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October 2025 was packed with crucial events, and honestly? You can’t ignore them if you’re prepping for competitive exams. We’ve compiled 100 of the most important current affairs questions from October 2025 covering everything from national politics to economic shifts. Whether you’re targeting UPSC, SSC, or banking exams, these october current affairs questions have got you covered.
Each question includes detailed answers (plus we’ve got a downloadable PDF too). No fluff, just the essential news and updates that actually matter for your exam prep. From MCQ-style questions to concept clarity, this guide covers current affairs comprehensively. Perfect for last-minute revision or deep-dive study sessions.

October Current Affairs Questions with Answers

1. Which country has unveiled the world’s tallest bridge, Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, cutting a two-hour journey to just two minutes?
a) China ✅
b) Japan
c) South Korea
d) USA

2. Who has been appointed as the new Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court?
a) Justice P. B. Bajanthri
b) Justice S. V. Bhatti
c) Justice S. Vaidyanathan
d) Justice Soumen Sen ✅

3. Who has been appointed as the 13th Director of the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) ?
a) Dr. A. K. Singh
b) Dr. Prabhat Kumar Singh
c) Dr. Kanad Das ✅
d) Dr. V. P. Sharma

4. Gokul reservoir and Udaipur lake, recently designated to as Ramsar sites, are located in which state?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Bihar ✅
c) Uttar Pradesh
d) Gujarat

5. Who has the recently been appointed as the new President of the Indian Chamber of Commerce?
a) Visha Mahadevia
b) Subhrakant Panda
c) Amrit Singh
d) Brij Bhushan Agarwal ✅

6. The inaugural BFI Cup 2025 Organized by the Boxing Federation of India will be held in which state?
a) Assam
b) Haryana
c) Goa
d) Tamil Nadu ✅

7. Which organization has won the Business Line Changemaker of the Year Award?
a) ISRO
b) Indian Railways
c) NPCI
d) DRDO ✅

8. Where will India host the World Seafood Congress (WSC) 2026?
a) Kochi
b) Visakhapatnam
c) Chennai ✅
d) Mumbai

9. Which state has launched the Deen Dayal Lado Lakshmi Women Scheme?
a) Haryana ✅
b) Madhya Pradesh
c) Uttar Pradesh
d) Chhattisgarh

10. Where has India’s First Maritime Simulation Centre been inaugurated?
a) Kochi
b) Visakhapatnam
c) Mumbai
d) Chennai ✅

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11. Typhoon Bualoi occurred in which ocean basin?
a) Indian Ocean
b) Atlantic Ocean
c) Western Pacific Ocean ✅
d) Southern Ocean

12. Grandmaster P Iniyan won the 62nd National Chess Championship in which city?
a) Hyderabad
b) Guntur ✅
c) Nagpur
d) Lucknow

13. How many total medals did India win at the 2025 World Para Archery Championships?
a) 9
b) 11
c) 5 ✅
d) 15

14. The Kokrajhar-Gelephu rail project, budgeted at ₹3,456 crore, has been approved by India with which country?
a) Nepal
b) Bhutan ✅
c) Bangladesh
d) Myanmar

15. The popular “Arattai’ messenger was launched by which company?
a) Reliace Jio
b) Bharti Airtel
c) Zoho Corporation ✅
d) Paytm

16. What is India’s rank in the 2025 Index of Economic Freedom?
a) 115
b) 119
c) 128 ✅
d) 125

17. Who became India’s most successful para athlete by winning his third straight gold medal at the World Championships?
a) Devendra Jhajharia
b) Mariyappan Thangavelu
c) Rinku
d) Sumit Antil ✅

18. The “Gaj Rakshak” app has been launched to monitor elephants in which Tiger Reserve?
a) Kaziranga Tiger Reserve
b) Periyar Tiger Reserve
c) Corbett Tiger Reserve
d) Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve ✅

19. Where has Asia’s largest wastewater treatment plant been commissioned?
a) Delhi ✅
b) Mumbai
c) Chennai
d) Ahmedabad

20. Who has been appointed as the new Chief Secretary of Delhi?
a) Naresh Kumar
b) Sanjeev Khirwar
c) Manisha Saxena
d) Rajeev Verma ✅

21. Which district became India’s first officially child marriage-free district?
a) Malda, West Bengal
b) Balod, Jharkhand ✅
c) Gadchiroli, Maharashtra
d) Nadia, West Bengal

22. Who has been appointed as the new Director General of National Cadet Corps (NCC) ?
a) Lt Gen Gurbirpal Singh
b) Lt Gen Jagbir Singh Cheema
c) Lt Gen Virendra Vats ✅
d) Lt Gen P. S. Rajeshwar

23. Who launched AI-Powered Command Centre for border security?
a) Border Security Force (BSF) ✅
b) Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
c) Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)
d) Assam Rifles

24. India’s first slum-free city?
a) Chandigarh ✅
b) Indore
c) Bhopal
d) Surat

25. First Ukrainian to win Václav Havel Human Rights Prize?
a) Oleksandra Matviichuk
b) Maksym Butkevych ✅
c) Yulia Navalnaya
d) Serhiy Leshchenko

26. International Day of Non-Violence date?
a) 21 September
b) 2 October ✅
c) 10 December
d) 14 November

27. Richest woman in M3M Hurun India Rich List 2025?
a) Falguni Nayar
b) Savitri Jindal
c) Roshni Nadar Malhotra ✅
d) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

28. Tata helicopter assembly line location?
a) Hyderabad
b) Bengaluru
c) Vadodara
d) Vemagal ✅

29. Karnataka’s Mahatma Gandhi Seva Award 2025 winner?
a) Kailash Satyarthi
b) Medha Patkar
c) Ramachandra Guha ✅
d) Anna Hazare

30. Year UPSC established?
a) 1924
b) 1926 ✅
c) 1930
d) 1932

31. Author of “Wings of Valor”?
a) Gen. V. K. Singh
b) Lt Gen Satish Dua
c) Air Marshal Anil Chopra
d) Swapnil Pandey ✅

32. Mirabai Chanu medal at World Weightlifting Championships?
a) Gold
b) Silver ✅
c) Bronze
d) None

33. Which Union Minister launched the MY Bharat app?
a) Anurag Thakur
b) Dharmendra Pradhan
c) Smriti Irani
d) Dr Mansukh Mandaviya ✅

34. Kaziranga National Park Director Sonali Ghose become the first Indian to win which global award?
a) UNEP Global Ranger Award
b) IUCN Kenton Miller Award ✅
c) UNDP Earth Guardian Award
d) WWF Conservation award

35. The Supreme Court of India allowed judicial officers with how many years of experience to compete for direct recruitment as District Judges?
a) 5 years
b) 7 years ✅
c) 10 years
d) 12 years

36. Which institution has emerged as India’s top university in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2026?
a) IISc Bengaluru ✅
b) IIT Bombay
c) IIT Delhi
d) JNU New Delhi

37. Taiwan’s President Lai recently announced which system to strengthen Taiwan’s security?
a) Homeland Shield System ✅
b) Integrated Defense Network
c) T-Dome
d) Iron Wall Defense System

38. Meta’s upcoming subsea cable project is set to dock at which two Indian cities?
a) Mumbai and Visakhapatnam ✅
b) Kochi and Thoothukudi
c) Visakhapatnam and Chennai
d) Mumbai and Kochi

39. Buddha’s relics are set to visit Russia’s Kalmykia for the first time under which country’s initiative?
a) India ✅
b) Bhutan
c) Nepal
d) Sri Lanka

40. Indian Army troops arrived in which country for the 4th edition of Exercise AUSTRAHIND 2025?
a) USA
b) Australia ✅
c) France
d) Indonesia

41. DRDO is set to conduct the first test of which hypersonic missile?
a) Agni Prime
b) Dhvani ✅
c) Shaurya-II
d) Astra Mk-II

42. Which country has become the newest member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature?
a) Armenia
b) Georgia
c) Kazakhstan ✅
d) Uzbekistan

43. World Migratory Bird Day 2025 was celebrated on which date?
a) 9 October ✅
b) 10 October
c) 11 October
d) 12 October

44. Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel Prize in which field?
a) Physics
b) Chemistry
c) Economics ✅
d) Literature

45. Israel has announced it will award its highest civilian honor, the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor, to which former US President?
a) Joe Biden
b) Barack Obama ✅
c) Donald Trump
d) George W. Bush

46. Which film won the Best Movie award at the 70th Filmfare Awards 2025?
a) Animal
b) Jawan
c) 12th Fail
d) Laapataa Ladies ✅

47. In which district of Nagaland was the Integrated Aqua Park established by Prime Minister Narendra Modi?
a) Wokha
b) Dimapur
c) Phek
d) Mokokchung ✅

48. Which country unveiled its most powerful nuclear missile, Hwasong-20?
a) China
b) North Korea ✅
c) Russia
d) Iran

49. Where was the ‘UDGAAR Youth Festival’ held?
a) Bengaluru
b) New Delhi ✅
c) Mumbai
d) Kolkata

50. Where is the Semiconductor Innovation Museum located?
a) Bangalore
b) Hyderabad ✅
c) Lucknow
d) Bhopal

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51. The Ministry of Finance has approved the establishment of which new research center in East Antarctica?
a) Bharati II
b) Maitri II ✅
c) Dakshin II
d) Himadri II

52. When is World Breast Cancer Awareness Day observed annually?
a) 10 October
b) 13 October ✅
c) 15 October
d) 18 October

53. In which city did the 78th WHO South-East Asia Regional Committee session begin?
a) New Delhi ✅
b) Thimphu
(c) Kathmandu
(d) Colombo

54. The recent bloody conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan occurred along which border line?
a) Durand Line ✅
b) Line of Control
c) Radcliffe Line
d) McMahon Line

Which is the first Indian state to introduce the ‘Right to Disconnect’ Bill?
a) Maharashtra
b) Kerala ✅
c) Haryana
d) Karnataka

55. Who has become the first Indian to win the IUCN Kenton Miller Award 2025?
a) Sonali Ghosh ✅
b) Vandana Sharma
c) Ramesh Kumar
d) Nisha Verma

56. Who is the champion of the Women’s Blind Football World Cup 2025?
a) India
b) Argentina
c) Germany ✅
d) England

57. Who became the first Indian fast bowler to play 50 matches in all three formats?
a) Mohammed Shami
b) Jasprit Bumrah ✅
c) Bhuvneshwar Kumar
d) Umesh Yadav

58. Who wrote the book “107 Days”?
a) Nikhil Gupta
b) Kamala Harris ✅
c) Satya Nadella
d) Arvind Kejriwal

59. What was India’s retail inflation rate recorded in September 2025?
a) 5.1%
b) 5.3%
c) 4.9%
d) 1.54% ✅

60. Which country became the first to end mother-to-child transmission of HIV, Hepatitis B, and Syphilis?
a) India
b) Sri Lanka
c) Maldives ✅
d) Malaysia

61. When is World Migratory Bird Day 2025 celebrated?
a) 10 October
b) 11 October
c) 12 October
d) 9 October ✅

62. According to the Henley Passport Index 2025, what is India’s rank?
a) 80th
b) 85th ✅
c) 90th
d) 86th

63. Where was the World Health Summit 2025 held?
a) Geneva, Switzerland
b) Berlin, Germany ✅
c) New York, USA
d) Paris, France

64. Who has been appointed as the Executive Director of the RBI?
a) Rachna R. Sharma ✅
b) Sonali Sen Gupta
c) S. R. Rao
d) Deepak Mohanty

65. The Google AI Hub was inaugurated in which Indian city?
a) Bengaluru ✅
b) Pune
c) Visakhapatnam
d) Hyderabad

66. The world’s first multi-sensor Earth Observation satellite has been launched by which Indian startup?
a) Pixxel
b) AgniKul Cosmos
c) GalaxEye ✅
d) Skyroot Aerospace

67. What was India’s final rank in the medal tally at the 11th Asian Aquatics Championships 2025?
a) 3rd
b) 4th
c) 5th ✅
d) 11th

68. The World Heritage Outlook Report has been launched by which organization?
a) UNEP
b) IUCN ✅
c) UNESCO
d) WWF

69. Who is the author of the book “The Brahmastra Unleashed”?
a) Amish Tripathi ✅
b) Chetan Bhagat
c) Ravi Subramanian
d) D. Sivanandhan

70. Where did the recent storm “Typhoon Halong – 2025” originate?
a) Northern Philippine Sea ✅
b) South China Sea
c) Bay of Bengal
d) Arabian Sea

71. World Standards Day 2025 was celebrated on which date?
a) October 10
b) October 12
c) October 14 ✅
d) October 15

72. India has been ranked in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2025 released by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe. What is the rank?
a) 103rd ✅
b) 111th
c) 102nd
d) 120th

73. The maiden India-South Korea Navy Bilateral Exercise began with INS Sahyadri’s port call at which port?
a) Busan ✅
b) Incheon
c) Da Nang
d) Jeju

74. Which country holds the world’s most powerful passport in the second quarter of Henley Passport Index 2025?
(a) Japan
(b) Singapore ✅
(c) France
(d) Germany

75. According to India’s first DNA-based elephant census, the country has about how many wild elephants?
a) 26,000
b) 29,964
c) 31,411 ✅
d) 22,446

76. Who has been appointed as the First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
a) Kristalina Georgieva
b) Gita Gopinath ✅
c) Antoinette Sayeh
d) Daniel Katz

77. Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) has recently been granted which special status by the Government of India?
a) Mini Ratna
b) Maharatna ✅
c) Navratna
d) Strategic Asset

78. In which city will the new NSG hub be established?
a) Ayodhya
b) Bhopal
c) Ahmedabad
d) Bhubaneswar ✅

79. The “Fare Se Fursat” scheme is an initiative of which airline?
(a) Akasa Air
(b) Air India ✅
(c) IndiGo
(d) Alliance Air

80. Who is the author of the book ‘Ready, Relevant and Resurgent II’?
a) General Manoj Pande ✅
b) Admiral R. Hari Kumar
c) Air Chief Marshal V.R. Chaudhari
d) CDS General Anil Chauhan

81. When is World Food Day observed every year?
a) 10 October
b) 12 October
c) 16 October ✅
d) 20 October

82. Where will the concluding ceremony of the 8th Rashtriya Poshan Maah 2025 be held?
a) New Delhi
b) Pune
c) Jaipur
d) Dehradun ✅

83. Anant Goenka has been named as the FICCI President-Elect for which term?
a) 2023-24
b) 2024-25
c) 2025-26 ✅
d) 2026-27

84. The ‘Samudra Shakti 2025’ bilateral exercise is being conducted between India and which country’s navy?
a) Japan
b) Indonesia ✅
c) Australia
d) France

85. Recently in the news, Naying Hydro Power Project is located in which state?
a) Sikkim
b) Arunachal Pradesh ✅
c) Uttarakhand
d) Himachal Pradesh

86. What is India’s rank in the 2025 Sustainable Trade Index (STI)?
a) 23rd ✅
b) 41st
c) 47th
d) 52nd

87. Who has become the new President of Madagascar after the coup?
a) Andry Rajoelina ✅
b) Michael Randrianirina
c) Christian Ntsay
d) Edgard Razafindravahy

88. Which mineral has recently been classified as a ‘major mineral’?
a) Graphite
b) Bauxite
c) Lithium ✅
d) Limestone

89. Which state won the 30th Senior Women’s National Football Championship?
a) Manipur ✅
b) Odisha
c) Tamil Nadu
d) West Bengal

90. The Gomti Rejuvenation Mission has been launched in which state?
a) Bihar
b) Uttar Pradesh ✅
c) Gujarat
d) Haryana

91. The National Security Guard celebrates its Raising Day every year on?
a) October 12
b) October 15
c) October 16
d) October 20

92. Recently, which state became the first in India to launch a menstrual leave policy for both government and private sectors?
a) Kerala ✅
b) Sikkim
c) Karnataka
d) Delhi

93. Who became the first transgender member of the Supreme Court-Appointed Committee on LGBTQ+ Rights?
a) Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
b) Akkai Padmashali
c) Gauri Sawant
d) Joyita Mondal ✅

94. Who has been appointed as the first Asian Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission?
a) Vivek Menon ✅
b) Sonali Ghosh
c) Ramesh Kumar
d) Anil Prakash Joshi

95. According to India’s first-ever DNA-based count, which state has the highest wild elephant population?
a) Kerala
b) Karnataka
c) Assam ✅
d) Odisha

96. Who has won the overall award for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025?
a) Kiran Deep Singh
b) Jasper Doest
c) Wim van den Heever
d) Varun Aditya ✅

97. Which state government has launched a Rs 50000 crore bamboo industry policy to create 5 lakh jobs?
a) Assam ✅
b) Nagaland
c) Mizoram
d) Maharashtra

98. The World Boxing Cup Finals 2025 will be hosted in which country?
a) India ✅
b) Saudi Arabia
c) Kazakhstan
d) Uzbekistan

99. India’s largest overseas development project is being built in which country?
a) Maldives ✅
b) Sri Lanka
c) Mauritius
d) Mongolia

100. Who became the first Indian to scale nine 8,000-metre peaks?
a) Priyanka Mohite
b) Baljeet Kaur ✅
c) Arjun Vajpai
d) Bharath Thammineni

101. World Statistics Day 2025 is observed on which date?
a) 10 October
b) 15 October
c) 20 October
d) 25 October ✅

102. Who won the 2025 MLS Golden Boot with 29 goals and 19 assists?
a) Cristiano Ronaldo
b) Lionel Messi ✅
c) Kylian Mbappé
d) Erling Haaland

103. Which country created history by qualifying for the FIFA World Cup for the first time?
a) Nepal
b) Lebanon
c) Yemen
d) Cape Verde ✅

104. Which country has officially become the 90th State Member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)?
a) Bhutan
b) South Sudan
c) Tuvalu
d) Papua New Guinea ✅

105. Which Indian state hosted the AI Impact Summit ahead of the upcoming India-AI 2026 event?
a) Maharashtra
b) Karnataka ✅
c) Uttarakhand
d) Gujarat

106. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval attended the 3rd India-Central Asia Security Council meeting held in which city?
a) Bishkek
b) New Delhi ✅
c) Dushanbe
d) Astana

107. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh unveiled the first Tejas LCA Mk1A aircraft from which facility?
a) HAL Bengaluru ✅
b) DRDO Hyderabad
c) ISRO Sriharikota
d) HAL Nashik

108. Who won the silver medal at the Junior Badminton Worlds Championship 2025?
a) Unnati Hooda ✅
b) Anmol Kharb
c) Tanvi Sharma
d) Treesa Jolly

109. Zoravar Singh Sandhu won a historic bronze medal in which event at the ISSF Shotgun Worlds 2025?
a) Skeet ✅
b) Trap
c) Double Trap
d) Mixed Skeet

110. Which male player won the ICC Player of the Month award for September 2025?
a) Virat Kohli
b) Babar Azam
c) Suryakumar Yadav ✅
d) Abhishek Sharma

111. When is World Statistics Day celebrated?
a) 10 October
b) 15 October
c) 20 October
d) 25 October ✅

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