Daily Current Affairs 6 October 2026

The 6 October 2026 edition leads with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for light-gated ion channels and optogenetics; the NSO’s first National Household Travel Survey, which finds that two-wheelers carry 42.6% of workers and that a worker spends Rs 785 a month on commuting; the India-Switzerland state visit, which produced a Migration and Mobility Partnership and a Young Professionals exchange of 300 a year; the 375 permissible works notified under VB-G RAM G, up from 266, with a first category for disaster preparedness; Project Cheetah reaching 60 after five cubs were born at Kuno to an Indian-born mother and a Botswanan father; and coal stocks at power plants, where 84 of 191 plants were critical even as Coal India’s supply to the power sector rose.

The roundup covers three High Court Chief Justices appointed to the Supreme Court, the Court’s call for 24-hour monitoring cells against sexual offences in Delhi, a plea on redrawing ward boundaries during the Census, the Dibrugarh-Dhaka methanol barge setting sail, CAQM flying squads in 34 districts against stubble burning, Exercise Mountain Guardian 2026 with the UAE, India’s four golds at the astronomy olympiad, Project VeerAI, the India-Japan Joint Crediting Mechanism manual and the death of director Singeetham Srinivasa Rao. Eight editorials, four from The Hindu and four from The Indian Express, take up the Great Indian Bustard breeding programme, the world jobs crisis, military populism in the United States, disabled citizens and AI, India’s role in the Russia-Ukraine peace effort, counting cancer, the cost of affidavits to the poor, and a Gujarat model of water governance, alongside a practice quiz.