Daily Current Affairs 30 October 2026

The 30 October 2026 edition opens with three deep dives. The first is digital arrest scams: hearing its suo motu case on 29 October, the Supreme Court called upon the RBI to make financial institutions indemnify victims where a bank’s failure of due diligence enables the fraud. The second is the Karnataka Validation Act, which the Supreme Court struck down on 29 October, holding that a legislature may remove the basis of a judgment but cannot annul a final judgment by law. The third is the National Social Security Board for unorganised, gig and platform workers, notified under the Code on Social Security, 2020.

The roundup covers the 24th instalment of PM-KISAN, the Supreme Court on disclosure of the beneficial owners of AIFs and FPIs and on firecrackers in Delhi-NCR, Rajnath Singh at the 13th ADMM-Plus in Cebu, the aftermath of Cyclone Arnab in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, the ECI’s revised SIR timelines in Delhi and five States, the next Vice Chief of the Air Staff and India’s green hydrogen offtake commitments, with four Cabinet decisions of 28 October, the India-Mexico PTA talks, the Narmada dues settlement and NPPA’s revised prices for 543 anti-cancer brands. Four editorials complete the edition: from The Hindu, the paper’s editorials on the SIR and deleted voters asked to re-apply on Form 6 and on the challenge to the DPDP Act, journalism and the RTI amendment; from The Indian Express, Y K Gupta on whether the trade margin cap will cut cancer patients’ bills, and the paper’s editorial with Anushka Saxena’s column on the CPC’s fifth plenum, purges and Xi Jinping’s power. A UPSC-pattern quiz closes the day.