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Top 10 stories, 7 October 2026
The ten strongest current-affairs stories of 7 October 2026, each explained from the beginning.
- International Relations
ICC unseals warrants for senior Taliban officials accused of persecuting women in AfghanistanThe International Criminal Court unsealed four arrest warrants against senior Taliban officials. Prosecutors accuse them of persecuting women and girls in Afghanistan. The alleged conduct is treated as a crime against h…
Based on reporting by Jurist Legal News
- Defence & Security
Russia’s Birthday ‘Gift’ to Putin: 70 Missiles Strike Ukraine, Hitting Homes and Killing CiviliansRussia carried out a nationwide barrage on Oct. 7, striking residential areas, energy infrastructure, and other facilities across Kyiv and 12 Ukrainian regions. The attack happened on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s…
Based on reporting by Kyiv Post
- Defence & Security
Russia launches one of its biggest strikes on Ukraine, killing at least 21 civiliansRussia used two types of airborne weapons: missiles and drones. They struck overnight into Wednesday, making the attack one of the largest recent barrages described in the article. The targets and damage stretched acros…
Based on reporting by France 24
- International Relations
ICC unseals warrants of senior Taliban officials accused of persecuting women in AfghanistanThe ICC unsealed and published four arrest warrants against senior Taliban officials. This matters because the Court says the alleged persecution of women and girls amounts to crimes against humanity, not merely politic…
Based on reporting by Jurist Legal News
- Politics & Governance
V S Ramadevi: The Woman Who Became India’s First Female CECV S Ramadevi’s 16-day tenure was brief but historically significant. She became Chief Election Commissioner on 26 November 1990, immediately after the death of R V S Peri Sastri. Her appointment placed a woman at the he…
Based on reporting by The Better India
- Markets & Finance
RBI MPC meeting highlights: Repo rate hiked to 5.5%; rate cuts off the table in near term, Governor Sanjay Malhotra saysThe Monetary Policy Committee raised the repo rate by 25 basis points, taking it to 5.5%. This is the rate at which the RBI lends to banks, so the decision makes banks’ funding more expensive. It is meant to restrain in…
Based on reporting by The Hindu
- Markets & Finance
From UPI to tokenised assets: Is India building the next generation of financial infrastructure?Tokenised assets are digital representations of assets or financial claims created on programmable infrastructure. The important difference is that tokenisation can reshape how ownership, transfers, settlement and compl…
Based on reporting by YourStory
- Economy & Business
Mint Explainer | GST Council meeting: what could change for refunds, enforcement and rate changesThe Council is considering changes to GST’s underlying machinery rather than only broad rate cuts. The proposals cover faster export refunds, wider input tax credit, fairer treatment of genuine buyers, targeted enforcem…
Based on reporting by Livemint
- Science & Technology
Nobel Prize 2026: How JNU scientist Suneel Kateriya helped lay the groundwork for optogeneticsThe 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognized Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discovering light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. This work showed that light could control selected cel…
Based on reporting by Livemint
- Politics & Governance
Bombay HC questions ECI over deletion of voter names during SIR; points to rule on rollThe core issue was whether the ECI could remove names simply because voters did not submit an enumeration form during SIR. The Court said the electoral roll currently in force continues to be valid until the draft roll…
Based on reporting by The Hindu