Weekly current affairs: Mecca defence pact, RBI rate, Commonwealth medals

Every week, important things happen around the world, and this was a very busy week.

Three countries — Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan — signed a promise in the city of Mecca to help each other if any one of them is attacked.

In India, the central bank, called the RBI, kept its key interest rate at 5.25 percent, so borrowing money will not get more expensive for now.

Indian athletes did very well at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, winning 39 medals and finishing fourth overall, with Australia on top.

Heavy monsoon rain caused landslides in the state of Kerala, and at least six people sadly lost their lives.

India also marked its 12th National Handloom Day, honouring weavers who make cloth by hand and remembering a famous protest from 1905 called the Swadeshi Movement.

The government approved a scheme called GOBARdhan to increase production of compressed biogas, a clean fuel, and a lake in Arunachal Pradesh became India's 101st protected Ramsar wetland.

Overseas, tens of thousands of migrants crossed into the Spanish city of Ceuta from Morocco within a few days, and more than 40 people died.

A serious Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has killed more than 1,700 people, and health officials are struggling to keep up.

These are among the main current affairs topics that people preparing for India's UPSC exams are following this week.