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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. 2,146+ 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 · 816 articles

Polity & Governance

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  1. 01Kishau Multipurpose Project: Water Security and Cooperative Federalism
  2. 02Youth discontent and the changing face of protest
  3. 03Doping is now a deep-rooted culture in Indian Sports
  4. 04Uniform Civil Code
  5. 05India-Canada Relations: From Diplomatic Reset to Strategic Cooperation
  6. 06Road Safety in India
  7. 07Bankers’ Books Evidence Act: Digital Records and Court Certification
  8. 08How should RUPPs be regulated?
  9. 09Ladakh to get a Unique Elected Body under Article 371K
  10. 10Onus on legislature to make Marital Rape punishable: SC
GS III · 943 articles

Economy

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  1. 01FPI and FDI: Understanding Foreign Investment in India
  2. 02Industrial Tourism: Learning from China & Exploring India’s Potential
  3. 03Lessons from India’s Smallholder Farmers
  4. 04Merchants face 0.4% fee on UPI payment above ₹2,000
  5. 05DRDO VIMARSH: Source-Code Access and Defence Technology Absorption
  6. 06UPI MDR Framework: Merchant Costs and Customer Protection
  7. 07GATCs: Expanding Measurement Verification While Retaining Enforcement
  8. 08Rapido CCPA Order: When Tipping Prompts Distort Consumer Choice
  9. 09Coal India Smart Mining: From Remote Sensing to Safer Operations
  10. 10India-Vietnam JCM: Defence Co-Production and Connected Supply Chains
GS III · 776 articles

Environment & Ecology

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  1. 01SPROUT and SpeedSeed: Testing Crop Traits and Accelerating Breeding
  2. 02Kishau Agreement: Shared Storage, Federal Coordination and River Flows
  3. 03Coal India Smart Mining: From Remote Sensing to Safer Operations
  4. 04Nepal and the Loss and Damage Fund: Why Access Speed Matters
  5. 05Wave-Like Heat Transport: Restricting Atomic Motion for Thermoelectrics
  6. 06Moth Bean Resilience: Developmental Plasticity Under Moisture Stress
  7. 07Gujarat Bustard Recovery: Habitat, Egg Substitution and Soft Release
  8. 08Delhi Drylands Declaration: Connecting Research, Farms and Policy
  9. 09Steel Slag Roads: From Industrial By-product to Tested Aggregate
  10. 10August Ocean Heat: El Niño and Uneven Regional Risks
GS II · 634 articles

International Relations

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  1. 01Orbital Weapons: What the Outer Space Treaty Prohibits
  2. 02Nepal and the Loss and Damage Fund: Why Access Speed Matters
  3. 03India-Vietnam JCM: Defence Co-Production and Connected Supply Chains
  4. 04Nepal Power Approval: Supply Windows, Circuits and Review Conditions
  5. 05India-MERCOSUR PTA: Electronic Origin Proof and Expansion Talks
  6. 06At BRICS, India must bank on the New Development Bank 
  7. 07UNSC Reform: Distorted power relations in the world make UNSC non-operational
  8. 08BRICS Traditional Medicine Proposal: Evidence, Safety and Regulation
  9. 09US Hydraulic-Cylinder Probes: Dumping, Subsidies and Injury Tests
  10. 10Philippines and CDRI: Disaster Resilience Through Infrastructure Cooperation
GS III · 835 articles

Science & Technology

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  1. 01China’s Open-Weight AI Strategy: Opportunities and Risks for India
  2. 02SPROUT and SpeedSeed: Testing Crop Traits and Accelerating Breeding
  3. 03DRDO VIMARSH: Source-Code Access and Defence Technology Absorption
  4. 04GATCs: Expanding Measurement Verification While Retaining Enforcement
  5. 05Coal India Smart Mining: From Remote Sensing to Safer Operations
  6. 06Orbital Weapons: What the Outer Space Treaty Prohibits
  7. 07NHAI 1033 Upgrade: From Emergency Calls to Coordinated Dispatch
  8. 08Wave-Like Heat Transport: Restricting Atomic Motion for Thermoelectrics
  9. 09BRICS Traditional Medicine Proposal: Evidence, Safety and Regulation
  10. 10AI in Mathematics: Proof Verification, Understanding and Research Ethics
GS I · 290 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 · 476 articles

Geography

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  1. 01Kishau Agreement: Shared Storage, Federal Coordination and River Flows
  2. 02August Ocean Heat: El Niño and Uneven Regional Risks
  3. 03Bakhira Lake Sediments: Reconstructing the Monsoon Before Rain Gauges
  4. 04ORV Sagar Manthan: From Ship Launch to Ocean Research
  5. 05UN ‘Correct the Map Controversy’ and India’s Territorial Concerns
  6. 06Equal-Area World Maps: UN Resolution and India’s Boundary Caveat
  7. 07India-China Corps Commander Talks: The New Wacha-Damai Channel
  8. 08Strait of Hormuz Exclusion-Zone Proposal: Transit Passage and Shipping Risk
  9. 09Brahmaputra Mega Dam: Transboundary Risks at the Great Bend
  10. 10Jammu Heroin Routes: Interstate and Cross-Border Trafficking Networks
GS I · 342 articles

Society

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  1. 01Building Collapses in India: Nearly 8,000 people died due to the collapse of structures in 5 years
  2. 02The Incongruity of Caste and Science
  3. 03Tamil Nadu’s Birth Decline and the Demographic Transition
  4. 04India’s Youth Power: An Electoral Force Still in the Making
  5. 05Master Plan for Delhi 2047 Notified
  6. 06Census 2027 Population Enumeration: Parental Data and New Fields
  7. 07Extreme Heat During Pregnancy and Adverse Birth Outcomes in India
  8. 08Nepal Communal Clashes: Secularism and Stability in the Border Belt
  9. 09Odisha PVTG Nutrition: Anaemia and Adolescent Stunting Gaps
  10. 10Canada Study-Permit Cuts: Why Indian Students Face the Largest Impact
GS IV · 315 articles

Ethics & Integrity

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  1. 01Doping is now a deep-rooted culture in Indian Sports
  2. 02AI in Mathematics: Proof Verification, Understanding and Research Ethics
  3. 03Judicial Integrity and Corruption
  4. 04Return of Profanation as a New Political Language
  5. 05SC calls on students to educate elders in Waste Management
  6. 06AI Agents, Consumer Control and Accountability
  7. 07AI-Designed Viruses: Scientific Promise and the Biosecurity Governance Gap
  8. 08Animal-Free Research Methods and India’s Biomedical Testing Transition
  9. 09AI-Fabricated Precedents: The Supreme Court’s Warning on Manufactured Justice
  10. 10Calcutta HC on Public Parading of Accused: State Power vs Human Dignity (UPSC GS2/GS4)
GS I · 257 articles

Art & Culture

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  1. 01Bharat Ratna and C.N.R. Rao’s Scientific Legacy
  2. 022026 Ramon Magsaysay Awards 
  3. 03Vaishya Tekri: Testing Ujjain’s Mauryan Stupa Hypothesis
  4. 04Gyan Bharatam Survey Reports More Than 1.19 Crore Manuscripts
  5. 05Sarnath: UNESCO Inscription Recognises a Living Buddhist Heritage
  6. 06Keeladi Excavations: New Brick Structures Deepen the Sangam-Age Record
  7. 07Jagannath Dham Trademark: Protecting Puri Temple’s Sacred Identity
  8. 08Mission Senehjori: Turning Muga Silk Waste into High-Value Yarn
  9. 09Lothal Heritage Complex: Recreating a Harappan Maritime Town
  10. 10Bhojshala Dispute: Supreme Court to List All Petitions Against the High Court Order
GS III · 263 articles

Internal Security

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  1. 01Youth discontent and the changing face of protest
  2. 02DRDO VIMARSH: Source-Code Access and Defence Technology Absorption
  3. 03Orbital Weapons: What the Outer Space Treaty Prohibits
  4. 04India-Vietnam JCM: Defence Co-Production and Connected Supply Chains
  5. 05Terror’s changing face, India’s counter-terror strategy
  6. 06RBI Money-Mule Draft: Temporary Debit Holds and Customer Safeguards
  7. 07Colombo Security Conclave: Rehearsing a Shared Maritime Response
  8. 08CTED Propaganda Report: Beyond Content Removal
  9. 09EU Cyber Resilience Act: Product-Security Reporting Begins
  10. 10India’s 6G Call to Action: Security, Standards and Policy Autonomy
GS III · 102 articles

Disaster Management

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  1. 01Nepal and the Loss and Damage Fund: Why Access Speed Matters
  2. 02NHAI 1033 Upgrade: From Emergency Calls to Coordinated Dispatch
  3. 03Nepal Power Approval: Supply Windows, Circuits and Review Conditions
  4. 04Philippines and CDRI: Disaster Resilience Through Infrastructure Cooperation
  5. 05August Ocean Heat: El Niño and Uneven Regional Risks
  6. 06NIDM Review: Turning Disaster Lessons Into Preparedness
  7. 07Building Collapses in India: Nearly 8,000 people died due to the collapse of structures in 5 years
  8. 08Anak Krakatau Eruption: Volcanic Ash, Aviation and Sunda Strait Risk
  9. 09Climate Overshoot: The Peak-and-Decline Pathway
  10. 10What are Hanging Glaciers?

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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Foundation, PSIR Drona, and Mains Crash — all weave this week's current affairs into the theory class they accompany. Sit in a free demo to see it in action.

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