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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. 2,349+ 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 · 850 articles

Polity & Governance

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  1. 01Centre Frames Rules to Standardise Recruitment to Tribunal Posts
  2. 02A Court divided by its own Architecture
  3. 03Free Speech versus Legislative Privilege: Supreme Court to Revisit the Limits
  4. 04Petroleum Amendment Draft: Civil Penalties and Safety Offences
  5. 05What are the provisions of AFSPA?
  6. 06Surveillance Is Not the Only Privacy Issue
  7. 07A New Governance Model for Ladakh
  8. 08RTI Exemptions and the Limits of State Power
  9. 09Form 26 and the Statutory Mandate: Disclosure of Criminal Antecedents in Elections
  10. 10Should Voting be a Fundamental Right?
GS III · 1030 articles

Economy

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  1. 01India’s Model BIT: A Decade Later, Amid Changes
  2. 02RBI Bank Shareholding Rules: One-Time Approval for Repeat Acquisitions
  3. 03RELIEF Extension: Export Credit Insurance During Maritime Disruption
  4. 04RoDTEP Extension: Refunding Embedded Taxes in Export Prices
  5. 05BharatNet Ring Topology: Keeping Rural Connections Working
  6. 06CAPEX Survey: Separating Investment Intentions From Actual Spending
  7. 07Divyangjan FASTags: Longer Validity With Defined Eligibility
  8. 08GOBARdhan: Connecting Biogas Plants With Assured Markets
  9. 09Grain Fumigation Trials: Testing Alternatives to Repeated Chemical Use
  10. 10Offshore Mineral Auctions: Exploration Before Commercial Extraction
GS III · 809 articles

Environment & Ecology

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  1. 01Buxa Tiger Reintroduction: Habitat Readiness and Post-Release Monitoring
  2. 02GOBARdhan: Connecting Biogas Plants With Assured Markets
  3. 03Offshore Mineral Auctions: Exploration Before Commercial Extraction
  4. 04Green Energy Corridor III: Connecting Transmission and Storage
  5. 05National Coastal Mission 2.0: Coordinating Coastal Resilience
  6. 06CAFE Norms: Fleet Averages and the Path to Lower Fuel Use
  7. 07PRAGATI-50: Tracking Sanitation Services Across the Whole City
  8. 08PRAMAAN Certification: Independent Audits and Traceable Forest Products
  9. 09Revised GRAP: Earlier Controls and Wider Dust Oversight
  10. 10Cetacean Conservation: Reducing Bycatch and Vessel Collision Risks
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 · 903 articles

Science & Technology

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  1. 01BharatNet Ring Topology: Keeping Rural Connections Working
  2. 02Grain Fumigation Trials: Testing Alternatives to Repeated Chemical Use
  3. 03Adaptive Traffic Signals: From Fixed Timings to Live Coordination
  4. 04Green Energy Corridor III: Connecting Transmission and Storage
  5. 05One Health Laboratories: Minimum Standards and Biosafety
  6. 06CHIME Hydrogen Mapping: Reading Cosmic Expansion
  7. 07Cybercrimes in India: Vulnerability and Access to Justice
  8. 08Multi-Gas Sensors: From a Sensing Element to a Reliable Signal
  9. 09Gyroplane Training Rules: Separating Rotor Lift From Propeller Thrust
  10. 10Vehicle Crash Testing: Turning Impact Events Into Safety Evidence
GS I · 296 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 · 493 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 · 353 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 · 318 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 · 282 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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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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