CLAT Express Current Affairs - October 2026

Comprehensive fill-in-the-blank practice flashcards covering the key current affairs, legal topics, and general knowledge from the October 2026 edition of CLAT Express.

The White House Accord on Superintelligence signed with $6$ major technology companies is officially subtitled 'Joint Commitment on __________ Responsibilities'.

Frontier

The $6$ major technology companies that signed the White House Accord on Superintelligence are Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and __________.

Nvidia

Alongside the Accord on Superintelligence, the US President signed Executive Order 14434, titled '__________'.

Inaugurating Era of Super Intelligence

The IndiaAI Mission is backed by a budget of $\text{₹}10,372\text{ Crore}$ and achieved an initial base of $38,000$ GPUs, with plans to expand by adding __________ new GPUs.

$$20,000$$

The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), officially proposed by France and Canada in 2020, has its Secretariat based in Paris at the __________.

OECD

The first AI Safety Summit hosted by the United Kingdom adopted the __________ Declaration to address AI's promises and risks.

Bletchley

In October 2026, the RBI Monetary Policy Committee raised the policy Repo Rate by $25\text{ basis points}$ to __________.

$$5.50\%$$

Following the October 2026 rate hike, the RBI MPC shifted its monetary policy stance from Neutral to __________.

Calibrated Tightening

Following the October 2026 policy rate revision, the RBI set the Standing Deposit Facility (SDF) rate at $5.25\%$ and both the Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) and Bank Rate at __________.

$$5.75\%$$

In Indian central banking history, the longest-serving RBI Governor was __________.

Sir Benegal Rama Rau

India formalized its Flexible Inflation Targeting framework of $4\% \pm 2\%$ based on the recommendations of the 2014 __________ Committee.

Urjit Patel

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is a statutory body constituted under Section __________ of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934.

45ZB

The conceptual framework of the Reserve Bank of India was inspired by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's book titled '__________'.

The Problem of the Rupee - Its Origin and Its Solution

The October 2026 Nepal floods were triggered when an ice-rock avalanche caused a sudden surge in the __________ River near the Nepal–Tibet border.

Bhotekoshi

The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage allocated assistance of __________ to Nepal, marking its first-ever grant to a specific country for a particular disaster.

$$\text{US}\$21.6\text{ Million}$$

The highest mountain peak in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region outside the Himalayas–Karakoram range is __________.

Tirich Mir

In Nepal, the Trishuli River joins the Kali Gandaki at Devghat to form the Narayani River, which subsequently flows into India as the __________ River.

Gandak

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel for pioneering the field of __________.

Optogenetics

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Francis Halzen for his work on cosmic high-energy neutrinos using the __________ Observatory in Antarctica.

IceCube Neutrino

The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and international jurist __________.

Navanethem "Navi" Pillay

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Canadian classical scholar and writer __________.

Anne Carson

The 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences was conferred on Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford for their research on the microeconomic foundations of __________.

Macroeconomic Stabilisation

In 1913, __________ became the first Asian and Indian laureate to be awarded the Nobel Prize, receiving the honor in Literature.

Rabindranath Tagore

The $20^{\text{th}}$ Asian Games in 2026 were hosted in Japan across Aichi Prefecture and the city of __________.

Nagoya

The official mascot of the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi–Nagoya, inspired by a rising flame and Kabuki Kumadori makeup, was named __________.

HONOHON

India concluded the 2026 Asian Games in $4^{\text{th}}$ place on the medal tally with a total of $85$ medals, including __________ gold medals.

$$21$$

India's flag-bearers during the Opening Ceremony of the 2026 Asian Games were shooter Manu Bhaker and kabaddi player __________.

Pawan Sehrawat

At the 2026 Asian Games, Indian athlete Vithya Ramraj broke PT Usha's 1984 national record in the Women's $400\text{m}$ Hurdles with a time of __________.

$$54.75\text{ Seconds}$$

The Union Cabinet approved the continuation of the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) through 2030–31 with an overall financial outlay of __________.

$$\text{₹}53,428\text{ Crore}$$

Under the PM-SETU scheme for upgrading vocational training infrastructure, modernizations will cover $200$ Hub ITIs and __________ Spoke ITIs.

$$800$$

Under the ULLAS programme, a State or Union Territory is officially recognized as Fully Literate once it achieves a literacy rate of at least __________ among people aged $15$ and above.

$$95\%$$

At the $57^{\text{th}}$ GST Council meeting, the council recommended raising the monetary threshold for launching prosecution under GST from $\text{₹}1\text{ Crore}$ to __________.

$$\text{₹}5\text{ Crore}$$

The Index of Core Industries updated its base year to __________ and expanded its coverage from $8$ to $9$ core industries by adding Iron Ore.

2022–23

Pneumonic plague, the most severe form of plague that transmits directly between humans, is caused by the bacterium __________.

Yersinia Pestis

In the $19^{\text{th}}$ edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2026 published by WIPO, Switzerland ranked 1st while India achieved the __________ rank.

$$38^{\text{th}}$$

Adopted in 2015 to succeed the Hyogo Framework, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction outlines $4$ priorities and $7$ targets to achieve by __________.

2030

The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol aims to limit global warming by phasing down the consumption and production of __________.

Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)

According to UNEP's $17^{\text{th}}$ Emissions Gap Report, India's per capita greenhouse gas emissions stood at approximately $3.1\text{ tonnes}$, compared to a global average of __________.

$$6.4\text{ Tonnes}$$

In August 1947, the ceremonial Sengol presented to Jawaharlal Nehru was commissioned by the Tamil Shaivite matha known as the __________ Adheenam.

Thiruvavaduthurai

NASA selected Indian-origin astronomer Dr. Ramya Anche as Principal Investigator for its 2030 ultraviolet SmallSat mission named __________.

PUFFINS