10 October 2026

Kerala

10 Oct

• Kerala reports 568 of the 588 projects in its first 100-day plan completed
  10 Oct Polity & Governance
• Kerala Cabinet approves the Department for Senior Citizens Bill
  10 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• Kerala starts a ₹500 crore set of fisheries works at Vizhinjam
  10 Oct Agriculture & Rural Economy & Banking
• Kerala's SC, ST and Backward Classes department reports 32 projects finished in 100 days
  10 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Kerala PSC notifies eleven categories of posts in a fresh extraordinary gazette
  10 Oct Education & Exams Polity & Governance
• Kerala invites applications for its animal husbandry farmer awards, with ₹1,00,000 at the top
  10 Oct Agriculture & Rural Awards & Persons
• KITE opens a second batch of its content creator panel for the Victers channel
  10 Oct Education & Exams Science & Technology
• Kerala's Child Rights Commission holds a state consultation for staff of children's homes
  10 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• Kerala's Minority Welfare Department calls a walk-in interview for principals of youth training centres
  10 Oct Education & Exams Polity & Governance
• Kerala High Court holds an ED communication under the PMLA can take the place of a preliminary inquiry
  10 Oct Polity & Governance
• Second session of the Sixteenth Kerala Legislative Assembly set for nine sittings, opening with two Bills
  10 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Kerala Legislature Platinum Jubilee to be celebrated on 27 April 2027, with celebrations opening on Kerala Piravi day
  10 Oct Art, Culture & History Polity & Governance

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• Kerala Police to strengthen Cyberdome; indigenous robots Daksha, Kavach and Thara readied with iHub Robotics
  10 Oct Defence & Security Science & Technology
• KSFE Pink Chitties to be launched statewide, with a guarantee commission of ₹110.04 crore to be handed to the Chief Minister
  10 Oct Economy & Banking
• Kerala invites applications for its official language awards, with ₹25,000 for the best department
  10 Oct Art, Culture & History Polity & Governance
• The fourteen subject committees of the Kerala Legislative Assembly, from agriculture to home affairs
  Background Polity & Governance
• The Kerala Public Service Commission, from Travancore's first Public Service Commissioner to a body of eighteen members
  Background Polity & Governance
• Kerala's eighteen wildlife sanctuaries cover 2,156.21 sq km, the Forest Department records
  Background Environment & Climate
• Kerala's two bird sanctuaries, Thattekkad and Mangalavanam, in the Forest Department's list
  Background Environment & Climate
• Silent Valley, the rainforest in the Nilgiri Hills that the Forest Department records as a national park
  Background Environment & Climate
• Eravikulam National Park, 97 sq km around Anamudi, the highest point in South India
  Background Environment & Climate
• The three shola national parks of Idukki, with Pampadum Shola the smallest in Kerala at 1.32 sq km
  Background Environment & Climate
• Mudiyettu, the ritual theatre performed in Bhagavati Kavus along three Kerala rivers
  Background Art, Culture & History
• Alappuzha's average rainfall of 2,763 mm and its eight reporting rain gauge stations
  Background Agriculture & Rural Environment & Climate
• Kollam, the Ashtamudi district that remains India's largest processed cashew exporter
  Background Agriculture & Rural Economy & Banking
• Thiruvananthapuram district, 2,192 sq km of capital territory with a 78 km shore
  Background Polity & Governance
• Joint inspections at Kerala cinema theatres: 26 cases registered, ₹62,000 fined
  10 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Kerala PSC publishes revised Planning Board chief rank list; complainant Shyam Krishnan moves to first
  10 Oct Polity & Governance
• Scole Kerala publishes Diploma in Computer Application results; 446 candidates get A+ in every subject
  10 Oct Education & Exams
• LBS Centre calls spot allotment for M.Sc. Medical Laboratory Technology seats in two self-financing colleges
  10 Oct Education & Exams Health & Medicine
• Punalur Taluk Headquarters Hospital invites applications for dialysis and blood bank technician vacancies
  10 Oct Education & Exams Health & Medicine
• Kerala High Court tells State to give the Finance Department particulars on 229 new Consumer Commission posts within three weeks
  10 Oct 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
• KMSCL starts buying medicines directly from manufacturers, cutting insulin cost from ₹99.60 to ₹73
  10 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• Kerala Police's c0c0n 2026 cyber security conference concludes in Kochi; next edition set for September 2027
  10 Oct Defence & Security Science & Technology
• Transport Minister honours three Ponmudi school teachers who fed plantation workers' children with Priyadarshini free-travel savings
  10 Oct Education & Exams Polity & Governance
• Kerala High Court fines three Thiruvananthapuram revenue officials ₹30,000 for refusing land tax despite a Lokayukta order
  10 Oct Polity & Governance
• Melpadom Chundan wins the Kochi leg of Champions Boat League season 6 for a hat-trick of wins
  10 Oct Art, Culture & History Sports
• Child rights commission directs that rugby be included in the State School Sports Meet
  10 Oct Education & Exams Sports
• Milma's turnover rises 15.09 per cent to ₹2,559.71 crore in the first half of 2026-27
  10 Oct Agriculture & Rural Economy & Banking
• Kerala to create 1,800 doctor posts, including specialists, says Health Minister K. Muraleedharan
  10 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• Chief Minister Satheesan outlines a plan to link Kerala's ports into one 'port city'
  10 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Chief Minister releases 'A Life in Struggle', the autobiography of trade union leader Thampan Thomas
  10 Oct Art, Culture & History Awards & Persons
• Local bodies to turn rest centres on Sabarimala routes into information centres with QR codes
  10 Oct Art, Culture & History Polity & Governance
• Block Panchayat Association hands an 'Approach Document 2026' to the Chief Minister at a conclave of over 2,000 representatives
  10 Oct Polity & Governance
• 'Ammaykkoppam' pilot to find mothers with postpartum depression launched in Ernakulam
  10 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance

National

10 Oct

• Indian Navy set to commission the indigenous anti-submarine warfare shallow water craft Mangrol
  10 Oct Defence & Security Science & Technology
• Raksha Mantri presents SIDM Champion Awards and renews the call to lift the private share of defence production to 50%
  10 Oct Defence & Security Economy & Banking
• Bharat 6G Alliance exchanges five international agreements at the third Bharat 6G Symposium in New Delhi
  10 Oct Economy & Banking Science & Technology
• Centre sets out Next-Gen GST process reforms for registration, returns and refunds
  10 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Union Health Ministry marks World Mental Health Day as Tele-MANAS crosses 47.75 lakh calls
  10 Oct Health & Medicine Reports & Indices
• Department of Posts and Blue Dart Express sign an agreement for India Post parcel services across India
  10 Oct Economy & Banking Science & Technology
• Reserve Bank cancels the Certificate of Registration of 13 non-banking financial companies
  10 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Reserve Bank announces an open market sale of government securities worth ₹25,000 crore
  10 Oct Economy & Banking
• RBI working paper fills the pandemic gap in State-level inflation data using household survey responses
  10 Oct Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• An entire city cannot be shut down: Supreme Court asks that Delhi metro and trains run in a regulated manner
  10 Oct Polity & Governance
• The six-member Monetary Policy Committee and India's flexible inflation targeting framework
  Background Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• SWAYAM: ten National Coordinators, four quadrants and courses from Class 9 to postgraduate level
  Background Education & Exams

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• The Supreme Court holds original, appellate and advisory jurisdiction, and Article 32 lets it issue five writs
  Background Polity & Governance
• Public Interest Litigation: a letter to the Chief Justice can be treated as a writ petition
  Background Polity & Governance
• Twenty-five High Courts head the States' judicial administration, and three of them cover more than one State
  Background Polity & Governance
• The GST Council decides by three-fourths of weighted votes, with one-third weight to the Centre and two-thirds to the States
  Background Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• SEBI began as a non-statutory body set up by a government resolution and became statutory under its own Act
  Background Economy & Banking
• PM E-DRIVE carries an outlay of ₹11,900 crore under the Ministry of Heavy Industries
  Background Economy & Banking Environment & Climate
• Namami Gange is an integrated conservation mission with eight pillars and an outlay of Rs 20,000 crore
  Background Environment & Climate
• GST appeals go to a tribunal whose National Bench sits at New Delhi, and anti-profiteering complaints now go to the CCI
  Background Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• RBI opens special dollar window for IOC, HPCL and BPCL from 12 October
  10 Oct Economy & Banking
• PM to visit Chennai on 11 October to launch projects worth over ₹13,000 crore
  10 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Defence Secretary to visit Cyprus and Greece from 12 to 15 October
  10 Oct Defence & Security
• Rajnath Singh addresses participants of multinational air exercise Tarang Shakti 2026 at Jodhpur
  10 Oct Defence & Security
• BRICS Traditional and Indigenous Sports Demonstration Games 2026 to be held in Ahmedabad on 12 October
  10 Oct Art, Culture & History Sports
• Second regional conference reviews Forest Rights Act implementation in Kolkata
  10 Oct Agriculture & Rural Polity & Governance
• India reaches 1,000 km of quantum-secure communication against an eight-year target of 2,000 km, says Jitendra Singh
  10 Oct Science & Technology
• Reserve Bank cuts the hedging limit without underlying exposure to USD 5 million and brings in a Foreign Exchange Risk Reserve
  10 Oct Economy & Banking
• Supreme Court constitutes a Standing Committee on Judicial Well-being chaired by Justice K.V. Viswanathan
  10 Oct Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• Next Generation Offshore Patrol Vessel Shreyas, Yard 3040, launched at GRSE Kolkata
  10 Oct Defence & Security Science & Technology
• Fourth All Science and Technology Clusters' Meet held at Panjab University, Chandigarh
  10 Oct Education & Exams Science & Technology
• Pradhan Mantri Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana completes its first year on 11 October 2026 across 100 districts
  10 Oct Agriculture & Rural Polity & Governance
• Two BRIC-Institute of Life Sciences scientists feature in the world's Top 2% scientists list for 2026
  10 Oct Awards & Persons Health & Medicine Science & Technology
• Second meeting of the Global Initiative on AI for Agri-Food Systems held at India Mobile Congress 2026
  10 Oct Agriculture & Rural Science & Technology
• National Biodiversity Authority disburses Rs 2.02 crore of Access and Benefit-Sharing funds to State and Union Territory biodiversity boards
  10 Oct Agriculture & Rural Environment & Climate
• Vice-President addresses AIIMS Deoghar's second convocation, where women are 132 of 173 graduates
  10 Oct Education & Exams Health & Medicine
• Team Ferrum Incubators and Team Singularity win Robotics for Good Youth Challenge India, will go to Geneva
  10 Oct Education & Exams Science & Technology
• Third National Conference and Exhibition on Corporate Social Responsibility concludes in New Delhi
  10 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• UN human rights office urges respect for peaceful assembly after mass detentions at Delhi protests
  10 Oct Polity & Governance
• CISF intercepts two air passengers carrying Bluetooth exam-cheating devices at Goa International Airport, Dabolim
  10 Oct Defence & Security Education & Exams
• Vice-President visits the Indian Army's Sainya Sampark Mela for veterans and Veer Naris in Deoghar
  10 Oct Defence & Security

International

10 Oct

• The World Meteorological Congress is the highest decision-making body of the WMO, with six Regional Associations under it
  Background Environment & Climate Science & Technology
• IMO amends its conventions by tacit acceptance: an amendment enters into force unless enough Parties object in time
  Background Environment & Climate Polity & Governance
• Under Article 102 of the UN Charter the Secretariat registers and publishes treaties, and the Treaty Section does that work
  Background Polity & Governance
• The European Union works in 24 official languages, and Regulation No 1 is the instrument that lists them
  Background Art, Culture & History Polity & Governance
• The Man and the Biosphere Programme is governed by an International Coordinating Council of 34 Member States
  Background Environment & Climate Science & Technology
• WHO marks World Mental Health Day with the theme 'Lived experiences heard: real voices, real change'
  10 Oct Health & Medicine Reports & Indices
• Three killed at Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport as a parked Saudia aircraft is hit
  10 Oct Defence & Security
• Nature paper converts subword language models into byte-level models for under one per cent of pretraining cost
  10 Oct Science & Technology
• Belgian unions stage a national strike in Brussels against a 10 billion euro savings plan
  10 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Ukraine says Operation Vivaldi has retaken about 175 sq km around Lyman
  10 Oct Defence & Security
• Labour holds Holborn and St Pancras as Green leader Zack Polanski finishes second
  10 Oct Polity & Governance
• Malaysia shuts schools in seven states and territories as haze from Indonesian fires spreads
  10 Oct Environment & Climate Health & Medicine

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• The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: who holds the post and how it is filled
  10 Oct Polity & Governance
• The International Criminal Court: the treaty that created it, the four crimes it tries and its record so far
  Background Polity & Governance
• The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale rates only wind speed, and leaves out surge, flooding and tornadoes
  Background Environment & Climate Science & Technology
• The International Development Association serves 78 low-income countries, and 35 countries have stopped borrowing from it
  Background Economy & Banking Reports & Indices
• The Montreal Protocol has been amended six times, and the Kigali Amendment added a phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons
  Background Environment & Climate Science & Technology
• UNCLOS entered into force under article 308, twelve months after the sixtieth instrument of ratification was deposited
  Background Environment & Climate Polity & Governance
• The Geneva Conventions sit at the core of international humanitarian law, and those who commit grave breaches must be tried or extradited whatever their nationality
  Background Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• The Commonwealth has 56 member countries and 2.7 billion people, more than 60 percent of them aged 29 or under
  Background Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• The European Union has seven institutions, with the Central Bank in Frankfurt and the Court of Justice in Luxembourg
  Background Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• NATO has invoked Article 5 once, and it turns the right of self-defence into a mutual assistance obligation
  Background Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• The WHO Director-General makes the final call on a public health emergency of international concern, and Temporary Recommendations expire after three months
  Background Health & Medicine Polity & Governance
• Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 goes to Francis Halzen for IceCube neutrino discoveries
  10 Oct Awards & Persons Science & Technology
• UN chief says he is gravely concerned by renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia
  10 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Mahmoud Abbas postpones Palestinian legislative elections to 11 September 2027
  10 Oct Polity & Governance
• Lai Ching-te says Taiwan's higher defence spending is 'not to provoke' but 'to deter war' in his National Day address
  10 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• US Justice Department opens an antitrust investigation into TV networks that halted coverage of President Trump
  10 Oct Polity & Governance
• Portuguese Football Federation provisionally suspends Cristiano Ronaldo after he left the national team camp
  10 Oct Awards & Persons Sports
• Russian attack kills 20 including three children in Zaporizhzhia as Trump says Ukraine needs a new president
  10 Oct Defence & Security
• World Migratory Bird Day 2026 is marked with the theme 'Every Bird Counts – Your Observations Matter!'
  10 Oct Environment & Climate
• UN News: Mekong Delta farmers adapt to saltwater intrusion as sediment reaching the delta falls to an estimated 32 million tons
  10 Oct Agriculture & Rural Environment & Climate
• Rehabilitated agropastoral dam at Torla eases herder-farmer conflict in northern Côte d'Ivoire, UN News reports
  10 Oct Agriculture & Rural Polity & Governance

State Focus

10 Oct

• Manipur: from princely state to full statehood, and the state's official symbols
  Background Polity & Governance
• Loktak Lake, its floating phumdis and Keibul Lamjao National Park
  Background Environment & Climate
• Imphal West, the valley district that holds Manipur's capital
  Background Polity & Governance
• Raas Leela, Pung Cholom and Lai-Haraoba: the dance tradition of Manipur
  Background Art, Culture & History
• Manipur University at Canchipur: from State university to Central university
  Background Education & Exams
• Meghalaya: an autonomous State that grew into a full State, with Shillong as its capital
  Background Polity & Governance
• Nokrek Biosphere Reserve: the Tura Range, the Garo Hills high point and a wild citrus gene pool
  Background Environment & Climate
• East Khasi Hills: the Shillong Plateau, the State's highest point and the caves and falls of Sohra
  Background Art, Culture & History Environment & Climate
• Aizawl stands on a ridge between the Tlawng and Tuirial river valleys
  Background Environment & Climate
• Phawngpui, the tallest mountain in Mizoram, gives its name to a national park
  Background Environment & Climate
• Dampa in Mamit district is the one tiger reserve listed in Mizoram
  Background Environment & Climate
• Parts of Mizoram are governed through Sixth Schedule autonomous district councils
  Background Polity & Governance

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• The three Kut festivals, the Cheraw dance and the Puan loom in Mizo cultural life
  Background Art, Culture & History
• Manipur's sixth panchayat elections run against a court-set deadline of 16 October
  10 Oct Polity & Governance
• The High Court of Manipur, the court that set the deadline for the State's panchayat polls
  Background Polity & Governance
• Whole of Manipur stays a disturbed area under AFSPA for six months, barring 13 police station areas
  10 Oct Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Article 371C, the special provision that sets Manipur's hill areas apart from its panchayats
  Background Polity & Governance
• Meghalaya Cabinet extends the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council's term by another six months
  10 Oct Polity & Governance
• Meghalaya Home (Political) Department calls for appearance before the fact-finding committee on the Shree Cement plant in East Jaintia Hills
  10 Oct Environment & Climate Polity & Governance
• High Court of Meghalaya designates a single Virtual Court for traffic eChallan cases across the State
  10 Oct Polity & Governance Science & Technology
• High Court of Meghalaya sets up a committee to work out the modalities for Family Courts in the State
  10 Oct Polity & Governance
• North Eastern Council releases ₹42.63 crore and closes 14 projects worth ₹45.48 crore, naming two in Meghalaya
  10 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Meghalaya adds four more entries to the list of services citizens can claim as of right
  10 Oct Polity & Governance
• Meghalaya gives Dr Joram Beda additional charge as Commissioner of Excise, and notifies the Chief Secretary's retirement date
  10 Oct Polity & Governance
• Tura Medical College has 37 of the 97 teaching faculty the National Medical Commission wants for 50 MBBS seats
  10 Oct Education & Exams Health & Medicine
• Golden Jubilee Wangala in Meghalaya to beat 1000 drums instead of the customary 100
  10 Oct Art, Culture & History
• Mizoram to host North East Bankers' Conclave 3.0 on October 13
  10 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Chakma Autonomous District Council to adopt NEP from 2027-28 and observe a weekly Mizo Speaking Day
  10 Oct Education & Exams Polity & Governance
• Bairabi-Sairang line: Aizawl joins the Indian Railways network for the first time
  Background Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Mizoram declared fully literate: the 95 per cent threshold and the ULLAS programme
  Background Education & Exams Reports & Indices
• The Mizo Peace Accord: the Memorandum of Settlement that ended two decades of insurgency
  Background Defence & Security Polity & Governance
• Chakma Autonomous District Council renames the post of DAEO as DCAEO
  10 Oct Education & Exams 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
• Odisha receives 33,515 Form-6 applications in a three-day special voter enrolment drive after the SIR
  10 Oct Polity & Governance
• Paradip Port's Mechanised Coal Handling Plant sets a single-day record of 1,40,022 tonnes
  10 Oct Economy & Banking
• Udayagiri, the largest site in Odisha's Buddhist 'Diamond Triangle' with Ratnagiri and Lalitgiri
  Background Art, Culture & History
• Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary, nearly 347 sq km of forest along the Hirakud Reservoir in Bargarh district
  Background Environment & Climate
• Paradip, Odisha's only major port and the first major port on the east coast commissioned after Independence
  Background Economy & Banking
• State-level contests of 'Khedan Watan Punjab Diyan' Season 4 begin, with kayaking on the Kali Bein
  10 Oct Sports
• Punjab employees and pensioners announce mass leave on 21 and 22 October after a Sangrur rally
  10 Oct Economy & Banking Polity & Governance
• Amritsar Rural Police seize an M16 rifle, nine pistols and 15 kg of opium in two border-belt operations
  10 Oct Defence & Security
• Delhi High Court issues directions to all Delhi trial courts against declaring an accused an absconder without cogent grounds
  10 Oct Polity & Governance