Current Affairs 14 October 2026: Today's Top Facts with Exam Tags and 15 MCQs

Six states got new Governors this week, retail inflation jumped to a two-year high of 5.54%, and the Navy commissioned INS Mangrol at Mumbai. If you are sitting for SSC CGL, RRB NTPC, IBPS PO, BPSC TRE 4.0, BSSC Inter Level or JSSC JTGLCCE, three or four of today's items will show up in your GK section almost word for word.

Below are 20 facts from the last 24 hours, each tagged with the exams it matters for, followed by four quick-revision tables and 15 objective questions built only from today's news. Read the fact, then attempt the question without scrolling back. That is the whole drill.

National

• Six new Governors appointed. President Droupadi Murmu approved appointments to six states on 12 October 2026. Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar moved to Tamil Nadu as full-time Governor, and Dr Sudha Yadav went to Karnataka. Exam tag: All exams
• Lakshadweep is now 100% literate. The Union Territory has reached full literacy, a milestone that fits neatly into questions on ULLAS and the Nav Bharat Saaksharta Karyakram. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams
• Karnataka High Court struck down the state's quota hike. The bench of Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice K.S. Hemalekha invalidated Sections 3 and 4 of the 2022 Act that raised SC reservation from 15% to 17% and ST reservation from 3% to 7%, pushing the aggregate from 50% to 56%. The 50% ceiling traces back to the 1992 Indra Sawhney judgment. Exam tag: BPSC / BSSC / All exams
• Prakash Rajpurohit took charge as Deputy Election Commissioner. The IAS officer joined the Election Commission of India in the post this week. Exam tag: All exams
• Supreme Court pushed for wider drug price caps. The Centre told the court it would cap trade margins at 30% for non-scheduled cancer drugs. The bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta asked why the cap should not cover every medicine, noting mark-ups as high as 1,000%, and gave the government until 27 October. The DPCO 2013 currently fixes a 16% retailer margin. Exam tag: All exams

The Governor reshuffle is the single most likely item here. Learn the person and the state as a pair, because that is exactly how it will be asked.

International

• IPCC deadlocked on its report timeline. At the plenary in Addis Ababa on 12 October, the panel's 195 member states failed to agree on publication dates for the next assessment reports. The chairs want approval by September 2028. India, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Russia and China pushed for the second and third reports to slip to 2029. The United States, its largest funder, quit in January. Exam tag: All exams
• WWF Living Planet Report 2026 released. Monitored wildlife populations have fallen 73% on average since 1970. Of 35,803 populations studied, 50% are declining and 43% are increasing. Latin America and the Caribbean saw the sharpest drop at 95%, followed by Africa at 80% and Europe at 23%. Amphibians had the highest share of declining populations at 57%. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams
• India raised the Strait of Hormuz attacks with Iran. NSA Ajit Doval spoke with his Iranian counterpart Mohsin Rezaei after two merchant ships carrying Indian crew were attacked. Two Indian sailors from the Nicaragua-flagged MT Petro Dolphin are missing. All 11 Indian sailors aboard the Marshall Islands-flagged MT Valthera are safe. India called for de-escalation. Exam tag: All exams

Economy & Banking

• Retail inflation hit a two-year high. CPI inflation for September 2026 came in at 5.54%, up from 4.83% in August and the highest reading since October 2024. Food inflation was 7.74% and onion inflation touched 108.09%. Rural inflation at 6.08% ran well above urban inflation at 4.88%. The figure still sits under the RBI's 6% upper tolerance band. Exam tag: Banking / SSC / All exams
• IMF lifted India's growth forecast to 7%. The October 2026 World Economic Outlook, released on 13 October, raised the FY27 projection to 7%, a 0.6 percentage point upgrade over the July estimate, and also put FY28 at 7%. Both numbers stay below the 7.8% India recorded in FY26. Exam tag: Banking / All exams
• RBI raised the repo rate to 5.50%. The 63rd Monetary Policy Committee meeting under Governor Sanjay Malhotra delivered a 25 basis point hike. The SDF rate stands at 5.25%, while the MSF and Bank Rate are both 5.75%. The stance is "calibrated tightening". Exam tag: Banking / All exams
• Monthly SIP inflows set a record. Systematic Investment Plan contributions reached ₹32,490 crore in September, up 0.6% from ₹32,297 crore in August. SIP assets are now ₹17.86 lakh crore, about 21.6% of total industry assets, across 28.62 crore folios. Equity funds drew ₹38,306.55 crore, the 67th consecutive month of net inflows. Exam tag: Banking / All exams
• India placed 38th in the Global Innovation Index 2026. WIPO ranked 139 economies. Switzerland held first place for the sixteenth year running. India led all lower-middle-income economies and topped Central and Southern Asia. Exam tag: SSC / Banking / All exams

One honest caveat on the inflation number: a 5.54% print with onions up 108% is a vegetable-price story, not a broad demand story. Core inflation is far calmer. If a question asks you what drove September inflation, the answer is food and fuel, not wages.

Sports

• Indian men's table tennis team won bronze. The team finished third at the Asian Table Tennis Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan. Exam tag: All exams
• Flag bearers named for the Asian Para Games. Para-shuttler Pramod Bhagat and para table tennis player Bhavina Patel will lead India at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Para Games, running 18 to 24 October in Japan. Exam tag: All exams
• India lead the West Indies 2-1 in the T20I series. Shreyas Iyer's side won the opener at Lucknow by 8 wickets and the third match at Indore by 14 runs. The West Indies, led by Shai Hope, took the Ranchi game while chasing 250. The fourth T20I is at Hyderabad on 14 October and the fifth at Bengaluru on 17 October. Exam tag: All exams

Awards

• Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2026. Robert E. Hall of Stanford University and Michael Woodford of Columbia University share the award for work on the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation. The prize carries 12 million Swedish kronor. Exam tag: All exams
• Nobel Peace Prize 2026 went to Navi Pillay. The South African jurist of Indian origin is a former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She has also served as an ad hoc judge of the International Court of Justice since 2019 in the genocide case Gambia brought against Myanmar. Exam tag: All exams
• Captain Smit Machchhar to receive Israel's top civilian bravery award. The Indian pilot was named for the honour after averting an air disaster. Exam tag: All exams

Science & Defence

• INS Mangrol commissioned at Mumbai. This is the third Mahe-class Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft, built by Cochin Shipyard Limited with over 80% indigenous content. Vice-Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan presided over the ceremony. The name honours a fishing town in Gujarat and an earlier minesweeper that served until April 2004. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams
• Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit to become Air Chief. He takes over as the 29th Chief of the Air Staff on 31 October 2026. Exam tag: All exams
• IBSAMAR 2026 under way. The maritime exercise brings together India, Brazil and South Africa. Exam tag: All exams
• PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana completed one year. The Prime Minister launched it on 11 October 2025 after Cabinet approval on 16 July 2025. The six-year scheme covers 100 Aspirational Agricultural Districts under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, with NITI Aayog guiding review. Exam tag: SSC / BPSC / All exams

Bihar-Jharkhand Special

This is the section BPSC, BSSC, Bihar Police, JSSC and JPSC aspirants should read twice. State GS carries 20 to 30 marks in these papers and the questions come from exactly this kind of policy news.

• Bihar Green Hydrogen Policy 2026. The state is targeting an annual green hydrogen capacity of 1 lakh tonnes within five years, with expected investment of about ₹16,000 crore and more than 12,000 direct and indirect jobs. For context, the National Green Hydrogen Mission targets at least 5 million metric tonnes a year nationally, roughly 125 GW of added renewable capacity, and a cut of nearly 50 MMT in annual greenhouse gas emissions. Exam tag: BPSC / BSSC / Bihar Police
• Patna High Court questioned the Sitamarhi land curbs. The court asked the Bihar government to respond on land sale restrictions imposed in Sitamarhi under the proposed Greenfield Satellite Township scheme, citing hardship to landowners and farmers. The scheme plans twelve greenfield satellite townships over 3 lakh acres across 11 locations, financed by ₹1 lakh crore of long-term HUDCO funding, using a land-pooling model. Phase I covers Patna, Sonepur, Gaya, Darbhanga, Purnea, Saharsa and Munger. Phase II covers Sitamarhi, Chapra, Muzaffarpur and Bhagalpur. Exam tag: BPSC / BSSC
• BPSC TRE 4.0 is live. Advertisement No. 14/2026 invites online applications for 32,388 school teacher posts under Bihar's Education Department. Some aggregator sites list 33,320 posts after a revision, so treat the higher figure as "(verify)" and go by the BPSC advertisement. Exam tag: BPSC / BTET / Teaching
• JSSC JTGLCCE has 611 posts. Notification No. 01/2026 covers 611 vacancies, including 145 Auditor posts and 228 Block Statistical Supervisor and allied posts. The Mains has three objective papers, with Paper 1 on language qualifying only. Paper 2 tests a tribal or regional language and Paper 3 covers the technical subject plus GK. The exam schedule is still awaited on jssc.jharkhand.gov.in. Exam tag: JSSC / JTET
• Ranchi hosted the second India-West Indies T20I. The JSCA Stadium match went to the visitors, who chased down 250. Venue-based questions on this series are fair game for JSSC and Bihar Police GK. Exam tag: JSSC / Bihar Police / All exams

A caveat worth stating plainly: the Jharkhand news flow in the last 24 hours was thin compared with Bihar's. The JSSC and T20I items are the solid ones. If you are preparing JSSC or JPSC, spend today's state-GS slot on the Jharkhand budget and tribal welfare schemes instead of chasing daily headlines.

Important Days

• 14 October is World Standards Day. It marks the importance of international standards in products, services and technology. Exam tag: All exams
• 13 October was the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. The United Nations fixed this date in 2009. Exam tag: SSC / Railway / All exams
• Coming up this week. 15 October is both World Students' Day, marking Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's birth anniversary, and the International Day of Rural Women. 16 October is World Food Day. National Postal Week runs 9 to 15 October. Exam tag: All exams

Quick Revision Tables

Appointments (Person - Post)

Important Days (Day - Observance)

Sports (Event - Winner or Result)

Index and Rankings (Index - India's Rank - Topper)

Today's 15 Objective Questions

Attempt all 15 before you check the answers. These run slightly harder than the real paper, which is the point.

Q1. Who was appointed Governor of Karnataka in the October 2026 reshuffle?
(A) Om Prakash Mathur   (B) Dr Sudha Yadav   (C) Braj Mohan Ram   (D) Dushyant Gautam
Answer: (B) Dr Sudha Yadav went to Karnataka, while Arlekar moved to Tamil Nadu.

Q2. Which Union Territory was declared 100% literate in October 2026?
(A) Puducherry   (B) Ladakh   (C) Lakshadweep   (D) Daman and Diu
Answer: (C) Lakshadweep reached full literacy.

Q3. The 50% ceiling on reservation that the Karnataka High Court relied on comes from which case?
(A) Kesavananda Bharati, 1973   (B) Indra Sawhney, 1992   (C) Champakam Dorairajan, 1951   (D) M. Nagaraj, 2006
Answer: (B) The Indra Sawhney judgment of 1992 set the 50% limit.

Q4. CPI retail inflation for September 2026 was reported at:
(A) 4.83%   (B) 5.54%   (C) 6.08%   (D) 7.74%
Answer: (B) It rose to 5.54% from 4.83% in August. The 6.08% figure is rural inflation and 7.74% is food inflation.

Q5. In its October 2026 World Economic Outlook, the IMF projected India's FY27 growth at:
(A) 6.4%   (B) 6.8%   (C) 7%   (D) 7.8%
Answer: (C) The IMF raised FY27 to 7%, a 0.6 percentage point upgrade. The 7.8% figure is actual FY26 growth.

Q6. After the 63rd MPC meeting, the RBI repo rate stands at:
(A) 5.25%   (B) 5.50%   (C) 5.75%   (D) 6.00%
Answer: (B) A 25 basis point hike took the repo rate to 5.50%. The SDF is 5.25% and the MSF and Bank Rate are 5.75%.

Q7. Monthly SIP contributions in September 2026 reached a record of about:
(A) ₹28,490 crore   (B) ₹32,297 crore   (C) ₹32,490 crore   (D) ₹38,306 crore
Answer: (C) SIP inflows hit ₹32,490 crore. The ₹32,297 crore figure was August and ₹38,306.55 crore was equity fund inflow.

Q8. India's rank in the Global Innovation Index 2026 is:
(A) 32nd   (B) 38th   (C) 39th   (D) 40th
Answer: (B) India placed 38th out of 139 economies, with Switzerland on top.

Q9. INS Mangrol, commissioned in October 2026, belongs to which class?
(A) Nilgiri class   (B) Mahe class   (C) Arnala class   (D) Kamorta class
Answer: (B) It is the third Mahe-class Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft, built by Cochin Shipyard Limited.

Q10. The 2026 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was shared by:
(A) Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson   (B) Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford   (C) Claudia Goldin and Paul Romer   (D) Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt
Answer: (B) Hall of Stanford and Woodford of Columbia won for the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.

Q11. The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay, who earlier served as:
(A) UN Secretary-General   (B) UN High Commissioner for Human Rights   (C) WHO Director-General   (D) UNHCR chief
Answer: (B) She is a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and an ad hoc ICJ judge since 2019.

Q12. Who are India's flag bearers for the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Para Games?
(A) Sumit Antil and Avani Lekhara   (B) Pramod Bhagat and Bhavina Patel   (C) Devendra Jhajharia and Deepa Malik   (D) Mariyappan Thangavelu and Simran Sharma
Answer: (B) Pramod Bhagat and Bhavina Patel will lead the contingent at the Games, held 18 to 24 October.

Q13. The Bihar Green Hydrogen Policy 2026 targets an annual capacity of:
(A) 50,000 tonnes   (B) 1 lakh tonnes   (C) 5 lakh tonnes   (D) 1 million tonnes
Answer: (B) Bihar aims at 1 lakh tonnes a year within five years, with about ₹16,000 crore of investment.

Q14. Under BPSC Advertisement No. 14/2026, how many school teacher posts were advertised?
(A) 21,391   (B) 26,110   (C) 32,388   (D) 45,000
Answer: (C) The advertisement covers 32,388 posts in Bihar's Education Department.

Q15. World Standards Day is observed every year on:
(A) 13 October   (B) 14 October   (C) 15 October   (D) 16 October
Answer: (B) 14 October is World Standards Day. 13 October is the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction and 16 October is World Food Day.

How to Use Today's Facts

Do not try to memorise all 20 items tonight. Pick the five that match your paper. A BPSC TRE 4.0 candidate should own the Bihar Green Hydrogen Policy numbers and the satellite township phases. An IBPS PO aspirant needs the repo rate, the CPI print and the SIP figure, and nothing else from this page is worth a second pass.

One caution on sourcing. The Governor list, the CPI number, the IMF projection and the INS Mangrol commissioning are all confirmed from official releases and major dailies. The BPSC post count appears as both 32,388 and 33,320 across sites, so check the advertisement PDF on bpsc.bihar.gov.in before you quote it anywhere. That habit of checking the primary document is worth more marks over a year than any daily digest, including this one.

Revise these 20 facts again on Sunday. Spaced repetition on a weekly cycle beats daily cramming, and current affairs is the one section where that gap between the two is widest.

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