Current affairs October 27 – November 2, 2025 for CUET

On 30 October 2025 the President appointed Justice Surya Kant, a judge of the Supreme Court, as Chief Justice of India with effect from 24 November 2025. He succeeds Justice B.R. Gavai.

Born in Petwar village of Hisar district, Haryana, on 10 February 1962, he took his law degree from Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, in 1984. In 2000 he became the youngest Advocate General of Haryana; he was a judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court from 2004, Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court from October 2018, and a Supreme Court judge from 24 May 2019.

Rashtriya Ekta Diwas — National Unity Day — is observed every 31 October, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's birth anniversary. It was first celebrated in 2014; 2025 marked Patel's 150th birth anniversary, and the main celebration was a parade at Ekta Nagar, Kevadia, in Gujarat's Narmada district, the site of the Statue of Unity.

On the same day in 2015 the Prime Minister announced Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat, which pairs states for cultural exchange. The Run for Unity is the day's recurring public event.

India won the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2025, beating South Africa in the final on 2 November 2025. The team was captained by Harmanpreet Kaur and coached by Amol Mazumdar.

Meeting the Prime Minister afterwards, the captain recalled that the team had met him in 2017 without a trophy — India had lost that year's final.

On 2 November 2025 ISRO's LVM3, on its fifth operational flight (LVM3-M5), placed the CMS-03 communication satellite in geosynchronous transfer orbit. At about 4,400 kg it is the heaviest communication satellite launched to GTO from Indian soil. CMS-03 is a multi-band satellite serving a wide oceanic region as well as the Indian landmass.

The mission also demonstrated the first restart in space of the C25 cryogenic upper stage. LVM3's previous flight had launched Chandrayaan-3.