Daily Current Affairs 26 October 2026: 28 Exam-Ready Facts, Section-Wise

Sunday was a heavy news day, and most of it is directly examinable. The Prime Minister opened the Reserve Bank's new ₹169 crore data centre in Bhubaneswar, the Narcotics Control Bureau froze 1,424 bank accounts in one coordinated strike across three northeastern states, and India's para contingent came home from Nagoya with 114 medals, the best haul the country has ever produced at an Asian Para Games.

Below are 28 facts from the last 24 hours, each tagged with the exams it actually matters for. The 15-question quiz built from these facts sits in the daily quiz on the platform. Bihar and Jharkhand aspirants, go straight to the state section: BPSC and BSSC both moved this week.

National

• 1. PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the Reserve Bank of India's new Data Centre and Cybersecurity Training Institute at Bhubaneswar, Odisha on 25 October 2026. Media reports put the facility at about ₹169 crore. (All exams / Banking)
• 2. The Air Force Day Aerial Display-2026 was held at Namo Ghat, Varanasi, with the PM as chief guest. It marked the 94th anniversary of the Indian Air Force and carried the theme "Wings over Ganges". (SSC / Railway / Defence)
• 3. The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) launched Operation Trident, sending 38 teams against 38 locations simultaneously in Assam, Mizoram and Manipur. The operation surfaced about ₹100 crore in hawala transfers and froze 1,424 bank accounts. Home Minister Amit Shah called it a blow to a transnational narco-cartel. (All exams)
• 4. PM Modi also inaugurated an Arvind Limited garment manufacturing facility in Varanasi, reported at roughly ₹150 crore, which has trained over 300 women workers. (SSC / Railway)
• 5. In the Mann Ki Baat broadcast of 25 October, the PM pushed "Vocal for Local" buying ahead of Deepavali and spoke on traditional farming and river revival work in Uttarakhand. The programme has now completed 12 years. (All exams)
• 6. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast a cyclonic storm forming over the Bay of Bengal around 26 October, likely to approach the Andhra Pradesh coast near 28 October. Heavy-rain and red alerts were issued for parts of Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal. (All exams)

International

• 7. The 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum is being held in the Parliament House Complex, New Delhi, on 26 and 27 October 2026, hosted by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. Delegations from 21 member and partner countries were invited, and Russia's State Duma Chairman arrived ahead of the opening. (BPSC / All exams)
• 8. India and the European Union are working to close their Free Trade Agreement before the December 2026 deadline, with signature expected to line up with the PM's Brussels visit. The 14th negotiating round was held in Brussels. (Banking / SSC)
• 9. The International Criminal Court unsealed four arrest warrants against senior Taliban officials in October 2026 over gender-based persecution of women and girls in Afghanistan. (BPSC / State PSC)
• 10. Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal travelled to South Korea to pitch India's shipbuilding opportunity to Korean industry, while Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal held trade and investment talks in the Netherlands. (All exams)

Economy & Banking

• 11. Anup Bagchi takes charge as MD & CEO of HDFC Bank from 27 October 2026 for a three-year term, with RBI approval. He succeeds Shashidhar Jagdishan, whose term ended on 26 October. Bagchi moves in from ICICI Prudential Life Insurance. (Banking / SSC)
• 12. The RBI's Monetary Policy Committee raised the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.50% at its October 2026 meeting, and the published minutes signalled that further cuts are off the table for now. (Banking / All exams)
• 13. CPI retail inflation for September 2026 came in at 5.54% year-on-year (provisional), with food inflation at 7.74%. Rural inflation was 6.08% against urban 4.88%. The series now runs on the 2024=100 base. (Banking / BPSC)
• 14. The HSBC Flash India Composite PMI rose to about 56.7 in October 2026, a four-month high and the strongest reading since June, helped by services and export orders. (Banking)
• 15. Startup India recognised a record 55,200-plus startups in FY 2025-26, keeping India the third-largest startup base in the world, with reported job creation up about 36%. (All exams)

Index and ranking snapshot

Sports

• 16. India closed the Asian Para Games 2026 in Nagoya, Japan with a record 114 medals: 30 gold, 35 silver and 49 bronze, finishing fourth on the table. The previous best was 108 medals with 27 gold at Hangzhou 2023. Para-athletics alone delivered 65 medals. (All exams)
• 17. Harmeet Desai and Yashaswini Ghorpade won bronze in mixed doubles at the Asian Table Tennis Championships in Tashkent, India's first mixed doubles medal there in 72 years. They lost the semi-final to Japan's Sora Matsushima and Miwa Harimoto. (All exams)
• 18. India beat New Zealand by 4 wickets in the second T20I at Hagley Oval, Christchurch, to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series, with Tilak Varma and Nitish Kumar Reddy pulling off the chase. (All exams)

Sports results at a glance

Awards

• 19. 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, for his work in string theory. (All exams)
• 20. The Nobel Prizes 2026 went to Francis Halzen (Physics, IceCube Neutrino Observatory and high-energy astrophysical neutrinos), Karl Deisseroth, Georg Nagel and Peter Hegemann (Medicine, light-gated ion channels and optogenetics), Henri B. Kagan and Kensō Soai (Chemistry, asymmetric synthesis) and Anne Carson (Literature). (All exams)

Appointments in news

Science & Defence

• 21. ISRO Chairman Dr V. Narayanan said on 25 October that India will have four operational launch pads by 2029, counting the existing Sriharikota complexes, the new SSLV launch complex at Kulasekarapattinam and the planned third pad. (All exams)
• 22. ISRO completed the Crew Module and Service Module separation tests for Gaganyaan at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, clearing the way for the first uncrewed mission, G1. The test validated pyrotechnic sequencing, umbilical severing and shock survivability of avionics and the thermal protection system. (SSC / Railway / All exams)

Bihar-Jharkhand Special

This is where the state-exam money sits. Two commissions moved paperwork this week, and a third is about to.

• 23. The BPSC 72nd Combined Competitive Examination (Prelims) has been postponed till further notice. It had been slated for late October, and the commission cited unavoidable circumstances without giving a fresh date. The cycle carries 1,186 vacancies (revised figures of 1,187 also appear in reports). (BPSC)
• 24. BSSC Inter Level (10+2) vacancies have been revised upward to 26,426 from 24,492, against 23,175 and 12,199 in earlier revisions of the same cycle. The exam date is still awaited (verify the final schedule on bssc.bihar.gov.in). (BSSC)
• 25. The Jharkhand Cabinet meets on 27 October 2026 after two deferments, with the appointment of the JPSC Chairman and members and state pay-anomaly issues on the agenda. A functioning JPSC is the single biggest blocker on the Jharkhand calendar right now. (JPSC / JSSC)
• 26. The Bihar Cabinet cleared the Green Hydrogen Policy 2026, targeting 1 lakh tonnes of annual production by 2031 and about ₹16,000 crore of investment, alongside a ₹2,761.55 crore farm-feeder solarisation plan. Expect this in Bihar GS as a policy-plus-number question. (BPSC / BSSC / Bihar Police)
• 27. JSSC Inter Level (10+2) recruitment for 326 posts has had its application window extended, and the JTGLCCE graduate-level cycle covers 611 posts. (JSSC / JTET)

Important Days

• 28. 26 October is marked in India as Jammu and Kashmir Accession Day, the day Maharaja Hari Singh signed the Instrument of Accession in 1947. The same date is Austria's National Day, tied to its 1955 declaration of permanent neutrality. (All exams)

Where to focus tomorrow

Two things on this list will almost certainly be asked twice. The 114-medal Asian Para Games tally is the kind of record that shows up in both a direct question and a comparison question against Hangzhou 2023, so learn the 30-35-49 split and the fourth-place finish together. The HDFC Bank leadership change is standard banking-section fodder, and examiners love pairing an incoming name with the outgoing one.

One honest caveat on the state section. The BPSC 72nd prelims date and the BSSC Inter Level schedule are both unsettled, and aggregator sites are reporting slightly different vacancy numbers. Treat the figures above as the current reading, not the final word, and check bpsc.bihar.gov.in and bssc.bihar.gov.in before you plan a revision calendar around either date. The Kieron Pollard coaching appointment is also marked for verification.

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