1. 🏛️ RBI Announces ₹17,000 Crore State Government Securities (SGS) Auction Results
📌 Key Highlights:
🏛️ Regulator: Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
💎 Financial Instrument: State Government Securities (SGS)
💎 Purpose: State-level fundraising for development & infrastructure
📌 Highest Mobilisation: Maharashtra & Rajasthan (₹5,000 crore each)
📌 Lowest Yield: Tamil Nadu (6.99%)
📌 Tenor Range: 7–26 years A total of 780 competitive bids worth ₹69,599.48 crore were received.
💰 State-wise Snapshot
🌾 Chhattisgarh: ₹2,000 crore (15-year & 11-year securities)
💰🌾 Maharashtra: ₹5,000 crore (4 issuances, yields 7.13% – 7.29%)
🌵💰 Rajasthan: ₹5,000 crore (3 issuances, yields 7.19% – 7.36%)
🌴💰 Tamil Nadu: ₹4,000 crore (lowest yield 6.99%)
💠 Uttar Pradesh: ₹2,000 crore (10-year at 7.15%)
2. 🌾 Kapas Kranti Mission Launched to Boost Cotton Farming
📌 Key Highlights:
💰 The central government has launched the ₹600 crore ”Kapas Kranti Mission“ to improve cotton production.
🌱 The mission promotes High-Density Plantation (HDP) methods to increase cotton yield.
🌾 HDP success from Maharashtra will be replicated in Telangana.
📱 A new app, “Kapas Kisan App“, will bring transparency in cotton procurement.
🏢 CCI (Cotton Corporation of India): Under Ministry of Textiles
🌿 HDP Method: Plants grown closer together for higher productivity
3. 🏙️ Mumbai Metropolitan Region to Become a Leading Global Urban Economy
📌 Key Highlights:
📍 Region: Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Raigad
📏 Area: 6,328 sq. km
🏢 Authority: Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA)
👤 Key Officer: Shankar Deshpande, Chief Town & Country Planning Officer
📈 Population Growth: 2.58 crore (2023) → ~2.9 crore (2030) → 3.6–3.8 crore (2047)
🏙️ Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) aims to emerge as one of the world’s top urban economies by 2047.
💎 MMR projected to rival Tokyo, London, and Singapore in economic stature.
4. 🌴 Bamboo Project for Kolam Tribe under Green India Challenge (Telangana)
📌 Key Highlights:
🌴 A pilot Bamboo Plantation Project was launched in Adilabad, Telangana.
🌱 The project is part of the Green India Challenge (GIC) initiative.
🏹 It focuses on reviving the Kolam tribe, a PVTG (Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group).
✅ Supports UN SDGs – Goal 1 (No Poverty), Goal 13 (Climate Action), Goal 15 (Life on Land).
📍 State: Telangana (Adilabad District)
🌳 Initiative: Green India Challenge (GIC)
🏹 Tribe: Kolam (PVTG)
✍️ Language: Kolami (Dravidian, no script)
❓ Sample MCQ
💎 Q. The Bamboo Plantation Project for the Kolam tribe was launched under which initiative?
5. ⚓ Indian Navy Commanders’ Conference 2025 Begins Amid Strategic Challenges
📌 Key Highlights:
🇮🇳 Force: Indian Navy
👨✈️ Chief of Naval Staff (CNS): Admiral Dinesh K. Tripathi
🌊 Initiative Highlighted: MAHASAGAR (Mutual and Holistic Advancement for Security Across all Regions)
📌 Conference Theme: Maritime security, readiness & cooperation
📅 Conference Dates: October 22–24, 2025
6. 🌍 Tuvalu joins IUCN as 90th State Member
📌 Key Highlights:
🌿 Tuvalu has officially become the 90th State Member of the IUCN.
🏛️ The Ministry of Environment will act as the liaison with the IUCN Secretariat.
🌊 Tuvalu faces climate change, sea-level rise, and coastal erosion.
🇹🇻 Country: Tuvalu
📌 IUCN Headquarters: Gland, Switzerland
📅 IUCN Founded: 1948
7. 💰¥ RBI Sells $7.7 Billion in August to Stabilise Rupee
📌 Key Highlights:
🏛️ Institution: Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
💰¥ Action: Sold $7.7 billion in August 2025 to manage exchange rate volatility.
⚖️ Rupee Depreciation: 1.6% in August
❓ Sample MCQ
💎 Q. How much did the RBI sell in August 2025 to stabilise the rupee?
8. 🏥 ICICI Bank Funds New Cancer Care Facility at Tata Memorial Centre (Navi Mumbai)
📌 Key Highlights:
🏦 Bank: ICICI Bank
🏛️ Partner Institution: Tata Memorial Centre (TMC)
🌎 Location: Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra
💰 CSR Funding (This Project): ₹625 crore
💰 Total CSR Commitment: ₹1,800 crore
🎗️ Facility Name: ICICI Foundation Block for Radiation Oncology
📌 Buildings will be set up in Navi Mumbai (Maharashtra), Mullanpur (Punjab) and Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh).
9. 🇮🇳 India Upgrades Kabul Technical Mission to Full Embassy in Afghanistan
📌 Key Highlights:
🌎 Country: Afghanistan
🌃 Capital: Kabul
👤 EAM of India: Dr. S. Jaishankar
🏛️ Ministry: MEA – Ministry of External Affairs
🇦🇫 Foreign Minister of Afghanistan: Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi
🇮🇳 India has upgraded its Technical Mission in Kabul to a full Embassy.
10. 🍚 New Delhi to Host Bharat International Rice Conference (BIRC) 2025
📌 Key Highlights:
📌 Venue: Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi
📅 Dates: October 30, 2025 (2-day event)
🏢 Organizer: IREF (Indian Rice Exporters’ Federation)
🌾 Partner Agency: APEDA (Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority)
💼 Main Sponsor: Kribhco (Krishak Bharati Cooperative Ltd.) along with NCEL, NOCL, and BBSSL.
