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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. 2,647+ 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 · 889 articles

Polity & Governance

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  1. 01Women Prisoners and Children: Protecting Rights Through Custody
  2. 02CEC can be removed only like an SC Judge: ECI 
  3. 03Election Commission: Removal Safeguards and Collective Decisions
  4. 04DPDP Challenge: Balancing Personal Data With Public-Interest Journalism
  5. 05The need for a national media council
  6. 06Municipal Reform: Matching City Responsibilities With Authority
  7. 07Railway Complaints: Connecting Response With Police Investigation
  8. 08Vehicle Data Audit: Controlling Access Beyond the Original Portal
  9. 09When police officers wield powers of Special Executive Magistrate
  10. 10Municipal Nominations: Evidence-Based Remedies for Obstructed Candidates
GS III · 1116 articles

Economy

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  1. 01Sports Goods Manufacturing: Building Clusters That Meet Standards
  2. 02Container Manufacturing: Linking Finance, Standards and Production
  3. 03India–Mexico PTA: Setting the Rules Before Market Access
  4. 04ESIC Amnesty: Settling Disputes Without Erasing Contributions
  5. 05InvITs Look at a Bigger Slice of India’s Household Savings
  6. 06Local Toll Pass: Matching Concessions to Residents and Fee Plazas
  7. 07State IIP Revision: Making Industrial Output Comparable
  8. 08ASUSE Redesign: Linking Survey Timing With Enterprise Constraints
  9. 09Flex-Fuel Rules: Matching Ethanol Blends to Certified Vehicles
  10. 10Municipal Reform: Matching City Responsibilities With Authority
GS III · 873 articles

Environment & Ecology

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  1. 01Groundwater Recharge: Turning Maps Into Suitable Local Structures
  2. 02OECMs: Recognising Conservation Beyond Protected Areas
  3. 03Himalayan Tourism: Planning Within Carrying Capacity
  4. 04Heat Exposure: Why Age and Living Conditions Shape Risk
  5. 05Flex-Fuel Rules: Matching Ethanol Blends to Certified Vehicles
  6. 06Jojari River Case: Linking Restoration Costs With Regulatory Accountability
  7. 07AATAL Laboratory: From Pollution Levels to Source Evidence
  8. 08Inland Fisheries Plan: Linking Fishing Rights With Healthy Waters
  9. 09UN climate damages fund pledges $21 million to Nepal
  10. 10Shah pledges to clean Yamuna by May 2029, launches infra projects worth ₹8,941 crore
GS II · 695 articles

International Relations

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  1. 01India–Mexico PTA: Setting the Rules Before Market Access
  2. 02Delhi invites Pakistan Minister for SCO Civilisational Dialogue debut
  3. 03New Delhi’s ‘balancing act’ risks eroding Russia’s Trust
  4. 04Manuscript Cooperation: Preserving Originals and Opening Digital Access
  5. 05Satellite Connectivity: Who Controls an Operational Link?
  6. 06Tumaini Trial: Testing Vaccines Against Bundibugyo Virus
  7. 07UN Security Council faces a ‘legitimacy deficit’, says India
  8. 08India–Poland Dialogue: From Defence Contacts to Industrial Cooperation
  9. 09China imposes restrictions on export of tunnel-boring, high-altitude machinery
  10. 10Health in NDCs: From Recognition to Funded Climate Action
GS III · 998 articles

Science & Technology

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  1. 01Sports Goods Manufacturing: Building Clusters That Meet Standards
  2. 02Groundwater Recharge: Turning Maps Into Suitable Local Structures
  3. 03Keralam defends generic SMA drug 
  4. 04Nobel winner backs GM crop innovation in Indian Labs
  5. 05Paediatric Primaquine: Quality Assurance and Safe Relapse Prevention
  6. 06Manuscript Cooperation: Preserving Originals and Opening Digital Access
  7. 07ALTD Proposal: Regulating Scheduled Television Delivered Through Apps
  8. 08Flex-Fuel Rules: Matching Ethanol Blends to Certified Vehicles
  9. 09Green Propulsion: Moving From a Demonstration to a Reliable System
  10. 10NCERT AI Module: Learning to Question Machine Outputs
GS I · 312 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 · 510 articles

Geography

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  1. 01Groundwater Recharge: Turning Maps Into Suitable Local Structures
  2. 02Heat Storms: Measuring Extreme Heat Across Space and Time
  3. 03El Niño and Forest Stress: Why Local Rainfall Still Matters
  4. 04Mars Analogues: Reading Water–Rock History in Hydrous Sulphates
  5. 05Karela Lake: Reconstructing Monsoon and Farming Adaptation
  6. 06India’s China+1 lessons lie within its own States
  7. 07Electric mobility – the way ahead
  8. 08Warming Himalayas demand a rethink on development
  9. 09Cyclone Decision Support: Reading Tracks and Multiple Hazards
  10. 10Invasive Species: Preventing Entry Before Managing Spread
GS I · 364 articles

Society

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  1. 01Free bus travel has given women more mobility
  2. 02Advancing the Women-led Development Model
  3. 03Education Gender Parity: Why Equal Enrolment Can Hide Exclusion
  4. 04Are legal guarantees insufficient in abolishing untouchability?
  5. 05AI companions and child safety
  6. 06Tribal Heritage Archives: Preserving Living Knowledge With Communities
  7. 07Authorities lax in ensuring Women’s Safety in Delhi: SC
  8. 08Long Wait for Justice as Pendencies in Rape Cases Mount
  9. 09Film Certification: Drug Warnings and Parental Guidance
  10. 10Secularism is a ‘modern’ concept, does not fit India’s tradition, says RSS chief
GS IV · 319 articles

Ethics & Integrity

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  1. 01AI companions and child safety
  2. 02Long Wait for Justice as Pendencies in Rape Cases Mount
  3. 03UN Iran Findings: Civilian Protection and the Limits of Fact-Finding
  4. 04Doping is now a deep-rooted culture in Indian Sports
  5. 05AI in Mathematics: Proof Verification, Understanding and Research Ethics
  6. 06Judicial Integrity and Corruption
  7. 07Return of Profanation as a New Political Language
  8. 08SC calls on students to educate elders in Waste Management
  9. 09AI Agents, Consumer Control and Accountability
  10. 10AI-Designed Viruses: Scientific Promise and the Biosecurity Governance Gap
GS I · 280 articles

Art & Culture

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  1. 01Manuscript Cooperation: Preserving Originals and Opening Digital Access
  2. 02After a decade of disruption, Pattanam needs a renewed vision 
  3. 03Sourashtra Text-to-Speech: Turning Written Characters Into Spoken Access
  4. 04World Heritage Climate Toolkit: Protecting the Attributes That Matter
  5. 05Tribal Language Corpora: From Recordings to Reliable Learning Tools
  6. 06Nobel Peace Prize 2026 
  7. 07Anne Carson Wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2026
  8. 08Coal mining near Ramappa Temple may harm the Heritage Site and Lake
  9. 09Classical Language Centres: Turning Recognition Into Research Capacity
  10. 10Tribal Heritage Archives: Preserving Living Knowledge With Communities
GS III · 319 articles

Internal Security

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  1. 01Operation Trident: Following Drug Networks Beyond Seizures
  2. 02Walkie-Talkie Regulation: Why Licence Exemptions Have Conditions
  3. 03Satellite Connectivity: Who Controls an Operational Link?
  4. 04Submarine AIP: Testing Power for Longer Submerged Endurance
  5. 05Railway Complaints: Connecting Response With Police Investigation
  6. 06Theatre Commands: Joint Planning and Flexible Air-Power Allocation
  7. 07Vehicle Data Audit: Controlling Access Beyond the Original Portal
  8. 08BB-PPDR Proposal: Connecting Emergency Services Reliably
  9. 09India–Poland Dialogue: From Defence Contacts to Industrial Cooperation
  10. 10Border Shelters: Protecting Personnel in Drone-Exposed Terrain
GS III · 129 articles

Disaster Management

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  1. 01Himalayan Tourism: Planning Within Carrying Capacity
  2. 02Heat Exposure: Why Age and Living Conditions Shape Risk
  3. 03BB-PPDR Proposal: Connecting Emergency Services Reliably
  4. 04Cyclones, floods and landslides threaten telecom resilience 
  5. 05Crowd Management at Mass Gatherings: Lessons from the Kolkata Tragedy
  6. 06Heat Storms: Measuring Extreme Heat Across Space and Time
  7. 07Climate Services: Turning Projections Into Sector Decisions
  8. 08World Heritage Climate Toolkit: Protecting the Attributes That Matter
  9. 09Bridge Design Checks: Independent Review Before Construction
  10. 10Cyclone Decision Support: Reading Tracks and Multiple Hazards

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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