Daily Current Affairs 7 October 2026

The 7 October 2026 edition leads with the Cabinet’s approval of the Integrated Transport and Logistics Authority (ITLA), which will prepare a National Transport Master Plan, appraise transport projects of Rs 500 crore or more and build a National Transport Data Repository; the Rs 10,000 crore SME Growth Fund, an AIF that will make direct equity investments in small and medium firms, mostly in manufacturing; the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics to Francis Halzen for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole; the launch of FSS-1 ‘Surya’, the Navy’s first indigenous Fleet Support Ship, alongside a Rs 661.50 crore BrahMos fire-control deal and HAL Koraput’s 2,000th aero-engine; and the completion of Census 2027 population enumeration in the snow-bound areas of J&K and Ladakh, with Ladakh the first Union Territory to finish.

The roundup covers the Supreme Court closing the 2003 legislative-privilege reference without deciding it, Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit as the next Chief of the Air Staff, India’s call at Pre-COP31 for equal weight to adaptation, mitigation and finance, the World Bank’s 7.1% forecast for India, MoSPI’s plan to widen the Index of Services Production, CAQM’s PTZ camera order for NCR industry, new NCAHP regulations, DRDO’s stratospheric airship and high-altitude parachute trials, an attack on a tanker with Indian crew in the Strait of Hormuz, India’s interest in the 2036 Olympics and Kenya’s first Ebola case. Nine editorials, four from The Hindu and five from The Indian Express, take up leprosy, the China-U.S. rapprochement, charges on UPI, Indian research, West Asia three years after 7 October, the Election Commission, digital systems and the right to vote, the Iran war and U.S. midterms, and the death penalty, alongside a practice quiz.