The IMF has raised India's growth forecast for 2026-27 to 7% from 6.4%. On 16 October 2026 the Navy commissions Samarthak, the first of four Multi-Purpose Vessels, at Karwar, and Railways freight loading grew 6.14% in September 2026.

Coverage: 7:00 am IST, 13 October 2026 to 7:00 am IST, 14 October 2026.

Checked against: PIB (Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Commerce and Industry), All India Radio News, DD News and the IMF World Economic Outlook.

National Current Affairs

• A PIB note marking five years of PM GatiShakti (launched October 2021) says the Network Planning Group had evaluated 396 projects worth about ₹18.66 lakh crore by 11 August 2026, with 256 sanctioned and 198 under implementation; a newspaper report of 13 October puts the newer count at over 400 projects worth ₹20.23 lakh crore. Exam tag: SSC / Banking / All exams
• Nagaraju Maddirala, a former Financial Services Secretary, has been appointed Chairman and Managing Director of IL&FS for two years; the Ministry of Corporate Affairs confirmed this on 12 October 2026, and he succeeds Nand Kishore. Exam tag: Banking / SSC
• Indian Railways' freight loading in September 2026 was 6.14% higher than in September 2025, and the Railway Board said freight revenue rose by ₹1,266 crore, a growth of 9.3%. Exam tag: Railway / SSC

International Current Affairs

Keep the old and new figures together. Exams like to ask how big the revision was.

• In its October 2026 World Economic Outlook, the IMF raised India's growth forecast for 2026-27 to 7% from 6.4% (July estimate), and raised its 2027-28 forecast by 0.3 percentage point to 7%. Exam tag: Banking / SSC / All exams
• The same report puts global growth at 3.1% for 2026, 0.1 point above the July update, and 3.4% for 2027; it came out as the IMF-World Bank annual meetings began in Bangkok. Exam tag: Banking / SSC
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit India from 17 to 22 October 2026 for energy talks, travelling to Mumbai and Jamnagar after first stopping in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Exam tag: SSC / All exams

Revision table: IMF forecasts, July vs October 2026

Economy and Banking

This section is mostly numbers. Learn each figure with the body that announced it.

• Addressing global investors on 13 October 2026, PM Narendra Modi cited India's 7.8% GDP growth in the April-June quarter and foreign-exchange reserves of more than $700 billion. Exam tag: Banking / SSC / All exams
• SEBI has proposed a fine of ₹50,000 for every instance of non-cooperation by listed companies with the monitoring agencies that track how money raised through public issues is used. Exam tag: Banking / SSC
• Since Saturday, 10 October 2026, the RBI has taken six forex measures to support the rupee, aiming for what Governor Sanjay Malhotra called its "correct" value, and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the RBI will keep acting against exchange-rate volatility. Exam tag: Banking / SSC

Revision table: numbers of the day

Sports Current Affairs

• In the UEFA Champions League league phase, Atletico Madrid beat Manchester United in Madrid, so United have now gone five games without a win across all competitions. Exam tag: SSC / Railway
• In another league-phase match, Bayern Munich were held to a draw by Viking after Michael Olise was shown a red card. Exam tag: SSC / Railway
• England's Joe Root needs 1,644 runs to pass Sachin Tendulkar's record for the most Test runs, which stands at 15,921. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams

Revision table: results of the day

Awards and Honours

• Francis Halzen has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, which detects neutrinos arriving from deep space. Exam tag: SSC / BPSC / All exams

Science and Defence

• The Indian Navy will commission Samarthak at Naval Base Karwar on 16 October 2026; Larsen & Toubro built it under Make in India, and it is the first of four Multi-Purpose Vessels to join the Navy, built for maritime surveillance, patrol, trials, autonomous systems and HADR. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams
• The Army has received its largest batch of indigenous loitering munitions, the Nagastra-1R, a low-cost system for short-range operations that can be used in large numbers. Exam tag: SSC / Railway
• On 13 October 2026, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met Karel Havlicek, the Czech Republic's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade, and the two sides agreed to expand defence industrial cooperation. Exam tag: SSC / All exams
• DRDO will lead a session on 'Semiconductors & Next-Gen Chips' at ESTIC-2026, which runs from 27 to 29 October at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. Exam tag: SSC / Railway
• An IISc study suggests that strong magnetic fields could let white dwarfs grow beyond the Chandrasekhar limit, the mass ceiling (about 1.4 solar masses) usually accepted for these stars. Exam tag: SSC / BPSC / Railway

Revision table: defence and science

Bihar-Jharkhand Special

• On 13 October 2026, the Bihar Chief Minister opened a ₹400-crore data centre in the Patliputra industrial area of Patna. Exam tag: BPSC / BSSC / Bihar Police
• Bihar has restricted the sale of non-subsidised fertilisers, joining Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, which have already done so. Exam tag: BPSC / BSSC / Bihar Police
• Jharkhand's health department will start DNB courses in five district hospitals as a pilot. Exam tag: JPSC / JSSC / JTET
• Jharkhand has released a state action plan to tackle substance abuse. Exam tag: JPSC / JSSC / JTET

Revision table: state steps of the day

Important Days

• World Standards Day falls on 14 October every year; it was first observed in 1970, and in India it is marked by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), which works under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams
• Global Handwashing Day is on 15 October and promotes handwashing with soap as a cheap way to prevent disease. Exam tag: SSC / CTET
• The UN marks the International Day of Rural Women on 15 October. Exam tag: SSC / BPSC
• World Food Day on 16 October marks the founding day of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945. Exam tag: SSC / Banking / All exams

Revision table: days this week (2026 themes not yet confirmed from official pages)

Provisional Figures and Today's Revision Habit

A few of today's numbers can still change. The 7.8% GDP growth for April-June is an estimate that gets revised when later data comes in. Likewise, the IMF figures are forecasts, not results. SEBI's ₹50,000 fine is still a proposal, so a question should say "proposed", not "imposed". For PM GatiShakti, write the official PIB figure (396 projects, ₹18.66 lakh crore, as of 11 August 2026) in your notes and keep the newer "over 400 projects, ₹20.23 lakh crore" count beside it until an official release confirms it.

None of today's facts is marked (verify). Still, the Bihar and Jharkhand items, the IL&FS appointment and the Railways freight figures come from newspaper reports, and I could not find an official release for them yet. Look out for the state government's or ministry's release in the next day or two. If a figure changes, correct your notes.

Here is a habit for today: make a three-column page with the headings Old, New and Who said it. Fill it in for the IMF revision, Samarthak's date and place, and the Railways freight numbers. Close the post and fill the page from memory before you sleep, then check it. If you do this for a week, you will see the old and new figures stick, and those are what the paper asks.