Daily Current Affairs 14 October 2026

The 14 October 2026 edition leads with the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs’ approval of 10955230 Canada Inc., whose parent is Fairfax Financial Holdings, as the strategic buyer of a 60.72% stake in IDBI Bank for Rs 52,878.08 crore, an approval and not yet a completed sale; the Union Cabinet’s continuation of the National Social Assistance Programme to 2030-31 with an outlay of Rs 53,428 crore, renamed the Pradhan Mantri Samajik Sahayata Yojana, with the benchmark for the disability pension lowered from 80% to 40%; the Madras High Court’s ruling of 13 October upholding the Speaker’s acceptance of the resignations of six AIADMK MLAs, while directing the Speaker to decide the disqualification proceedings against four of them within two months; the first BIMSTEC Home Ministers’ Meeting in New Delhi, which adopted the Delhi Declaration and approved five instruments; and WPI inflation of 11.39% in September 2026, up from 9.92% in August, with Fuel and Power at 25.85%.

The roundup covers China’s objection to the Union Territory of Ladakh and India’s reply, the approval of India’s accession to the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA), the Multi-State Co-operative Societies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2026, a committee under Prof. Ramesh Chand on sugarcane farmers’ issues, the postponement of the merchant discount rate on UPI until after Deepavali, a Modi-Carney call on an India-Canada trade agreement, the web portal of the High-Level Committee on Demographic Changes, the maiden ASEAN-India Defence Think Tank Forum, World Standards Day and the Siang Valley protests. Editorials from The Hindu and The Indian Express take up overtreatment and overmedication in Indian health care, green crackers and Delhi’s winter air, spiralling food prices, India-US ties and American unilateralism, legal aid for undertrials, a US-Russia thaw as “the other G2”, the work of peace in Manipur and where CSR money goes, with an explainer on preventive detention under Article 22.