Daily Current Affairs 13 October 2026

The 13 October 2026 edition leads with the Karnataka High Court’s ruling of 12 October, which struck down the provisions of a 2022 Act that raised reservation for Scheduled Castes to 17% and Scheduled Tribes to 7% and took total reservation to 56%, past the 50% ceiling of Indra Sawhney: Section 3 (education) falls only insofar as it crosses 50%, and Section 4 (State services) falls in full; retail inflation on the new CPI (base 2024=100), which rose to 5.54% (provisional) in September from 4.83% in August, with food inflation at 7.74%; and the 2026 Economics Nobel to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation”.

The roundup covers the appointment of Governors for six States, the commissioning of INS Mangrol (P82), a Health Ministry advisory on displaying hospital rates, Lakshadweep declared 100 per cent literate under ULLAS, Copernicus data showing September 2026 as the second-warmest September on record, the IMD’s cyclone Decision Support System, the first BIMSTEC Home Ministers’ Meeting, scheduled for 13 October, the 16th India-UK JETCO, the new IBCA headquarters, five years of PM GatiShakti, the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction and the first anniversary of the Pulses Mission, and, as reported by The Hindu, the denotification of Jantar Mantar as a protest venue and Supreme Court hearings on medicine prices, the Cauvery dispute and Form 6. Editorials from The Hindu and The Indian Express take up development and hydropower in a warming Himalaya, drought in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh and the release of relief, Article 348 and the language of the higher courts, the minuscule presence of marginalised sections in the top civil-service posts, the spread of unapproved GM cotton seeds, India’s priorities in research funding, the risks of the Kishau dam for the Dehradun Valley, public Wi-Fi under PM-WANI and ethics in public office, alongside a practice quiz.