Daily Current Affairs 4 October 2026

The 4 October 2026 edition leads with Project GIB, as the first captive-bred Great Indian Bustards leave a soft-release facility in the Desert National Park after a decade of conservation breeding; NLEP data for 2025-26 showing 3,832 child leprosy cases, almost double the target, against the 2027 goal of interrupting transmission; five Centres of Excellence for the classical languages recognised in 2024, Assamese, Bengali, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit; the Centre’s admission to the Supreme Court that Assam’s final NRC of 2019 is still not notified, so no rejection slips exist; the reconstitution of the 24 Department-related Standing Committees; an ATREE study warning that river interlinking could become an ecological highway for invasive species; and the Hindu’s Sunday Explained on the J&K statehood resolution and the 2000 autonomy resolution.

The roundup covers Uttarakhand’s final roll after the SIR, the RBI Governor’s five priorities for financial stability, the Fifth Kautilya Economic Conclave, the 114-aircraft MRFA deal, the US Pacific Command chief’s visit, AIME-2026, a 5.56 km free-space quantum key distribution link, the 153rd IPU Assembly, the Hasina extradition question, 3D-printed PMAY-G houses, a tanker strike in the Strait of Hormuz and a deportation from Türkiye. Six editorials from The Indian Express take up the Seshan case and how the Election Commission decides, POCSO and the known offender, the West Asia war and America’s shrinking footprint, cockpit security after Flydubai FZ1073, the mother tongue and the language of questions, and whether work from home cages women, alongside a practice quiz.