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On 16 October 2026, India’s Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) prohibited the reuse of single-use medical devices and disposable surgical items in public and private healthcare facilities. The directive requires healthcare providers to use these products strictly according to the instructions and recommendations of the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM).

India’s Raksha Mantri, Rajnath Singh, will lead the Indian delegation to the 13th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus), scheduled for 28–29 October 2026 in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu, Philippines. The Philippines holds the ADMM-Plus chairmanship for 2026, and the meetings have the theme “Navigating Our Future, Together”.

Indian photographer and fine artist Sitaram Raul won the ‘Behaviour: Invertebrates’ category at the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. His photograph, titled Shifting Sand, depicts an Indian Buthacus scorpion burrowing into sand near the village of Sam in Rajasthan’s Thar Desert as sunrise approached. The competition is organised by London’s Natural History Museum and received more than 65,000 entries from around the world in 2026.

India’s Yuki Bhambri and American Ryan Seggerman won the men’s doubles title at the ATP 250 Almaty Open in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on 25 October 2026. They defeated top seeds Lucas Miedler and Neil Oberleitner of Austria in the final.

Shabari Naturals, a Maharashtra government initiative, received the G-Mark – Global Design Award on 25 October 2026 for packaging inspired by traditional tribal art. The Japan Institute of Design Promotion is scheduled to formally present the award in Tokyo on 4 November 2026. Leena Bansod, Managing Director of the Nashik-headquartered Shabari Tribal Finance and Development Corporation (STFDC), will accept it on behalf of the Maharashtra government.

Astronomers detected fine, thread-like magnetic structures in the chromosphere above a quiet region of the Sun using the Sunrise-III solar observatory. The findings were published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on 24 October 2026 by an international research team led by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ).

The Indian Navy’s First Training Squadron arrived in Sri Lanka on 26 October 2026 for a three-day goodwill visit scheduled to conclude on 28 October. The squadron comprises Indian Naval Ships Tir and Sujata, and Indian Coast Guard Ship Sarathi. The visit forms part of a long-range training deployment across the Indian Ocean region.

Yasuo Fukuda, Japan’s prime minister from September 2007 to September 2008, died at the age of 90 on October 22, 2026. His cause of death was heart failure. Born on July 16, 1936, in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, he graduated from Waseda University. He was the eldest son of former Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda and the first son of a former Japanese prime minister to serve as Japan’s prime minister.

K. Damodharan, popularly known as Chef Damu, died in Chennai on 25 October 2026 at the age of 72. He received the Padma Shri in 2025 for his contribution to culinary arts and was a judge on the Tamil television programme Cooku with Comali.

Two new plant species, Ophiorrhiza shidiensis and Ophiorrhiza pemae, were identified during botanical surveys in the Vijoynagar area of Changlang district, Arunachal Pradesh. The findings were published online on 23 October 2026. Both species belong to the family Rubiaceae.