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In a significant step towards promoting Women-led Development in India, South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL), a subsidiary of Coal India Limited (CIL), inaugurated the company's first fully women-operated Central Store Unit at the Central Workshop in Korba, Chhattisgarh on 5 October 2025.
A high-level parliamentary delegation from India, led by Lok Sabha Speaker Shri Om Birla, is participating in the 68th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) being held in Bridgetown, Barbados from 5 to 12 October 2025. This conference is an important platform for dialogue among legislators of Commonwealth countries, which aims to strengthen democratic institutions, promote technological change, and encourage inclusive governance.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Prime Minister's Skill Enhancement and Technical Upgradation (PM SETU) scheme during the Skills Convocation ceremony organized at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on 4 October 2025. This scheme with a budget of ₹60,000 crore aims to transform 1,000 Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) across the country into modern, industry-oriented and employment-oriented centers.
Sandhya Shantaram was a veteran actress.
The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) is going to organize the 10th National Level Pollution Response Exercise (NATPOLREX-X) on the Chennai coast of Tamil Nadu from 7 October 2025. This two-day biennial event is a major national exercise to test and strengthen India's preparedness to deal with marine oil spills.
Singapore has renamed the island where Zubeen Garg had a tragic death to 'Zubeen Garg Island' on Google Maps in honor of his global impact. The 52-year-old Garg passed away from drowning in a scuba diving accident during a boat trip.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched Goa's 'Mhaje Ghar' scheme at the Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium in Taleigao. This scheme focuses on regularizing houses built on government and community land, giving ownership rights to long-residing residents, which will benefit 1.1 million people.
India has achieved another extraordinary engineering feat. The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has constructed the world's highest motorable road in Ladakh at an altitude of 19,400 feet above sea level, breaking its own previous record. This road passes through Mig La Pass under Project Himank, surpassing the previous record of Umling La (19,024 feet) built in 2021.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, at the launch of the book 'After Me, Chaos' written by former Union Minister and eminent journalist M.J. Akbar, said that India is currently the world's fourth largest economy and is on its way to becoming the third largest.
Sanae Takaichi has been elected as the first female Prime Minister of Japan.
Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan participated in and addressed the Makhana Mahotsav in Patna. A 'Center of Excellence' was launched in Bihar to focus on quality control and value addition of makhana production.
Union Coal and Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy, along with Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu, inaugurated the Namchik Namphuk coal mine in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh.
France's new Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned just hours after his cabinet was appointed.
Every year on the first Monday of October, the entire world celebrates World Habitat Day. This day provides an opportunity to reflect on the condition of human settlements and to re-establish the right of every individual to proper housing. In the year 2025, this day is being celebrated on 6 October, the theme of which is "Urban Crisis Response".
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Dudley, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries related to peripheral immune tolerance.
The 20th FICCI Higher Education Summit 2025 was held in New Delhi.