THE NEWSROOM by Amrit Upadhyay | 04 - 10 Oct 2026 | Weekly Current Affairs I EDU TERIA IAS

The Newsroom | Weekly Current Affairs | 4-10 October 2026 Anchored by: Amrit Upadhyay Sir | Eduteria IAS This week: RBI raises repo rate after 4 years, record- breaking El Niño heat in the Pacific, pneumonic plague fears in Siberia, India's first Fleet Support Ship, UCIL's Diamond Jubilee, Tuvalu's uninhabitable future, and the 2026 Nobel Prize winners explained. 🔥 Key Highlights of This Week ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ RBI's first rate hike in four years—what it means for your EMIs ✔ Pacific Ocean temperatures hit a historic high, raising fears of a Super El Niño this winter ✔ A tiny beetle is threatening millions of Sal trees in Madhya Pradesh ✔ Why a Siberian lab worker's death has triggered a pneumonic plague investigation ✔ The 2026 Nobel Prizes—optogenetics, neutrino detection, and chiral molecules explained simply ✔ Why Tuvalu, smaller than a quarter of Patna, could vanish by the end of this century ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Important for Competitive Exams ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This episode is especially useful for UPSC, BPSC, and all competitive exams covering: → Monetary policy—repo rate, inflation control → Climate science—El Niño, Niño 3.4 region, monsoon impact → Public health—plague types and transmission → Defence—naval fleet support ships, India-UAE military exercises → Nuclear energy — UCIL and India's uranium mining → Environment and conservation—Great Indian Bustard, Sal forests → Geography—small island nations and sea level rise → Science — 2026 Nobel Prize breakthroughs #TheNewsroom #AmritUpadhyay #EduteriIAS #CurrentAffairs2026 #UPSCCurrentAffairs #BPSCCurrentAffairs #RBIRepoRate #CentralSecretariatLibrary #SalHeartwoodBorer #GreatIndianBustard #SuperElNino #PneumonicPlague #FleetSupportShip #UCIL #ExerciseMountainGuardian #TuvaluSeaLevelRise #NobelPrize2026 #IceCubeObservatory #Optogenetics #UPSC2026 #BPSC70th #Eduteria #NewsroomIndia #4To10Oct2026