Current Affairs 10 October 2026: Daily GK Facts with 15 MCQs

The Norwegian Nobel Committee named Navi Pillay the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize winner on 9 October, and the RBI's new 5.50% repo rate is still working its way through bank lending desks. Two facts, two different question papers. That is how one news cycle feeds SSC, Banking and BPSC at the same time.

Below are 20 verified facts from the last 24 hours, each with the exams it actually shows up in, plus five quick-reference tables. The 15 objective questions built from these facts sit in today's quiz on ExamAtlas. So read a fact, cover it with your thumb, and say it back. If you cannot repeat it cold, you have not learnt it yet.

National

• 1. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting reconstituted the Press Council of India, nominating 13 working journalists (six editors and seven other working journalists) under Sections 5 and 6 of the PCI Act, 1978. The Chairperson is Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai (Retd.), appointed on 24 April 2026 for a three-year term. Exam tag: SSC / BPSC / All exams
• 2. The National Statistics Office under MoSPI released findings of India's first National Household Travel Survey: 66.4% of students aged 6 and above travel more than 1 km daily to school or college, walking is the top mode at 37.0%, buses follow at 29.5% and bicycles at 15.8%, while 42.6% of workers use two-wheelers to reach a fixed workplace. Average monthly commute cost is Rs 785 (Rs 1,044 urban, Rs 612 rural). Exam tag: SSC / Railway / BPSC
• 3. The Indian Coast Guard held SAREX-2026, the 12th National Maritime Search and Rescue Exercise, off Paradip, Odisha on 7 and 8 October. Minister of State for Defence Sanjay Seth inaugurated it. The drill simulated a passenger aircraft ditching with 228 people on board and drew 32 observers from 30 countries. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / Banking

International

• 4. Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, the South African jurist and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, announced in Oslo on 9 October 2026, cited for her work to promote peace and international law. She is of Indian Tamil descent and earlier served as a judge at the International Criminal Court. Exam tag: All exams
• 5. An Indian Parliamentary Delegation led by Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh continued India's participation in the 153rd Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly at Arusha, Tanzania. The delegation pressed for stronger transparency and accountability in legislatures. Exam tag: BPSC / BSSC / SSC
• 6. Israel announced it will confer its Presidential Award for Civilian Heroism on Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar for averting a flydubai tragedy. It is among the rare instances of a foreign head of state honouring a serving Indian commercial pilot. Exam tag: All exams

Economy & Banking

• 7. The RBI's Monetary Policy Committee, which met from 5 to 7 October under Governor Sanjay Malhotra, raised the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.50% and shifted the stance from neutral to calibrated tightening. The Standing Deposit Facility rate stands at 5.25% and the MSF and Bank Rate at 5.75%. FY27 projections: real GDP growth 7.1% and CPI inflation 5.2%. Minutes are due on 21 October and the next meeting runs 2 to 4 December 2026. Exam tag: Banking / SSC / Railway
• 8. The Union Cabinet approved a Rs 10,000 crore SME Growth Fund for direct equity investment in small and medium enterprises, aimed at firms that cannot raise growth capital on bank debt alone. Exam tag: Banking / SSC / BPSC
• 9. The Cabinet also approved continuing PM-KISAN from 2026-27 to 2030-31 with a financial outlay of Rs 3.15 lakh crore. The scheme pays Rs 6,000 a year to eligible landholding farmer families in three equal instalments. Exam tag: BPSC / BSSC / SSC

Sports

• 10. India closed the 2026 Asian Games at Aichi-Nagoya, Japan in fourth place with 85 medals: 21 gold, 27 silver and 37 bronze. India tied Uzbekistan on gold and took fourth on the silver count, 27 to 25. China topped the table with 341 medals including 169 gold. Exam tag: All exams
• 11. Indian teams swept the marquee team events at those Games. The men's cricket team retained gold by beating Pakistan in the final and the women's team also won gold, while the men's hockey side defended its title with a 5-1 win over Malaysia and the women's hockey team took gold as well. Kumkum Anil Mohod became the first Indian woman to win the Asian Games women's individual recurve archery gold, and Pranavi Urs the first Indian woman to win individual golf gold. Exam tag: All exams

Keep the medal split in your head as three numbers, not one. Papers ask for gold count and total separately.

Event	Winner / Result
Asian Games 2026 men's cricket final	India beat Pakistan (gold retained)
Asian Games 2026 men's hockey final	India beat Malaysia 5-1 (gold defended)
Asian Games 2026 men's kabaddi final	India beat Iran (gold)
Asian Games 2026 women's individual recurve archery	Kumkum Anil Mohod (India), first Indian woman to win it
Asian Games 2026 women's individual golf	Pranavi Urs (India), first Indian woman to win it

Awards

• 12. The full 2026 Nobel slate so far: Physiology or Medicine to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for light-gated ion channels and optogenetics; Physics to Francis Halzen for contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory; Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis; Literature to Canadian poet Anne Carson; Peace to Navi Pillay. The Economic Sciences prize is due on 12 October 2026. Exam tag: All exams
• 13. Mahesh Kakde of IISc Bengaluru won the 2026 DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for work in algebraic number theory. He is the fifth Indian to win it, after Sujatha Ramdorai, Amalendu Krishna, Ritabrata Munshi and Neena Gupta. The prize carries USD 10,000. Exam tag: SSC / Banking / BPSC

India also finished 10th at the 48th WorldSkills Competition in Shanghai (22 to 27 September 2026) with six silver medals and 20 Medallions for Excellence, from a field of roughly 70 countries and more than 1,400 competitors. The silvers came in Bakery, Dental Prosthetics, Digital Interactive Media Design, Industrial Design Technology, Logistics and Freight Forwarding, and Retail Sales. The Prime Minister met Team India on 9 October.

Person	Post / Honour
Navi Pillay	Nobel Peace Prize 2026
Anne Carson	Nobel Prize in Literature 2026
Mahesh Kakde (IISc Bengaluru)	Ramanujan Prize 2026
Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai (Retd.)	Chairperson, Press Council of India
Capt. Smit Machchhar	Israel's Presidential Award for Civilian Heroism
Gen. N. S. Raja Subramani	Chief of Defence Staff and Secretary, DMA

Index / Ranking	India's Rank	Topper
Asian Games 2026 medal table	4th (85 medals, 21 gold)	China (341 medals, 169 gold)
48th WorldSkills Competition, Shanghai 2026	10th (6 silver, 20 Medallions for Excellence)	Not declared in available reports
Global Gender Gap Index 2026 (WEF)	131st	Iceland (verify)

Science & Defence

• 14. The Indian Navy will commission Mangrol, its third Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft, on 12 October 2026 at the Naval Dockyard, Mumbai. Built by Cochin Shipyard Limited with over 80% indigenous content, it carries the Abhay hull-mounted sonar, lightweight torpedoes, an indigenous anti-submarine rocket launcher and the Mareech advanced torpedo decoy system. Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Naval Command, will preside. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams
• 15. Project Seabird infrastructure was inaugurated by General N. S. Raja Subramani, Chief of Defence Staff and Secretary, Department of Military Affairs. Project Seabird is the Navy's base development programme at Karwar, Karnataka. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / BPSC
• 16. Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh presented 15 SIDM Champion Awards 2026 at the Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers' 8th Annual Session in New Delhi on 9 October, and put India's defence exports at Rs 38,424 crore in FY 2025-26, up over 60% year on year, with a target of Rs 50,000 crore by 2029. The private sector's share of defence production is about 24%, which he wants raised to 50%. Exam tag: SSC / Banking / All exams

Bihar-Jharkhand Special

This is the section most Bihar and Jharkhand aspirants skip in national CA feeds, and it is the one BPSC, BSSC, Bihar Police, JSSC and JPSC actually pull from.

• 17. Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan visited Jharkhand on 10 October 2026, addressing the second convocation of AIIMS Deoghar and visiting the Sainya Sampark Mela at BBMT Hospital, Deoghar. AIIMS Deoghar is one of the AIIMS sanctioned under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana. Exam tag: JSSC / JPSC / JTET / All Jharkhand exams
• 18. Bihar's Energy Department laid out an investment plan of about Rs 1,88,383 crore across generation, storage, transmission, distribution and renewables, shared by Energy Secretary and BSPHCL CMD Ajay Yadav at an India Energy Week 2027 awareness programme at IIT Patna. Targets include 24 GW of renewable capacity and 6.1 GWh of storage by 2029-30, peak demand of 11,747 MW by 2030, about 8,400 MW of pumped storage in Nawada, Jamui, Banka and Munger, a 1,100 MW rooftop solar push for roughly 10 lakh Kutir Jyoti consumers under PM Surya Ghar Yojana, and a proposed 4x700 MW nuclear project in Banka. Five pilot Green Hydrogen Villages get Rs 1 crore each. Exam tag: BPSC / BSSC / Bihar Police
• 19. On the recruitment side, the BPSC 72nd CCE Prelims for 1,186 posts, originally set for 26 July 2026, stands deferred, with 25 October 2026 listed as a tentative revised date (verify). The JSSC JTGLCCE 2026 cycle for 611 posts closed applications on 30 June 2026 and its exam date is still awaited. For JTET 2026 run by the Jharkhand Academic Council, qualifying marks are 60% for General and EWS, 55% for OBC and 52% for SC, ST and PwD, both levels carry no negative marking across 2 hours 30 minutes, and the admit card is slated for 15 October (verify). Exam tag: BPSC / JSSC / JTET / BTET

Exam	Posts	Status as on 10 October 2026
BPSC 72nd CCE Prelims	1,186	Deferred from 26 July 2026; 25 October 2026 tentative (verify)
JSSC JTGLCCE 2026	611	Applications closed 30 June 2026; exam date awaited
JTET 2026 (JAC)	Level 1 and Level 2	Admit card slated 15 October (verify); no negative marking

Important Days

• 20. World Post Day falls on 9 October and marks the founding of the Universal Postal Union in 1874 at Bern, Switzerland. The 2026 theme is "One Postal Network, Infinite Possibilities". India observes National Postal Day on 10 October, and the Department of Posts signed an agreement with Blue Dart Express for parcel services across India. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams

Day	Date	Theme 2026
Indian Air Force Day (94th anniversary)	8 October	Indian Air Force: Infallible, Impervious and Precise
World Post Day	9 October	One Postal Network, Infinite Possibilities
National Postal Day (India)	10 October	Observed as part of National Postal Week
World Mental Health Day	10 October	Observed by WHO; check the WHO page for the 2026 theme (verify)

An honest caveat before you file these away. Three items carry a (verify) tag: the BPSC 72nd revised prelims date, the JTET 2026 admit card date, and the 2026 Global Gender Gap topper. Aggregators are not consistent on them, so confirm on bpsc.bihar.gov.in, jac.jharkhand.gov.in and the WEF report before you write them into your notes. Everything else here is cross-checked against PIB, the RBI statement, the Nobel announcement or the organising body.

One habit worth building from today: write the five numbers you keep forgetting on the back of your hand page every morning. For this batch they are 5.50, 10,000, 3.15, 85 and 38,424. Numbers are what separate a 110 from a 130 in GS.

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