Current affairs October 6 – October 12, 2025 for CUET

Wildlife Week runs from 2 to 8 October each year. The 2025 theme was 'Human–Wildlife Coexistence', and at the main event in Dehradun on 6 October the Environment Minister launched five national projects: Project Dolphin (Phase II) for river and marine cetaceans; a national framework for Project Sloth Bear; an action plan for Project Gharial; a Centre of Excellence for Human–Wildlife Conflict Management at SACON, Coimbatore; and 'Tigers Outside Tiger Reserves', which deals with conflict beyond protected areas.

The projects follow announcements made at the 7th meeting of the National Board for Wildlife.

The 2025 Nobel Prizes were announced from 6 to 13 October. Physiology or Medicine went to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for discoveries on peripheral immune tolerance — the regulatory T cells that stop the immune system attacking the body.

Physics went to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for showing macroscopic quantum tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit. Chemistry went to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi for developing metal–organic frameworks, porous structures that can pull water from desert air or capture carbon dioxide.

The UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, made his first official visit to India on 8–9 October 2025, with 125 business, university and cultural leaders. The talks were held in Mumbai, where both prime ministers also addressed the Global Fintech Fest.

The visit followed Prime Minister Modi's trip to the UK on 23–24 July 2025, when the two countries signed the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and adopted the India–UK Vision 2035. In Mumbai the leaders looked forward to ratifying CETA and reset the Joint Economic and Trade Committee (JETCO) to oversee it.

The second scheme launched on 11 October 2025 is the Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses, with ₹11,440 crore for 2025-26 to 2030-31. India is the world's largest producer, consumer and importer of pulses; the mission sets out to cut the imports.

Its targets for 2030-31 are production of 350 lakh tonnes from 310 lakh hectares. It promises 100 per cent procurement of tur, urad and masoor at the minimum support price for four years, and the distribution of 88 lakh free seed kits and 126 lakh quintals of certified seed. About 2 crore farmers are expected to benefit.

On 11 October 2025, at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi, the Prime Minister launched two farm schemes with a combined outlay of ₹35,440 crore. The larger is the PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana, at ₹24,000 crore.

The scheme picks 100 districts with low crop productivity and brings 36 existing sub-schemes of 11 ministries together in them — it is a convergence scheme rather than a new pot of money for one ministry. Its aims are higher productivity, crop diversification, storage at panchayat and block level, better irrigation, and easier long- and short-term credit.

The date was chosen: 11 October is the birth anniversary of both Jayaprakash Narayan and Nanaji Deshmukh.