Current Affairs 13 October 2026: Top 20 Facts with Exam Tags

Retail inflation touched 5.54% in September, the RBI has gone back to raising rates after three and a half years, and the Economics Nobel was announced at 3:15 PM IST yesterday. That is a lot of hard numbers for one 24-hour window, and all three have already appeared in past SSC and Banking papers in some shape.

This digest covers the last 24 hours, from the morning of 12 October to the morning of 13 October 2026. Every fact below is one sentence plus the exams it matters for. Read the Bihar and Jharkhand section twice if you are sitting for BPSC, BSSC, Bihar Police, JSSC or JPSC, because that is where the state papers pull from.

National Current Affairs

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Poonamallee to Vadapalani stretch of Chennai Metro Phase II on 11 October 2026, a roughly 15 km section of Corridor 4 with 11 elevated stations built at about ₹4,900 crore. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams
• The Tamil Nadu package announced alongside it crossed ₹13,000 crore, including about ₹3,700 crore of National Highway work, over ₹750 crore of railway work and a ₹1,620 crore Lube Oil Base Stocks project at the Manali refinery. Exam tag: SSC / Railway
• The CAPF (General Administration) Act, 2026 came into force on 8 October 2026 after the Ministry of Home Affairs notified it, and it now reserves 50% of IG posts and at least 67% of ADG posts for IPS deputation across the CRPF, BSF, CISF, ITBP and SSB. Exam tag: SSC / Bihar Police / All exams
• Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda launched JOSH Teams under the Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, with each team made of 5 MY Bharat volunteers and 5 NCC cadets, and Phase 1 covering 55 districts across 11 States and UTs. Exam tag: SSC / Banking / All exams
• The BRICS Theatre Festival 2026 was inaugurated in New Delhi by Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, a three-day event with 10 theatre groups staging 11 plays at the National School of Drama, Kamani and Shri Ram Centre. Exam tag: All exams
• Ahmedabad hosted the BRICS Traditional and Indigenous Sports Demonstration Games on 12 and 13 October 2026, a first for India under the BRICS sports track. Exam tag: All exams

International Current Affairs

• India condemned attacks on two commercial vessels carrying Indian crew near the Strait of Hormuz on 11 October 2026: MT Petro Dolphin was struck by a drone with two of its 11 Indian crew reported missing, while MT Valthera was hit by a projectile and caught fire with all 11 Indian crew safe. Exam tag: SSC / Banking / All exams
• The United States opened an investigation into the European Union's expanded Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), a move that matters to Indian steel and aluminium exporters. (verify) Exam tag: Banking / SSC
• Flash floods were reported across parts of Nepal on 12 October 2026, with the Indian border districts of Bihar watching water levels on the Kosi and Gandak systems. Exam tag: BPSC / BSSC / SSC

Economy and Banking

This is the densest section today. Four of the five items below are pure number recall, which is exactly how Banking and SSC set them.

• MoSPI released September 2026 CPI data on 12 October: all-India retail inflation came in at 5.54%, food inflation (CFPI) at 7.74%, rural inflation at 6.08% and urban at 4.88%, on the new 2024=100 base. Exam tag: Banking / SSC / BPSC
• The RBI's 63rd MPC meeting (5 to 7 October 2026) raised the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.50%, the first hike since February 2023, putting the SDF at 5.25% and the MSF and Bank Rate at 5.75%, with the stance shifted to calibrated tightening. Exam tag: Banking / SSC / All exams
• The RBI's FY27 real GDP growth projection was raised by 40 basis points to 7.1%, and the World Bank separately lifted its own India FY27 forecast to 7.1% from 6.6%. Exam tag: Banking / BPSC
• The 57th GST Council meeting on 8 October 2026 raised the prosecution threshold from ₹1 crore to ₹5 crore, cut the general penalty from ₹25,000 to ₹10,000, and moved to remove the arrest powers of GST officers, with no rate changes. Exam tag: Banking / SSC
• The RBI excluded Paytm Payments Bank from the Second Schedule of the RBI Act, 1934 under Section 42(6)(b), following the cancellation of its licence on 24 April 2026 and the Delhi High Court winding-up order in July 2026. Exam tag: Banking

Sports Current Affairs

• India beat West Indies by 14 runs in the third T20I at Indore on 11 October 2026, posting 223 and restricting the visitors to 209/7, with Abhishek Sharma and Arshdeep Singh doing the damage, to take a 2 to 1 series lead. Exam tag: All exams
• The ninth Men's Asian Champions Trophy will be played at Jalandhar and Mohali in Punjab from 27 October to 5 November 2026, with India entering as defending champions and chasing a sixth title after wins in 2011, 2016, 2018 (shared), 2023 and 2024. Exam tag: All exams
• India's flagbearers for the 2026 Asian Para Games at Aichi-Nagoya, Japan (18 to 24 October) are Pramod Bhagat and Bhavina Patel. Exam tag: All exams

Sports results asked in the last 24 hours, in table form:

Event	Winner / Result
3rd T20I, Indore (11 Oct 2026)	India by 14 runs (223 vs 209/7)
India vs West Indies T20I series	India lead 2 to 1
India vs West Indies ODI series	India won 2 to 1; Shubman Gill Player of the Series
2nd T20I, Ranchi (9 Oct 2026)	West Indies by 6 wickets, 252/4, their highest T20I chase
Ranji Trophy 2025-26	Jammu and Kashmir, their first title

Awards and Honours

• The 2026 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences went to American economists Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford, announced on 12 October 2026 for their work on the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation and boom-bust cycles, with a prize of 12 million Swedish kronor. Exam tag: Banking / SSC / All exams
• The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to South African jurist Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, the 125th Peace Prize, chosen from 287 nominations, with the ceremony set for 10 December in Oslo. Exam tag: All exams
• The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature went to Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson, the 19th woman literature laureate and the second Canadian woman after Alice Munro in 2013. Exam tag: SSC / All exams

The full 2026 Nobel list, which is the version most likely to be asked as a match-the-pairs question:

Person	Post / Prize
Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford	Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2026
Navanethem "Navi" Pillay	Nobel Peace Prize 2026
Anne Carson	Nobel Prize in Literature 2026
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel	Nobel Prize in Medicine 2026 (optogenetics)
Francis Halzen	Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 (IceCube neutrinos)
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai	Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 (asymmetric synthesis)
Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit	29th Chief of the Air Staff, taking over 31 October 2026
General N.S. Raja Subramani	Chief of Defence Staff
Samrat Choudhary	Chief Minister of Bihar, since 15 April 2026

Science and Defence

• Chief of Defence Staff General N.S. Raja Subramani inaugurated new utility and residential facilities at INS Kadamba, Karwar under Project Seabird Phase IIA, a base spread over more than 11,000 acres and among the largest in the Eastern Hemisphere. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams
• ICGS Ajit was commissioned at Goa Shipyard on 9 October 2026 as the seventh of eight Adamya-class fast patrol vessels, about 52 m long, displacing roughly 320 tonnes with a crew of 39, and will be based at Okha, Gujarat. Exam tag: SSC / All exams
• Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, currently Vice Chief of the Air Staff, will take over as the 29th Chief of the Air Staff on 31 October 2026 from Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh. Exam tag: SSC / All exams
• The Indian Army launched 'Bharat Rice' through its Directorate General of Supplies and Transport, working with the FCI, NAFED and the Department of Food and Public Distribution to improve ration quality for troops in Ladakh and the North East. Exam tag: SSC / All exams
• India ranked 38th of 139 economies in the Global Innovation Index 2026, WIPO's 19th edition, finishing first among 36 lower-middle-income economies, with Bengaluru at 25 and Delhi at 27 among global innovation clusters. Exam tag: Banking / SSC / BPSC

Index and ranking table for quick revision:

Index	India's Rank	Topper
Global Innovation Index 2026 (WIPO, 139 economies)	38th	Switzerland (Sweden 2nd, USA 3rd)
GII 2026, lower-middle-income group (36 economies)	1st	India
GII 2026, Central and Southern Asia (11 economies)	1st	India
GII 2026 innovation clusters	Bengaluru 25th, Delhi 27th	Tokyo-Yokohama cluster leads globally

Bihar and Jharkhand Special

If your exam is BPSC, BSSC, Bihar Police, JSSC, JPSC, BTET or JTET, this is the section that pays. State commissions set state news far more often than national news, and they set it with dates attached.

• Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary inaugurated Tower 3 at Patna Medical College and Hospital on 12 October 2026, taking PMCH capacity to 2,500 beds with a paediatric ICU on the fifth floor, an obstetric ICU, a postnatal ward and Modular Operation Theatre 22 on the sixth floor. Exam tag: BPSC / BSSC / Bihar Police
• Samrat Choudhary of the BJP has been Chief Minister of Bihar since 15 April 2026, taking over after Nitish Kumar vacated the office on being elected to the Rajya Sabha. Learn this one properly, because papers still carry the old name. Exam tag: BPSC / BSSC / Bihar Police / BTET
• Bihar Police launched the Online Cyber Hackathon 2026 on 12 October 2026, inaugurated by STF Director General Kundan Krishnan and run by the Cyber Crime and Security Unit (CCSU), with a first prize of ₹1.5 lakh, second of ₹1 lakh and third of ₹50,000. Exam tag: Bihar Police / BPSC / BSSC
• Registration and solution submission for the hackathon close on 26 October 2026 at cyberhackathon.bihar.gov.in, screening by C-DAC and IIT experts ends by 20 November, and winners are announced on 28 November 2026. Exam tag: Bihar Police / BSSC
• The BPSC 72nd Combined Competitive Examination Prelims is scheduled for 25 October 2026 for 1,186 vacancies, revised down from 1,230 after 44 Sugarcane Officer posts were removed by corrigendum. Exam tag: BPSC
• The JSSC Jharkhand Technical Graduate Level Combined Competitive Examination (JTGLCCE) 2026 is running for 611 posts covering Assistant Entomologist, Dairy Technical Officer, Fisheries Extension Supervisor, Auditor and Laboratory Assistant roles. Exam tag: JSSC / JPSC
• The second India vs West Indies T20I at the JSCA Stadium, Ranchi on 9 October 2026 saw West Indies chase 252/4, the highest successful T20I chase in their history, built on Shai Hope's 102 not out and Sherfane Rutherford's 84. Exam tag: JSSC / JPSC / All exams

Important Days

• 13 October is the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, and UNDRR has set the 2026 theme as "Resilience Starts at Home". Exam tag: SSC / Banking / All exams
• National Postal Week runs from 9 to 15 October 2026, opening with World Post Day on 9 October, which marks the founding of the Universal Postal Union in 1874. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams

The October days table, because this is free marks in every paper:

Day	Theme / Significance
9 October, World Post Day	Marks the founding of the Universal Postal Union in 1874
10 October, World Mental Health Day	Theme: "Lived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change"
11 October, International Day of the Girl Child	Observed by the UN since 2012
12 October, World Arthritis Day	Awareness on rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases
13 October, International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction	Theme: "Resilience Starts at Home"
14 October, World Standards Day	Marks the 1946 meeting that led to the ISO
15 October, World Students' Day	Birth anniversary of Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
15 October, International Day of Rural Women	Recognises rural women in agriculture and food security
16 October, World Food Day	Marks the founding of the FAO in 1945

One Honest Caveat Before You Memorise This

The September CPI number is provisional. MoSPI revises the monthly series, so if a paper set in December asks for September 2026 inflation, the official answer may have moved a decimal. Quote 5.54% and move on, but do not argue with an answer key over the second decimal.

The CBAM investigation item is aggregator-sourced and is marked (verify) above. Treat it as background reading, not as a number to learn. Everything else here traces back to MoSPI, the RBI, the Ministry of Home Affairs, WIPO, the Nobel Foundation or state government announcements.

One practical habit: write these 20 facts into a single notebook page tonight, then attempt today's 15-question quiz on ExamAtlas tomorrow morning without looking back here. Daily current affairs only works if you revisit it on day 2 and day 7. Reading it once is how aspirants lose five marks they had already earned.

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