Daily Current Affairs for UPSC

During Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Colombo in April 2025, India and Sri Lanka revisited long-standing concerns over the fisheries crisis in the Palk Straits and the sovereignty of Katcha...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin, China, where India and China discussed bilateral ties and multilateral cooperation under the SCO fr...

Israel’s recent military strike inside Qatar targeting Hamas’s negotiating team has drawn global criticism and raised concerns over violation of international law. Nature of Israeli Strikes Ta...

Punjab, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, and Jammu & Kashmir witnessed severe floods and landslides in August 2025 due to intense rainfall, causing human casualties, property loss, and environmental...

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the construction of the 82.4 km Mokama–Munger section of the Buxar–Bhagalpur High-Speed Corridor in Bihar on Hybrid Annuity Mode (HAM) at a c...

The Ministry of Culture has launched the Gyan Bharatam Mission with a financial outlay of ?482.85 crore (2024–31), alongside hosting the first Gyan Bharatam International Conference (11–13 Septemb...

The Union Tribal Affairs Ministry launched the beta version of “Adi Sanskriti”, a digital platform to preserve, promote, and market tribal artforms and heritage. Purpose and Components: The pl...

Himachal Pradesh was recently declared a “fully literate” state, joining Goa, Mizoram, Tripura, and Ladakh, based on adult literacy rates and Functional Literacy assessment. Literacy Definition &...

India’s 2027 Census will be conducted digitally for the first time, with geotagging of all buildings to ensure accuracy in enumeration. Geotagging in Census 2027 The Census of India, conducted e...

The National Action for Mechanised Sanitation Ecosystem (NAMASTE) scheme has validated 84,902 Sewer and Septic Tank Workers (SSWs) and 37,980 Waste Pickers till August 2025, with major milestones achi...

Kerala government has announced a new medical insurance scheme, NoRKA Care, to provide health cover for Non-Resident Keralites (NRKs) both in India and abroad. About the Scheme The NoRKA Care sche...

The President has given assent to Manipur’s law regulating issuance and verification of SC/OBC caste certificates amid concerns of fraudulent claims. Purpose and Scope: The 2024 law aims to prev...

The President has given assent to Manipur’s law regulating issuance and verification of SC/OBC caste certificates amid concerns of fraudulent claims. Purpose and Scope: The 2024 law aims to prev...

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) exempted mining proposals of atomic, critical, and strategic minerals from public consultations citing national defence and strategic re...

Indian scientists at MACS–Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, have discovered two new species of Aspergillus (section Nigri) in the Western Ghats and reported two species for the first time from Indi...

Recent ecological research highlights the active role of trees in shaping fundamental environmental processes such as water cycles, soil formation, and biodiversity conservation, challenging the view ...