Daily Current Affairs 8 October 2026

The 8 October 2026 edition leads with the Reserve Bank of India’s first rate increase since February 2023: the Monetary Policy Committee raised the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.50 per cent and moved its stance to “calibrated tightening”, with a 4-2 split on the stance, as inflation is projected at 5.2 per cent for 2026-27; the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for discovering non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric synthesis, the chemistry behind the old puzzle of why life uses molecules of only one handedness; and the release of two cheetahs in Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh’s third cheetah site after Kuno and Gandhi Sagar.

The roundup covers the Supreme Court agreeing to examine a plea to recall the split verdict on the Election Commissioners Act, 2023, the 57th GST Council meeting, a revised SOP opening defence test ranges to industry, mandatory reporting of Scheduled Caste beneficiaries under credit schemes, Karnataka’s plea of changed circumstances in the Cauvery dispute, a Supreme Court notice on accessible air travel, Andhra Pradesh’s foreign-campus policy, MoSPI’s environmental accounts strategy, UCIL’s plan to double uranium output, Odisha’s SEBC political-backwardness panel, Karnataka’s weak monsoon and Sagarmanthan 2026. Eight editorials, six from The Hindu and two from The Indian Express, take up the Global Pandemic Agreement, India’s wildlife recoveries, big science and the Nobel, Brazil’s election, AI companions and child safety, property tax reform, the RBI’s inflation focus and why young teachers quit, alongside a practice quiz.