morocco agree to upgrade their missions to embassies and appoint ambassadors
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Israel votes on 27 October to elect its next Knesset as the parliament completes its full term
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Israel votes for a new Knesset on 27 October, the latest date its law allows
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Israel votes on 27 October to elect its single-house, 120-member Knesset
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• The Knesset is Israel's 120-member, single-chamber parliament in Jerusalem
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• India and Israel established full diplomatic relations on 29 January 1992
  Background Polity & Governance
• Israel was admitted to the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 273 (III)
  Background Polity & Governance
• Israel's President is a largely ceremonial head of state, while the Prime Minister leads the government
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• Israel's Nation-State Law makes Hebrew the state's language and gives Arabic a 'special status'
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Kerala

13 Oct

• 'Kuttu' is the mascot of the 68th Kerala State School Sports Meet at Kozhikode
  12 Oct Education & Exams Sports
• Kerala publishes revised eco-sensitive area map, cutting the proposed area to 8,590.69 sq km
  13 Oct Environment & Climate Polity & Governance
• Kerala High Court admits State's appeals against order quashing the reorganisation of police associations
  12 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Kerala readies a Sports Bill to replace the Sports Council with a Sports Authority of Kerala
  11 Oct Polity & Governance Sports
• Kerala tables the Senior Citizens' (Care and Protection of Rights) Bill and refers it to the Subject Committee
  13 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• Kerala to pay ₹12.5 lakh to K. K. Surendran for 2003 custodial torture in the Muthanga agitation, to be recovered from police officers
  10 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala High Court Division Bench reserves verdict on whether non-parties can appeal the order for an FIR in the CMRL-Exalogic case
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Keralam Senior Citizens' Bill tabled in the Assembly with a protection unit for every district
  13 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• 'Kuttu' released as the mascot of the 68th Kerala State School Sports Meet to be held at Kozhikode
  13 Oct Education & Exams Sports
• Kerala High Court upholds the automatic revocation of a Christian's will on marriage
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala High Court orders the balance post-surgery aid of Rs 21,000 be paid to a transgender person
  13 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• CAG puts undue benefit to contractors in Rebuild Kerala roadworks at Rs 67.49 crore
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance Reports & Indices

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13 Oct

• India hosts the first BIMSTEC Home Ministers' meeting in New Delhi under Amit Shah's chairmanship
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Indian Navy set to commission indigenous multi-purpose vessel Samarthak, built by L&T, the first of four MPVs
  13 Oct Defence & Security Science & Technology
• EPFO urges eligible PF trusts to use the Amnesty Scheme, 2026 to regularise their exempt status retrospectively
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• PM GatiShakti National Master Plan completes five years with over 1,800 data layers integrated
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Science & Technology
• NLMC's first end-to-end e-auction of RINL land parcels fetches ₹366.33 crore in bids on Day 1
  13 Oct Economy & Banking
• 21st Maritime State Development Council meets in Mumbai, its first since becoming a statutory body under the Indian Ports Act, 2025
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Supreme Court asks for Intelligence Bureau inputs on Jagtar Singh Hawara's plea for transfer from Tihar to a Punjab prison
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Ayush Ministry releases Standard Treatment Guidelines on dermatological disorders for four traditional systems
  13 Oct Health & Medicine
• RBI launches the 116th round of its Industrial Outlook Survey for the October-December 2026 quarter
  12 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• Supreme Court issues notice on a plea against lifelong immunity for the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• India hosts the first BIMSTEC Home Ministers' Meeting and the ministers adopt the Delhi Declaration
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Indigenously built multipurpose vessel Samarthak set to join the Indian Navy at Karwar
  13 Oct Defence & Security Science & Technology

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International

13 Oct

• Robert Hall and Michael Woodford share the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for work on stabilising economies
  12 Oct Awards & Persons Economy & Banking
• Pakistan imposes emergency and governor's rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the province governed by Imran Khan's PTI
  12 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• IPC alert warns of growing famine risk in Greater Darfur and Greater Kordofan as El Nino drought hits half of Sudan
  12 Oct Health & Medicine Reports & Indices
• WHO publishes second edition of its tuberculosis investment case: up to US$ 54 returned for each dollar invested
  12 Oct Health & Medicine Reports & Indices
• WHO report: 180.3 million people treated for onchocerciasis in 2025, the highest number in a single year
  9 Oct Health & Medicine Reports & Indices
• Trump announces a Russia-Ukraine energy ceasefire; Lavrov rejects any pause and Zelenskyy asks for real steps
  11 Oct Defence & Security Economy & Banking
• Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the puzzle of how one mirror-image molecule comes to dominate
  7 Oct Awards & Persons Science & Technology
• WHO publishes updated guidance on surveillance, case investigation and contact tracing in filovirus disease outbreaks
  9 Oct Health & Medicine
• EU establishes the European Union Support Mission in Lebanon with an initial three-year mandate
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• EU removes Panama and Viet Nam from its list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes, leaving eight
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford share the Prize in Economic Sciences for microfoundations of macroeconomic stabilisation
  13 Oct Awards & Persons Economy & Banking
• WHO sets a 24-hour outbreak detection goal in a new five-year strategy for its pandemic intelligence hub
  13 Oct Health & Medicine Science & Technology

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State Focus Tripura

13 Oct

• Tripura Cabinet approves a Staff Selection Commission for Group-B, C and D posts
  8 Oct Education & Exams Polity & Governance
• Tripura raises DA and DR by 3 per cent to 44 per cent, HRA to 10 per cent
  7 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• BJP-Tipra Motha alliance wins 4,320 of 4,594 declared seats in TTAADC village committee polls
  6 Oct Polity & Governance
• Tipra Motha chief Pradyot Debbarma says he will leave active politics after next month
  6 Oct Polity & Governance
• Tripura Election Commission prepares for polls to 21 urban local bodies before terms end on 9 December
  9 Oct Polity & Governance
• Tripura CM says road accidents and fatalities have fallen; points to PM RAHAT reward for Good Samaritans
  10 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• Tripura allots 30.30 acres at Sekerkote to the Tripura Cricket Association for an academy
  6 Oct Sports
• Tripura Governor stresses value-based education at Indigenous Baul Festival in Sepahijala
  11 Oct Art, Culture & History Education & Exams
• Tripura CM launches Mukhyamantri Yuva Jogajog Yojana, Seva First Innovation Challenge 2026 and Digi-SAPNE 3.0
  1 Oct Education & Exams Science & Technology
• Tipra Motha takes most Village Committee seats in Tripura's tribal council areas
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Tipra Motha founder Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma steps away from active politics
  13 Oct Awards & Persons Polity & Governance
• Tripura takes Dearness Allowance to 44 per cent and House Rent Allowance to 10 per cent
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance

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Country Focus Iran

13 Oct

• UK summons Iran's ambassador and sanctions two Iranian nationals, one described by the UK as an IRGC counterespionage chief
  12 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• CENTCOM says US jet disabled Panama-flagged Ocean Molica in the Gulf of Oman as it attempted to run the Iran blockade
  11 Oct Defence & Security
• Iran's foreign minister phones Saudi counterpart and offers help to open Saudi-Houthi dialogue
  12 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Iran's Mohsen Rezaei names the US-assisted Gulf oil shuttle a target as Hormuz freight costs rise
  12 Oct Defence & Security Economy & Banking
• Iran's Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad resigns; NIOC chief Hamid Bovard named acting minister
  5 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Iran's atomic energy chief Eslami says nuclear industry "cannot be stopped"; TASS reports him calling inspections of attacked sites impossible
  11 Oct Defence & Security Science & Technology
• UN Secretary-General appeals from Islamabad for an end to the United States-Iran war
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• IMF says the world withstood the energy shock of the war on Iran better than feared, but emergency oil stocks are now depleted
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• World Bank estimates a 2.7 per cent contraction in Iran's economy and flags water and energy shortages
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• Iran says a southern route through the Strait of Hormuz will be closed, as a tanker is struck off Qatar's coast
  13 Oct Defence & Security Economy & Banking
• Gulf states' diesel exports more than halve during the war on Iran
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• Britain summons Iran's ambassador and sanctions two Iranian nationals over the RAF Fairford incident
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance

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Kerala

13 Oct

• High Court admits State's appeals against ruling that quashed restructuring of police associations
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala Assembly passes Rule 118 resolution seeking removal of Chief Election Commissioner
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala considers extending the Pay Revision Commission's term
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Kerala Police to flag off 164 new vehicles and felicitate Asian Games athletes
  13 Oct Awards & Persons Sports
• Keralam Senior Citizens (Care and Protection of Rights) Bill, 2026 introduced in the Assembly
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• State child rights commission asks duty bearers to follow central child protection guidelines strictly
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Om Prakash Mathur named Governor of Kerala as the President reshuffles six Raj Bhavans
  12 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala tables a Senior Citizens Bill with a protection unit in every district
  13 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• Kerala High Court refuses an interim stay of the single Bench order for a Vigilance FIR in the CMRL pay-off case
  13 Oct Polity & Governance
• Eldhose Paul and Treesa Jolly win Kerala's G.V. Raja Awards for the best athletes
  12 Oct Awards & Persons Sports
• Kerala hotels association to stop taking UPI payments above ₹2,000 over the 0.4% merchant fee
  13 Oct Economy & Banking
• Kerala to act tough against bars that serve liquor to people below the legal age of 23, Excise Minister tells the Assembly
  13 Oct Polity & Governance

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National

13 Oct

• India hosts first BIMSTEC Home Ministers' Meeting; Delhi Declaration adopted
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Rajnath Singh and Czech First Deputy PM Karel Havlíček agree to expand defence industrial cooperation
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• HAL, National Culture Fund and ASI sign MoA for heritage works at Hampi, Taj Mahal and Bekal Fort
  13 Oct Art, Culture & History Economy & Banking
• Indian Navy to commission indigenous multi-purpose warship Samarthak at Karwar on 16 October
  13 Oct Defence & Security Science & Technology
• EPFO urges eligible PF trusts to use Amnesty Scheme, 2026 before the 28 December deadline
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• PM Modi tells Bloomberg New Economy Forum that India grows 'with the world and for the world'
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Environment & Climate Polity & Governance
• Karnataka High Court strikes down provisions raising SC/ST reservation beyond the 50% ceiling
  12 Oct Polity & Governance
• Supreme Court asks Delhi government to obtain Intelligence Bureau inputs on Jagtar Singh Hawara's plea for transfer to a Punjab prison
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Supreme Court asks Centre to respond on caste verification procedure for Census 2027
  12 Oct Polity & Governance Reports & Indices
• Retail inflation rises to 5.54% in September as food inflation climbs to 7.74%
  12 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• Reserve Bank launches the 116th Industrial Outlook Survey and the 51st Services and Infrastructure Outlook Survey
  12 Oct Economy & Banking
• A venue named in an arbitration clause is not automatically the seat, holds the Supreme Court
  12 Oct Polity & Governance

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International

13 Oct

• Ülle Madise takes the oath as President of Estonia, succeeding Alar Karis
  13 Oct Awards & Persons Polity & Governance
• Pakistan declares an emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, effectively suspending the PTI-run provincial government
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Trump says Russia and Ukraine agreed an energy ceasefire; Zelenskyy says it was news to him and Ukraine will accept it if Moscow does, while Russia rejects any pause
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Foreign ministers of 34 countries, including the UK and US, and the EU's High Representative issue a joint statement on Iran and the RAF Fairford incident; Iran denies involvement
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• WHO investment case finds TB screening plus preventive treatment in four modelled countries can return up to US$ 54 for each dollar invested
  13 Oct Health & Medicine Reports & Indices
• Security Council meets on Colombia as the UK says thirteen peace signatories have been killed this year and plans a draft resolution renewing the UN Verification Mission
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• EU adopts its largest-ever package of listings against Russia's military and industrial complex, covering almost 1600 individuals and entities
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• IPC says conflict and El Niño drought are increasing the risk of famine in Sudan's Darfur and Kordofan regions
  13 Oct Health & Medicine Reports & Indices
• UN General Assembly adopts a political declaration on pandemics by 153 votes to three
  12 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• UNDP index puts 1.2 billion people in acute multidimensional poverty, the first rise since the measure began
  12 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• Global hunger monitor warns drought and war are pushing Darfur and Kordofan towards famine
  12 Oct Agriculture & Rural Environment & Climate
• UN refugee chief says protection is buckling as 117 million people remain forcibly displaced
  12 Oct Polity & Governance Reports & Indices

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State Focus Telangana

13 Oct

• Telangana announces average Dasara profit share of ₹1,53,912 for each permanent Singareni worker
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Gadkari approves LB Nagar–Hayathnagar double-decker elevated corridor, five ropeways and three ROBs for Telangana, says Komatireddy
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Telangana Chief Secretary reviews Hyderabad drinking water; 80 MGD can be saved if CURE conserves 20%
  13 Oct Environment & Climate Polity & Governance
• Telangana High Court declines interim halt to Radial Road-2 tenders, asks bidder Sushee Infra to implead L-1 bidder
  12 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Telangana to procure 5,800 MW of renewable power through TGREDCO and TG-Genco as peak demand reaches 19,892 MW
  12 Oct Economy & Banking Environment & Climate
• Hyderabad office leasing reaches 13.1 million sq ft in nine months, up 50% on a year earlier, says Knight Frank
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• Telangana advises farmers against paddy and cotton in Rabi and urges dryland crops as El Niño tightens water
  12 Oct Agriculture & Rural Environment & Climate
• Telangana introduces a new security paper with 15 safety features for Meeseva certificates
  13 Oct Polity & Governance Science & Technology
• Hyderabad–Vijayawada NH-65 to be widened to six lanes in a Rs 12,073-crore project as NHAI sets bid deadline
  12 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Singareni workers to share ₹596 crore as the Dasara profit bonus
  13 Oct Economy & Banking
• Telangana floats tenders to buy 5,800 MW of renewable power with battery storage
  12 Oct Economy & Banking Environment & Climate
• Election Commission tells the Telangana High Court the petitioners' electoral roll grievances have been addressed or are being processed
  13 Oct Polity & Governance

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Country Focus United Arab Emirates

13 Oct

• UAE Cabinet approves Dh292.5 billion federal budget for 2027-2029, with Dh90.1 billion for 2027
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• IMF projects UAE economy to contract 3.9 per cent in 2026 and rebound 7.7 per cent in 2027 if Hormuz reopens
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• UAE waives intellectual property fees for student inventors and People of Determination under Cabinet Resolution No. 136 of 2026
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance Science & Technology
• Al Ain International Airport renamed Tahnoun International Airport in honour of Sheikh Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan
  13 Oct Awards & Persons Polity & Governance
• Dubai RTA begins four-week trial of driverless Glydways electric pods at Bluewaters
  13 Oct Science & Technology
• Dubai studies an integrated underground transport network as RTA outlines a plan for mobility in three dimensions
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Science & Technology
• UAE Cabinet approves a AED 292.5 billion federal budget plan for 2027 to 2029
  12 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• IMF projects a 7.7 per cent rebound for the UAE economy in 2027 after a 3.9 per cent contraction
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• Dubai says Dh2.1 trillion worth of projects are under way
  13 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Abdullah bin Zayed condemns attacks on Saudi Arabia in a call with Prince Faisal bin Farhan
  13 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Anwar Gargash calls for reviving joint Gulf action on security and defence
  12 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• UAE ambassador and Colombia's commerce minister discuss trade, with Dubai Chambers and DP World present
  12 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance

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