GK October 2025

 

 

 

 

 

International Day of Older Persons: 01 October

Designated by: United Nations General Assembly

First Observed in: 1991

Theme: Older Persons Driving Local and Global Action: Our Aspirations, Our Well-Being and Our Rights

International Day of Non-Violence: 02 October

Designated by: United Nations General Assembly

First Observed in: 2007

World Teachers' Day: 05 October

Established by: UNESCO

Theme: Recasting teaching as a collaborative profession

First Observed in: 1994

World Habitat Day: 1st Monday of October (06 October)

Designated by: United Nations General Assembly

First observed: 1986

Theme: Urban crisis response

World Post Day: 09 October

Designated by: Universal Postal Union

First Observed in: 1969

Theme: #PostForPeople: Local Service. Global Reach.

World Sight Day: 09 October (2nd Thursday of October)

Designated by: International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness

Theme: Love Your Eyes

First Observed in: 2000

World Mental Health Day: 10 October

Designated by: World Health Organisation

Theme: Mental Health in humanitarian emergencies

First Observed in: 1992

International Day of the Girl Child: 11 October

Designated by: United Nations General Assembly

Theme: The girl I am, the change I lead: Girls on the frontlines of crisis

First Observed in: 2012

International Day of Disaster Risk Reduction: 13 October

Designated by: United Nations General Assembly

Theme: Fund Resilience, Not Disasters

First Observed in: 1989

International Day of Rural Women: 15 October

Designated by: United Nations General Assembly

First Observed in: 2008

Theme: The Rise of Rural Women: Building Resilient Futures with Beijing+30

World Food Day: 16 October

Designated by: Food and Agricultural Organisation

Theme: Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future

First Observed in: 1980

International Day for Eradication of Poverty: 17 October

Designated by: United Nations General Assembly

Theme: Ending social and institutional maltreatment by ensuring respect and effective support for families

First Observed in: 1993

World Development Information Day: 24 October

Designated by: United Nations General Assembly

First Observed in: 1972

United Nations Day: 24 October

The day marks the coming into effect of the UN Charter (the founding document of UNO) in 1945.

World Day for Audiovisual Heritage: 27 October

Designated by: UNESCO

First Observed in: 2005

World Cities Day: 31 October

Designated by: UN General Assembly

Theme: People-Centred Smart Cities

First Observed in: 2014

 

 

The railway station in Maharashtra which has been renamed as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar – Aurangabad

The place in Arunachal Pradesh where the state's first commercial coal mine was inaugurated by the Union Minister for Coal and Mines, Shri G. Kishan Reddy – Namchik Namphuk

 

 The Judge of the Supreme Court who has been designated as the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from November 24 – Justice Surya Kant Sharma

The Indian TV and Bollywood actor who passed away on 25 October 2025 – Satish Shah

The Indian advertising professional and the Chief Creative Officer Worldwide and recipient of Padma Shri award in 2016 who passed away on 23 October 2025 – Shri Piyush Pandey

The President of the Liberal Democratic Party who has taken over as the first female Prime Minister of Japan from 21 October 2025 – Ms. Sanae Takaichi

The renowned Bollywood actor and director known for his comedic roles who passed away on 20 October 2025 – Shri Govardhan Asrani

The Indian actor known for his role as Karna in the tele serial Mahabharata who passed away on 15 October 2025 – Pankaj Dheer

The former Prime Minister of Kenya from 2008 to 2013 who passed away on 15 October 2025 – Mr. Raila Odinga

The noted Indian Hindustani classical music singer from Banaras, recipient of Padma Vibhushan (2020) and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship who passed away on 02 October 2025 – Pt. Chhannulal Mishra

 

 The Indian Air Force base at which the President of India Smt Droupadi Murmu took a sortie on the Rafale fighter aircraft – Ambala

The bilateral maritime exercise conducted at Yokosuka, Japan from 16 to 18 October 2025 by the navies of India and Japan was named – JAIMEX-25

The fifth edition of the Indo-Indonesian Joint Bilateral Maritime Exercise held at Visakhapatnam from 14 - 17 Oct 2025 was named – Samudra Shakti – 2025

The fourth edition of the India- Australia joint military exercise conducted at Irwin Barracks, Perth, Australia, from 13th to 26th October 2025 is named – AUSTRAHIND 2025

The joint naval exercise conduction by the navies of India and United Kingdom on the western coast of India from 05 to 12 October 2025 is named – Exercise Konkan 2025

 

 The country in Oceania which has become the 90th State Member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), following its formal endorsement of the IUCN Statutes – Tuvalu

The South East Asian nation which has become the 11th member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, (ASEAN), a regional grouping which aims to promote economic and security cooperation among its members – Timor Leste

The Asian nation which was hit by an earthquake of 6.9 magnitude leaving at least 75 dead and over a thousand injured on 30 September 2025 – Philippines

 

 The two-time Olympic medallist who has been conferred the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army by the Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh – Neeraj Chopra

2025 World Para Athletics Championships

Host: New Delhi (India)

Held from 27 September to 05 October 2025

No. of countries participated: 100

Mascot: Viraaj (an elephant)

Medals Tally

Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1.	Brazil	15	20	9	44
2.	China	13	22	17	52
-	Neutral Athletes	11	16	19	46
10.	India	6	9	7	22

 

Nobel Prizes 2025

#	Field	Winners	Contribution
1.	Medicine	Mare E. Brunkow	for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance
		Fred Ramsdell
		Shimon Sakaguchi
2.	Chemistry	Omar M. Yaghi	for the development of metal-organic frameworks
		Susumu Kitagawa
		Richard Robson
3.	Physics	John M. Martinis	for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit
		John Clarke
		Michel Devoret
4.	Peace	Maria Corina Machado	for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy
5.	Economic Sciences	Joel Mokyr	for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress
		Phillippe Aghion	for the theory of sustained growth
		Peter Howitt	through creative destruction
	Literature	Laszlo Krasznahorkai	for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art

2025 Filmfare Awards

Best Film: Laapataa Ladies directed by Kiran Rao

Best Director: Kiran Rao for Laapataa Ladies

Best Actor: Kartik Aaryan for Chandu Champion and Abhishek Bachchan for I Want to Talk

Best Actress: Alia Bhatt for Jigra