Kerala PSC Current Affairs One-liners — Last 3 months

Yesterday

• India beat defending champions China 1-0 in the Asian Games 2026 women's hockey final on 2 October 2026 to win gold after 44 years and qualify directly for the LA 2028 Olympics.
• At the concluding day of the G20 Trade Ministers' Meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (US Presidency) on 2 October 2026, Piyush Goyal called for WTO-consistent remedies to trade distortions and backed the UK for the 2027 G20 Presidency.
• On 2 October 2026 India won three boxing golds at the Asian Games 2026: Lovlina Borgohain (women's 75 kg), Parveen (women's 65 kg) and Ankush (men's 80 kg).
• The Department of Commerce extended the RoDTEP (Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products) scheme up to 31 December 2026 with unchanged rates (Notification No. 41/2026-27, 30 September 2026).
• Sujeet won gold in men's 65 kg freestyle wrestling at the Asian Games 2026 on 2 October 2026 — India's first wrestling gold of this edition, on his Asian Games debut.
• The Department of Commerce extended the timelines of Component II of RELIEF (Resilience & Logistics Intervention for Export Facilitation), which gives exporters ECGC cover with 95% risk coverage for shipments to the disrupted West Asia region.
• Ankita Bhakat, Kumkum Anil Mohod and Kirti won India's first-ever gold in the women's recurve team event at the Asian Games, on 2 October 2026.
• Special Gram Sabhas held across India on 2 October 2026 launched the People's Plan Campaign 2026-27 'Sabki Yojana, Sabka Vikas', under which Gram Panchayats prepare their development plans (GPDPs) for 2027-28.
• India's men's quadrant team won bronze in Sepaktakraw at the Asian Games 2026 on 2 October 2026 — India's first-ever medal in this event at the Games.
• On 2 October 2026 — the birth anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri — the Prime Minister paid tributes and urged people to buy at least one Khadi product.

Thu, 01 Oct 2026

• On 1 October 2026 PM Narendra Modi took part in the Centenary Celebrations of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, where a commemorative postage stamp, a special coin and a compilation of 100 significant case laws were released.
• On 1 October 2026 Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri launched GOBARdhan, a ₹23,731-crore Central Sector Scheme (FY 2026-27 to 2035-36) to raise India's compressed biogas (CBG) output nearly ten-fold to about 5 MMSCMD.
• Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff (HQ IDS), set up on 1 October 2001, celebrated its Silver Jubilee on 1 October 2026 with 'Trishakti Manthan' under the theme 'Future readiness through jointness & Integration'.
• The Finance Ministry announced on 1 October 2026 that the 5th Kautilya Economic Conclave, organised by the Institute of Economic Growth with the Ministry, will be held in New Delhi from 3 to 5 October 2026 under the theme 'Resilience in an Age of Flux'.
• On 1 October 2026, the start of the new sugar season, the Centre limited sugar dealers to 1,000 quintals of stock held for no more than 15 days, from 15 October to 30 November 2026 (2,000 quintals for Kolkata and Assam).
• On 1 October 2026 Manu Francis and Prince Kurisinkal Noble won silver in the men's skiff sailing event at the Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026, India's first Asian Games silver in the event; Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma won bronze in the women's skiff.
• On 1 October 2026 archer Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru beat Vietnam's Dang Cong Duc 149-144 to win men's compound individual bronze at the Asian Games, as India ended compound archery with three golds and a bronze.
• INS Trishul reached Toulon, France, on 22 September 2026 for the 24th edition of Varuna, the annual bilateral maritime exercise of the Indian and French navies (reported 1 October 2026).
• Narendra Bhooshan, a 1992-batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, assumed charge as Secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on 1 October 2026.
• National Voluntary Blood Donation Day 2026 was observed on 1 October with the theme 'One Drop of Humanity. Give Blood. Save Lives.'
• Indian Navy stealth frigate INS Tarkash arrived at Mombasa, Kenya, on 29 September 2026 for a goodwill port call in the spirit of MAHASAGAR.
• India's women's squash team of Anahat Singh, Tanvi Khanna and Joshna Chinappa won bronze at the Asian Games 2026 after losing 1-2 to Hong Kong, China in the semi-final on 1 October 2026.

Wed, 30 Sept 2026

• On 30 September 2026 the CCEA chaired by PM Modi raised MSPs of all mandated Rabi crops for Marketing Season 2027-28: wheat ₹2,610 per quintal (+₹25), with the highest absolute increase for safflower (+₹675) followed by rapeseed & mustard (+₹413).
• On 30 September 2026 the Union Cabinet approved Green Energy Corridor Phase-III to strengthen intra-state transmission for evacuating up to 135 GW of renewable energy, plus 50 GWh of battery storage, with an outlay of ₹1,86,405 crore by FY 2032-33.
• On 30 September 2026 India won the men's, women's and mixed compound team golds at the Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026; the women's team beat China 238-234 to equal the world record.
• On 30 September 2026 the Centre announced that the Indian Coast Guard and Gujarat ATS, with central agencies, had seized about 526 kg of heroin and methamphetamine worth over ₹3,000 crore from an Iranian dhow west of Lakshadweep and arrested five Pakistani nationals.
• On 30 September 2026 Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav launched the guidelines for National Coastal Mission 2.0, a ₹767-crore Central Sector Scheme to run till 2030-31 across nine coastal States and four Union Territories.
• The Ministry of Power notified new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) norms for passenger vehicles on 30 September 2026, effective 1 April 2027 to 31 March 2032, tightening the fuel-consumption benchmark by about 16.7%.
• On 30 September 2026 Neeru Dhanda and Kynan Chenai won India's first-ever Asian Games gold in the trap mixed team shooting event at Aichi-Nagoya, hitting 34 targets in the final, an Asian record.
• The second edition of the ASEAN-India Maritime Exercise (AIME-2026) began at Subic Bay, Philippines, on 28 September 2026 with INS Sahyadri and INS Kulish, under the theme 'Anchored in Trust, United at Sea'.