Daily Current Affairs 11 October 2026: 20 Exam-Ready Facts for SSC, BPSC, BSSC, JSSC
Daily Current Affairs 11 October 2026: 20 Exam-Ready Facts for SSC, BPSC, BSSC, JSSC
Nobel week closed on 9 October with the Peace Prize going to an 85-year-old South African judge, and the RBI turned its rate cycle around two days before that. Both land in your General Awareness paper. This digest covers the last 24 hours up to the morning of 11 October 2026, IST.
Twenty facts, one sentence each, with the exam each one matters for, plus four quick-revision tables. Read them once properly, then go and take the 15-question quiz on ExamAtlas built from exactly this set. If you score under 11 there, come back and read the section you lost marks in rather than the whole page.
National
- The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, chaired by Mukul Wasnik, presented its 382nd report, "Reforms and Strengthening of the National Testing Agency", to the Rajya Sabha Chairman on 9 October 2026. (All exams)
- That report wants 1,000 government Computer Based Test centres, at least one per district, before NEET-UG shifts fully to CBT, and records that only 23 of 39 sanctioned NTA posts are filled. (All exams)
- The Centre approved a 30% trade-margin cap on non-scheduled anti-cancer drugs on 8 October, with an estimated annual saving of about ₹2,500 crore for patients, and the NPPA will issue the notification. (All exams)
Two smaller national items are worth a margin note. The Bombay Natural History Society asked for a synchronised all-India Sarus Crane count on 10 and 11 October, the bird being IUCN Vulnerable and listed in Schedule I of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972. MoSPI also released its Strategy for Environmental-Economic Accounts in India: 2026-2030, which now covers forests, minerals, soil, water, carbon stock and biodiversity.
International
- The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to South African jurist Navi Pillay, 85, who was UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014, announced on 9 October by Norwegian Nobel Committee chair Jorgen Watne Frydnes. (All exams)
- The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on 8 October to Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson. (All exams)
Also from abroad: a magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit southern Panama on 9 October at a depth of roughly 12.6 km, with the tsunami warning later lifted and the Panama Canal still operational. India's parliamentary delegation, led by Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh, finished its participation in the 153rd Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly at Arusha, Tanzania.
Economy and Banking
- The RBI's Monetary Policy Committee met from 5 to 7 October and raised the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.50%, with the SDF at 5.25% and the MSF and Bank Rate at 5.75%, announced by Governor Sanjay Malhotra on 7 October. (Banking / SSC)
- For FY27 the RBI projects real GDP growth of 7.1% and CPI inflation of 5.2%, with core inflation at 4.4%. (Banking / SSC)
- The 57th GST Council cleared a process package: no show cause notice where tax is below ₹10,000, the prosecution threshold raised from ₹1 crore to ₹5 crore, and the maximum general penalty cut from ₹25,000 to ₹10,000. (Banking / SSC)
Appointments in the news
Sports
- At the 65th National Open Athletics Championships, held 8 to 11 October at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi, Manikanta Hoblidhar of Karnataka won the men's 100m in 10.25 seconds on 9 October. (All exams)
- Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will open the BRICS Traditional and Indigenous Sports Demonstration Games 2026 at the Veer Savarkar Sports Complex, Ahmedabad, on 12 October, and the event is non-competitive. (All exams)
Sports results board
Awards
- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh presented 15 SIDM Champion Awards 2026 at the eighth annual session of the Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers on 9 October, citing record defence exports of ₹38,424 crore in FY 2025-26. (All exams)
- Ambaji Mohanthal Prasad of Gujarat received a Geographical Indication registration under Class 30, held by the Shree Arasuri Ambaji Mata Devsthan Trust, with the certificate dated 1 October and the formal handover on 11 October 2026. (SSC / BPSC)
Science and Defence
- GRSE Kolkata launched 'Shreyas' on 10 October 2026, the third of four Next Generation Offshore Patrol Vessels for the Navy, at about 3,000 tonnes, 113 m long, 23 knots top speed and 8,500 nautical miles endurance at 14 knots, after sister ships Sanghmitra and Shruti. (All exams)
- INS Mangrol, the third Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft from Cochin Shipyard and the seventh of the 16-vessel project, will be commissioned at Naval Dockyard Mumbai on 12 October 2026 with over 80% indigenous content. (All exams)
- WIPO's Global Innovation Index 2026 places India 38th of 139 economies, first in Central and Southern Asia and first among lower-middle-income economies, with Switzerland on top for a 16th straight year. (All exams)
Three defence and science lines to file alongside these. Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit becomes the 29th Chief of the Air Staff on 31 October 2026, succeeding Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh. The Raksha Mantri addressed participants of Exercise Tarang Shakti 2026 at Jodhpur on 10 October, the second edition of the multinational air exercise, with seven foreign air forces flying. And the rest of Nobel week 2026 went to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel in Medicine for light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, Francis Halzen in Physics for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, and Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai in Chemistry.
Index and rankings
Bihar and Jharkhand Special
Three items here that state commissions tend to pick up. Rajgir and Deoghar both show up in state GK papers more often than aspirants expect.
- Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan visited a Sainya Sampark Mela at Deoghar, Jharkhand, and addressed the second convocation of AIIMS Deoghar on 10 October 2026, saying a developed India is possible only when every state and village develops together. (JSSC / JPSC)
- Rajgir Sports Complex in Nalanda, Bihar, will host an India versus New Zealand Under-20 Rugby Sevens series from 22 to 28 October 2026, with four matches on 27 October against the New Zealand sides Tama Toa (men) and Hine Toa (women), marking 100 years of India-New Zealand sports cooperation. (BPSC / BSSC / Bihar Police)
- BPSC TRE 4.0 under Advertisement No. 15/2026 now carries 33,320 teacher vacancies, revised up from 32,388, with Classes 11-12 taking the largest slice at 16,540 and the online window closing 26 October 2026. (BPSC / TET)
On the recruitment side, BSSC Inter Level vacancies have been raised to 26,426 from 24,492, and the BSUSC Bihar Assistant Professor advertisement is out for 3,687 posts.
One honest caveat on the Bihar numbers. Vacancy totals in TRE and BSSC cycles have been revised mid-process before, so treat 33,320 and 26,426 as the figures as of 11 October and check bpsc.bihar.gov.in and bssc.bihar.gov.in before you quote them in an interview.
Important Days
- 11 October is the International Day of the Girl Child, with the 2026 theme "End child marriage and invest in girls' rights", the day having been declared by UN General Assembly Resolution 66/170 on 19 December 2011. (All exams)
- 10 October was World Mental Health Day, WHO theme "Lived experiences heard: real voices, real change", and India's Tele-MANAS helpline 14416, launched on 10 October 2022, has crossed 47.75 lakh calls across 53 centres. (All exams)
Days and themes
How to use this in your revision
Three of today's facts are near-certain one-markers: the repo rate at 5.50%, Navi Pillay for the Peace Prize, and India at 38th in the Global Innovation Index. Write those on the same flashcard, because paper-setters like pairing a rate with a rank.
For Bihar and Jharkhand aspirants the Rajgir rugby series is the sleeper. Rajgir is already in state GK through the Asian Hockey Champions Trophy, and a second international event there in the same year makes it a likely BPSC or BSSC one-liner. Pair it with Deoghar and AIIMS Deoghar for the Jharkhand side.
One thing today's set does not give you is a confirmed Nobel in Economic Sciences. That announcement is due on 12 October 2026, so leave a blank line in your Nobel table and fill it tomorrow rather than guessing a name now. ExamAtlas has free exam-specific mocks with AI analytics that show your topic-wise accuracy, which is the fastest way to find out whether your weak spot is appointments or indexes.
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