Daily Current Affairs 12 October 2026: Top 20 Facts with Exam Tags
Daily Current Affairs 12 October 2026: Top 20 Facts with Exam Tags
Sunday, 11 October 2026 gave you three things worth writing in your GK notebook: a ₹13,000 crore project list in Chennai, a fresh Railway notification with 3,548 posts, and a 14-run T20I finish at Indore. Monday morning adds the Nobel economics announcement and an RBI dollar window that opens today.
Below are 20 facts from the last 24 hours, each tagged with the exams it actually shows up in. Figures are taken from PIB, RBI, WIPO and official notification pages wherever they exist. Where only one source carried a number, it is flagged.
National
- 1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid foundation stones and inaugurated development projects worth over ₹13,000 crore in Chennai on 11 October 2026, and launched the Poonamallee to Vadapalani stretch of Chennai Metro Phase II. Exam tag: All exams
- 2. Chennai Metro Phase II is a ₹63,246 crore project adding 119 km to the city network, cleared by the Union Cabinet in October 2024. Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister is C. Joseph Vijay. Exam tag: SSC / Railway
- 3. The National Human Rights Commission marks its 33rd Foundation Day on 12 October 2026, with Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant as chief guest. NHRC was set up on 12 October 1993 under the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993. Exam tag: BPSC / SSC / All exams
- 4. Indian Railways opened 3,548 graduate-level NTPC vacancies under CEN No. 06/2026. Goods Train Manager accounts for 2,750 posts, Senior Clerk cum Typist 371, Junior Accounts Assistant cum Typist 300 and Chief Commercial cum Ticket Supervisor 127. Last date to apply is 6 November 2026; age window 18 to 33 years as on 1 January 2027. Exam tag: Railway
- 5. The BRICS Theatre Festival 2026 opened on 12 October 2026, with Union Minister of Culture and Tourism Gajendra Singh Shekhawat as chief guest. Exam tag: All exams
Appointments in the news (Person and Post)
International
- 6. 11 October 2026 completed one year of the Gaza ceasefire, with the truce holding but no agreed political settlement in place. Exam tag: All exams
- 7. A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Panama on 9 October 2026 and set off tsunami warnings across Latin America. A magnitude 6.6 aftershock followed. Tremors were felt in neighbouring Costa Rica. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams
- 8. A seven-member IAEA team completed an IPPAS (International Physical Protection Advisory Service) mission to Pakistan from 28 September to 9 October 2026, hosted by the Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority, and reviewed the KANUPP site at Karachi. Exam tag: BPSC / All exams
- 9. Reports on 11 October said Russia would supply the United States 300,000 tonnes of diesel immediately, 500,000 tonnes in November and 1 million tonnes afterwards. (verify) Exam tag: All exams
Economy & Banking
- 10. The RBI Monetary Policy Committee raised the policy repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.50%, effective 7 October 2026. The Standing Deposit Facility rate moved to 5.25%, the Marginal Standing Facility rate and Bank Rate to 5.75%, and CRR stayed at 4.50%. Exam tag: Banking / SSC
- 11. The MPC shifted its stance from neutral to "calibrated tightening". For 2026-27 it projected real GDP growth at 7.1% and CPI inflation at 5.2%, with the inflation peak expected at 6.0% in Q3. Exam tag: Banking
- 12. RBI opened a special dollar window from 12 October 2026 for oil marketing PSUs IOCL, HPCL and BPCL, which need roughly $300 million a day for crude imports. India's foreign exchange reserves stand near $735 billion. Exam tag: Banking / SSC
- 13. The Directorate General of Trade Remedies began an anti-dumping investigation into imports of Penicillin-G from China, acting on a complaint by Lyfius Pharma. Exam tag: Banking / SSC
Index and ranking watch (Index, India's Rank, Topper)
Sports
- 14. India beat West Indies by 14 runs in the 3rd T20I at Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore on 11 October 2026. India made 223 all out in 20 overs; West Indies finished on 209 for 7. Abhishek Sharma hit 69 off 30 balls and Arshdeep Singh took 3 wickets. India lead the five-match series 2-1. Exam tag: All exams
- 15. The 65th National Open Athletics Championships ran from 8 to 11 October 2026 at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi, with 48 finals. Manikanta Hoblidhar defended the men's 100m title. The 2025 edition was held in Ranchi. Exam tag: All exams
- 16. The 2026 U23 World Wrestling Championships begin on 12 October in the United States. India's ODI captain is Shubman Gill and the T20I captain is Shreyas Iyer; West Indies are led by Shai Hope in both formats. Exam tag: All exams
Sports results snapshot (Event and Winner)
Awards
- 17. The Nobel Peace Prize 2026 went to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, the South African jurist and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, "for her efforts to promote peace and international law". Announced 9 October 2026 by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Exam tag: All exams
- 18. The other 2026 Nobel Prizes: Literature to Canadian writer Anne Carson; Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan (France) and Kenso Soai (Japan) for non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric synthesis; Physics to Francis Halzen for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory; Medicine to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. Exam tag: All exams
One honest caveat before you memorise this block. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 2026 is scheduled for announcement on 12 October 2026 at about 3:15 pm IST, so the name is not in this list yet. Check nobelprize.org yourself before you quote it in an interview.
Science & Defence
- 19. INS Sahyadri arrived at Vladivostok, Russia on 11 October 2026 for the India-Russia bilateral naval exercise INDRA-2026. On the same day INS Trishul reached Plymouth, United Kingdom for Exercise KONKAN 2026 with the Royal Navy. Exam tag: Defence / SSC / All exams
- 20. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh addressed Tarang Shakti 2026, the second edition of the multinational air exercise, at Jodhpur Air Force Station, pressing the case for atmanirbharta in weapons and for speed in sensing and decision-making. Separately, research teams in China and in Austria-Germany reported the world's first working nuclear clocks, both built around thorium-229. Exam tag: Defence / All exams
Bihar-Jharkhand Special
This is the block Patna and Ranchi aspirants should not skip. State-specific GK is where BPSC, BSSC, JSSC and JPSC papers separate serious candidates from casual ones.
- The Bihar Public Service Commission has postponed the 72nd CCE Preliminary Examination, which was set for 25 October 2026, until further notice, citing unavoidable circumstances. The notice is on bpsc.bihar.gov.in under "What's New". Treat the old date as dead and watch the site. Exam tag: BPSC
- Samrat Choudhary has been Bihar's Chief Minister since 15 April 2026 and is the state's first BJP Chief Minister. His Deputy Chief Ministers are Vijay Kumar Chaudhary and Bijendra Prasad Yadav, both of JD(U). Exam tag: BPSC / BSSC / Bihar Police
- AIIMS Deoghar held its second convocation, with 173 graduates, of whom 132 were women. Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan and Jharkhand Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar addressed the gathering. Exam tag: JSSC / JPSC / JTET
- BIT Mesra conferred degrees on 2,984 students at its 36th convocation. Exam tag: JSSC / JPSC
- Jharkhand ran mega helpdesks and BLO to BLA-2 meetings at polling stations statewide for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. In Dumka, the district administration is fencing 62 government schools with DMFT funds, with work finished in 32 and under way in 22. Exam tag: JSSC / JPSC / JTET
- The JSSC JTGLCCE recruitment under Advertisement No. 01/2026 covers 615 vacancies. Its Preliminary CBT carries 120 questions in 2 hours on General Studies, Jharkhand GK, Mathematics, Science and Mental Ability, with 3 marks for a correct answer and 1 mark deducted for a wrong one. Exam tag: JSSC
If you are preparing for BSSC Inter Level or Bihar Police, pair this block with last week's Bihar budget and scheme notes. Examiners rarely ask a state fact in isolation; they ask it next to a number.
Important Days
- 11 October was the International Day of the Girl Child. The 2026 theme is "End child marriage and invest in girls' rights". The UN General Assembly declared the day through Resolution 66/170 in 2011. The same date marks the birth anniversaries of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan (born 1902 at Sitabdiara, Bihar) and Nanaji Deshmukh, both Bharat Ratna recipients.
- Shardiya Navratri began on 11 October 2026, with prayers to Maa Shailputri on day one.
- 12 October is World Arthritis Day and, in India, NHRC Foundation Day.
Where today's 15 questions went
The 15 objective questions built from these facts now sit in the platform quiz instead of this page. They are timed, scored on a 1 mark correct and 0.25 negative pattern, and bilingual.
Attempting them cold is the point. Reading an answer right under a question you just read teaches you almost nothing, because you never had to retrieve it.
What to do with this list today
Do not read all 20 facts once and move on. Pick the five numbers that would hurt most if you blanked on them in a hall: 5.50%, ₹63,246 crore, 3,548, 38th, and 12 October 1993. Write those on a card.
Then take the quiz cold tomorrow morning, before you revise. That gap is what tells you whether a fact actually stuck or just felt familiar. ExamAtlas has free exam-specific mocks with topic-wise accuracy breakdowns, so you can see which CA sub-topic keeps leaking marks.
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