Daily Current Affairs 27 October 2026

The 27 October 2026 edition opens with two deep dives. The first is the dam protests in Arunachal Pradesh: violence during a 26 October shutdown in Upper Subansiri led to the cancellation of a hearing on the proposed Menga dam, The Hindu reports. The second is CBD COP-17 in Yerevan, where India on 27 October sought adequate and predictable finance from developed countries to implement the biodiversity framework.

The roundup covers the Joint Declaration of the 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum, the Supreme Court’s notice on the DNPA’s challenge to the DPDP Act, 2023, the ECI’s affidavit on how a CEC can be removed, IMD’s latest forecast for Cyclone Arnab, ESTIC 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, Exercise GARUDA SHAKTI with Indonesia, the NHRC’s advisory on women’s safety, the COP10 Bureau of the UNESCO anti-doping convention, Vigilance Awareness Week, the Supreme Court on compulsory rural service by doctors, the CCPA’s penalty on Britannia, the six-stanza Vande Mataram pleas, the Shiv Sena (UBT) merger plea, K.R. Narayanan’s birth anniversary and Infantry Day. Six editorials complete the edition: from The Hindu, Khyati Singh on the Kudankulam data leak and supply-chain risk, the paper’s editorial on the NMC’s withdrawal of the 2023 MSMER, and five authors on double fortified salt through the PDS against anaemia; from The Indian Express, an Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation on India’s red lines as the Maldives builds defence ties with Pakistan, Abhinav Chandrachud on slow courts and the criminalising of civil disputes, and Somit Dasgupta on solar surplus by day, power deficits at night and storage. A UPSC-pattern quiz closes the day.