DAILY GK 10-11 OCT 2026
1.
FIRST PRESIDENT OF INDIAN UNISPORT
FEDERATION
·
Prof. Achyuta Samanta, Founder of the
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) and Kalinga Institute of
Social Sciences (KISS), was elected as the first President of the Indian UniSport Federation (IUSF)
at its first Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in New Delhi
·
IUSF Established in
2026 with the approval of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS)
to provide a common platform for
universities across India.
2.
GOVERNORS TO SIX STATES
·
Governor
of Tamil Nadu (TN) -
Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar
·
Governor of Keralam - Om Prakash Mathur
·
Governor of Odisha - Braj
Mohan Ram
·
Governor of Karnataka - Sudha
Yadav
·
Governor of Uttarakhand - Dhal
Singh Bisen
·
Governor of Sikkim - Dushyant
Gautam
3.
PM DHAN-DHAANYA KRISHI YOJANA COMPLETES
ONE YEAR
·
The Pradhan
Mantri Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana (PMDDKY), launched by the Prime
Minister Narendra Modi to improve the overall agricultural and allied sector productivity in specific regions,
completed its first full year of implementation.
·
Under PMDDKY, three districts of Gujarat – kutch, Dahod, Chhota Udepur have received awards for excellence as the scheme celebrates its first
year of implementation.
·
The primary objective of PMDDKY is to
transform agriculture and allied activities in 100 lagging “Aspirational
Agricultural Districts” through a data-driven, convergence-based model.
4.
INDIA MOBILE CONGRESS
·
The 10th edition of the India Mobile Congress (IMC), Asia’s largest
digital technology forum, was held in New Delhi
·
The 4-day long event, held under the theme “Scale Without
Boundaries”.
·
The 4-day long event was organised by the Department
of Telecommunications (DoT) and the Cellular
Operators Association of India (COAI).
·
The conference was structured around 4 key pillars: Srishti (Building
the Future); Samvardhan (Fueling Growth); Sashakt (Expanding Opportunities);
and Suraksha (Strengthening Trust).
·
The IMC 2026 announced the launch of the 1st
edition of “Viksit Tech 47 (VT47)”,
a special platform designed to identify, recognise and build India’s most
promising technology brands, leaders and enablers to compete in global markets.
5.
PM GATISHAKTI NATIONAL MASTER PLAN
COMPLETES 5 YEARS
·
The Prime Minister GatiShakti National Master
Plan (PM GatiShakti NMP) completed five years, marking
significant progress in integrated infrastructure planning and development in
the country.
·
The initiative was launched by Prime Minister
(PM) Narendra Modi on 13 October 2021 in New Delhi, to promote coordinated infrastructure planning and seamless connectivity
across various sectors.
·
The PMGS-NMP is a GIS (Geographic
Information System)-based platform that integrates infrastructure data from
Ministries, States and Union Territories (UTs) to enable coordinated planning
and efficient project implementation.
·
The PM PMGS-NMP is established and coordinated by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI), specifically through the
Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) acting as the nodal agency.
6.
INDIA HOSTED 1ST BIMSTEC HOME
MINISTERS’ MEETING
·
India under the
chairmanship of Union Minister Amit Shah, Ministry of Home Affairs
(MHA), hosted the 1st-ever Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral
Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Home Ministers’ Meeting (HMM)
in New Delhi.
·
the Union Home Minister Amit Shah outlined 5 priority areas that include drug
control, counter-terrorism and legal cooperation, repatriation of fugitive
criminals, cyber-security, and cybercrime investigations, and institutional
cooperation and capacity building.
·
Approval of 5 Regional Security
Initiatives:BIMSTEC Convention
against Trafficking in Persons; BIMSTEC Plan of Action on Drug Control; Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Capacity Building to combat Money
Laundering (ML) and Terror Financing
(TF); Action Plan to curb illicit
financial flows; and Action Plan to enhance preparedness and coordination for addressing natural disasters in
the BoB region.
7.
INDIA’S FIRST 100% LITERATE UT
·
Lakshadweep was
declared a 100% literate Union Territory (UT) under ULLAS
(Understanding of Lifelong Learning for All in Society) – Nav Bharat
Saaksharta Karyakram after all eligible identified learners successfully
cleared the Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Assessment Test (FLNAT).
·
New
India Literacy Programme (NILP), also known as ULLAS, is
a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) for adults aged 15 years and above who
missed formal schooling.
·
It is aligned with the National
Education Policy (NEP) 2020
and is being implemented from Financial Year 2022–23(FY23) to FY27.
·
In May 2025, Mizoram was
officially declared India’s first fully literate state under the ULLAS
scheme.
8.
NEW GST STANDING COMMITTEE
·
The Government of India (GoI)
announced that Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh (UP),
Gujarat and Tamil Nadu (TN) would become permanent members
of a new Standing Committee under the Goods and Services Tax (GST)
framework to strengthen tax administration and expand the taxpayer base.
·
The committee will comprise 12 states, five large, four medium
and three small, with five non-rotating members and seven positions rotating
every two years.
·
India has approximately 1.7 crore
registered GST taxpayers.
·
GST is an indirect, destination-based tax levied
on the supply of goods and services in
India, introduced on July 1, 2017, under
the 101st Constitutional Amendment Act,
2016.
9.
ICMR’S 1ST HIGH-ALTITUDE HEALTH RESEARCH
CENTRE IN KEYLONG
·
Union Minister Jagat Prakash (JP) Nadda,
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), laid the foundation stone of the
Indian Council of Medical Research
(ICMR)’s 1st High Altitude Medicine and Public Health Research Centre
at Keylong in Himachal Pradesh (HP).
·
The centre aims to promote research
on high-altitude health challenges and improve healthcare services for
people living in mountainous regions.
10.
WWF REPORT ON WILDLIFE
POPULATION
·
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF),
the world’s largest independent conservation organisation, in
partnership with the Zoological Society of London (ZSL)
released the “2026
Living Planet Report (LPR): The Science of Hope”.
·
The report showed that an average
of 73% of monitored wildlife populations (mammals, birds,
amphibians, reptiles, and fish) declined
over the last 50 years (between 1970 and 2022).
·
The 2026 LPR surveyed 35,803 population trends of 5,790 vertebrate species from
1970 to 2022.
·
As per the report, freshwater wildlife populations had witnessed the sharpest average decline i.e. at 85%; followed by
terrestrial populations (69%); marine populations (59%).
·
Habitat Loss and Degradation
emerged as the most frequently
reported threats for monitored wildlife populations; followed by overexploitation,
climate change, pollution, invasive species, and disease.
·
Latin America and the
Caribbean region reported the steepest declines in monitored wildlife populations (95%);
followed by Africa (80%) and Asia-Pacific (49%).
11.
EAS ENERGY MINISTERS’ MEETING IN
PHILIPPINES
·
Union Minister of State (MoS) Shripad
Yesso Naik, Ministry of Power (MoP) and Ministry of New and Renewable
Energy (MNRE), attended the 20th East
Asia Summit Energy Ministers’ Meeting (EAS EMM) in Manila,
Philippines.
·
As of 30 September 2026, India achieved its 50% capacity target in June 2025, five years ahead
of its 2030 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) target.