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Current Affairs Compass · UPSC 2026

News, mapped to your syllabus.

Every article opens with Why in News?, tells you the exact GS paper it feeds, and closes with a UPSC-style practice question. 2,334+ articles indexed · daily, monthly and subject-wise compilations · PDFs you can actually revise from.

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Compass compilations

Year-long PDFs, stitched by subject.

Every high-yield news item from a full calendar year, grouped by theme, cross-referenced to the syllabus. The three subjects that dominate UPSC current affairs, first — the rest follow through the monthly archive.

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  • GS IIIJan – Dec 2025

    Environment, Ecology & Biodiversity

    Every Why-in-News item, organised into chapters you can read end-to-end — or dip into topic by topic when a question surfaces.

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  • GS IIJan – Dec 2025

    Indian Polity & Governance

    Every Why-in-News item, organised into chapters you can read end-to-end — or dip into topic by topic when a question surfaces.

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  • GS IIIJan – Dec 2025

    Science & Technology

    Every Why-in-News item, organised into chapters you can read end-to-end — or dip into topic by topic when a question surfaces.

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Just published

The latest current affairs from our desk.

A live feed of the nine most recent UPSC current affairs articles published on AnantamIAS — each opens with Why-in-News, the GS paper it feeds, a practice question, and an FAQ accordion.

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Browse by subject

Current affairs grouped by GS paper.

Twelve subject hubs, each with the ten most recent articles laid out in a scannable list. Click any title to read the full Why-in-News + GS-mapping breakdown, or open the subject hub to see every article we've ever published in that paper.

GS II · 845 articles

Polity & Governance

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  1. 01Free Speech versus Legislative Privilege: Supreme Court to Revisit the Limits
  2. 02Petroleum Amendment Draft: Civil Penalties and Safety Offences
  3. 03What are the provisions of AFSPA?
  4. 04Surveillance Is Not the Only Privacy Issue
  5. 05A New Governance Model for Ladakh
  6. 06RTI Exemptions and the Limits of State Power
  7. 07Form 26 and the Statutory Mandate: Disclosure of Criminal Antecedents in Elections
  8. 08Should Voting be a Fundamental Right?
  9. 09ECI SIR Decisions: Doorstep Verification and Statutory Control
  10. 10AFSPA Extended in Parts of Arunachal, Manipur, Nagaland
GS III · 1015 articles

Economy

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  1. 01The India-EFTA Partnership: One Plus One Equals Three
  2. 02How to Finance Rural Prosperity: From Production Credit to Value Chain Finance
  3. 03Annual Survey of Industries: Reading Factory Value Addition
  4. 04CAFE Norms: Fleet Averages and the Path to Lower Fuel Use
  5. 05Adaptive Traffic Signals: From Fixed Timings to Live Coordination
  6. 06Green Energy Corridor III: Connecting Transmission and Storage
  7. 07Petroleum Amendment Draft: Civil Penalties and Safety Offences
  8. 08Why did the Centre Reduce Import Duty on Edible Oils?
  9. 09Multi-Gas Sensors: From a Sensing Element to a Reliable Signal
  10. 10Rural Roads Study: Measuring Access Before and After Construction
GS III · 805 articles

Environment & Ecology

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  1. 01CAFE Norms: Fleet Averages and the Path to Lower Fuel Use
  2. 02Green Energy Corridor III: Connecting Transmission and Storage
  3. 03National Coastal Mission 2.0: Coordinating Coastal Resilience
  4. 04PRAGATI-50: Tracking Sanitation Services Across the Whole City
  5. 05PRAMAAN Certification: Independent Audits and Traceable Forest Products
  6. 06Revised GRAP: Earlier Controls and Wider Dust Oversight
  7. 07Cetacean Conservation: Reducing Bycatch and Vessel Collision Risks
  8. 08UN Sea Level Declaration
  9. 09Alternative Destinations: Redistributing Tourism Within Local Capacity
  10. 10LNG Rail Traction: A Fuel Switch With Lifecycle Conditions
GS II · 655 articles

International Relations

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  1. 01Cetacean Conservation: Reducing Bycatch and Vessel Collision Risks
  2. 02Kashmir as India’s Gateway to Eurasian Opportunity
  3. 03Tarang Shakti: Coordinating Combat and Support Aircraft
  4. 04Quad-at-Sea: Coast Guard Learning Through Shipboard Observation
  5. 05Cross-Border Health Preparedness: Sharing Alerts While Retaining Data Control
  6. 06PABS Negotiations: Linking Pathogen Sharing to Fair Access
  7. 07US-Greenland-Denmark Security Agreement
  8. 08Should Permanent Membership and Veto Powers of the UNSC be Abolished?
  9. 09Using Trade Treaty Policy to strengthen Arbitration: FTAs, BITs and Arbitration
  10. 10BRICS Tax Cooperation: Permanent Groups for Taxation and Revenue Data
GS III · 900 articles

Science & Technology

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  1. 01One Health Laboratories: Minimum Standards and Biosafety
  2. 02CHIME Hydrogen Mapping: Reading Cosmic Expansion
  3. 03Adaptive Traffic Signals: From Fixed Timings to Live Coordination
  4. 04Green Energy Corridor III: Connecting Transmission and Storage
  5. 05Cybercrimes in India: Vulnerability and Access to Justice
  6. 06Multi-Gas Sensors: From a Sensing Element to a Reliable Signal
  7. 07Gyroplane Training Rules: Separating Rotor Lift From Propeller Thrust
  8. 08Vehicle Crash Testing: Turning Impact Events Into Safety Evidence
  9. 09Making Every Second Count: IST Becomes India’s Only Legal Time
  10. 10Australian AI Incident: Parliamentary Scrutiny and Executive Review
GS I · 292 articles

History

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  1. 01CERD General Recommendation 40 and Reparatory Justice
  2. 02Vaishya Tekri: Testing Ujjain’s Mauryan Stupa Hypothesis
  3. 03Gyan Bharatam Survey Reports More Than 1.19 Crore Manuscripts
  4. 04Sarnath: UNESCO Inscription Recognises a Living Buddhist Heritage
  5. 05Keeladi Excavations: New Brick Structures Deepen the Sangam-Age Record
  6. 06Lothal Heritage Complex: Recreating a Harappan Maritime Town
  7. 07Prambanan temple: Indonesia’s Hindu heritage site and the India connection
  8. 08Syama Prasad Mookerjee: 125th birth anniversary of the Jana Sangh founder
  9. 09Rakhigarhi Ancient DNA: What Harappan Skeletons Reveal About India’s Ancestry
  10. 10The ‘Dancing Girl’ of Mohenjo-daro: Art, Identity and a Naming Debate
GS I · 491 articles

Geography

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  1. 01OptoSAR Satellites: Combining Radar and Optical Views
  2. 02Mount Mantap: Nuclear Tests and Delayed Fault Reactivation
  3. 03Monsoon Withdrawal: Why Retreat Can Coexist With Heavy Rain
  4. 04Sambalpur Doppler Radar: From Weather Observations to Early Action
  5. 05Kishau Agreement: Shared Storage, Federal Coordination and River Flows
  6. 06August Ocean Heat: El Niño and Uneven Regional Risks
  7. 07Bakhira Lake Sediments: Reconstructing the Monsoon Before Rain Gauges
  8. 08ORV Sagar Manthan: From Ship Launch to Ocean Research
  9. 09UN ‘Correct the Map Controversy’ and India’s Territorial Concerns
  10. 10Equal-Area World Maps: UN Resolution and India’s Boundary Caveat
GS I · 348 articles

Society

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  1. 01Tribal Heritage Archives: Preserving Living Knowledge With Communities
  2. 02Authorities lax in ensuring Women’s Safety in Delhi: SC
  3. 03Long Wait for Justice as Pendencies in Rape Cases Mount
  4. 04Film Certification: Drug Warnings and Parental Guidance
  5. 05Secularism is a ‘modern’ concept, does not fit India’s tradition, says RSS chief
  6. 06India ranks 131st on the Global Gender Gap Index 2026
  7. 07Building Collapses in India: Nearly 8,000 people died due to the collapse of structures in 5 years
  8. 08The Incongruity of Caste and Science
  9. 09Tamil Nadu’s Birth Decline and the Demographic Transition
  10. 10India’s Youth Power: An Electoral Force Still in the Making
GS IV · 317 articles

Ethics & Integrity

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  1. 01Long Wait for Justice as Pendencies in Rape Cases Mount
  2. 02UN Iran Findings: Civilian Protection and the Limits of Fact-Finding
  3. 03Doping is now a deep-rooted culture in Indian Sports
  4. 04AI in Mathematics: Proof Verification, Understanding and Research Ethics
  5. 05Judicial Integrity and Corruption
  6. 06Return of Profanation as a New Political Language
  7. 07SC calls on students to educate elders in Waste Management
  8. 08AI Agents, Consumer Control and Accountability
  9. 09AI-Designed Viruses: Scientific Promise and the Biosecurity Governance Gap
  10. 10Animal-Free Research Methods and India’s Biomedical Testing Transition
GS I · 261 articles

Art & Culture

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  1. 01Tribal Heritage Archives: Preserving Living Knowledge With Communities
  2. 02Dadasaheb Phalke Award for Kannada film artist Anant Nag
  3. 03Bharat Ratna and C.N.R. Rao’s Scientific Legacy
  4. 042026 Ramon Magsaysay Awards 
  5. 05Vaishya Tekri: Testing Ujjain’s Mauryan Stupa Hypothesis
  6. 06Gyan Bharatam Survey Reports More Than 1.19 Crore Manuscripts
  7. 07Sarnath: UNESCO Inscription Recognises a Living Buddhist Heritage
  8. 08Keeladi Excavations: New Brick Structures Deepen the Sangam-Age Record
  9. 09Jagannath Dham Trademark: Protecting Puri Temple’s Sacred Identity
  10. 10Mission Senehjori: Turning Muga Silk Waste into High-Value Yarn
GS III · 281 articles

Internal Security

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  1. 01What are the provisions of AFSPA?
  2. 02Cybercrimes in India: Vulnerability and Access to Justice
  3. 03Kashmir as India’s Gateway to Eurasian Opportunity
  4. 04Making Every Second Count: IST Becomes India’s Only Legal Time
  5. 05Australian AI Incident: Parliamentary Scrutiny and Executive Review
  6. 06Tarang Shakti: Coordinating Combat and Support Aircraft
  7. 07Quad-at-Sea: Coast Guard Learning Through Shipboard Observation
  8. 08AFSPA Extended in Parts of Arunachal, Manipur, Nagaland
  9. 09Revisiting India’s Nuclear Doctrine without Revising it
  10. 10Dilution Refrigerators: Ultra-Cold Infrastructure for Quantum Systems
GS III · 113 articles

Disaster Management

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  1. 01National Coastal Mission 2.0: Coordinating Coastal Resilience
  2. 02Nepal’s Flash Floods: Rebuilding Communities after a Disaster
  3. 03Dam Emergency Plans: Coordinating Warnings Across Cascades
  4. 04Steel Safety Council: Learning From Near Misses Before Accidents
  5. 05AI in Disaster Response: From Scattered Reports to Verified Action
  6. 06El Niño Heat Death Projections: Reading Risk Before It Becomes Loss
  7. 07Access-Controlled Highways: New Rules for Safer Corridor Design
  8. 08Mount Mantap: Nuclear Tests and Delayed Fault Reactivation
  9. 09Monsoon Withdrawal: Why Retreat Can Coexist With Heavy Rain
  10. 10Electronic Interlocking: Route Safety and the Kavach Interface

Yearly archive

Every year, indexed.

The full searchable table of every article we've published in a calendar year — with subjects, publish date, and per-article PDF download.

How we do current affairs

Three rules every article on AnantamIAS follows.

Because current affairs for UPSC without the syllabus mapping is just news. And news without a question to answer is just noise.

  1. 01

    Open with Why in News?

    The hook is never the headline — it's the trigger. What event, judgement, or policy decision brought this topic into the UPSC crosshair this week? That context survives; the headline doesn't.

  2. 02

    Map it to the GS paper — and the sub-topic.

    Every article explicitly states which Mains GS paper it feeds, and which syllabus sub-topic it sits under. So when you revise a topic, the article is already indexed against your notes.

  3. 03

    Close with a practice question.

    A 15-marker or a Prelims MCQ, depending on the topic's exam load. Written by the faculty who reads Mains answer copies, not scraped from a bank. That's why they read as if UPSC could have asked them.

FAQ

What aspirants ask us about current affairs.

Which source should I follow — AnantamIAS or a newspaper?

Both. Read The Hindu or Indian Express daily for raw reading habit and diverse opinions. Use the Compass digest to know which of the day’s stories actually matter for UPSC, mapped to the syllabus with context.

How many current affairs articles do I need to read a day for UPSC?

About 5–10 substantive items in Foundation year, 10–15 closer to Prelims. We publish ~20 a day across subjects — don’t read all, read the ones that fall inside your active revision window.

Is the monthly current affairs PDF enough, or do I need the daily?

Monthly is revision-ready. Daily is learning-ready. Use daily to add fresh material to your notes, then re-read the monthly PDF in the final 60-day Prelims sprint — by which point the story has settled into its lasting takeaway.

Do you cover state-specific current affairs?

We cover state-level developments only when they carry national significance — federal-dispute rulings, inter-state river issues, Governor–state conflicts. For state PSC preparation, state-specific papers still have the edge.

Will current affairs from 2024 / 2025 still matter in the 2026 UPSC exam?

Yes — for any topic where the policy or framework continues (e.g., DPDP Act 2023, Women’s Reservation Bill, Kuno cheetahs, G20 legacy). UPSC increasingly asks for trend recall, not just the freshest news.

Can I download all current affairs as a single PDF?

Every daily archive page has a Print / Save as PDF button that bundles all of that day’s articles into a single print-ready document. Monthly PDFs are available from the Compass section above for the three biggest subjects.

Current affairs, taught — not just posted

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