Daily Current Affairs 25 October 2026

The 25 October 2026 edition opens with two deep dives. The first is AATAL, the Integrated Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosol Toxicity Analysis Laboratory at IITM’s Delhi branch, which Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, inaugurated on 24 October 2026 to show what Delhi-NCR’s polluted air consists of and where it comes from. The second marks 75 years since polling for India’s first general election began in Himachal Pradesh on 25 October 1951.

The roundup covers NITI Aayog Member Rajiv Gauba’s call for directly elected mayors at the National Urban Conclave, a Bay of Bengal depression that IMD forecasts will become a very severe cyclonic storm, the Cauvery committee’s direction to Karnataka, DRDO’s Air Independent Propulsion module, 11 crore Farmer IDs, a CERT-In audit sought for the VAHAN and SARATHI portals, the 139th Mann Ki Baat, a manufacturing city at Gaya and Ladakh’s local polls. Four Sunday explainers complete the edition: from The Hindu, on Starshield, Starlink in Ukraine and the power of a private company in war, and on the SBI data breach and the DPDP law; from The Indian Express, Anupreet Singh Tiwana’s column on Punjab’s farm fires; and from The New Indian Express, on India’s refining capacity and Venezuelan crude. A UPSC-pattern quiz closes the day.