Prelims Specials

Current Affairs

Polity & Governance

1 15th Vice-President of India

2 Appointment of District Judges

3 Issues Surrounding Governor’s Address

4 UPSC Turns 100 (1926-2026)

5 SC Policy on Police Media Briefing

6 De-notified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes (DNTs)

7 "Right to be Forgotten"

8 PESA Mahotsav & PESA Act 1996

9 DPDP Rules, 2025

10 Monument Conservation & Private Players

11 Vibrant Villages Programme-II

12 Balancing National Security and Human Rights: The Rohingya Issue

13 PRAHAAR – National Counter-Terrorism Policy

14 AI Governance Framework & IndiaAI Mission

15 LWE Strategy – “Legacy & Thrust Areas”

16 SEBI Norms for Finfluencers

17 National Urban Digital Mission (NUDM)

18 e-Courts Mission Mode Project Phase III

19 130th Constitutional Amendment Bill, 2025

20 The SHANTI Act, 2025

21 Curative Petition

22 Doctrine of Escheat & Contributory Negligence

Indian Economy

1 RBI’s Proposal on Linking BRICS' Digital Currency

2 Open Market Operations and Dollar-Rupee Swaps

3 Masala Bonds

4 Flexible Inflation Targeting Framework Review

5 Internationalisation of Rupee

6 RBI’s Variable Rate Reverse Repo Auctions for Liquidity Absorption

7 External Commercial Borrowings (ECBs)

8 Decline in Core Inflation vs Sticky Food Inflation

9 India’s Foreign Exchange Reserves

10 Sovereign Gold Bond (SGB) Scheme

11 Agristack

12 Mission Atmanirbharta in Pulses

13 Sea Buckthorn & Himalayan Buckwheat

14 Digital Crop Survey (DCS) using Geo-Tagging & Remote Sensing

15 PM-AASHA Scheme – Price Deficiency Payment (PDP) Mechanism Issues

16 Deep-Tech Revolution in Agriculture

17 Coking Coal Designated as a ‘Critical Mineral’

18 Silicon Carbide (SiC) in Semiconductors

19 Critical Mineral Recycling Incentive Scheme

20 State Mining Readiness Index

21 REITs and InvITs

22 National Green Hydrogen Mission – SIGHT Programme

23 Corporate Bond Market – Electronic Book Provider (EBP) Platform Reforms

24 ESG Disclosure Norms under SEBI (BRSR Framework Expansion)

25 Multi-Lane Free Flow (MLFF) Tolling

26 India’s 1st Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Plant

27 BharatNet Phase III – PPP Model for Last-Mile Connectivity

28 India’s First-ever Open-sea Marine Fish Farming

29 Gig and Platform Workers

30 SEBI Flags Digital Gold Risks

31 Bima Sugam

32 PAN 2.0 Project

Ecology & Environment

1 Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026

2 Air Pollution in India – CREA REPORT

3 Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP)

4 Groundwater Crisis & Indore Water Contamination

5 River Pollution & Supreme Court

6 Second-Largest E-Waste Recycler in India – Telangana

7 Sri Ganganagar and Byrnihat: India’s Most Polluted Cities

8 Forever Chemicals (PFAS)

9 Thwaites Glacier (Doomsday Glacier)

10 UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2025: "Off Target"

11 Global Methane Status Report 2025

12 AmazonFACE Experiment

13 National Designated Authority (NDA) for Carbon Markets

14 Himalayan High Altitude Atmospheric and Climate Research Centre”

15 Kuttanad Wetland Agricultural System

16 Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS)

17 Two New Ramsar Sites in India

18 Ramsar Convention COP-15

19 COP16 of UNCCD

20 CITES CoP20

21 National Policy on Geothermal Energy 2025

22 Renewable Energy Integration

23 India’s 1st Bamboo-based Ethanol Plant

24 8th Session of International Solar Alliance (ISA)

25 South Asia's largest Battery Energy Storage System

26 Compressed Bio Gas (CBG) & Energy Initiatives (2025–26)

27 Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve (CDBR)

28 UNESCO: 7 New Natural Heritage Sites (Tentative List)

29 Goniopora Corals (Flowerpot Corals)

30 Sundarbans Becomes India’s Second Largest Tiger Reserve

31 India’s 58th Tiger Reserve

32 16th Asiatic Lion Census 2025

33 ‘Matri Van’ Initiative

34 Dibru-Saikhowa National Park (DSNP)

Science & Technology

1 BharatGen: India’s First AI Multimodal LLM

2 Frequency Combs (Optical Frequency Comb Technology)

3 UNESCO Ethics on Neurotechnology

4 Man-Portable Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (MP-AUVs)

5 High-RRR Niobium

6 India’s First Quantum Computing Tech Park

7 Microlensing (Exoplanet Detection)

8 SPHEREx Mission

9 VELC (Aditya-L1 Coronagraph)

10 ESCAPADE Mission (NASA)

11 IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)

12 PRATUSH Telescope (Lunar Radio Astronomy)

13 Vikram-I

14 LUPEX Mission (ISRO–JAXA)

15 NISAR Satellite

16 Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

17 GlowCas9 Protein

18 Malaria Vaccine: AdFalciVax

19 Animal Stem Cell Biobank at NIAB

20 AI-driven Pathogen Genomics (PathGennie)

21 India Speeding Towards TB Elimination

22 Zombie Deer Disease (Chronic Wasting Disease)

23 Nafithromycin – India’s First Indigenous Antibiotic

24 AI Impact Summit 2026

National

1 Majorana 1

Heritage, Art & Culture

1 Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum

2 Devnimori Relics

3 Sun Temple, Modhera

4 100 Years of Kakori Train Robbery

5 Rani Velu Nachiyar

6 150th Birth Anniversary of Birsa Munda

7 350th Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur

8 Deepavali – Inscribed in UNESCO ICH List

9 Tholu Bommalata (Shadow Puppetry) Revival Efforts

10 Koodiyattam Theatre Tradition – Preservation Initiatives

11 Ol Chiki Script

12 Bulleh Shah

13 150 Years of Arya Samaj

Social Issue

1 Menstrual Leave in India

2 Menstrual Health as a Fundamental Right

3 Acid Attacks in India

4 Supreme Court Guidelines on Child Trafficking

5 Steps towards Banning Polygamy

6 Dowry Deaths in India

7 The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026

8 Poverty and Equity Brief Report of World Bank

9 Rethinking Care in India’s Economy

10 Child Nutrition Report, 2025

11 Global Report on Food Crises, 2025

12 Organ Transplantation in India

13 Hooch Tragedies in India

14 From Population Explosion to Population Stabilisation

15 Child Wellbeing in an Unpredictable World

16 Hypersonic Missile Technology Development

17 Successful Test of Agni-5

18 Successful Test of Pralay Missile

19 Successful Test of ‘Akash Prime’

20 Successful Test of Astra Missile

21 Successful Test of the ‘MRSAM’ Air-Defence System

22 3D Concrete Printing for Border Infrastructure

23 Counter-Drone System – Bhargavastra

24 Successful Test of Rudrastra

25 Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS) Grid

26 Flight-Tests of Advanced VSHORADS System

27 Integrated Air Defence Weapon System

28 INS Arnala

29 Androth

30 Project 17A Stealth Frigates – Udaygiri & Himgiri

31 Stealth Frigate Capability Enhancement – INS Tamal

32 Thorium-Powered Future

33 Cyber Fraud and Digital Arrest Scams

International

1 Greenland: Emerging Geostrategic Pivot in Arctic Power Politics

2 U.S. Launches ‘Board of Peace’

3 Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)

4 Pax Silica and Semiconductor Supply Chain Diplomacy

5 India–Brazil Cooperation on Rare Earths and Critical Minerals

6 India’s Trade Diversification Strategy outside RCEP

7 India–Russia Reciprocal Logistics Support (RELOS)

8 Operation Sagar Bandhu

9 India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC)

10 25th SCO Summit 2025

11 17th BRICS Summit 2025

12 51st G7 Summit 2025

Science & Technology

1 First National Biobank for Rare Lysosomal Storage Disorders
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