1. 🛠️ DoCA Launches Logo Contest for ‘Right to Repair’ Repairability Index
📌 Key Highlights:
🏛️ Organizer: Department of Consumer Affairs (DoCA), via National Law University Delhi
🎯 Objective: Create a logo for Repairability Index to empower consumers and reduce e-waste
♻️ 📈 Repairability Index Covers:
Automobiles 🚗
Electronics & Mobile Devices 📱 💻
Consumer Durables 🧯
Farming Equipment
🚜 🌱 Logo Significance:
Represents Right to Repair, LiFE Movement, and R3 philosophy (Reduce, Repair, Reuse, Recycle)
2. 🇮🇳 💛 🇮🇪 Manish Gupta Appointed as India’s Next Ambassador to Ireland
📌 Key Highlights:
👨🦱 Manish Gupta, currently High Commissioner to Ghana, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Ireland.
🏛️ Appointment announced by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)
💛 Formal diplomatic relations established in 1947; Embassies opened in 1951 (Dublin) and 1964 (New Delhi).
🟦 Static CA:
🇮🇪 Capital of Ireland: Dublin
🇮🇪 President of Ireland: Michael D. Higgins
🔸 🇮🇳 MEA of India: Dr. S. Jaishankar
3. 🏛️ SMBC Launches Global Offshoring Hub in Chennai
📌 Key Highlights:
🇯🇵 Bank: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), Japan
📍 Location: Porur, Chennai, India
🏢 New Centre Name: SMBC Global Services Private Limited
🗓️ Operations Start: Expected by end of October 2025
📌 Type of Investment: First Global Capability Centre (GCC) in India by SMBC
❓ Sample MCQ:
Q. Where is SMBC opening its first Global Capability Centre in India?
4. 🎓 💛 Mangalore University Signs MoU with Malabar Cancer Centre
📌 Key Highlights:
📝 MoU signed between Mangalore University and Malabar Cancer Centre (PG Institute of Oncology Sciences & Research), Thalassery.
🎯 Aim: To enhance education, training, and collaborative cancer research.
✅ AERB-recognised institute for Medical Physics internship training.
❓ Sample MCQ:
Q. The recent MoU signed by Mangalore University aims to primarily collaborate in which sector?
5. 🇫🇮 Finland to Host EU Eastern Flank Summit in December
📌 Key Highlights:
📅 Summit on December 16 in Helsinki, Finland.
💛 Meeting of EU’s eastern flank nations, including Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
🟦 Static CA:
🌍 Finland Capital: Helsinki
🏛️ EU Headquarters: Brussels, Belgium
🛡️ NATO Headquarters: Brussels, Belgium
6. 🌍 World Bank Sanctions $280 Million for Kerala’s Elderly Healthcare
📌 Key Highlights:
💰 World Bank approved $280 million to support Kerala’s health system.
👵 👴 Programme aims to improve healthcare for 1.1 crore elderly and vulnerable people.
🚑 Programme will also enhance trauma and emergency care for 8.5 million people.
🏛️ The loan is approved by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), part of the World Bank Group.
📌 Loan tenure: 25 years maturity with 5-year grace period.
🌍 Headquarters of World Bank: Washington, D.C., USA.
7. 🌿 🌍 Kerala Ayurvedic Medical Tourism Shines in 2024
📌 Key Highlights:
💰 Kerala earned ₹13,500 crore in 2024 from Ayurvedic Medical Value Tourism, up from ₹10,800 crore in 2023.
✈️ 60-70% of foreign tourists to Kerala choose Ayurveda or wellness treatments.
👥 7.4 lakh foreign tourists visited Kerala in 2024 (up from 6.49 lakh in 2023).
🏛️ Global Ayurveda Summit & Expo + Kerala Health Tourism Conference to be held on Oct 30-31 in Kochi (Angamaly), organised by CII.
🏛️ AYUSH Ministry HQ: New Delhi
❓ Sample MCQ:
Q. Kerala earned how much through Ayurvedic Medical Value Tourism in 2024?
8. 🛡️ Southern Command Prepares for Tri-Services Exercise ‘Ex Trishul’
📌 Key Highlights:
🇮🇳 Tri-Services Exercise: Indian Army, Navy, and Air Force participating together
🏹 Objective: Demonstrate Jointness, Atmanirbharta (self-reliance), and Innovation (JAI vision)
🟦 Static CA:
🏢 Southern Command Headquarters: Pune, Maharashtra
🎯 Key Vision: PM Narendra Modi’s JAI – Jointness, Atmanirbharta, Innovation
⚓ Amphibious landings off Saurashtra coast
📡 Multi-domain drills: ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance), Electronic Warfare, Cyber operations
🎯 Key Vision: PM Narendra Modi’s JAI – Jointness, Atmanirbharta, Innovation
9. 🕊️ Obituary: Farewell to Piyush Pandey – The Magician of Indian Advertising
📌 Key Highlights:
😭 🧠 Piyush Pandey, legendary advertising icon, has passed away.
Known as the creative genius behind some of India’s most unforgettable ads.
📺 Created iconic campaigns for brands like Fevicol, Titan, Cadbury, and Asian Paints.
🟦 Static CA:
🏢 Piyush Pandey was the Former Chief Creative Officer (CCO) Worldwide and Chairman India – Ogilvy.
📌 Ogilvy is one of the world’s largest advertising agencies, founded by David Ogilvy.
10. 🚀 ISRO Plans Two LVM-3 Launches Before Year-End
📌 Key Highlights:
🛰️ Two satellites to be launched:
CMS-03 (GSAT-7R) – Indian communication satellite
BlueBird-6 – 6.5 tonne private US communications satellite
🗓️ CMS-03 launch expected: November 2, 2025
🗓️ BlueBird-6 launch: By year-end 2025
🛰️ NISAR satellite status: Launched July 30, 2025, in calibration stage, will be operational in 10-15 days
🧑🚀 Gaganyaan mission: India’s first human spaceflight
📢 Announcement made during Emerging Science, Technology, and Innovation Conclave 2025
🌍 NISAR Satellite Collaboration: NASA & ISRO
11. ⚓ HUDCO–JNPA ₹5,000 Crore Port Infra Collaboration
📌 Key Highlights:
💛 HUDCO and JNPA signed an initial MoU.
🚢 Collaboration aims to develop and finance port infrastructure projects.
💰 Total project value: ₹5,000 crore.
✍️ MoU signed by Sanjay Kulshrestha (HUDCO CMD) and Unmesh Sharad Wagh (JNPA Chairman).
🟦 Static CA:
🏛️ HUDCO HQ: New Delhi; Works in housing & urban infrastructure finance.
⚓ JNPA = Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority, located in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra.
📌 JN Port is India’s largest container port.
12. 🌪️ Montha Cyclone: AP on High Alert
📌 Key Highlights:
⛈️ Montha Cyclone is crossing the coast near Kakinada on Oct 28, 2025.
🌬️ IMD warns of strong winds (90–110 km/hr).
🚨 CM Chandrababu Naidu instructed officials to be on high alert.
📍 Cyclone to impact districts from Srikakulam to Tirupati.
🟦 Static CA:
🎯 IMD = India Meteorological Department, HQ: New Delhi.
📍 Kakinada is a coastal city in Andhra Pradesh.
❓ Sample MCQ:
Q. Montha Cyclone is expected to cross the coast near which city on October 28, 2025?
13. 🇮🇳 PM Modi Launches Pratibha Setu Portal
📌 Key Highlights:
🌐 PM Narendra Modi launched the Pratibha Setu Portal during the Rozgar Mela.
🎯 Aim: To connect unselected UPSC candidates with job opportunities in various institutions.
📧 PM congratulated 51,000 newly appointed youth who received appointment letters.
📈 Over 11 lakh appointment letters have been issued through Rozgar Melas so far.
💼 PM Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana aims to create 3.5 crore jobs.
❓ Sample MCQ:
Q. What is the primary purpose of the Pratibha Setu Portal launched by PM Modi?
