Current Affairs 9 October 2026: Daily Current Affairs for SSC, Railway, Banking, BPSC, BSSC, JSSC and TET
Current Affairs 9 October 2026: Daily Current Affairs for SSC, Railway, Banking, BPSC, BSSC, JSSC and TET
Three things in the last 24 hours will show up in a question paper. The RBI pushed the repo rate up to 5.5% and told the market that cuts are off the table. The 57th GST Council moved the prosecution threshold from ₹1 crore to ₹5 crore. And the 2026 Nobel week finished its Literature announcement with Canadian poet Anne Carson.
Below are 22 facts from 8 and 9 October 2026, each with an exam tag, plus four revision tables and a one-liner sheet you can read on the bus. Every figure here came from a PIB release, an RBI statement, a Nobel Foundation announcement or a mainstream daily. Where something was reported but not officially confirmed, you will see a "(verify)" mark. The matching 15-question quiz is live separately on the platform.
National
- 1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 10th India Mobile Congress (IMC 2026) at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi on 8 October, on the theme "Scale Without Boundaries", with over 1.5 lakh expected visitors from more than 100 countries, 500-plus exhibitors and 600 startups. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams
- 2. Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw launched the World Bank Group's World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence in New Delhi, the first WDR devoted entirely to AI and developing economies. Exam tag: Banking / SSC / All exams
- 3. Actor and filmmaker Nana Patekar died at the age of 75. He won three National Film Awards and the Padma Shri, and the Prime Minister issued a condolence message on 8 October. Sonia Gandhi's memoir Belonging: A Journey of Love was also confirmed for a 10 November release by HarperCollins India. Exam tag: All exams
International
- 4. Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia inaugurated the 3rd International Bharat 6G Symposium 2026 alongside IMC, where the Department of Telecommunications set a target of 10% of global 6G patents and standards for India. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams
- 5. Iceland's energy minister visited New Delhi and offered geothermal and carbon-capture cooperation. Iceland draws roughly 70% of its power from hydro and 30% from geothermal, against India's assessed geothermal potential of about 10.6 GW. Iceland's Carbfix technology turns captured CO2 into stone, which matters for Indian cement and steel. Exam tag: All exams
Economy & Banking
- 6. The RBI's Monetary Policy Committee raised the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.5% and shifted to a stance of "calibrated tightening". The SDF now stands at 5.25%, with the MSF and Bank Rate at 5.75%. Governor Sanjay Malhotra also revised FY27 GDP growth up to 7.1% from 6.7%. Exam tag: Banking / SSC / BPSC
- 7. The 57th GST Council recommended raising the prosecution threshold from ₹1 crore to ₹5 crore, cutting the general penalty from ₹25,000 to ₹10,000, and removing arrest-related provisions from the GST framework. Exam tag: Banking / SSC / BSSC
- 8. India's goods trade deficit with China for FY 2025-26 was reported at $1,12,149.2 million, while the trade surplus with the United States stood at $33,859.5 million. Foreign portfolio investors have sold roughly $24.3 billion in Indian markets during 2026 so far. Exam tag: Banking / BPSC / All exams
Sports
- 9. India finished 4th at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan (19 September to 4 October) with 85 medals: 21 gold, 27 silver and 37 bronze. China topped the table with 341 medals, followed by Japan (269) and South Korea (150). Exam tag: All exams
- 10. India beat Pakistan in the men's cricket final at the 2026 Asian Games to take the gold medal in the sport. Exam tag: All exams
- 11. The 2026 Asian Para Games will be held in Nagoya, Japan from 18 to 24 October. India is entering 121 athletes (80 men and 41 women) across six sports: archery, athletics, badminton, judo, shooting and swimming. Exam tag: All exams
Awards
- 12. Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, announced on 8 October, for a body of work that reworks classical Greek material into contemporary forms. Exam tag: All exams
- 13. The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Henri B. Kagan (France) and Kenso Soai (Japan) for non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis, work on chirality that underpins modern drug manufacture. Exam tag: All exams
- 14. The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Francis Halzen (United States, born in Belgium) for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the detection of high-energy neutrinos from deep space. Exam tag: All exams
- 15. The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was shared by Karl Deisseroth (US), Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel (Germany) for discoveries on light-gated ion channels that led to optogenetics. Exam tag: All exams
Science & Defence
- 16. The Indian Air Force marked its 94th Air Force Day on 8 October with a ceremonial parade at Air Force Station Hindan, Ghaziabad. The theme stayed "Achook, Abhedya, Sateek" (Infallible, Impervious, Precise). The IAF was raised on 8 October 1932, and the Chief of the Air Staff is Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh. Exam tag: Defence / SSC / All exams
- 17. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh approved a revised SOP opening MoD proof ranges, firing ranges and test laboratories to private industry. Charges are waived for iDEX, TDF and Make-category projects, one three-day slot every quarter is reserved for indigenous firms, and arbitration is replaced by a conciliation clause. Exam tag: Defence / SSC / Railway
- 18. Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) plans to double domestic uranium output by 2036 through four greenfield projects. The Rohil project in Rajasthan will process 2,500 tonnes of ore a day, Gogi in Karnataka is at an early stage, and UCIL will also recover uranium from Hindustan Copper's tailings. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams
Bihar-Jharkhand Special
- 19. The BPSC 72nd CCE Prelims was postponed for a second time. The Commission cancelled the 25 October 2026 sitting and has not yet announced a fresh date. The cycle carries 1,186 vacancies. If you are in the Boring Road or Mithapur coaching belt, treat the extra weeks as revision time, not holiday. Exam tag: BPSC
- 20. Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan inaugurated new facilities at the ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology (ICAR-IIAB), Ranchi on 8 October. IIAB is the only ICAR institute dedicated to agricultural biotechnology and sits in Jharkhand, which makes it a standing JSSC and JPSC static-GK item. Exam tag: JSSC / JPSC / All exams
- 21. Rupi Soren, mother of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and wife of the late tribal leader Shibu Soren, died at the age of 80 in Ranchi. The Chief Minister performed the last rites in the family's ancestral village on 8 October. Exam tag: JSSC / JPSC / JTET
Exam-desk notes for Bihar and Jharkhand aspirants:
- BPSSC Bihar Police SI 2026 is live for 150 Daroga posts; the PST and PET schedule was deferred, so track bpssc.bihar.gov.in rather than social-media screenshots.
- JSSC JTGLCCE 2026 is advertised for 611 vacancies, with the exam schedule still awaited.
- The Jharkhand High Court was listed to hear the bunch of petitions against the cancelled JPSC and JSSC recruitment exams on 7 October 2026. The outcome of that hearing was not officially published at the time of writing (verify).
- For BPSC Mains and BSSC GS, pair fact 20 with Jharkhand's agro-climatic zones and fact 21 with the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha's formation history.
Important Days
- 22. World Post Day falls on 9 October, and India observes National Postal Week from 9 to 15 October 2026. This year's theme is "One Postal Network, Infinite Possibilities" (verify, announced via DD News). The Universal Postal Union was founded in 1874 at Bern, Switzerland, and is now a UN specialised agency. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams
The first half of October carries four observances that examiners like, and three of them fell inside this news window.
Appointments and Office-Holders to Revise
Two of these three names were directly in the news this week. Learn them as a block, because banking and SSC papers ask them as one-liners.
Sports Results Table
Index and Rankings Table
No fresh index landed in the last 24 hours, so this table is a revision block of the ones already released in 2026. Keep the release month in mind, because that is how questions are dated.
One-Liner Revision Sheet
Read this block last thing at night. If a line does not ring a bell, scroll back to the numbered fact and fix it before you sleep.
- Repo rate: 5.5%, up 25 bps, stance calibrated tightening. SDF 5.25%, MSF and Bank Rate 5.75%.
- FY27 GDP projection revised to 7.1% from 6.7%. RBI Governor: Sanjay Malhotra.
- GST prosecution threshold: ₹1 crore to ₹5 crore. General penalty: ₹25,000 to ₹10,000.
- IMC 2026: 10th edition, Yashobhoomi New Delhi, theme Scale Without Boundaries.
- Bharat 6G Symposium: 3rd edition. India's target, 10% of global 6G patents.
- World Development Report 2026 subject: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence.
- Nobel 2026: Literature Anne Carson (Canada), Physics Francis Halzen (IceCube), Chemistry Kagan and Soai (chirality), Medicine Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel (optogenetics).
- Asian Games 2026: host Aichi-Nagoya, India 4th with 85 medals, China 1st with 341.
- Asian Para Games 2026: Nagoya, 18 to 24 October, India 121 athletes.
- Air Force Day: 94th, parade at Hindan, IAF raised 8 October 1932.
- UCIL target: double uranium output by 2036; Rohil, Rajasthan at 2,500 tonnes of ore a day.
- BPSC 72nd CCE Prelims: postponed again, 1,186 vacancies.
- ICAR-IIAB: agricultural biotechnology institute at Ranchi.
- World Post Day: 9 October. UPU founded 1874, Bern.
One Honest Caveat Before You Memorise This
Two items on this page are not fully settled. The World Post Day theme came through a DD News announcement rather than a Department of Posts circular, and the Jharkhand High Court's 7 October order on the JPSC and JSSC cancellations was not published officially when this went out. Both are marked (verify). Do not quote either in a Mains answer until the official text appears.
One more practical point. The BPSC 72nd postponement is the second one in this cycle, and a second postponement usually means the new date lands close to another state exam. Keep your BSSC and Bihar Police preparation running in parallel instead of pausing it.
Revise these 22 facts tonight, then attempt today's 15-question objective set on the platform without scrolling back up. Aaj ka full CA quiz: ExamAtlas.com