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5 October 2026
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8 key points from 2 to 4 October 2026. Each is checked against official or at least two news sources.
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- 1Economy & BusinessWASH social bondRs 180 crore
- 2Science & TechQuantum link5.56 km
- 3SportsAsian Games tally85 medals
- 4SportsArchery gold6-5
- 5InternationalIPU AssemblyRajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh leads a nine-member Indian…
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Jal Arpan
On Gandhi Jayanti, over 1,850 gram panchayats formally took over completed rural water schemes under Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0, with 346 Har Ghar Jal certificates issued in regional languages.
Source: The Kashmir Images, Kashmir Despatch
IPU Assembly
Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh leads a nine-member Indian parliamentary delegation to the 153rd Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly in Arusha, Tanzania, from 5 to 9 October.
The Inter-Parliamentary Union is headquartered in Geneva.
Source: ANI, Devdiscourse
Whale sanctuary
At the IWC70 meeting in Hobart, Brazil’s South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary proposal won 39 votes to 18 but missed the three-quarters majority needed, and the meeting adopted the Hobart Declaration.
Source: ABC News, Oceanographic
WASH social bond
NABARD’s arm NABKISAN Finance listed India’s first water, sanitation and hygiene social bond on the NSE, raising Rs 180 crore at an 8.10 per cent coupon for five years.
WASH stands for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.
Source: UNI, The Hans India
Quantum link
QNu Labs, BISAG-N and IIT Gandhinagar demonstrated India’s first 5.56 km free-space quantum key distribution link, with a bit error rate below 5 per cent and 230 to 260 bits per second.
Quantum key distribution uses quantum physics to share encryption keys securely.
Source: OpIndia, OfficeChai
Asian Games tally
India finished fourth at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games with 85 medals (21 gold, 27 silver, 37 bronze); China topped the table with 169 gold medals.
Source: Khel Now, Outlook India
Archery gold
Seventeen-year-old Kumkum Mohod beat South Korea’s Oh Yejin 6-5 in a shoot-out on 3 October to become the first Indian woman to win Asian Games individual recurve gold.
Source: Deccan Herald, Onmanorama
HDFC Bank CEO
HDFC Bank appointed Anup Bagchi, currently with ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, as MD and CEO for three years from 27 October, after RBI approval; he succeeds Sashidhar Jagdishan.
Source: Business Standard, The Tribune