Current affairs compilation: January 2026
Pick a date on the calendar to read that day's current affairs. Full month list below for revision.
Saturday, 31 January 2026
4 items- UMEED portal adds waqf survey and lease modulesGS2 · Governance
- Second India-Arab Foreign Ministers’ MeetingGS2 · IR
- Two new Ramsar sites: Patna Bird Sanctuary (UP) and Chhari-Dhand (Gujarat)GS3 · Wetlands
- Lakshya Zero Dumpsite: 61% of legacy waste processedGS3 · Urban waste
Full January list
1 January
- DAC approved ₹3.84 lakh crore of capital acquisitions in 2025
- Credit guarantee for exporters: ₹3,141 crore sanctioned in the first month
- Director KYC: annual filing replaced by once in three years
- India and Pakistan exchange prisoner lists
- PFRDA lets banks set up their own NPS pension funds
2 January
- Delhi’s cleanest year on record for particulates, barring 2020
- ECMS third tranche: 22 proposals, ₹41,863 crore
- HSNS Cess on pan masala from 1 February 2026
- Indian Pharmacopoeia 2026 released
3 January
4 January
- Design Linked Incentive scheme: 24 chip design projects
- DSIR drops three-year rule for deep-tech startups
- India on Venezuela: “deep concern”, call for dialogue
5 January
- ICGS Samudra Pratap commissioned: first indigenously designed pollution control vessel
- CSIR-NPL opens National Environmental Standard Laboratory
- CSIR-NPL opens National Environmental Standard Laboratory
- NBS rates for rabi 2025-26: ₹37,952 crore
- Railways spend 80.5% of capex by December
6 January
- Railways electrify 99.2% of broad-gauge network
- FRA digital platform: all SIH finalists brought in
- PPP pipeline: 852 projects worth over ₹17 lakh crore
7 January
- NQAS certifications cross 50,000
- Draft Pesticides Management Bill to replace 1968 Act
- ECI to host IICDEM 2026
- India Post and Rural Development sign MoU for SHGs
8 January
- NBA pays ₹68 lakh to Maharashtra BMCs for microbe use
- SWAMIH fund: 61,000 stalled homes delivered
- Tex-RAMPS: MoUs with 15 States on textile data
9 January
- DRDO runs scramjet combustor for over 12 minutes
- CAQM shuts 16 industrial units in NCR
- Fertiliser output hits 524.62 lakh tonnes; 73% from home
- NSG’s National IED Data Management System launched
10 January
- India–Oman CEPA: duty-free access on 98.08% of tariff lines
- Goyal in Brussels to speed up India-EU FTA
- Mines Chintan Shivir: critical mineral mission
11 January
12 January
- German Chancellor Merz visits India; defence industry pact
- Fish output doubles in a decade
- MPATGM hits a moving target
- MPATGM hits a moving target
13 January
- ADMM-Plus counter-terror experts meet in Delhi
- MoSPI moves toward a chain-based IIP
- PFRDA committee on assured NPS payouts; Vatsalya guidelines
14 January
- NITI Aayog releases Export Preparedness Index 2024
- WPI inflation at 0.83% in December 2025
- Aravalli Green Wall: 2.7 million ha being greened
- Indian and Japan Coast Guards hold 22nd high-level meeting
15 January
- PLFS monthly: LFPR at 56.1% in December 2025
- Exports Apr-Dec 2025: $634.26 billion
- IMD to install 200 weather stations in four metros
- NITI on converging MSME schemes
16 January
- ASEAN-India digital ministers adopt 2026 work plan
- Export incentives extended to postal shipments
- Republic Day 2026: EU leaders as chief guests
- Startup India turns ten
17 January
- 2nd Global Buddhist Summit in Delhi
- ICGS Sankalp at Port Louis
- IndiGo meltdown: DGCA fines ₹22.20 crore
18 January
- Chips to Start-up: 67,000 trained in chip design
- First open-sea cage fish farm at North Bay, Andaman
- International Year of Cooperatives: the PACS numbers
- Kaziranga Elevated Corridor: 35 km over the park
19 January
- India hosts 28th Commonwealth Speakers’ Conference
- UAE President visits India; trade hits USD 100 billion
- Insurance premiums ₹11.93 lakh crore in 2024-25
- PSBs’ digital credit model: ₹52,300 crore to MSMEs
20 January
- CAQM revokes GRAP Stage IV in Delhi-NCR
- A 1792 CE Valmiki Ramayana manuscript gifted
- National Committee on Dam Safety meets
- NHA Chintan Shivir: MoUs with Bhashini, IISc, NABH
21 January
- Cabinet extends Atal Pension Yojana to 2030-31
- Cabinet: ₹5,000 crore equity for SIDBI
- India-Myanmar trade committee: target USD 5 billion
22 January
- Carbon market: 208 more industries get targets
- ECINET launched in 22 languages
- Military Quantum Mission Policy Framework
23 January
- MoSPI on new GDP series; release on 27 February
- MPLADS guidelines under revision
- MPLADS guidelines under revision
- PLI white goods: 85 firms, ₹11,198 crore
24 January
25 January
26 January
27 January
- India–EU FTA concluded
- Nipah: two cases in West Bengal, 196 contacts traced
- National Household Income Survey from April 2026
- NITI on circular economy: vehicles, tyres, batteries
- Smart fishing harbour at Mayabunder
28 January
- IIP grows 7.8% in December 2025, a two-year high
- Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026 notified: four-stream segregation
- India-EU FTA: financial services chapter closed
- Sampoornata Abhiyan 2.0
- Trial rules eased: test licences in 45 days
- Uniform Consent Guidelines amended
29 January
- CPI 2024 series: 358 items on COICOP 2018
- Designs Act changes; Hague accession proposed
- PAIMANA replaces OCMS for project tracking
- Space economy $8.4 billion; 399 start-ups
30 January
- Economic Survey 2025-26: FY26 GDP growth at 7.4% (first advance estimates)
- India-EU FTA covers a third of humanity
- National Leprosy Day outreach