Current affairs for UPSC

Daily notes mapped to syllabus topics, with “Asked before” PYQs and original practice MCQs.

Latest current affairs

GS3 · Emerging technology

NITI Aayog roadmap for a quantum-powered economy

The roadmap stresses that states and private investors must share the work. Talent and fabrication capacity are the real bottlenecks.

UPSC angle: Prelims: National Quantum Mission, NITI Frontier Tech Hub. · Mains: frontier technology policy.

4 Dec 2025
GS3 · Climate change

How the Indian carbon market (CCTS) is set up

Note that targets are on emission intensity, not absolute caps. That lets industry grow while cutting emissions per unit of output.

UPSC angle: Prelims: CCTS, BEE, PAT. · Mains: carbon pricing.

4 Dec 2025
GS3 · Climate change / technology

DST launches R&D roadmap for carbon capture (CCUS)

Cement releases CO2 from limestone itself, so renewables alone cannot clean it. That is why CCUS keeps coming up in Mains answers on industrial decarbonisation.

UPSC angle: Prelims: CCUS. · Mains: hard-to-abate sectors.

4 Dec 2025
GS3 · Cyber security

Centre drops mandatory pre-installation of Sanchar Saathi app

The episode is a good case on privacy and consent. A state tool may be useful, but compulsion on every device raises questions under K.S. Puttaswamy v Union of India (24 Aug 2017), where a nine-judge bench held privacy to be part of Article 21 [Supreme Court].

UPSC angle: Prelims: Sanchar Saathi. · Mains: digital rights, cyber fraud.

3 Dec 2025
GS1/2 · Women and children

100-day Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat campaign

Laws alone have not ended the practice. Campaigns that bring in priests, caterers and community leaders aim at the point where marriages are actually arranged.

UPSC angle: Prelims: PCMA 2006. · Mains: social issues, women and children.

3 Dec 2025
GS3 · Defence technology

DRDO tests fighter escape system on a high-speed rocket sled

PIB says this puts India among the few countries that can test escape systems in-house. That saves time and money that would otherwise go to foreign test ranges.

UPSC angle: Prelims: TBRL, zero-zero ejection, LCA.

2 Dec 2025

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