Current Affairs

Daily and monthly current affairs mapped to syllabus topics and related PYQs.

GS2 · Rural livelihoods

Backgrounder: LokOS, digital backbone for SHGs under DAY-NRLM

LokOS (Lok = People, OS = Operating System) is the web and mobile platform of DAY-NRLM that digitises Self-Help Groups and their federations. It covers 94.16 lakh SHGs with 10.03 crore members across 762 districts and tracks about ₹2 lakh crore of SHG transactions a year. SHE-LEAPS, for women entrepreneurs, runs on it from 29 June 2026.

4 Jul 2026
GS3 · Food prices

Onion procurement price for buffer raised 13% to ₹2,125/quintal

From 4 July 2026 the Government raised the price at which it buys onions for the Price Stabilisation Buffer by 13%, from ₹1,875 to ₹2,125 per quintal. NAFED and NCCF are procuring. Production for 2025-26 is estimated at 307.37 lakh tonnes, so supply is not a worry, but traders are buying on monsoon fears.

4 Jul 2026
GS3 · Semiconductors

PM inaugurates CG Semi OSAT facility at Sanand

On 4 July 2026 the Prime Minister inaugurated the CG Semi Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) facility at Sanand, Gujarat. It is the third major facility in India to start commercial chip packaging. It can deliver 20 crore units a year now, with a target of 500 crore, and is a joint effort with Japanese and Thai partners.

4 Jul 2026
GS3 · Aviation

PM launches “Viksit UDAN”, next phase of regional connectivity

On 4 July 2026 the Prime Minister launched the next phase of UDAN, Viksit UDAN, at Jodhpur and opened the city's new ₹480 crore airport terminal. The Modified UDAN Scheme, approved by the Cabinet on 25 March 2026, carries about ₹29,000 crore over ten years for 100 new aerodromes, 200 helipads and continued viability gap funding.

4 Jul 2026
GS2 · Education

Backgrounder: Academic Bank of Credits and APAAR ID

The Academic Bank of Credits (ABC), a Ministry of Education platform regulated by UGC, stores, transfers and redeems the credits a student earns. APAAR is the 12-digit "One Nation, One Student ID" linked to it. By 2 July 2026, 26.35 crore verified APAAR IDs had been generated, and 2,899 higher education institutions had registered on ABC.

4 Jul 2026
GS3 · Infrastructure

Backgrounder: India’s high-speed rail future

A PIB backgrounder of 3 July 2026 says India is nearing completion of its first bullet train corridor, Mumbai-Ahmedabad (about 508 km, 12 stations), built with Japanese Shinkansen technology. The first section, Surat to Vapi, is expected to open in August 2027. Seven more corridors of nearly 4,000 km will follow one standard design template.

3 Jul 2026
GS3 · Defence

DAC approves ₹52,000 crore acquisitions incl. Akash Tarang and MPATGM

On 3 July 2026 the Defence Acquisition Council, chaired by the Raksha Mantri, accorded Acceptance of Necessity for proposals worth about ₹52,000 crore. The Army gets the Akash Tarang anti-drone electronic warfare system, MPATGM, MRSAM, V-SHORADS, tank protection and jet kamikaze drones; the Navy and Air Force get mines, shipborne drones and high-altitude pseudo satellites.

3 Jul 2026
GS3 · Manufacturing

First Made-in-India EXIM shipping container; Maersk orders 1,000 more

On 3 July 2026 the Ports Minister unveiled India's first export-import shipping container made in India for A.P. Moller-Maersk, at the Maersk-CONCOR depot in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh. Maersk ordered 1,000 more from DCM Shriram Group. The ₹10,000 crore Container Manufacturing Promotion Scheme from Budget 2026 aims to raise annual capacity about tenfold.

3 Jul 2026
GS2 · Governance

Free email update in Aadhaar via app; 2.5 lakh in two days

UIDAI now lets residents add or update their email ID in Aadhaar through the Aadhaar App, with no centre visit. The service is free for six months from 1 July 2026, and over 2.5 lakh people used it in the first two days. A linked email brings real-time alerts whenever an Aadhaar authentication request is made.

3 Jul 2026
GS2 · India–Japan

16th India–Japan Annual Summit with PM Takaichi

Japan's Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae made her first official visit to India from 1 to 3 July 2026 for the 16th India-Japan Annual Summit. The leaders adopted a Joint Declaration on Economic Security Cooperation and statements on energy resilience and AI, agreed in principle on UNICORN, and set a fourth 2+2 meeting in Tokyo by year-end.

2 Jul 2026