Current Affairs Quiz – October 2025

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) and United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched the Promise to Children digital campaign during the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025. The campaign urges cricket fans, players, and audiences to commit to equal opportunities for all children, especially the most vulnerable. It focuses on children’s rights, including quality education, healthcare, nutrition, safe water, sanitation, and protection from violence. It aims to engage the cricket community, from coaches and players to fans, to improve children’s lives. The ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 is jointly hosted by India and Sri Lanka.

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Senior Advocate R. Venkataramani was re-appointed as Attorney General (AG) of India on September 26, 2025 for two years, effective October 1, 2025. His present three-year term ends on September 30, 2025. He had succeeded K.K. Venugopal as AG on September 30, 2022. The Attorney General is a constitutional post appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Union Government. The Attorney General can appear in any court of India and advises the government on complex legal matters. His expertise covers constitutional law, indirect taxes, human rights, civil, criminal, consumer, and service laws.

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The 2025 Index of Economic Freedom ranks 176 countries, showing the global economy as mostly unfree despite a slight rise in global average score to 59.7 from 58.6. Only three countries are designated as economically free, down from four last year. Singapore (First), Switzerland (Second), and Ireland (Third) lead the global rankings. India ranks 128th globally with a score of 53.0, under the mostly unfree category. India scores low in fiscal health (6.2), investment freedom (40), financial freedom (40), and government integrity (37.6). Strong areas include government spending (74.2), business freedom (72.3), and tax burden (71.3). The ranking highlights India’s challenges in economic freedom and fiscal reforms while showing potential in business and governance efficiency.

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India topped the ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) Junior World Cup 2025 medals table with 8 gold, 10 silver, and 8 bronze. The ISSF Junior World Cup was held in New Delhi from 24 September to 2 October 2025. Individual Neutral Athlete (AIN) was second with 5 gold, 3 silver, and 4 bronze. Italy was third with 2 gold, 2 silver, and 1 bronze. Other medal-winning countries included Czechia, Croatia, Spain, Finland, Cyprus, and Iran. The event highlighted India’s strong performance in shooting at junior level.

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Exercise KONKAN-25 began on 05 October 2025 off the western coast of India. It is a bilateral naval exercise between the Indian Navy and the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom (UK). The exercise has two phases, a harbour phase and a sea phase. The harbour phase includes professional exchanges, ship visits, sports events, and cultural activities. The sea phase involves complex drills in anti-air, anti-surface, and anti-submarine warfare, along with flying operations and seamanship tasks. India is represented by INS Vikrant, the indigenous aircraft carrier with its carrier battle group. The exercise reinforces the goal of secure, open, and free seas under the India-UK Vision 2035.

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An Indian Parliamentary delegation led by Lok Sabha Speaker Shri Om Birla attended the 68th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) from 05-12 October 2025 in Bridgetown, Barbados. The delegation included Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha Shri Harivansh, MPs Shri Anurag Sharma, Dr. D. Purandeswari, Dr. K. Sudhakar, Smt. Rekha Sharma, Dr. Ajeet Madhavrao Gopchade, and Secretaries General of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. Lok Sabha Speaker addressed the General Assembly on “The Commonwealth – A Global Partner”.

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A new plant species, Chlorophytum vanapushpam, was recently discovered in the Vagamon hills of Idukki district, Kerala. It belongs to the genus Chlorophytum and the family Asparagaceae. The species name ‘vanapushpam’ comes from Malayalam words ‘Vanam’ (forest) and ‘Pushpam’ (flower). It is a perennial herb closely related to Safed Musli (Chlorophytum borivilianum). It is found in rocky hills of Vagamon and Neymakkad at altitudes between 700 m and 2124 m in the Western Ghats. The plant has white clustered flowers, slender leaves, grows up to 90 cm, and lacks tubers. Flowering and fruiting occur from September to December. The Western Ghats is a major origin centre of Chlorophytum, with 18 species identified, many having medicinal properties.

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International Labour Organization (ILO) released “The State of Social Justice: A Work in Progress” ahead of the Second World Summit for Social Development, Doha 2025, marking 30 years of the 1995 Copenhagen Summit on Social Development. The report highlights that despite improvements in education, poverty reduction, and productivity over the last 30 years, inequalities, low trust in institutions, and slow sectoral progress hinder global social justice. Social justice means every individual, regardless of race, belief, or gender, has the right to material prosperity and spiritual growth in freedom, respect, and equal opportunity. Between 1995-2024, child labour fell from 250 million to 106 million, work-related mortality declined by over 10%, secondary school completion rose by 22 percentage points.

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Around 100 wild boars were found dead in Nangal Wildlife Sanctuary in March, likely due to toxic waste contamination in Nangal Lake. Nangal Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the foothills of the Shivalik Hills, Rupnagar district, Punjab. The sanctuary covers 116 hectares and is part of the Nangal Wetland on the Sutlej River. It lies within a man-made reservoir built under the Bhakra-Nangal Project.

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Recently, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), with the Integrated Defence Staff and Tri-Services, released Indian Radio Software Architecture (IRSA) Standard 1.0. It is India’s first national specification for Software Defined Radios (SDR). IRSA 1.0 standardizes how different radio systems communicate securely and efficiently. Its vision is to make IRSA a global benchmark and promote export of IRSA-compliant SDR solutions to friendly nations. It defines interfaces, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), execution environments, waveform portability, and SDR interoperability. It was developed under the Standardization of Indigenous SDR initiative by the Directorate of Standardization (DoS), Department of Defence Production (DDP), Ministry of Defence (MoD).