Daily Current Affairs 24 October 2026

The 24 October 2026 edition opens with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s meeting with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev in Baku on 23 October 2026, which The Hindu reports is the first bilateral visit by an Indian External Affairs Minister in eight years, and what the talks mean for the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), energy and trade.

The roundup covers India’s statement on UN Security Council reform in the General Assembly ahead of UN Day, a Bay of Bengal low-pressure system that is likely to become Cyclone Arnab, the Oskar Klein Medal 2026 for physicist Ashoke Sen, India’s best-ever showing at the Asian Para Games in Nagoya, World Polio Day and the ITBP Raising Day, along with a parallel power distribution licence in Haryana, draft driving-licence rules, GST process reforms, the NVS-03 navigation satellite and a new Bhupen Hazarika National Award. Editorial analyses complete the edition: from The Hindu, its editorial “Falling short” on Marco Rubio’s second visit to India; from The Indian Express, its editorials on inflation’s second-round effects and on why Bihar needs to talk about prohibition and addiction. A UPSC-pattern quiz closes the day.