The Daily Briefडेली ब्रीफ़

Thursday

UPSC current affairs, 12 November 2026

Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum: CCEA Clears ₹3,230-Cr Adaptive Reuse of North & South Blocks GS1.1 · Mumbai's 7-Lake Reservoir Stock Hits 8-Year Low: Doubling Evaporation & Floating Solar Shield GS1.6 · Karnataka's 56% Quota Challenge & SC Creamy Layer Parity: Testing Indra Sawhney Limits GS2.1 · Dual Citizenship vs. OCI Framework: Reconciling Article 9 with India's 37-Million Diaspora GS2.4 · MHA Visa Regime Overhaul: Streamlining Categories from 13 to 9 & Eliminating Red Tape GS2.6 · Gokul Dairy Polls: Bombay HC Orders Separate Ballot Boxes for State-Nominated Directors GS2.3

Wednesday

UPSC current affairs, 11 November 2026

Forests of the Ramayana: Ecology, Sacred Landscapes & The Human-Nature Interface in Ancient Indian Literature GS1.1 · Dismantling the Unconstitutional Buffer Between Detention and Arrest: Supreme Court Enforces Article 22(2) from Minute One GS… · Supreme Court Reaffirms OBC Creamy Layer Benchmark: Parental Status Governs, Salary and Farm Income Strictly Excluded in … · ECI Brings Re-Hired and Contractual Retired Officials Under Model Code of Conduct: Closing the Bureaucratic Neutrality Loophol… · Abu Dhabi Trilateral Peace Talks on Ukraine: India Pushes for Black Sea Maritime Food Corridors & Global South Energy Security… · The Jurisprudence Against Extrajudicial Encounters: Upholding the PUCL (2014) Guidelines and Constitutional Rule of Law GS2.1

Tuesday

UPSC current affairs, 10 November 2026

Kabul’s Bala Hissar Citadel Restoration: Excavating Gandharan-Buddhist, Hindu-Shahi & Mughal Strata at the Crossroads of Cent… · Section 37 NDPS Act vs Article 21 Speedy Trial: Supreme Court Decouples Pre-Trial Detention from Incarceration Penalty in Sujit … · ECI’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) & De-duplication: Reconciling ASD Lists with the Constitutional Franchise under Article 326… · Autonomy of Cooperative Societies vs State Nomination Ordinances: The Gokul Dairy Conflict and Constitutional Contours of Part… · Sovereign Extradition and Political Offence Exceptions: Unpacking the Legal Dimensions of Bangladesh’s Request for Sheikh Hasi… · NPPA Capping of Trade Margins on 137 Anti-Cancer Formulations: Targeted Price Intervention Under DPCO 2013 to Curb Catastro…

Monday

UPSC current affairs, 9 November 2026

The Toxic Foam Paradox: Eutrophication, Surfactant Influx, and the Seasonal Degradation of the Yamuna Riverine Ecosystem · Overruling Azeez Basha: The Supreme Court's 7-Judge Bench Verdict on Minority Educational Institutions under Article 30 · The Doctrine of Collegial Dissent and Judicial Transitions: Safeguarding Institutional Independence in the Apex Court · Livelihood Rights vs Technical Endorsements: Supreme Court's 5-Judge Constitution Bench Verdict on Light Motor Vehicle (LMV) … · The New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) at COP29: Climate Finance Architecture and the Global South's Trillion-Dollar Demand · Institutionalizing South-South Climate Energy Architecture: Outcomes of the 7th Assembly of the International Solar Alliance (ISA)

Sunday

UPSC current affairs, 8 November 2026

The Environmental-Livelihood Conflict: Seasonal Air Pollution Curbs, Informal Construction Labor, and the BOCW Act · Democratic Assembly and Spatial Restrictions: The Shrinking Contours of Protest Spaces in Urban Governance · Legislative Deliberation & Emergency Counter-Terrorism: The Doctrine of Joint Sittings (Art 108) and Bicameral Scrutiny · Persian Gulf Security & The Geopolitical Balance: US-Qatar-Iran Backchannel Diplomacy and India's Energy Arteries · The 'Fats Deficit' in Indian Dairying: Feed Chemistry, Climate Stress, and Regulatory Standards · Unorganized Retail at the Precipice: Quick-Commerce Disruption, Predatory Discounting, and the Role of ONDC

Saturday

UPSC current affairs, 7 November 2026

Delimitation Dilemma & North-South Demographic Divergence: Federalism, Representation, and the 16th Finance Commission Ne… · The 24-Hour Liberty Clock: Supreme Court Eliminates the Fiction of 'Informal Detention' Under Article 22(2) & BNSS · Parental Income vs Occupational Status: Supreme Court Decouples Salary from OBC Creamy Layer Determination · Preventive Detention as an Exceptional Measure: Gauhati HC Quashes NSA Order on Grounds of Stale Cases & Non-Application o… · Beyond Emergency Reaction: Shifting Delhi-NCR from Episodic GRAP to Airshed-Scale Predictive Governance (AIR-SHEDEM) · Modernizing India's Capital Inflow Architecture: Reforming FEMA and Non-Debt Instruments (NDI) Rules

Friday

UPSC current affairs, 6 November 2026

Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Re-evaluating UGC Equity Rules & Caste Inclusivity · Custodial Liberty & The 24-Hour Clock: Supreme Court on Arrest vs Detention under Article 22(2) · Electoral Integrity & Roll Purification: Article 326, Special Summary Revision (SSR), and Aadhaar-Voter Linkage Dilemma · Criminal Justice & Procedural Access: Evaluating Practical Efficacy of Zero FIRs · IPR vs Public Health: Section 3(d) Patents Act and Generic Access to BPaL Regimen for Drug-Resistant TB · Tactical Standoff at the LAC: Strategic Doctrine of Pralay Quasi-Ballistic Missiles

Thursday

UPSC current affairs, 5 November 2026

Demographic Transition and the Two-Child Norm: Re-evaluating Javed v. State of Haryana · Rotation of Reserved Constituencies: Supreme Court Ruling and Delimitation Dynamics · Redefining Platform Liability: Scrapping Section 79 'Safe Harbour' under the IT Act · Overhaul of the Agnipath Scheme: Balancing Operational Readiness and Youth Aspirations · India-Nepal Hydropower and Connectivity Diplomacy ahead of Prime Ministerial Engagement · ₹14,500-Crore Storage Boost: Viability Gap Funding for BESS and Pumped Hydropower

Wednesday

UPSC current affairs, 4 November 2026

Tropical Cyclone Murasu and Vulnerability in the Bay of Bengal · Collegiality and Internal Decision-Making in the Election Commission of India · Protected Area Permit vs. Inner Line Permit: Security and Tourism in the Northeast · Judicial Scrutiny of Preventive Detention: The Threshold of Encrypted Communications · ₹2,800-Crore Capex Scheme: Bridging India's Critical Minerals Midstream Gap · Grid Resilience and Renewable Integration: Lessons from the Island-Wide Blackout

Tuesday

UPSC current affairs, 3 November 2026

Concept Note: Why the Bay of Bengal Breeds More Cyclones · Concept Note: Types of Drought and IMD Rainfall Categories · Independents Who Join a Party: The Tenth Schedule Test · No Right to Protest for OCI Cardholders: Bombay HC · RERA at Ten: Homebuyers Say the Regulator Wears Two Hats · Allahabad HC Seeks Criminal Contempt Against Lawyers: Dissent vs Disruption

Monday

UPSC current affairs, 2 November 2026

Menstrual Hygiene Among Young Women: What NFHS-6 Shows · Voter-Roll Integrity: Pilibhit and the Accountability of Electoral Registration Officers · Jan Vishwas Act, 2026: Decriminalisation and Trust-Based Governance · Tata Sons and the RBI's Scale-Based Regulation: Why Size Now Decides the Rulebook · Delhi's Non-BS-VI Entry Ban: Emission Norms Meet Air-Quality Governance · Mahadev App Case: Extradition from Oman and the Law Against Illegal Betting

Sunday

UPSC current affairs, 1 November 2026

Census 2027: House-to-House Enumeration Schedule Notified · PM Viksit Gram Swaraj Yojana: ₹7,395.55 Crore for Panchayat Governance · Social Security Board for Unorganised, Gig and Platform Workers Constituted · Failed Relationship Is Not Rape: SC on Retrospective Consent · How Legislative Councils Are Created, Composed and Limited · NVS-03 Reaches Orbit: NavIC's Second Generation Grows

Saturday

UPSC current affairs, 31 October 2026

Cyclone Arnab and Odisha's Post-Monsoon Flood Risk · Local Body Polls and the 50% Reservation Ceiling: SC on Maharashtra · Digital Arrest Scams: SC Takes Up the Issue on Its Own Motion · Beneficial Ownership in AIFs and FPIs: SC Declines Mandatory Disclosure · Timely Disclosure in Disasters: A Probity Case Study from Odisha

Wednesday

UPSC current affairs, 28 October 2026

Election Commission Decisions and Institutional Accountability Election Commission & Governance · Kerala’s Senior Citizens’ Bill: Care, Rights and Ageing in Place Social Justice & Vulnerable Sections · Medicine Price Regulation: Affordability, Access and Incentives Health Governance & Social Justice · Double-Fortified Salt: A Promising but Not Standalone Anaemia Tool Food Security · Renewable Energy Needs Storage and Transmission Flexibility Infrastructure & Energy · India’s Biodiversity Commitments at CBD COP17 Biodiversity & International Environmental Governance

Tuesday

UPSC current affairs, 27 October 2026

Digital Privacy Law Meets RTI and Investigative Journalism Fundamental Rights & Governance · Special Leave Petitions and the Supreme Court’s Docket Judiciary & Access to Justice · Fertiliser Pricing and the Nutrient Imbalance in Indian Soils Agriculture & Soil Resources · Agrivoltaics: Keep Farming Viable as Solar Power Expands Energy & Agriculture · E85/E100 Certification Opens a Narrow Flex-Fuel Pathway Energy Security & Environment · Indigenous Green Propulsion for Satellites and Launch Vehicles Space Technology & Innovation

Monday

UPSC current affairs, 26 October 2026

Sirpur: A Multi-Religious Urban Landscape on UNESCO’s Tentative List Art & Culture · An Independent Election Commission, Accountable from Within Polity & Governance · Nepal’s $20 Million Tests the Loss-and-Damage Fund International Institutions · OBC Creamy Layer: Equality Requires More Than an Income Cut-off Social Justice · 11 Crore Farmer IDs: Milestone Reached, Inclusion Test Ahead Agriculture · Beyond the AQI: AATAL Tracks Delhi’s Pollution to Its Sources Environment

Sunday

UPSC current affairs, 25 October 2026

A Distant Pacific Pattern May Be Drying North India GS1: Geography · Kutch's Vanishing Camels: A Warning for India's Pastoral Economy GS1/GS3: Geography & Environment · Can Parliament Remove the Chief Election Commissioner? The Article 324(5) Route GS2: Polity · Ladakh's New Districts and the Centre's Shifting Playbook on Statehood GS2: Polity · NMC Withdraws Its 2023 Medical-Education Standards -- With No Replacement Yet GS2: Governance · The Cauvery Water Management Authority Orders Karnataka to Release Water -- Again GS2/GS3: Federalism & Water Resources

Saturday

UPSC current affairs, 24 October 2026

A Cyclone Brews in the Bay: Oct–Dec Cyclone Season · Voters Can Prosecute Candidates: SC on S.125A · AI to Guard Attendance: VB-G RAM G and NMMS · UNSC's 'Deficit in Legitimacy': India Presses Reform · India–Azerbaijan Reset: Jaishankar in Baku · Counting Invisible Work: PLFS Redesign

Friday

UPSC current affairs, 23 October 2026

Sanskrit on the Silk Road: A 970 CE Phrasebook from Khotan · Bail, Not Punishment: SC on Prolonged Pre-Trial Detention · Interim Relief for Road-Accident Victims · Data Before AI: Fixing State Records for Welfare · Empty Chairs: Vacancies in Central Higher Education · India–Poland: Doubling Trade, Defence Industry Dialogue

Thursday

UPSC current affairs, 22 October 2026

PMLA Is No ‘Super Administrator’: SC on the ED’s Section 66(2) Referrals · Free and Fair Local Polls: SC Steps In on Andhra Pradesh Civic Nominations · Programme Code and Prime Time: The I&B Ministry’s Advisory to TV News · Two Chokepoints, One Crisis: Saudi Arabia, the Houthis and India’s Stakes · CORSIA’s Mandatory Phase and India’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel Push · Leaked Keys and Dark-Web Data: Two Tests for India’s Digital Trust

Wednesday

UPSC current affairs, 21 October 2026

Ladakh's Hill Councils Recast; Centre's Draft Gives L-G Final Say on UT Laws · Kotia: An Unsettled Odisha–Andhra Boundary Returns to the Headlines · Overdue Panchayat Polls: Allahabad HC Orders U.P. to Vote Within Three Months · India–New Zealand FTA Comes Into Force · SCO Heads of Government Meet in Dushanbe: India Presses on Terrorism · Telecom Towers in the Path of Disasters: CDRI Maps Five States

Monday

UPSC current affairs, 19 October 2026

Pattanam and Muziris: Reviving the Study of an Ancient Indian Ocean Port · No Mid-Course Fee Hikes: SC Sets a Certainty Rule for Professional Colleges · More MPs, Same Hours? Floor Time and the Delimitation Debate · Sugar Out of the Tank: Ethanol Feedstock Shifts to Grain for 2026-27 · Drought and the 25% Cap: Telangana Seeks Full MSP Procurement · India's Carbon Market Goes Live: Should It Join the OCCCM?

Sunday

UPSC current affairs, 18 October 2026

Teja Singh Samundri at 100: The Gurdwara Reform Movement · Children Have a Fundamental Right to Access the Internet: SC · Can an OCI Cardholder Be Told to Leave India? · Ladakh: The Centre's Two-Stage Plan and Article 240 · Trump Waives Russian-Oil Sanctions: Relief for India · FSSAI Moves to Ban Added Sugar in Infant Food, Sets Tea Pesticide Limits

Saturday

UPSC current affairs, 17 October 2026

Women's Workforce Participation Rises to 40%: Gains and Gaps · Census 2027: Private School Teachers Can Now Be Enumerators · After the Freeze: Delimitation, Census 2027 and the Women's Quota · Press Freedom at Protests: PCI Issues Safety Guidelines · AI Agents Reached Live Indian Systems During Testing: CERT-In · China Moves to Curb Exports of AI and Solar Technologies

Friday

UPSC current affairs, 16 October 2026

Women's Property Rights: From Welfare to Women-Led Development · Conversion Does Not Carry Backward-Class Status: Supreme Court · Gram Sabhas, PESA and the Freedom of Religion · PAC Grills Centre, States over Leaks in SC Scholarships · India vs Tajikistan: The Contest for a 2028-29 UNSC Seat · Lancet Commission Flags 17 Interlinked Catastrophic Health Threats

Thursday

UPSC current affairs, 15 October 2026

Grounds of Arrest in Writing: SC Closes the 'Re-arrest' Loophole · NSAP Becomes PM Samajik Sahayata Yojana: Social Pensions Till 2030-31 · Forest Rights Holders and Rural Jobs: The Extra 50 Days in Limbo · IDBI Bank Goes to Fairfax: India's First Strategic Sale of a Bank · China+1 Begins at Home: The Trade Deficit and State-Led Manufacturing · Mining vs. a Micro-Endemic: The Jeypore Ground Gecko and Balda Hills

Wednesday

UPSC current affairs, 14 October 2026

Resignation, Defection and the Speaker: Madras HC Sets a Two-Month Deadline · Naming the Land: India Standardises 28 Feature Names in Ladakh, China Objects · BIMSTEC Home Ministers Adopt the 'Delhi Declaration' on Terrorism and Crime · Free Legal Aid and Undertrials: Help That Arrives Late · Overtreatment and Overmedication: When More Medicine Means Worse Care · UPI Merchant Discount Rate Deferred Until After Deepavali

Tuesday

UPSC current affairs, 13 October 2026

Warming Himalayas: Permafrost Thaw, Glacier Collapse and Hazard-Averse Development · Caring for an Ageing India: A Trained Caregiving Workforce · Form 6, the 1960 Rules and the SIR: Who Can Change How Voters Enrol? · From Drug Mark-ups to Hospital Bills: Price Transparency in Health Care · Should the Supreme Court Speak Hindi? Article 348 · Attacks in the Strait of Hormuz: Freedom of Navigation

Monday

UPSC current affairs, 12 October 2026

The Caste Thread Travels Overseas: Dalit Students Abroad · RTI at 21: The Gaps in Proactive Disclosure · Make the Data Protection Board Functional: Kerala HC · Mizoram to Count Refugees Separately in Census 2027 · Katchatheevu: What the 1974 and 1976 Agreements Settled · Why the UAPA Needs Reform

Sunday

UPSC current affairs, 11 October 2026

One El Niño, Two Monsoons: Why Tamil Nadu May See Extreme Rain · Kumartuli: Where Clay Comes Alive for a UNESCO-Listed Festival · Mass Detentions in Delhi: Article 22 and Habeas Corpus · RBI Opens a Special Dollar Window for Oil Companies · AI Data Centres Put India's Power Grid Under Pressure · Anti-Dumping Probe on Chinese Penicillin G

Saturday

UPSC current affairs, 10 October 2026

Regulation, Not Prohibition: SC on Delhi's Blanket Transit Ban · The 50% Ceiling Holds: MP OBC and A.P. BC Quotas Fall · Fixing Entrance Exams: House Panel Backs CBT Mode · Navi Pillay Wins the Nobel Peace Prize; U.S. Sanctions ICC · BRICS After the New Delhi Summit · RBI Tightens the Daily Cash Reserve Requirement

Friday

UPSC current affairs, 9 October 2026

Untouchability in 2026: Are Legal Guarantees Enough? · Monuments as Stages: Heritage and Conservation · Who Picks the Police Chief? SC on DGP Appointment Laws · CAPF (General Administration) Act, 2026 Comes Into Force · Cancer Drug Prices and Pharma Marketing · Missed Chances: Early Childhood Eye Care

Thursday

UPSC current affairs, 8 October 2026

Cauvery Allocation: Karnataka Invokes 'Changed Circumstances' · India's Stakes in the WHO Pandemic Agreement · FCRA Registration and Religious Conversion: Madras HC Ruling · Mercy Petitions and Delay: The Rajoana Case · NCSC Pushes Banks to Report the SC Share in Schemes · RBI Raises the Repo Rate to 5.5%, Shifts to 'Calibrated Tightening'

Wednesday

UPSC current affairs, 7 October 2026

Women Commute Differently: India's First National Household Travel Survey · Siang Upper Multipurpose Project: Arunachal's Youth Body Seeks Withdrawal of Forces · CBI Probe Into Punjab CM's Office: Courts, Consent and Federalism · Breaking the Chain of Leprosy Transmission · The U.S. Blockade on Cuba: Sanctions Beyond Borders · Integrated Transport & Logistics Authority: One Apex Body for Transport

Tuesday

UPSC current affairs, 6 October 2026

The Looming Jobs Gap: Can the Demographic Dividend Still Pay Off? · SIR: SC Notice on Form 6 Changes and the Question of Lifelong Immunity · India–Switzerland: A Migration and Mobility Partnership on TEPA's First Anniversary · MMDR Amendment Act, 2026: Why States Are Divided Over Mineral Taxation · Coal Stocks Critically Low as Power Demand Hits Record Highs · First International Cargo From Upper Assam Since 1947 Sails Down the Brahmaputra

Monday

UPSC current affairs, 5 October 2026

Ramappa Temple: Activists Oppose a Coal Mine Near a World Heritage Site · Universal Adult Suffrage and the SIR: Is the Roll Revision on Firm Legal Ground? · Does a Visa Guarantee Entry into India? Delhi HC Says No · Three-Language Policy: SC Extends Board-Exam Relief to Current Class 6 Students · Odisha Frames Guidelines to Protect Property Rights of Persons with Disabilities · Rabies Deaths: Why India's Data Systems Don't Agree

Sunday

UPSC current affairs, 4 October 2026

Child Marriage in Marathwada: Why the Practice Persists · Five Centres of Excellence for India's Newest Classical Languages · J&K Statehood Resolution: What a UT Assembly Can and Cannot Do · Assam NRC: Rejection Slips Still Not Issued, Centre Tells SC · Sheikh Hasina's Extradition: What the India–Bangladesh Treaty Allows · Rising Child Leprosy Cases Challenge India's 2027 Goal

Saturday

UPSC current affairs, 3 October 2026

A Split Bench and Article 145(3): Who Should Hear the CEC Act Challenge? · Rules Framed for the National Tribunals Commission · Gujarat's Uniform Civil Code Act Gets Presidential Assent · India's Model BIT, a Decade Later: Time for a Rewrite · Kuki-Zo SoO Pact Lapses Into Abeyance in Manipur · GOBARdhan Scheme Launched to Multiply Compressed Biogas Output

Friday

UPSC current affairs, 2 October 2026

Delhi's Urban Villages: How Colonial Land Records Remade the Dehat · Form 7 and Mass Deletions: Who Guards the Electoral Roll? · Vande Mataram Under Criminal Law: The National Song and the 1971 Act · A.P. HC Strikes Down 34% BC Quota in Local Bodies · Counterfeit Medicines: Gaps in India's Drug-Quality Chain · Mahanadi Water Dispute: Talks Run Parallel to the Tribunal

Thursday

UPSC current affairs, 1 October 2026

Southwest Monsoon 2026 Ends 12.6% Below Normal · Legislative Privilege vs. Free Speech: Seven-Judge Bench to Hear 23-Year-Old Case · How the Election Commission Decides — and Why Its Members Are Immune · India–EFTA TEPA at One: Trade Pact Built Around Investment · CAFE-III Norms Notified: Tighter Fuel-Efficiency Targets for Cars · Green Energy Corridor Phase III: ₹1.86 Lakh Crore for Grids and Batteries

Wednesday

UPSC current affairs, 30 September 2026

Once Ruined, Old Grasslands Never Regrow the Same Way · Top Court Flags Steep Mark-Ups on Essential Drugs · SC Quashes NSA Detention: Police Confession No Basis · Democracy Without Choice: Unopposed Panchayat Polls · The United Nations' Long Road to Restoring Trust · AFSPA Extended in Parts of Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal

Tuesday

UPSC current affairs, 29 September 2026

Gender Disparities in Contraceptive Use and Sterilisation · Census 2027: PM Calls It a 'National Responsibility' · A New Governance Model for Ladakh · SC: Authorities Lax in Ensuring Women's Safety in Delhi · Bar and Bench: Few Judicial Officers Make It to High Courts · Rare-Disease Drugs Can Be India's Next Pharma Frontier

Monday

UPSC current affairs, 28 September 2026

Rape Cases in India: A Widening Trial-to-Conviction Gap · Is the Right to Vote a Fundamental Right? The Debate Reopens · Supreme Court Tightens the Mandatory-FIR Rule for Missing Persons · Census 2027: PM Modi Calls it a 'National Responsibility' · Kashmir as India's Gateway to Eurasian Opportunity · The De-Sinification Paradox: An Opening for Indian Manufacturing

Sunday

UPSC current affairs, 27 September 2026

A Tale of Two Monsoons: Maharashtra Declares Drought in 265 Taluks as U.P. Battles Record Floods · EC Goes Into Damage-Control Mode: Special Enrolment Drive, Extended Deadlines Amid SIR Row · Delhi HC: A Muslim Personal-Law Marriage Cannot Shield an Accused From the POCSO Act · Andhra Pradesh Refuses to Defend Centre's Transgender Rights Law Amendments in Supreme Court · At Least 27 UPSC CSE Prelims Questions Challenged as 'Ambiguous' Before the Central Administrative Tribunal · Karnataka Legislature Unanimously Rejects Kasturirangan-Based Western Ghats ESA Draft, Seeks a Year for Physical Survey

Saturday

UPSC current affairs, 26 September 2026

Deep Depression Over Bay of Bengal Triggers Odisha's Wettest Monsoon Since 2000, Floods in Andhra Pradesh · Nationwide Protests Demand CEC's Resignation Amid SIR Row; SC Plea Seeks Probe · J&K Assembly Passes Statehood Resolution 'in Continuation' of 2000 Autonomy Resolution · Govt. Yet to Decide How Open-Column Caste Data From 2027 Census Will Be Sorted · AFSPA Extended for Six More Months in Parts of Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh · Centre, Banks to Decide UPI Subsidy Quantum as Merchant Charge Kicks in From October 15

Friday

UPSC current affairs, 25 September 2026

Shekhawati's Painted Havelis Enter UNESCO's Tentative List · Deep Depression Over Bay of Bengal Wreaks Havoc in Coastal Andhra Pradesh · The Murky World of Political Party Finance · CIC Recommends Restoring Disclosure of UPSC Candidates' Detailed Marks · Mines and Minerals Amendment Act Stokes Fiscal Federalism Row in Odisha · Cauvery Water Row: Supreme Court Seeks Karnataka's Response to Tamil Nadu's Shortfall Plea

Thursday

UPSC current affairs, 24 September 2026

Super El Niño to Add 15,800 Heat Deaths in India · SC's Split Verdict: Why the CEC Selection Panel ‘Fails the Perception Test’ · Anti-Defection Law and the Speaker's ‘Amphibious’ Role · India and the EU Finally Set a Date: FTA Signing on December 16 · India Rejects OIC Group's Remarks on Kashmir · Delhi's Coaching-Centre and PG Ecosystem: A Governance Blind Spot

Wednesday

UPSC current affairs, 23 September 2026

Punjab’s Groundwater Crisis: When the Green Revolution Runs Dry · Maharashtra’s Women Farmers’ Bill Redefines Who Counts as a ‘Farmer’ · 11th National Ayurveda Day: Ministry of AYUSH Unveils ‘Ayush Vision 2030’ · Supreme Court: National Song Cannot Override the Conscientious Objector · Election Commission Freezes Trinamool Congress’s Name and Symbol · Kerala Orders Probe into CMRL-Exalogic Case, Reviving the FIR-Registration Debate

Tuesday

UPSC current affairs, 22 September 2026

The Persistent Antagonism Towards Urdu · Right to Know Grounds of Arrest is Sacrosanct: Supreme Court · Delhi's Special Intensive Revision: Disenfranchisement Concerns Grow · Supreme Court Strikes Down Maharashtra's Methanol Denaturing Rules · A Malacca-Singapore Model for Resolving the Hormuz Impasse · India Joins Push for UN-Based Multilateralism Beyond 'Superpower Politics'

Monday

UPSC current affairs, 21 September 2026

A Musician's Killing in Delhi Revives an Old, Unresolved Question on Northeast Safety · Karnataka Grants Tulu 'Additional Official Language' Status — But a Cabinet Decision Isn't Enough · A Delhi Protest Against Caste-Equity Rules Is Called Off — But the Debate Isn't · Nepal's New Government Wants a $5-Billion Reset With India After the Bhotekoshi Floods · India's Draft EU Trade Deal Could Quietly Rewrite Its Copyright Law · India's 'Assembly Trap': Manufacturing Success Still Runs on Chinese Supply Chains

Sunday

UPSC current affairs, 20 September 2026

Delhi's SIR Notices Sweep Up 33.1 Lakh Electors — From a Former Vice-President to Ordinary Voters · JMM Protests Erupt Across Jharkhand Over the Amended Mines Act's Federalism Squeeze · Supreme Court Strikes Down Maharashtra's Poisons Rules, Says Prohibition Alone Can't Stop Hooch Deaths · 828 Police-Station CCTV Cameras Lie Dark in Odisha, Testing a Supreme Court Mandate · The US Confirms It Has 'Space Control' Weapons in Orbit — And International Law Barely Covers Them · 188 Scientists Warn of a 'Super El Niño' Bearing Down on India

Saturday

UPSC current affairs, 19 September 2026

EC Freezes Trinamool Congress's Name and Symbol Amid Banerjee Family Split · Telangana High Court Disqualifies BRS MLA for Defection Under the Tenth Schedule · JPC Grills Centre Over FCRA Bill's Asset-Takeover Powers · The Maratha Reservation Battle Returns to the Bombay High Court · Ramming Incidents at Sea Put the Law of the Sea to the Test · India's Oil Import Map Is Redrawn Again by U.S. Sanctions Pressure

Friday

UPSC current affairs, 18 September 2026

Supreme Court Seeks Report on 25 Unnatural Deaths in Manipur Relief Camps · The Uniform Civil Code Debate: Where Constitutional Law Meets Personal Law · Supreme Court Nudges Centre to Defer Class 6 Three-Language Policy to 2027 · Odisha's 'Dead' Construction Workers: A Ghost in the Welfare Machine · US Congress Clears Russia Sanctions Bill Authorising 100% Tariffs; India Responds · Why India Needs a Permanent 'War Room' for the Age of Sanctions

Thursday

UPSC current affairs, 17 September 2026

'Census Town' Criteria Flagged as Outdated Ahead of Census 2027 · Cabinet Clears ₹10,998-Crore Elevated Corridor to Decongest Varanasi · MMDR Amendment, 2026: A New Centre-State Flashpoint Over Mining Revenue · Delhi's Electoral Roll Deletions Under SIR Fall Below 2025 Turnout in 24 Seats · India Rejects Pakistan-China 'Boundary Joint Commission', Reasserts Sovereignty · Centre Tells Delhi HC an Adult May Nominate a Same-Sex Partner for Medical Decisions