Current Affairs 2 October 2026: Top 20 Facts with Exam Tags
Current Affairs 2 October 2026: Today's Top 20 Facts with Exam Tags
Gandhi Jayanti morning, and the news cycle did not take the holiday off. The Union Cabinet cleared a ₹1.86 lakh crore Green Energy Corridor Phase-III, September GST came in at ₹2.04 lakh crore, and a flydubai captain from India kept 174 people alive after a cockpit attack. All of it is fair game for SSC, Railway, Banking, BPSC, BSSC and JSSC papers.
Below are 20 facts from the last 24 hours, each tagged with the exams that actually ask them, and the matching 15-question quiz now lives on the platform. Every figure here was checked against the official release or the primary report, and anything still soft is marked.
National
Three Cabinet and policy items dominate the domestic list. Note that the Ministry of Power also notified the CAFE-3 fuel-efficiency norms for passenger vehicles, applicable from 2027, with EV super credits built in as a flexibility.
- 1. President Droupadi Murmu, PM Narendra Modi and EAM S. Jaishankar praised flydubai Captain Smit Machchhar, who was stabbed by his co-pilot on flight FZ1073 (Dubai to Tel Aviv) on 30 September and still brought the Boeing 737 down safely at Tabuk in Saudi Arabia with 174 people on board. Exam tag: All exams
- 2. The Union Cabinet approved Green Energy Corridor Phase-III with an outlay of ₹1.86 lakh crore, built to evacuate power from roughly 135 GW of planned renewable capacity and fix transmission bottlenecks. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / BPSC
- 3. The Cabinet raised the Minimum Support Price for all rabi crops of the 2027-28 marketing season. Wheat MSP goes up by ₹25 to ₹2,610 per quintal, while safflower got the largest hike at ₹675 per quintal. Exam tag: SSC / BPSC / BSSC
International
- 4. PM Modi and US President Donald Trump spoke by phone on 30 September 2026 and reviewed trade, defence, energy and critical technologies under the India-US Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership. Exam tag: All exams
- 5. The UN General Assembly, in its 81st session, adopted the first-ever Declaration on Sea-Level Rise on 24 September 2026. It holds that a country does not automatically lose statehood, its territorial sea or its EEZ if territory goes under water. Exam tag: BPSC / SSC / All exams
Economy & Banking
Banking aspirants, this is your highest-yield block today. One extra number worth memorising: the HSBC India Manufacturing PMI rose to 55.1 in September 2026, a seven-month high, with any reading above 50 signalling expansion.
- 6. Gross GST collection in September 2026 stood at about ₹2.04 lakh crore, up 14.7% year on year. Net GST after refunds was ₹1.77 lakh crore, up 18.1%, and import-linked GST grew fastest at 25.9%. Exam tag: Banking / SSC / Railway
- 7. The Bankers' Books Evidence Act, 2026 came into force on 1 October 2026, replacing the colonial-era Act of 1891. Electronic and digital bank records are now admissible evidence, and bank officers cannot be routinely dragged in as witnesses without a written court order. Exam tag: Banking / BPSC / JSSC
- 8. HDFC Bank's board on 1 October approved Anup Bagchi as MD and CEO for three years from 27 October 2026. He succeeds Sashidhar Jagdishan, whose term ends 26 October, and he joins the board as an additional director from 2 October. RBI clearance of his terms is still part of the process. Exam tag: Banking
- 9. The RBI repo rate stays at 5.25% after the 62nd MPC meeting, with SDF at 5.00%, MSF at 5.50% and CRR at 4.50%. The next MPC meets 5 to 7 October 2026 and announces on 7 October. Exam tag: Banking / SSC
Economy snapshot
Sports
The Asian Games at Aichi-Nagoya, Japan run from 19 September to 4 October 2026, so the next 48 hours decide India's final count. Two finals are locked, and both are against Pakistan.
- 10. India beat Pakistan 4-3 in the men's hockey semifinal. Harmanpreet Singh scored twice and Abhishek got the winner with about 45 seconds left on the clock. Exam tag: All exams
- 11. India thrashed Sri Lanka by 124 runs in the men's T20 cricket semifinal, with Ishan Kishan unbeaten on 80 off 46 balls and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi making 38 on debut. Exam tag: All exams
Sports results: event and winner
India's running tally as reported on 1 October was 64 medals (10 gold, 22 silver, 32 bronze) at 8th place (verify, the official table updates live and sources differ).
Awards
- 12. Roxy Mathew Koll of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune won the American Geophysical Union's Climate Communications Prize for 2026, carrying USD 25,000, for his work on Indian Ocean warming, marine heatwaves and monsoon extremes. Exam tag: SSC / BPSC / All exams
- 13. Neelima Satyam of IIT Indore won the AGU's Devendra Lal Memorial Medal for 2026 for research in geotechnical engineering, seismic hazard and geohazard mitigation. The AGU announced 43 awards for 2026, to be presented in San Francisco in December. Exam tag: SSC / JSSC / All exams
Appointments at a glance
Science & Defence
- 14. The second edition of the ASEAN-India Maritime Exercise (AIME-2026) began at Subic Bay, Philippines on 28 September 2026 with the theme "Anchored in Trust, United at Sea". India sent INS Sahyadri (Shivalik-class stealth frigate) and INS Kulish (Kora-class corvette), and all 10 ASEAN members took part. Exam tag: Railway / SSC / Banking
- 15. The IMD confirmed that the 2026 southwest monsoon ended with a rainfall deficit of about 12.6%, the weakest season in 11 years, and October rainfall is also expected to stay below normal. Exam tag: All exams
Index and rankings: India's position
Bihar-Jharkhand Special
This is the section BPSC, BSSC, Bihar Police, JSSC, JPSC and BTET or JTET candidates should revise twice. Bihar's Chief Minister is Samrat Choudhary (BJP), in office since 15 April 2026, and that single fact has already shown up in state-level GK sets.
- 16. The Rising Bihar Investor Summit 2026 was held on 1 October at Taj City Centre, Patna. CM Samrat Choudhary, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, Industries Minister Shreyasi Singh and Road Construction Minister Kumar Shailendra pitched Kosi-region industrial townships, eco-tourism and agro processing, and the state set a target of 20,000 MW power capacity in five years from over 10,000 MW now. Exam tag: BPSC / BSSC / Bihar Police
- 17. BPSC TRE 4.0 (Advertisement 15/2026) is live for 32,388 school-teacher posts, with online applications open from 25 September to 26 October 2026 and a flat fee of ₹100. The big change from TRE 3.0 is 1/3 negative marking, so blind guessing now costs you. Exam tag: BPSC / BTET / TET
- 18. Several rules changed in Bihar from 1 October 2026. The mandatory Aadhaar biometric update for children aged 7 to 15 now costs ₹125 after being free till 30 September, Patna civic property tax dues attract 1.5% monthly interest, and subsidised LPG refills need biometric Aadhaar authentication. Exam tag: BSSC / Bihar Police / BPSC
- 19. On the Jharkhand side, factory wages rose about 5% nationally in FY25 but Jharkhand was the only state to record a decline. Separately, the long-delayed JTET conducted by JAC, earlier expected on 11 October, is now reported as likely on 1 November 2026 (verify on jac.jharkhand.gov.in before you plan around it). Exam tag: JSSC / JPSC / JTET
Bihar and Jharkhand exam calendar watch
Important Days
- 20. 2 October marks the 157th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi (born 2 October 1869), the International Day of Non-Violence declared by the UN in 2007, and the birth anniversary of former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri. National Wildlife Week also runs from 2 to 8 October. Exam tag: All exams
Important days: day and theme
Where to practise today's facts
The 15 objective questions built from these 20 facts now sit in the ExamAtlas daily quiz instead of this page, so you get instant scoring, topic-wise accuracy and a repair set for whatever you miss.
Attempt it the same day you read the digest. Reading current affairs and never testing yourself on it is the most common reason aspirants blank out on a GK section they technically knew.
Before you close this tab
One caveat worth stating plainly. The Asian Games medal table is still moving, so treat any tally you memorise today as provisional until the Games close on 4 October. The same applies to the JTET date, which has shifted twice already.
Nobel week starts 5 October (Medicine), runs through Physics on 6 October, Chemistry on 7 October, Literature on 8 October and Peace on 9 October, and closes with Economic Sciences on 12 October. Keep a page in your CA notebook ready for those six names, because they appear in almost every paper from November onward.
If you revise only two things from today, make them the GST figure and the Bankers' Books Evidence Act, 2026. Both are near certainties in the next banking and BPSC prelims cycle.
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