Daily Current Affairs 24th October 2025

Q.1. Which nations have consented to include more industries and goods in the purview of their MERCOSUR-based preferential trade agreement?
Ans:- India and Brazil
Q.2. Which company is holding a national competition with a ₹1 lakh prize pool to create an official Aadhaar mascot?
Ans:- UIDAI
Q.3. Where did the Republic of Korea and India conduct IN-RoKN, their first bilateral naval exercise, in October 2025?
Ans:- South Korea
Q.4. Who was named Gujarat’s Deputy Chief Minister in the October 17, 2025, cabinet reshuffle?
Ans:- Harsh Sanghavi
Q.5. On October 17, whoever did the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) elect as its new president?
Ans:- Nirmal Kumar Minda
Q.6. In order to support cancer research, which company created the AI model Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B (C2S-Scale) that can decode the language of individual cells?
Ans:- Google
Q.7. From December 6–9, 2025, where will the 11th India International Science Festival (IISF) take place?
Ans:- Chandigarh
Q.8. Which business introduced the “Pay with Mutual Fund” feature, which enables UPI payments via redemptions of mutual funds?
Ans:- Bajaj Finserv
Q.9. Which business was given a three-year contract by India’s MEA to run Indian visa offices in Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing?
Ans:- BLS International
Q.10. With effect from January 1, 2026, who has been named the first Indian managing director and CEO of Hyundai India?
Ans:- Tarun Garg