NEW DELHI 24 OCTOBER 2026* *TODAYS TOP NEWS* From Upaajtak 

NEW DELHI 24 OCTOBER 2026* *TODAYS TOP NEWS* From Upaajtak 

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*24 Oct (Saturday)*
*Vedic Ritu/* Sharad
*Drik Ritu* : Hemant (Prewinter)
पक्ष :: *Shuklapaksh*
*Samvatsara* : Parabhava Nama
(Purnimanta)
*Vikram Samvat – 2083*
*Month* : Ashvina 28

(In Amanta calendar)
*Shaka Samvat – 1948*
*Month* : Ashvina 13
*Tithi* : Trayodashi (up to 1:36 pm)Chaturdashi
*Nakshatra*: Uttara Bhadrapada/Revati
*Rahu* : 09:16 AM – 10:41 AM
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*TODAYS TOP NEWS*
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1. Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched an upgraded NMMS app, developed with IIT Madras support, with liveness detection, refined AI-based face verification and offline attendance for the VB-G RAM G rural jobs scheme. He said nearly 46 crore person-days have been generated for over 3.65 crore workers, the Centre has allocated ₹95,692 crore for 2026-27, and 10.997 crore Farmer IDs have been created.

2. Under a first-of-its-kind Home Ministry pilot, the Indian Army will train 600 Civil Defence Master Trainers — 50 each from 12 States and UTs, including J&K, Punjab, Delhi, Assam, Kerala and Tamil Nadu — by the second week of November. Each Master Trainer will then train 100 Civil Defence volunteers; the training covers threat awareness, protection and emergency response, and communication and coordination.

3. Under the Integrated Programme for Senior Citizens of the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana (AVYAY), 764 Senior Citizen Homes, 13 Continuous Care Homes, 17 Mobile Medicare Units and 3 physiotherapy clinics are being supported, the Social Justice Ministry said. Each Regional Resource and Training Centre gets ₹19.58 lakh a year to strengthen outreach, capacity building and service delivery.

4. Fisheries Secretary Dr Abhilaksh Likhi launched the development phase of India’s National Plan of Action for small-scale inland fisheries in Bhopal, prepared under the FAO framework with the Bay of Bengal Programme Inter-Governmental Organisation. He said India has set a target of 30 million tonnes of fish production in the next five years.

5. Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal opened the corporate office of Sagarmala Finance Corporation Ltd (SMFCL), India’s first maritime NBFC, in New Delhi. As on 30 September it had sanctioned ₹11,563 crore and disbursed ₹5,107 crore, and aims for ₹60,205 crore of disbursements by FY2031; the Maritime Development Fund is moving towards a first close of ₹5,000 crore.

6. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and MP Chief Minister Mohan Yadav will today inaugurate the Satna–Devendra Nagar (53 km) and Rewa–Churhat (65 km) rail sections and flag off the Devendra Nagar–Churhat train. Sidhi district will be connected to the rail network for the first time since Independence.

7. Inaugurating the Chinmaya Amrit Mahotsav Global Sammelan at Bharat Mandapam, PM Narendra Modi said India has brought back more than 650 stolen ancient idols and antiquities from abroad in the past 12 years. The Sammelan marks the culmination of year-long celebrations of 75 years of the Chinmaya Mission, founded by Swami Chinmayananda in 1951.

8. At the Bastar Dussehra festival in Jagdalpur, President Smt Droupadi Murmu said Chhattisgarh has been freed from Naxalism through the combined efforts of the Central and State governments. Attending the Muria Darbar, held as part of the 75-day-long Bastar Dussehra, she called the tribal tradition an outstanding example of democracy at the grassroots.

9. PM Shri Narendra Modi will visit Odisha on 25 October to inaugurate the Reserve Bank of India’s ₹169-crore data centre at Info Valley-II in Jatni, on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar. It will be the RBI’s second such facility after Navi Mumbai.

10. The Road Transport Ministry has proposed draft amendments to the Central Motor Vehicles Rules under which driving licences will be laminated or PVC cards with separate formats for Indian and foreign nationals, carrying the holder’s blood group, mobile number and emergency contact numbers. The qualifying score for the safe-driving tutorial assessment would rise from 60% to 75%, and fees for changing personal details such as name and address would be scrapped, with such requests to be decided within 15 days.

11. The National Statistics Office has proposed changes to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2027, including a separate sampling stratum for digital platform workers and new questions on unpaid household and caregiving work, volunteer work and unpaid trainee work. Comments are invited within 15 days.

12. The Department of Pharmaceuticals has set up a committee chaired by NITI Aayog Member Dr M. Srinivas, with former Health Secretary Preeti Sudan and Medanta CMD Dr Naresh Trehan, to review the Uniform Code for Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices (UCPMP) and curb unethical marketing. It will report within two months of its first meeting.

13. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) flagged 330 drug samples as ‘not of standard quality’ in September — 42 identified by Central Drugs Laboratories and 288 by State laboratories. It said the finding is limited to the batches tested and does not raise concerns about other drugs in the market.

14. IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said India will have an Indian-designed, Indian-manufactured and Indian-branded mobile phone by 23 October 2028. He also said India now makes tunnel-boring machines of 8 m and 15 m diameter and is preparing to build machines above 16 m.

15. Ladakh’s Chief Electoral Officer Rahul Sharma announced elections to the municipal committees of Leh (21 wards) and Kargil (17 wards) on 21 November. The notification will be issued on 29 October and nominations close on 5 November.

16. The Home Ministry has extended, for the second time, the deployment of 273 CAPF companies in Delhi till 31 October, at the request of Delhi Police, over the possibility of ‘flash protests’. They include 125 CRPF companies (20 of them women’s units), 20 RAF, 46 BSF, 39 ITBP, 31 SSB and 12 CISF companies.

17. IMD said a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal is likely to become a depression today and intensify into a cyclonic storm, to be named ‘Arnab’ (a name contributed by Bangladesh), by 26 October morning, before moving towards the north Andhra Pradesh–south Odisha coasts around 28 October. The Amaravati Met Centre said it would be at least a severe cyclonic storm; red warnings for extremely heavy rain have been issued for parts of coastal Andhra Pradesh on 27 and 28 October, and fishermen have been asked to return to shore.

18. Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy warned of a severe water and power crisis for eight to ten months, until July–August, due to El Niño, with reservoir storage below 20% of capacity. He urged farmers to avoid rabi paddy and directed officials to restrict the use of air-conditioners and lights in government offices.

19. On International Snow Leopard Day, MoS for Environment Kirti Vardhan Singh said India’s first Snow Leopard Population Assessment found 718 snow leopards across the Indian Himalayas, 477 of them in Ladakh.

20. Nine of Tamil Nadu’s 12 recognised parties, including the ruling TVK and the DMK, walked out of a meeting on the Special Summary Revision of electoral rolls called by CEO Archana Patnaik, calling last year’s SIR ‘flawed’ and demanding the resignation of CEC Gyanesh Kumar. In Karnataka, the final SIR roll will be published on 27 October.
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*LEGAL REPORT*
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1. The Delhi High Court dismissed AISA president Neha Bora’s plea against a notice asking her to execute a ₹10,000 personal bond to keep the peace, issued under BNSS Sections 126 and 130 after her detention at Mandi House. Justice Subramonium Prasad said ‘adequate safeguards’ exist and directed the Special Executive Magistrate to give her all relevant material before passing any order.

2. In the firing at actor Tiger Shroff, a Mumbai court remanded Ankit Khatar, Sameer Khatri and Jatin Panchal, arrested from Sonepat, Haryana, in police custody till 28 October. Police said Khatar carried out reconnaissance, while Khatri and Panchal were in touch with wanted accused Anil Pandit and helped procure weapons.

3. A special CBI court in Mohali remanded Ashwani Kumar, his son Laddi Singh and Vipin Garg to five days’ police custody, and his wife Neelam Rani to four days, in the Parminder Jhota murder case. They were brought from Central Jail, Bathinda, under high security; the CBI recently took over the case from the Punjab government.

4. The CBI arrested Enforcement Directorate enforcement officer Deepak Kumar and head constable Manoj Dwivedi, both of the ED’s Lucknow Zonal Office, for allegedly demanding a ₹5 lakh bribe from a complainant. Dwivedi, on deputation from the CRPF, is not an ED cadre officer.

5. The ED arrested Rajan Singh Katodiah, partner of Sawan Jewellers in Chandigarh, in the ₹645 crore IDFC First Bank scam involving Haryana government funds. His firm allegedly received about ₹332 crore; the Special PMLA Court, Panchkula, granted the ED four days’ custody.

6. Kolkata Police arrested Sanjib Raha, treasurer of the Chorbagan Durga Puja committee, and Kushal Majumdar for allegedly announcing that part of the pandal was collapsing, which triggered the stampede that killed 19 people. Nine people have been arrested so far.

7. The Allahabad High Court ruled that a POCSO survivor cannot be denied compensation merely because the medical report records no physical injuries. A Bench of Justices Shekhar B. Saraf and Amitabh Kumar Rai ordered ₹3 lakh to be paid to the minor under the Rani Lakshmi Bai Mahila Samman Kosh within ten days.

The court set aside the district steering committee’s decision to withhold the compensation, holding that physical injuries are not a necessary condition for establishing penetrative sexual assault under Section 3 of the POCSO Act.

—— *MISHAPS*———-

1. In Shivamogga, Karnataka — Four Killed in Car-Lorry Collision
Four people — Lalithamma (65), Ujjappa (77), Jayamma (64) and car driver Siddhu Valmiki (35) — were killed when their car collided head-on with an arecanut-laden lorry near Taralaghatta in Shikaripur taluk on Friday, while returning from a hospital in Shivamogga. Jayamma’s husband Hanumantappa was seriously injured.

2. In Haldwani, Uttarakhand — Two Killed as Speeding Car Overturns: Two men were killed and a man and a woman critically injured when a car heading from Kathgodam to Lalkuan hit a divider and overturned on the Gaula flyover around 4 pm on Friday. The two men died on the spot, while the injured man and woman were admitted to Sushila Tiwari Hospital in Haldwani.
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*DEFENCE NEWS*
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1. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh released the Indian Army’s Land Warfare Doctrine at the Army Commanders’ Conference in New Delhi and said land forces will remain indispensable. He said defence production touched a record ₹1.78 lakh crore and defence exports about ₹38,000 crore in 2025-26.

2. Nagpur-based Solar Defence and Aerospace Ltd has begun delivering its indigenous Nagastra-2 anti-tank loitering munition to the Army. Combining surveillance and strike in one platform, it has day-and-night cameras, a 50-km strike range with ECCM capability, and a 4-kg tandem shaped-charge warhead that can penetrate up to 650 mm of rolled homogeneous armour.

3. C-DAC demonstrated drone-based quantum-secure communication at the Military College of Telecommunication Engineering, Mhow, combining Post-Quantum Cryptography with entanglement-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) using an airborne quantum payload carried by an unmanned aerial platform. The system was developed by C-DAC Pune’s HPC Technologies Group under a MeitY-supported project.

4. The India–Russia naval exercise INDRA 2026 concluded, and INS Sahyadri left Vladivostok on 20 October. The harbour and sea phases included coordinated manoeuvres, integrated communications, helicopter operations and medical evacuation drills.

5. The Navy will host the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue (IPRD-2026) from 3 to 5 November on the theme ‘Science, Technology and Academic Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific’, with experts from 18 countries. Organised with the National Maritime Foundation at the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi, it will be addressed by Rajnath Singh.

6. Navy Chief Admiral Krishna Swaminathan held talks with Italian Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Giuseppe Berutti Bergotto in New Delhi after a ceremonial Guard of Honour at the South Block Lawns. The talks focused on institutionalising navy-to-navy engagements, deepening operational cooperation and strengthening professional exchanges under the India–Italy Special Strategic Partnership.

7. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh said India is buying unmanned systems, counter-drone equipment, mobile artillery and mobile radars under the emergency procurement route, citing lessons from the Russia-Ukraine war and West Asia conflicts. He said India has emerged as the third-largest arms exporter to Europe, and a blueprint for theatre commands has been prepared and is awaiting approval at the highest level.
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✈ *INTERNATIONAL NEWS*
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1. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar called on Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev in Baku and held talks with Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov on trade, investment and energy. He said India and Azerbaijan are ‘independent-minded nations’ that make their own call on important issues.

2. PM Narendra Modi met Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the UAE in New Delhi. UAE Minister of Economy and Tourism Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri said non-oil trade rose to over USD 76 billion in 2025, and the two countries target USD 200 billion in bilateral trade by 2030.

3. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said India and China have agreed to discuss ways to improve understanding of the Line of Actual Control in appropriate areas for better border management, adding that the situation is disturbed when Chinese forces diverge from established patrolling patterns.

4. The MEA said about 3,000 stranded Umrah pilgrims have returned from Saudi Arabia, besides over 10,000 others on their booked flights. India also advised its nationals in France, Italy and Belgium to stay away from protest areas.

5. India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, P. Harish, told the General Assembly that the UN is losing legitimacy as the outcome of a war fought eight decades ago still shapes the Security Council, and called for reforms to make it more representative and reflective of today’s realities.

6. At the UN, First Secretary Bhavika Mangalanandan countered Pakistan, recalling its refusal to acknowledge the bodies of its soldiers killed in the 1999 Kargil War, and said the Indian Army had buried several Pakistani soldiers with military honours and Islamic rites.

7. At the Berlin Global Dialogue, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) could raise infrastructure costs, fuel inflation and weaken Europe’s competitiveness. He said India has about 17% of the world’s population but less than 3% of global carbon emissions.
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🌎 *WORLD NEWS* 🌍
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1. The White House said US First Lady Melania Trump brokered a localised ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky, starting on 29 October, to allow humanitarian aid and the evacuation of civilians. Melania Trump said the situation there was ‘on the brink of disaster’.

2. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a closure of Hebron and preparations for a full lockdown of the West Bank after a shooting attack by alleged Hamas militants wounded five people, two of them critically. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for a Gaza-style military campaign in the West Bank.

3. A gunman firing from a car killed one person and wounded five, including a 12-year-old girl, in Trappes and La Verrière, south-west of Paris. President Emmanuel Macron called it a ‘racist terrorist attack’ and a turning point for France; a 39-year-old suspect was arrested, and anti-terrorism prosecutors are investigating it as murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise.

4. The Louvre, Orsay and Picasso museums in Paris will shut on Saturday over fears of violence during planned protests, France’s culture ministry said. Protests last Saturday turned violent, with arson and looting, and Art Basel Paris cancelled its weekend programme.

5. Taiwan almost completely shut down as Typhoon Champi approached, with nearly 1,000 flights cancelled. One person was killed and 163 injured, 2,639 people were evacuated from mountain areas and over 77,000 homes lost power. Chipmaker TSMC said its operations remained normal.
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🚣🚴🏇🏊 *SPORTS*
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1. India ended the Asian Para Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, with its best-ever haul of 114 medals — 30 gold, 35 silver and 49 bronze. Sumit Antil won the men’s javelin F42-44/F61-64 gold with 72.46 m, as Mahendra Gurjar and Sandip Sanjay Sargar completed an Indian podium sweep.

2. Mona Agarwal won the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions SH1 gold with a world record score of 357.5. Sandeep Kumar won the men’s 400m T44 in a world record 52.28 seconds, Haney won the javelin F37 with a world record 60.49 m, and Pranav Soorma won the club throw F51 with a Games record of 32.87 m.

3. Nitesh Kumar won the men’s singles SL3 para badminton gold, beating compatriot Pramod Bhagat, while Naveen Sivakumar (SL4) and Thulasimathi Murugesan and Manasi Joshi (women’s doubles) also won gold. Harvinder Singh and Vijay Sundi won the men’s recurve doubles archery gold.

4. India beat Zimbabwe by nine wickets in the first women’s ODI in Vadodara, Smriti Mandhana’s first as full-time ODI captain. Shree Charani took 4/23 as Zimbabwe were all out for 197, and Pratika Rawal (100 not out) and Shafali Verma (64 not out off 33 balls) chased the target in 27.1 overs.

5. Pankaj Advani won his 29th world title, beating England’s Robert Hall 1906-1206 in the final of the WBL World Billiards Championship in Birmingham, with a 587 break.

6. P.V. Sindhu beat Chinese Taipei’s Chiu Pin-chian 21-13, 21-14 to reach the French Open semi-finals, where she meets Japan’s Hina Akechi. Ashmita Chaliha lost to Nozomi Okuhara 10-21, 21-17, 16-21 in the quarter-finals.
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*FINANCE*
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*INDIAN RUPEE VALUE*

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*USD* ₹ 95(Approx)
🇨🇦 *Canada* :CAD ₹68
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🇦🇪 *UAE Dirham* : ₹ 26
*🇨🇳 China Yuan ¥* : ₹ 14
🇲🇻 *Maldives Rufiya* : ₹ 6.13
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🇳🇵 *Nepal Rupee* : ₹ 0.62
🇧🇩 *B’desh Taka** : ₹ 0.77
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*Rates in Financial Capital Mumbai*

*GOLD* : ₹ 14,248/ 01gm (24 krt)

*SILVER* : ₹ 2,20,000/KG

1. The ₹30,213 crore Jio Platforms IPO, India’s largest ever, closed subscribed 22.19 times, and became the first public offer globally to cross one crore applications. Qualified institutional buyers bid 70.55 times their quota, non-institutional investors 14 times and retail investors 2.72 times; listing is expected on 28 October.

2. India’s foreign exchange reserves fell by USD 5 billion to USD 721 billion in the week ended 16 October, RBI data showed. Foreign currency assets dropped USD 5.7 billion to USD 591.8 billion, while gold reserves rose USD 706 million to USD 105.8 billion.

3. India’s engineering exports crossed USD 70 billion in April–September 2026-27, nearly 20% higher than a year earlier, the Commerce Ministry said. Total exports of goods and services grew 14% to USD 476.20 billion in the period.
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*ENTERTAINMENT NEWS*
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1. *Diljit’s Delhi Concert Cleared*
Delhi Police reversed its decision and granted permission for Diljit Dosanjh’s 30 October concert at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium after a meeting with organisers BookMyShow Live, who promised extra safety, traffic and crowd-control measures.

2. Bomb Threat Names Bachchan’s Home
Mumbai Police are on high alert after a bomb-threat email to Mayor Ritu Tawde’s office named Amitabh Bachchan’s Jalsa bungalow, BMC offices and the venue of Diljit Dosanjh’s 27 November concert at Mahalaxmi Racecourse.

3. *Doctors Slam ‘Suryaa’ Teaser*
The Indian Medical Association and AIIMS Delhi resident doctors condemned the teaser of Sunny Deol’s ‘Suryaa: Ant Se Aarambh Tak’, saying it generalises corruption in the medical profession and risks justifying violence against doctors, and sought an impartial review.
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🇮🇳 *FACTS ABOUT INDIA* 🇮🇳
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📜 *Which border-guarding force was raised on 24 October 1962?*

Answer: Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)

Raised in the aftermath of the 1962 Sino-Indian War under the CRPF Act with four battalions, the ITBP is a Central Armed Police Force under the Home Ministry. The ITBP Act, 1992, made it responsible for guarding the 3,488-km India–China border, from the Karakoram Pass in Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh. Its motto is ‘Shaurya – Dridhata – Karm Nishtha’ (Valour, Steadfastness and Commitment).
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😀 *THOUGHT OF THE DAY* 😃

“Fall seven times; stand up eight.” —
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😆 *JOKE OF THE DAY — FRIEND & CHINTU* 😂

👬 Friend: Chintu, Pankaj Advani has won his 29th world title!

😎 Chintu: Big deal. I have 29 too.

👬 Friend: 29 world titles?!

😎 Chintu: No — 29 ‘late-coming’ remarks in my school diary this month! 🤣😂
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😳 *WHY?* ❓❓

*Why is United Nations Day observed on 24 October?*

The Charter of the United Nations was signed in San Francisco on 26 June 1945 and came into force on 24 October 1945, after it was ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the UK, the US and a majority of the other signatories — the day the UN officially came into being.

In 1947 the UN General Assembly declared 24 October as United Nations Day to make the UN’s aims and achievements known around the world. India is one of the UN’s founding members.
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🙏 *LEARN SANSKRIT*

सत्यं ब्रूयात् प्रियं ब्रूयात् न ब्रूयात् सत्यमप्रियम्।
प्रियं च नानृतं ब्रूयात् एष धर्मः सनातनः॥

Satyam bruyat priyam bruyat na bruyat satyam apriyam,
Priyam cha nanritam bruyat esha dharmah sanatanah. 🙏

Meaning: Speak the truth, and speak it pleasantly; do not speak a truth in a hurtful way, nor speak a pleasing falsehood — this is the eternal dharma. (Manusmriti 4.138)

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🤔 *HOW IT WORKS?*
How does a cyclone get its name? 🌀

* In the North Indian Ocean, the India Meteorological Department (RSMC New Delhi) names a storm once it intensifies into a cyclonic storm, with sustained winds of at least 34 knots (about 63 km/h).

* Names come from a list adopted in 2020, with 13 names each from 13 member countries of the WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones — 169 names in all.

* The names are used one after another in a fixed order, and a name once used is not repeated.

* Short, simple names help warnings reach people quickly and avoid confusion when more than one storm is active.

* The cyclone expected to hit the north Andhra Pradesh coast will be named ‘Arnab’, meaning ‘ocean’ in Bengali — a name contributed by Bangladesh.
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📚 *GK TODAY*

24 October — Important Day

World Development Information Day: Set up by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to draw attention to development problems and the need for international cooperation to solve them; it falls on United Nations Day.

* World Polio Day

World Polio Day was established by Rotary International to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, who led the team that developed the first polio vaccine. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, launched in 1988, has cut polio cases worldwide by 99%.

India reported its last wild polio case on 13 January 2011 in Howrah, West Bengal, and was certified polio-free by WHO, along with the South-East Asia Region, on 27 March 2014.
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🐣💐 *BORN TODAY*

*R.K. Laxman* (born 24 October 1921)

The cartoonist was born in Mysore (now Mysuru), Karnataka. His daily cartoon strip ‘You Said It’ in The Times of India, which began in 1951, made his silent ‘Common Man’ a household figure.

The younger brother of novelist R.K. Narayan, he also created the Asian Paints mascot ‘Gattu’ in 1954, and received the Ramon Magsaysay Award (1984) and the Padma Vibhushan (2005). He died in Pune on 26 January 2015.
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🙏 *IDIOMS & PHRASES*

“Turn the tables”

Meaning: To reverse a situation and gain the upper hand over someone who had been winning.

Example: Zimbabwe made a steady start in the Vadodara ODI, but Shree Charani and Kranti Gaud turned the tables with seven wickets between them.
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📖 *SYNONYMS & ANTONYMS*

* Hazardous: Dangerous × Safe

* Indispensable: Essential × Dispensable

* Vigilant: Alert × Careless
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🛕 *SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE*

सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः।
सर्वे भद्राणि पश्यन्तु मा कश्चिद्दुःखभाग्भवेत्॥

“May all be happy; may all be free from illness. May all see what is auspicious, and may no one suffer in any way.”
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🧬 *HEALTH CARE: HEALTHY HABITS* 🩺

Keeping children safe from polio

💉 Give children every dose of polio vaccine due under the national immunisation schedule.

👶 Take children under five to the polio booth in every Pulse Polio round, even if they were vaccinated earlier.

🧼 Wash hands with soap before meals and after using the toilet.

💧 Drink safe, boiled or filtered water and use clean toilets.

🩺 See a doctor at once if a child suddenly develops weakness or floppiness in an arm or leg.

Note: These are general wellness suggestions and do not replace professional medical advice.
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