October 2026 Monthly Current Affairs Magazine (English)

October 2026 Monthly Current Affairs Magazine (English) | APPSC Exam Preparation

Are you preparing for APPSC Group-1, Group-2, DSC, SI, or Police Constable exams? The ReadingRoomz October 2026 Current Affairs Magazine is your all-in-one monthly companion designed to save time, boost revision speed, and sharpen your exam performance. Packed with structured summaries, key facts, exam notes, and 169 practice MCQs with a complete answer key, this magazine ensures you never miss a critical current event that could appear in your next exam.

What’s Inside?

International Current Affairs:

• SCO — Pakistan’s Chairmanship 2026-27; India’s participation; theme: Turning Vision into Action
• Morocco’s First Woman Prime Minister — Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri; 2030 FIFA World Cup co-host
• Kaliningrad — Russia-NATO strategic flashpoint; Baltic Sentry; Outer Space Treaty 1967 context
• India–Ghana Agricultural Research MoU — ICAR and CSIR-CRI; five-year cooperation
• USA suspends PERM Green Card programme — Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL, Capgemini affected; impact on Indian IT professionals
• India–Bangladesh Ganges Water-Sharing Treaty — expires December 12, 2026; Farakka Barrage; Teesta dispute; 54 shared rivers
• India votes for UN resolution on US Cuba Embargo

National Current Affairs:

• Sengol included in new NCERT Class 9 Social Science textbook — Chola dynasty; righteous governance
• 28 Geographical Features in Ladakh standardised — Gogra, Hot Spring, Aksai Chin region
• India’s Transport Infrastructure — key bridges (Bhupen Hazarika Setu, Bogibeel, Atal Setu), tunnels (Rohtang, Z-Morh, Zoji La), and seven High-Speed Rail Corridors (~4,000 km, ₹16 lakh crore)
• Tiger Reintroduction at Buxa Tiger Reserve — Tigress T138 from Valmiki Tiger Reserve; West Bengal
• Dhokra Craft — 4,000-year-old lost-wax tradition; Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-daro; GI-tagged products
• JOSH Teams — Joint Squad for Health; TB Mukt Bharat; AI chatbot Khushi Avatar
• Noida International Airport renamed Narendra Modi International Airport — 5,000 acres; largest greenfield airport in India
• Lakshadweep declared 100% literate under ULLAS scheme
• Pattanam Archaeological Site — ancient port of Muziris; 300 BCE–300 CE; Roman amphorae; Sangam literature
• AATAL — India’s first integrated air pollution lab; IITM Pune; Mission Mausam
• New RBI Data Centre in Bhubaneswar — Tier IV; 99.995% uptime
• Tummidihatti Barrage — Pranahita River; Telangana-Maharashtra border; 3.7 lakh acres irrigation
• Gujarat Court — life imprisonment in cow slaughter case; Article 48; Gujarat Animal Preservation Act 2017

AP State Current Affairs:

• India issues first PRAMAAN certificate to Andhra Pradesh — 33,000 hectares; AP Forest Development Corporation; AP largest aquaculture producer (~40% national shrimp production)
• AP Athletes at Asian Games 2026 — Jyothi Surekha Vennam (gold, compound archery); cash rewards announced
• ₹1 Lakh Crore Global Horticulture Hub — Rayalaseema Rising; Madanapalle as primary node; tomato, mango, banana processing; Chittoor district
• Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0 — Amarajeevi Jaladhara; 100% tap water coverage in Proddatur, YSR Kadapa
• AP Policy for Foreign Higher Educational Institutions 2026 — one of first states with FHEI regulatory framework; universities from UK, Australia, USA interested
• Adavi Thalli Baata 2.0 — 1,976 km roads; 1,341 tribal habitations; ₹2,052 crore; Eastern Ghats
• National SARAS Mela 2026 in Vijayawada — SHG products; DAY-NRLM; AP’s Velugu Programme
• Srisailam Dam Project enters World Book of Records — largest underground hydroelectric power station in Asia; 1,670 MW
• ₹6,200 crore investment for Godavari region — CII Partnership Summit; aquaculture, palm oil, renewable energy
• AP Tourism Heritage Circuits — Horsley Hills, Adoni Fort, Orvakal Rock Garden, Ahobilam
• UNESCO Geopark status for Rayalaseema’s ancient rocks — Cuddapah Basin; 1,600–2,500 million years old
• Operation Firewall-2026 — Naval Intelligence and AP Police bust Pakistan-linked espionage network
• Cyclone Arnab 2026 — Very Severe Cyclonic Storm; Bay of Bengal; AP coast; named by Bangladesh

Polity & Governance:

• AFSPA extended in Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh — Section 3; disturbed areas; withdrawn from Tripura (2015) and Meghalaya (2018)
• UPSC completes 100 years — established October 1, 1926; Lee Commission; Sir Ross Barker; Articles 315–323
• NTA Reforms Committee Report — 382nd Report; Parliamentary Standing Committee; CBT transition; K. Radhakrishnan High-Level Committee
• NHRC — established October 12, 1993; Paris Principles; Justice V. Ramasubramanian; APSHRC context
• Preventive Detention in India — Article 22; NSA 1980; COFEPOSA; Golden Triangle (Articles 14, 19, 21); Maneka Gandhi case (1978)
• Children’s Right to Access Internet — Article 21 and 19(1)(a); proportionality test; SC judgment
• Doctrine of Separation of Powers — CJI Surya Kant; Montesquieu; Bangalore Principles of Judicial Conduct; Basic Structure (Kesavananda Bharati, 1973)
• Religious Conversion and Reservation Benefits — SC upholds Madras HC; Tamil Nadu BC Muslim certificates; Articles 341, 15(4), 16(4), 105th Amendment
• Judicial Appointments and Collegium System — Three Judges Cases; NJAC struck down 2015; evolution table

Economy:

• MSP for Rabi Crops 2027-28 — Wheat ₹2,610, Gram ₹5,958, Mustard ₹6,613, Masur ₹7,390; CACP recommendations
• India’s First WASH Social Bond — NABKISAN Finance; ₹180 crore; NSE; CRISIL AAA; SDG 6
• 57th GST Council Meeting — deletion of Section 69 CGST; prosecution threshold raised ₹1 crore to ₹5 crore; Article 279A
• Retail Inflation September 2026 — 5.5%; food inflation primary driver; MPC targets 4% ±2%
• IDBI Bank Disinvestment — ₹52,878 crore; Fairfax Financial Holdings; 60.72% stake; largest FDI in India’s financial sector
• Keynesian Economics — Nobel Economics 2026; Hall and Woodford; Paradox of Thrift; New Keynesian Phillips Curve

Science & Technology:

• Sulphur — Element in Focus; lithium-sulphur batteries (3× energy density); Contact Process; rubber vulcanisation
• CHIME Telescope detects ancient hydrogen glow — 11 billion years ago; RRI Bengaluru contribution; Fast Radio Bursts
• Metal-Free Catalyst TTT-DHTD for Zinc-Air batteries — SNBNCBS Kolkata; grid-scale energy storage
• India’s Cement Manufacturing Industry — second largest producer; limestone states; AP districts; decarbonisation roadmap
• Nuclear Clocks using Thorium-229 — Nature journal; 1,000× more precise than atomic clocks; dark matter detection
• CERVAVAC HPV Vaccine — WHO prequalification; Serum Institute; quadrivalent; HPV 16, 18; cervical cancer
• Kufri Jamunia — India’s first purple potato variety; ICAR-CPRI Shimla; anthocyanins; nutraceutical properties
• Aditya-L1 — Doppler velocity images of solar corona; VELC instrument; IIA Bengaluru; CME tracking
• Contagious Cancer in Catfish — brown bullhead catfish; Nature journal; University of Vermont; zoonotic cancer comparison
• Shamonda Virus — first human infection in France; biting midges (Culicoides); zoonotic spillover
• CCUS — ₹20,000 crore national policy framework; IIT Bombay pilot; net zero 2070 target
• Emerging Space Technologies — NGLV, RLV Pushpak, SpaDeX, NavIC Phase-II, NISAR, Chandrayaan-4
• Gene-Edited Rice — DRR Dhan-100 Kamala and Pusa DST Rice-1; CRISPR-Cas9; no GMO restrictions; Apomixis
• Dwarf Planet 2026 ED138 — Vera C. Rubin Observatory; Kuiper Belt; LSST survey
• MeghRaj 2.0 — 30 CSPs; 2,330 government departments; 1.57 GW capacity; IndiaAI Mission

Environment:

• Southwest Monsoon 2026 — 12.6% below normal; driest since 2015; East and Northeast India worst affected
• Great Indian Bustard conservation — fewer than 150 individuals; Sam Desert NP; SC-mandated power line undergrounding
• Bauxite Mining threatens Jeypore Ground Gecko — Balda hills, Eastern Ghats; AP-Odisha border; critically endangered
• Ramsar Sites — India now has 103; Sukhna Wetland (Chandigarh) and Sauj Jheel (UP) added
• Salt Marshes — carbon sinks 40× higher than tropical forests; India’s 290 sq km; Gujarat largest; AP coastline

Defence & Security:

• AIME-2026 — 2nd ASEAN-India Maritime Exercise; Subic Bay, Philippines; theme: Anchored in Trust, United at Sea
• MOUNTAIN GUARDIAN 2026 — India-UAE; Chaubatia, Uttarakhand; mountain warfare
• Surya FSS-1 — India’s first indigenous Fleet Support Ship; Hindustan Shipyard Limited, Visakhapatnam; ₹19,000 crore contract
• SAREX-2026 — 12th National Maritime SAR Exercise; Paradip, Odisha; NMSARB
• Exercise INDRA 2026 — India-Russia; INS Sahyadri; Vladivostok; tri-services
• KONKAN-26 — India-UK Naval Exercise; INS Trishul; Plymouth
• IBSAMAR 2026 — 9th edition; India-Brazil-South Africa; INS Tarkash; IBSA forum
• Bharat Rice Initiative — Indian Army; NAFED and FCI; subsidised rice at ₹29/kg for military families
• GSAT-7C and Varunastra Contracts — ₹4,106 crore; IAF communication satellite; BDL torpedo; NSTL Visakhapatnam
• AUSTRAHIND 2026 — 5th edition; Thiruvananthapuram; India-Australia; counter-terrorism
• SIMBEX 2026 — 33rd edition; Visakhapatnam; India-Singapore; since 1993
• Garuda Shakti 2026 — 11th edition; India-Indonesia Special Forces; Banyuwangi, East Java

Schemes & Programmes:

• PRAGATI-50 — Swachh Bharat Mission Urban 2.0; Tirupati and Visakhapatnam from AP selected
• Green Energy Corridor Phase-III — 135 GW integration; ₹1,86,405 crore; FY 2032-33
• GOBARdhan Scheme — ₹23,731 crore over 10 years; Compressed Biogas; SATAT scheme
• PM E-DRIVE Scheme extended to March 2028 — ₹11,900 crore; 2,000 EV charging stations
• PM-SETU completes one year — ₹60,000 crore; 1,000 ITIs; Kancharapalem ITI hub in Visakhapatnam (AP)
• PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana completes one year — 100 Aspirational Agricultural Districts; 4 AP districts included
• PMGSY Phase-IV — ₹7,395.55 crore; 2.55 lakh GPDPs; eGramSwaraj and Pancham AI platform
• Khelo India Sports Equipment Manufacturing Scheme — ₹1,856.67 crore; Sports Goods Manufacturing Zones
• Container Manufacturing Promotion Scheme — ₹10,000 crore; 5 lakh TEUs by 2030; reduce China dependence

Awards & Honours:

• Nobel Prize 2026 — Full table: Medicine (Optogenetics — Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel), Physics (Neutrinos — Francis Halzen), Chemistry (Molecular Chirality — Kagan, Soai), Literature (Anne Carson — Canada), Peace (Navi Pillay — South Africa), Economics (Hall and Woodford — Keynesian foundations)
• SUVIKALP — SKOCH Gold Award 2026; Coal Controller Organisation; digital mine closure tool
• Ashoke Sen receives Oskar Klein Medal 2026 — first Indian; ICTS-TIFR; String Theory; Stockholm University

Rank & Reports:

• PLFS 2025 — India’s literacy rate 81.1%; urban 89%, rural 77.4%; gender gap in rural literacy 14.5 percentage points
• Annual Survey of Industries 2024-25 — GVA ₹2,694.2 thousand crore; Maharashtra tops; top 5 states contribute 54%
• First-ever National Household Travel Survey 2025-26 — NSO; 4,92,023 households; walking 37% for students; two-wheelers 42.6% for workers; buses 55.8% for overnight journeys
• World Development Report 2026 — AI and Development; World Bank; IndiaAI Mission; AP’s Navachetana initiative highlighted
• PLFS 2025 — Female LFPR; rural rose from 33% to 45.9%; Arunachal Pradesh highest increase
• ASUSE 2027-28 — first survey to include gender constraints in enterprise development

Committees & Conferences:

• 10th India Mobile Congress 2026 — Yashobhoomi, New Delhi; theme: Scale Without Boundaries; Asia’s largest telecom event
• First BIMSTEC Home Ministers’ Meeting — New Delhi; Delhi Declaration; 7 countries
• 61st CIML Meeting — New Delhi; OIML; legal metrology standards
• Agrivoltaics World Conference 2026 — first in Global South; New Delhi; One Land Two Harvests; 47.5 million hectares potential in India
• 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum — New Delhi; 10 BRICS countries; Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha jointly hosted
• 13th ADMM-Plus Meeting — Cebu, Philippines; Rajnath Singh; India co-chairs Counter-Terrorism EWG with Malaysia

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Sports:

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169 MCQs + Complete Answer Key

Consolidated practice questions covering all sections — ideal for last-minute revision and self-assessment.

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• Designed in alignment with the APPSC examination pattern
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• Enables self-assessment through MCQs
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• APPSC Group-1 Aspirants
• APPSC Group-2 Aspirants
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