Current Affairs 25 October 2026: Today's Top 20 Facts for SSC, Railway, Banking, BPSC, BSSC and JSSC

Bihar's banks got a report card on Friday. IDFC First Bank scored 74 out of 100, the State Bank of India scored 32, and the Development Commissioner said in open session that a credit-deposit ratio below 50% is not acceptable for a major bank. For a BSSC or Bihar Police aspirant, that one meeting in Patna is worth more marks than ten national headlines.

Here are the 20 facts from the last 24 hours that actually turn into questions, each with the exam it matters for. Every figure below is traced to a PIB release, a ministry statement, or a named news report, and the 15-question quiz built from these same facts is live on the platform.

National

Three items from the Centre, all dated 23 or 24 October 2026.

1. VB-G RAM G backgrounder: PIB released a backgrounder on Viksit Bharat, Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin), short name VB-G RAM G, the rural employment law that has replaced MGNREGS. Exam tag: All exams
2. 11 crore Farmer IDs: The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare said 11 crore unique Farmer IDs have been created under AgriStack, five months ahead of the March 2027 deadline. Exam tag: All exams
3. AATAL lab opens: Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated AATAL, the Integrated Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosol Toxicity Analysis Laboratory, at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology's Delhi branch on 24 October, built at about ₹80 crore under Mission Mausam of the Ministry of Earth Sciences. Exam tag: SSC / Railway

Two more national lines worth a margin note: the Ministry of Tribal Affairs closed its third and final Forest Rights Act regional review at Srinagar on 23 October, and the 19th Urban Mobility India Conference plus the National Urban Conclave 2026 wrapped up in Bhubaneswar.

International

One disaster, one energy forecast, one obituary that doubles as a books-and-authors question.

4. Tibet earthquake: A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Nagqu in Tibet on 22 October, killing 16 people and injuring 32, with hundreds of houses collapsed. Exam tag: All exams
5. IAEA nuclear forecast: The International Atomic Energy Agency projected that global nuclear power capacity could more than triple by 2060, continuing a rising trend in its annual outlook. Exam tag: SSC / Banking
6. Ryu Murakami dies: Japanese novelist and film-maker Ryu Murakami, author of Almost Transparent Blue, died at 74; publisher Gentosha announced the death on 23 October. Exam tag: All exams

Economy & Banking

Banking aspirants, this is your section. The repo rate itself has not moved since 9 October 2026, when the Monetary Policy Committee raised it by 25 basis points to 5.50%. That number is still the one examiners ask.

7. Jio Platforms IPO record: The Jio Platforms IPO became the first issue anywhere in the world to cross 1 crore applications, with overall subscription at 7.65 times. Exam tag: Banking / SSC
8. HDFC Bank leadership: Anup Bagchi takes charge as Managing Director and CEO of HDFC Bank on 27 October 2026 for a three-year term after RBI approval, succeeding Sashidhar Jagdishan. Exam tag: Banking
9. SMFCL target: Sagarmala Finance Corporation Ltd, India's first dedicated maritime NBFC, set a cumulative disbursement target of ₹60,205 crore by 2031. Exam tag: Banking

Also filed by MoSPI through the National Statistics Office: a proposal to change Periodic Labour Force Survey methodology from January 2027.

Appointments in the news (Person and Post)

Index and rankings (Index, Position, Topper)

Sports

A record para-sport haul, a 29th world title, and a 72-year wait ending at a table tennis table.

10. Asian Para Games record: India finished the Asian Para Games 2026 at Nagoya, Japan in fourth place with a best-ever 114 medals, made up of 30 gold, 35 silver and 49 bronze. Exam tag: All exams
11. Advani's 29th: Pankaj Advani won his 29th world title at the WBL World Billiards Championship on 23 October, beating England's Robert Hall 1,906 to 1,206. Exam tag: All exams
12. 72-year wait ends: Harmeet Desai and Yashaswini Ghorpade won bronze in mixed doubles at the Asian Table Tennis Championships, India's first mixed doubles medal at the event in 72 years. Exam tag: All exams

Sports results (Event and Winner)

If you are revising sports, ExamAtlas keeps a free daily current-affairs quiz that reshuffles these same names into fresh question stems, which is the only way medal tables ever stick.

Awards

13. Bhupen Hazarika National Award: Playback singer Usha Mangeshkar was named the first recipient of the Dr Bhupen Hazarika National Award, instituted by the Assam government and conferred once every three years. Exam tag: All exams
14. Oskar Klein Medal: String theorist Ashoke Sen became the first Indian physicist to receive the Oskar Klein Medal (2026), awarded jointly by Stockholm University and the Nobel Committee for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Exam tag: SSC / Railway

Science & Defence

Also on the board this week: C-DOT opened its sixth Centre of Excellence at IIT (BHU), Varanasi on 23 October, and the Ministry of Home Affairs began a nationwide Civil Defence network pilot with the Indian Army.

15. NVS-03 launch set: ISRO will launch the NVS-03 navigation satellite on a GSLV on 30 October 2026 to rebuild the NavIC constellation. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / Banking
16. Indigenous AIP milestone: The indigenous Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) system for the Navy's diesel-electric submarines cleared its Setting to Work Phase-2 milestone, and the Navy's fifth innovation seminar Swavlamban 2026 runs in New Delhi on 26 and 27 October. Exam tag: All exams

Bihar-Jharkhand Special

This is the section most national current-affairs feeds skip, and it is exactly where BPSC, BSSC, Bihar Police, JSSC and JPSC papers go hunting. Note one standing fact first: Samrat Choudhary has been Chief Minister of Bihar since 15 April 2026, the state's 24th.

17. Bihar credit plan: Bihar set an Annual Credit Plan target of ₹4.95 lakh crore for 2026-27, with ₹1,89,343 crore or 38.25% disbursed by the September quarter, in a review chaired by Development Commissioner Mihir Kumar Singh at the Old Secretariat, Patna. Exam tag: BPSC / BSSC / Banking
18. Bank scorecard and CD ratio: Bihar introduced a 100-point bank ranking index on which IDFC First Bank topped with 74 and SBI sat in the Red Zone with 32, while the state's credit-deposit ratio stood at 60.17% on 30 September. Exam tag: BSSC / Banking / Bihar Police
19. Gaya manufacturing city: Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary launched Bihar Integrated Manufacturing City Gaya Limited (BIMCGL) at Bodh Gaya for an Integrated Manufacturing Cluster of about 1,670 acres in Gaya's Dobhi block under the Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor, alongside ₹4,092 crore of MoUs with 12 industrial units. Exam tag: BPSC / BSSC / Bihar Police

On the Jharkhand side, Palamu's District Level Export Promotion Committee met to link local and farm produce to export markets, and the Meteorological Department expects rain across Ranchi and neighbouring districts from 27 to 29 October because of a Bay of Bengal low-pressure system. (verify) on the Palamu item, since it is carried by local reporting rather than a state press release.

An honest caveat on the Gaya numbers: the roughly ₹16,500 crore investment potential and about 1.1 lakh jobs are government projections, not committed money. Learn them as projections, because that is how the examiner words it too.

Important Days

20. 24 October: United Nations Day, marking the UN Charter coming into force in 1945, observed alongside the 64th Raising Day of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, raised in 1962, whose personnel the Prime Minister greeted as Himveers. Exam tag: All exams

One last thing before you close this tab

Copy the five numbers from this page onto the inside cover of your notebook, not into a separate current-affairs register you will never reopen. Figures like 60,205 and 1,89,343 are the ones that decide a Banking or BSSC cut-off, and they only survive if you meet them twice more this week.

Then take the 15-question quiz built from exactly these 20 facts. Reading a digest feels like revision; getting four of them wrong in a timed quiz is revision.

One caution for tomorrow: the ISRO NVS-03 date of 30 October and the Swavlamban 2026 dates of 26 and 27 October are scheduled events, so check them again on launch day before you treat them as settled facts.

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