Monthly Compilation
111 current affairs published in August 2025
August 2025 Current Affairs for UPSC — every Why-in-News article AnantamIAS published in August 2025, mapped to the GS syllabus and packaged for revision. This August 2025 monthly current affairs compilation runs to 111 articles spanning Polity, Economy, Environment, Science & Technology, International Relations, Geography, History, Society and Internal Security — every entry written in the Why-in-News + GS-paper-mapping + UPSC-style practice-question format the Compass uses across every monthly digest on the site.
Each August 2025 entry opens with a Why in News? hook so you know exactly why the story matters for the exam, maps to the precise GS paper and sub-topic, summarises the development in scannable sub-headings, and closes with a UPSC-style practice question plus an FAQ accordion. The structure is deliberately repeatable: the same skeleton across every article in this August 2025 compilation, so revision feels familiar by week two and weak topics surface fast.
Use this August 2025 monthly current affairs page three ways. Read sequentially for a single-sitting scan of everything that mattered in August 2025. Download the August 2025 PDF for offline revision, printing or last-mile cycles before Prelims and Mains. Or filter by GS paper from the Monthly Current Affairs hub to focus on Polity, Economy, IR or Environment in isolation. For day-by-day study, jump to Daily Current Affairs; for the full year, see the 2025 Current Affairs archive. Working backwards? The previous month is July 2025 Current Affairs; the next is September 2025 Current Affairs.
Monthly current affairs for UPSC is the spine of revision — daily reading is for awareness, monthly compilations are what you actually re-read. The August 2025 set below is built for exactly that: open the article, skim the Why-in-News, lock the GS mapping, attempt the practice question, move on. Every piece links to its own per-article PDF if you'd rather collect the high-yield few than the full month.
On July 30, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly announced a 25% tariff on all goods from India, effective August 1, 2025, coupled with an unspecified “penalty” targeting India’s purchases of energy and military hardware from Russia. This move – framed by Trump as a…
Context: As people associated with left-wing extremism are being killed or are surrendering and the forested areas under their control come into the government’s fold, the civilian administration is recalibrating its approach to deliver services in the face of few roads, low Internet connectivity and…
Why in news: After a prolonged legal battle over sharing Mahanadi river water in a designated tribunal, Odisha and Chhattisgarh have now expressed willingness to resolve the dispute amicably between themselves. UPSC CSE Relevance: UPSC CSE in prelims examination has focused on different . A…
Why in news: The Reserve Bank of India’s surprise 50 basis points (bps) rate cut in early June 2024 has started showing its impact — with banks passing on the benefit to borrowers and loan growth picking up as a result. This development is important…
Context: Central Electricity Regulatory Commission’s (CERC) proposal to implement market coupling in the Day-Ahead Market (DAM) segment of India’s power exchanges from January 2026. For UPSC CSE, particularly for General Studies (GS) Paper 3 (Energy), a comprehensive analysis of this issue requires covering multiple dimensions,…
Introduction On 6 August 2025, the second-term Trump administration formalised what had been signalled for several weeks of summer diplomacy — Executive Order 14329, "Addressing Threats to the United States by the Government of the Russian Federation", which imposed an additional 25 per cent ad…
Why in news: The Indian Navy received the advanced guided-missile frigate Himgiri built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) in Kolkata. UPSC CSE Relevance: UPSC CSE in prelims examination has focused on awareness in the fields of IT, space mission, computers, robotics, nano-technology. Himgiri…
Why in news: HOPE Station in Ladakh begins research to simulate life on Moon, Mars. UPSC CSE Relevance: UPSC CSE in prelims examination has focused on awareness in the fields of IT, space mission, computers, robotics, nano-technology. UPSC Prelims PYQ 2020: Q: "The experiment will…
Why in news: The Supreme Court of India has strongly criticized the Telangana Legislative Assembly Speaker for delaying decisions on anti-defection petitions filed against 10 BRS (Bharat Rashtra Samithi) MLAs who defected to the Congress in 2024. The Court has now given a 3-month deadline…
Why in News: Media professionals’ representatives, along with the National Campaign for the People’s Right to Information (NCPRI), said on Wednesday (July 30, 2025) that the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and its draft rules were “extremely problematic” and would erode both the right…