Daily Current Affairs 7 October 2026: 20 Exam-Ready Facts for SSC, BPSC and Banking
Daily Current Affairs 7 October 2026: 20 Exam-Ready Facts for SSC, BPSC and Banking
Two things decide today's current affairs sheet. First, the RBI Monetary Policy Committee wraps up its 5 to 7 October meeting and announces at 10:00 am IST, with the repo rate sitting at 5.25% going in. Second, the Nobel season is mid-flow: Physics went to one man on 6 October, and the Chemistry announcement lands later today.
Everything below is from the last 24 hours or close to it, tagged for the exam that actually asks it. Where a figure came from an aggregator and not an official release, you will see it said plainly.
National
- 1. The Department of Higher Education approved five Centres of Excellence for Classical Languages on 3 October 2026: Assamese at Tezpur University, Bengali at Visva-Bharati, Marathi at Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute (Pune), Pali at the Central University of Odisha and Prakrit at the Central University of Gujarat. India now recognises 11 classical languages. (Exam: SSC / Railway / BPSC / All exams)
- 2. India's UNESCO Tentative List grew to 78 entries with four sites and one transnational proposal: Bagh Caves (Dhar, Madhya Pradesh), the Group of Temples of Chambal Valley, Udayagiri Caves (Vidisha) and Ginnorgarh fort near Bhopal, plus "Sites of Satyagraha", a serial India and South Africa nomination. India holds 44 World Heritage Sites (36 cultural, 7 natural, 1 mixed). (Exam: SSC / BPSC / All exams)
- 3. Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan handed Andhra Pradesh ₹3,600 crore for 3 lakh houses under PMAY-G 2.0, and launched India's first 3D-concrete-printed rural housing pilot at Burripalem in Guntur district: 177 houses for ₹14 crore, roughly 10 days of construction per house. (Exam: SSC / Railway / All exams)
International
- 4. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Swiss President Guy Parmelin held talks in New Delhi on 5 October 2026 and the two sides signed five agreements: a Migration and Mobility Partnership, an Exchange of Young Professionals arrangement, cooperation on transportation technologies and mobility infrastructure, a Letter of Intent between the Department of Science and Technology and the Swiss National Science Foundation, and an implementation arrangement on innovation and technology transfer. The India and EFTA trade pact (TEPA) came into force on 1 October 2025. (Exam: Banking / BPSC / All exams)
- 5. The India and Japan Joint Crediting Mechanism became operational with its Operational Manual released on 30 September 2026, built under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement. Verified emission cuts from Japan-backed projects in India convert into ITMOs (Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes), and India applies a corresponding adjustment so nothing is counted twice. India's nodal body is the National Designated Authority for Implementation of the Paris Agreement. (Exam: SSC / BPSC / All exams)
Economy & Banking
- 6. The RBI Monetary Policy Committee met from 5 to 7 October 2026, with the decision due at 10:00 am IST on 7 October. The repo rate stands at 5.25% after the 25 basis point cut of 5 December 2025, and the six-member MPC is chaired by Governor Sanjay Malhotra. A Reuters poll of 61 economists had 35 expecting a 25 bps hike, which would be the first increase since February 2023. Treat the outcome as unknown until the statement is out. (Exam: Banking / SSC / All exams)
- 7. The government extended the RoDTEP scheme (Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products) by three months to 31 December 2026, announced on 2 October 2026, with rates and value caps as on 30 September 2026 left unchanged. It covers Domestic Tariff Area units, Advance Authorisation holders, SEZ units and Export Oriented Units, spans over 10,700 tariff lines, and had disbursed ₹57,976 crore cumulatively up to 31 March 2025. (Exam: Banking / SSC / All exams)
- 8. MoSPI's Annual Survey of Industries 2024-25 showed registered manufacturing GVA up 9.59% to ₹26.94 lakh crore, output up 7.81%, employment up 7.19% to 2.10 crore persons, total emoluments up 12.08% and fixed capital up 10.54%, across about 2.67 lakh establishments. Tamil Nadu led factory employment. (Exam: Banking / SSC / BPSC / All exams)
Appointments at a glance
Sports
- 9. India beat West Indies by 8 wickets in the first T20I at the Ekana Stadium, Lucknow, on 6 October 2026. West Indies made 171/9, India answered with 172/2 in 14.4 overs, and captain Shreyas Iyer brought up his maiden T20I century. It was India's 10th straight T20I win, and Naman Dhir took 3/31 on debut. India lead the five-match series 1-0. (Exam: SSC / Railway / All exams)
- 10. Harmanpreet Kaur, 37, stepped down as India's women's cricket captain across all formats on 6 October 2026 after a BCCI review meeting in Guwahati. She captained for about a decade (T20I from 2016, ODI and Test from 2022), led India to their first ICC Women's World Cup title in November 2025, retained Asian Games gold in 2026 and won the Women's Asia Cup in September 2026. She stays on as a player. Smriti Mandhana, vice-captain since 2022, is the front-runner to take over. (Exam: SSC / Railway / All exams)
- 11. India finished 4th at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya (19 September to 4 October) with 85 medals: 21 gold, 27 silver, 37 bronze, the country's second-highest haul. China topped with 341 medals (169 gold), Japan took 269 and South Korea 150. The Games ran 469 events across 43 sports and 71 disciplines. The gold-winning men's hockey squad got a civic welcome in Amritsar on 6 October. (Exam: SSC / Railway / Banking / All exams)
Sports results table
Awards
- 12. The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics went to Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin. Halzen proposed in 1988 that South Pole ice could track neutrinos, and he led the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a cubic kilometre of instrumented glacial ice. The prize carries 11 million Swedish kronor (verify: some reports say 12 million). (Exam: SSC / Railway / All exams)
- 13. The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was shared by Karl Deisseroth (Stanford), Peter Hegemann (Humboldt University of Berlin) and Georg Nagel (University of Würzburg) for discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. The key molecule, channelrhodopsin-2, came from the green alga Chlamydomonas, and the technique switches specific nerve cells on and off with light at millisecond precision. (Exam: SSC / Railway / TET / All exams)
Still to come this week: the Chemistry announcement on 7 October, Literature on 8 October and the Nobel Peace Prize on 9 October, with 208 individuals and 79 organisations nominated and the Oslo ceremony on 10 December 2026.
Science & Defence
- 14. The Ministry of Defence signed a ₹661.50 crore contract with BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited on 6 October 2026 for BrahMos Fire Control Systems and launchers for frontline destroyers and frigates. It falls under the Buy (Indian-IDDM) category with a minimum of 68% indigenous content. (Exam: SSC / Railway / All exams)
- 15. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh confirmed on 5 October 2026 that the Akash air defence missile system has been exported to Armenia, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. Armenia was the first buyer. Akash is a DRDO design produced with Bharat Dynamics Limited and Bharat Electronics Limited. (Exam: SSC / Railway / All exams)
- 16. DRDO's Kaveri derivative (dry) engine, built by the Gas Turbine Research Establishment in Bengaluru for the Ghatak unmanned combat aerial vehicle, completed high-altitude and flight trials in Russia at CIAM and the Gromov Flight Research Institute on a modified Il-76 testbed. Maximum dry thrust reached 48.5 kN against a 46 kN target. CEMILAC certification is the next step. (Exam: SSC / Railway / All exams)
One more for the science column, useful in Banking and SSC alike: QNu Labs, BISAG-N and IIT Gandhinagar ran India's first free-space quantum key distribution link over 5.56 km on 27 and 28 September 2026, at a quantum bit error rate below 5% and 230 to 260 secure bits per second.
Bihar-Jharkhand Special
If you sit BPSC, BSSC, Bihar Police, JSSC, JPSC or BTET and JTET, this is the section that pays. State GS carries disproportionate weight and almost nobody revises it daily.
- 17. Samrat Choudhary has been Bihar's Chief Minister since 15 April 2026, the state's first BJP Chief Minister, representing Tarapur, with Vijay Kumar Chaudhary and Bijendra Prasad Yadav as Deputy Chief Ministers. He succeeded Nitish Kumar, who resigned to contest the 2026 Rajya Sabha elections. On 30 September 2026 his cabinet cleared the draft Bihar Green Hydrogen Policy 2026 and a ₹2,761.55 crore agricultural feeder solarisation plan covering 2,554 feeders and 2,585 MW, with ₹1.05 crore of grant per MW and ₹47.30 crore in incentives to gram panchayats at 946 substations. (Exam: BPSC / BSSC / Bihar Police)
- 18. BPSC 72nd CCE Prelims is listed for 25 October 2026 (Sunday) in the revised calendar issued on 14 August 2026, for 1,186 vacancies, down from the 1,230 first advertised. The original 26 July 2026 date was postponed on 18 July. The commission still calls the October date tentative, so check bpsc.bihar.gov.in before you plan travel. (Exam: BPSC)
- 19. JSSC Para Teacher (JTAACCE) 2026 is live for 7,299 posts (6,101 regular plus 1,198 backlog), notified on 22 July 2026. Applications close 18 October 2026, photo and signature upload on 22 October, correction window 23 and 24 October. You need JTET, CTET or another recognised TET, with age reckoned as on 1 August 2026. (Exam: JSSC / JTET / TET)
Also worth noting: the Jharkhand Cabinet meets today, 7 October 2026, at 3 pm at Project Bhawan in Ranchi under Chief Minister Hemant Soren, and Nalanda University in Rajgir signed an MoU with CSIR-TKDL on traditional knowledge and intellectual property, with Vice Chancellor Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi signing for the university.
Bihar and Jharkhand exam dates
Important Days
- 20. World Cotton Day falls on 7 October, and the 2026 global event is in Tashkent, Uzbekistan with the theme "Cotton for Good: Building Prosperity Through Trade, Transformation and Partnership". It was launched in 2019 at the WTO and is run by the Government of Uzbekistan with the International Cotton Advisory Committee, alongside FAO, IAEA, ITC, UNCTAD, UNIDO and WTO. (Exam: SSC / Banking / All exams)
Index and rankings refresher
One honest caveat
Three items here are not yet closed. The MPC outcome was unannounced when this went up, the BPSC 72nd prelims date is still marked tentative on the official calendar, and the Nobel Physics purse is reported as 11 million kronor in some places and 12 million in others. Do not write any of those three as settled in a mains answer without a quick check on rbi.org.in, bpsc.bihar.gov.in or nobelprize.org.
A practical note on method: most aspirants read current affairs and remember none of it, because reading is not retrieval. Today's 15 questions are not printed here, they sit in the quiz section on ExamAtlas. Read these facts now, attempt the quiz cold tomorrow morning, then keep a one-page sheet of only the numbers you got wrong. That sheet is what you revise in the last week, not the whole month's PDF.
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