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Highlights of Current Affairs 14 October 2026
- As the RTI Act completes 21 years, an analysis flagged weak Section 4 proactive disclosure (26 Union departments had no information online), a pending-appeal backlog of over 3.85 lakh across 28 commissions, and Section 20 penalties going unimposed in about 98% of eligible cases.
- A CAQM expert committee reportedly recommended phasing out BS-IV vehicles in Delhi-NCR by 2030, BS-VI two-wheelers by 2035 and BS-VI four-wheelers by 2040; these are recommendations, not binding deadlines.
- WIPO’s Global Innovation Index 2026 kept Switzerland first for the 16th straight year, while India ranked 38th among 139 economies and 1st in both the lower-middle-income group and Central and Southern Asia.
- The NSO’s first National Household Travel Survey found two-wheelers carry 42.6% of workers’ commutes, with only 5% of urban workers using mass transit and women’s participation in daily work trips at 41.9% against 61.9% for men.
- WHO prequalified the Serum Institute’s CERVAVAC, India’s first indigenous quadrivalent HPV vaccine, though India’s national HPV programme (launched 28 February 2026) uses Gardasil-4 for around 1.2 crore 14-year-old girls.
- The second meeting of the UN Global Initiative on AI for Agri-Food Systems, coordinated by the ITU, was held alongside India Mobile Congress 2026, highlighting AI uses like pest surveillance and precision farming.
- The Central Asian Conservation Network launched the Central Asian Flyway Digital Hub, with bird collision reporting and ringing/resighting portals, to support migratory bird conservation across 30 range states.
- The PM paid tribute to Jayaprakash Narayan (Sampoorna Kranti, 1974 Bihar Movement) and Nanaji Deshmukh (110th birth anniversary, founder of Deendayal Research Institute), both Bharat Ratna recipients.
- INS Mangrol, the third of eight Mahe-class anti-submarine shallow water craft built by Cochin Shipyard with over 80% indigenous content, was commissioned at Mumbai’s Naval Dockyard.
- India hosted the non-competitive BRICS Traditional and Indigenous Sports Demonstration Games 2026 in Ahmedabad with ten countries, while Garba of Gujarat (UNESCO-listed since December 2023) and Exercise INDRA featured in the one-liners.
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