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CDS Economy Current Affairs 2026

Economy is the largest stream in our CDS current affairs. The paper rarely asks for a month's growth figure; it asks which body releases an index, what a scheme's components are, how a policy instrument works, and which statement about a regulator is false. These explainers take each economic development — RBI and SEBI decisions, Budget measures, trade agreements, indices and banking reforms — and set out the structure behind the news. Every article carries ten practice MCQs and a note on how the topic is asked.

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• 23 October 2026 FSDC's 30th Meeting: Financial Stability and Cyber Resilience

  The Finance Minister chaired the 30th meeting of the Financial Stability and Development Council on 23 October 2026, reviewing risks from geopolitics, an AI boom and rising global bond yield…

• 22 October 2026 Zero Coupon, Zero Principal, and 600 Jobs in Japan and Germany

  NSDC made its debut on the NSE Social Stock Exchange on 22 October 2026 with a Zero Coupon Zero Principal issue, NABARD subscribing ₹4 crore, to fund training and overseas placement for 600 …

• 21 October 2026 65 Sellers in 1999, and a Mela That Finally Left Delhi

  The National SARAS Mela at Vijayawada, 13-31 October 2026, is the first held outside Delhi-NCR. An explainer on DAY-NRLM's lineage from IRDP and SGSY, the SHG federation structure, the Lakhp…

• 19 October 2026 Trout to Nepal, and Trout to the ITBP

  A review of the Pithoragarh Coldwater Fisheries Cluster on 19 October 2026 recorded Uttarakhand as the first Himalayan state to export trout to Nepal and the first to supply the ITBP. An exp…

• 17 October 2026 Legal to Spray, Impossible to Sell

  FSSAI's draft amendment of 16 October 2026 proposes maximum residue limits of 20 ppm for acetamiprid and 50 ppm for imidacloprid in tea. An explainer on what an MRL is, why two regulators cr…

• 16 October 2026 42% of Capacity Is Not 42% of Electricity

  MoSPI's quarterly PAIMANA infrastructure dashboard update of 16 October 2026 reports installed power capacity of 5,32,739.7 MW with renewables at about 42%. An explainer on the five-dimensio…

• 16 October 2026 A River Is Not a Road, and That Is the Whole Problem

  India has 111 National Waterways over 20,187 km, of which 32 are operational, and inland cargo has risen from 29 MMT in 2014-15 to 218 MMT in 2025-26. An explainer on hydrographic surveys, f…

• 15 October 2026 The Licence Queue That Is Also a Foreign Policy Problem

  The Commerce Minister launched the National Strategic Trade Command Centre at Vanijya Bhawan on 15 October 2026 and, reviewing its SCOMET dashboard, ordered weekly Inter-Ministerial Committe…

• 15 October 2026 375 MW to 1.5 GW, and the Two Resources Nobody Priced

  NITI Aayog's Frontier Tech Hub released a Data Centre Evaluation Framework for States on 14 October 2026, built on five pillars from grid readiness to basin-level water stress. An explainer …

• 14 October 2026 The Insurer That Was Made to Buy a Bank

  The CCEA has approved the sale of 60.72% of IDBI Bank to a Fairfax entity for ₹52,878 crore. An explainer on the LIC stake, the Prompt Corrective Action framework, the disinvestment machiner…

• 13 October 2026 Two Sovereigns on One Coast

  The 21st Maritime State Development Council met at Mumbai, its first since becoming statutory under the Indian Ports Act, 2025. An explainer on the Centre–State split in port governance, One…

• 12 October 2026 23,493 Data Layers, and the Road Nobody Had to Dig Twice

  PM GatiShakti completes five years. An explainer on the National Master Plan, the Seven Engines, the Network Planning Group's pre-sanction appraisal, and why a planning platform's achievemen…

• 9 October 2026 No State Measures What Its Households Spend

  NSO has released a draft guideline for compiling GSDP from the expenditure side on base year 2022-23. An explainer on the three approaches to measuring output, why no State compiles PFCE, an…

• 8 October 2026 Arrest Provisions Out, and the Law That Has to Change First

  The 57th GST Council recommended removing arrest provisions, raising the prosecution threshold to ₹5 crore and ending interception in transit States. An explainer on the process reforms and …

• 7 October 2026 GDP Never Subtracted the Forest. Since 2025, Net Domestic Product Does

  MoSPI released the Strategy for Environmental Economic Accounts in India 2026-2030. An explainer on SEEA, the Dasgupta framework, and why the 2025 System of National Accounts changed what en…

• 6 October 2026 ₹10,000 Crore of Equity, After Years of Lending to the Same Firms

  The Cabinet committed ₹10,000 crore to an SME Growth Fund on 6 October 2026, structured as an AIF for direct equity investment. An explainer on why equity is not credit, the missing middle, …

• 6 October 2026 ₹500 Crore and Above, and the Data Nobody Had Joined Up

  The Cabinet approved the Integrated Transport & Logistics Authority on 6 October 2026. An explainer on the National Transport Master Plan, the ₹500 crore appraisal threshold, and the data re…

• 5 October 2026 42.6% on Two Wheels, 5% on Mass Transit

  The NSO released key findings from India's first National Household Travel Survey, July 2025 to June 2026. An explainer on the two-wheeler share, the 1 km threshold that hides pedestrians, a…

• 5 October 2026 540 Tonnes Down the Brahmaputra, 70 Years After the Ghat Closed

  A barge carrying 540 tonnes of methanol left Bogibeel for Bangladesh on 5 October 2026 — upper Assam's first international cargo since Independence. An explainer on NW-2, the Protocol Route,…

• 3 October 2026 ₹180 Crore at 8.10%, and What Makes a Toilet Bankable

  NABKISAN listed India's first WASH-focused social bond on the NSE on 1 October 2026, raising ₹180 crore. An explainer on what a social bond is, how it differs from a green bond, and what 'ma…