Current affairs for UPSC
Daily notes mapped to syllabus topics, with “Asked before” PYQs and original practice MCQs.
GS3 · Emerging technologyThe 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 2025GS3 · Climate changeNote 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 2025GS3 · Climate change / technologyCement 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 2025GS3 · BankingThese governance fixes protect depositors.
UPSC angle: Prelims: Nominee rules.
4 Dec 2025GS2 · Education / judiciaryCampus counselling and grievance systems are the practical fixes.
UPSC angle: Mains: Student mental health.
3 Dec 2025GS3 · SpaceHuman-rating takes many tests like this. An uncrewed flight comes first.
UPSC angle: Prelims: Gaganyaan tests.
3 Dec 2025GS3 · Cyber securityThe 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 2025GS1/2 · Women and childrenLaws 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 2025GS3 · Food processingPost-harvest loss is a farm-income problem as much as a food-security one. Irradiation helps exports too, since several markets require it for fruit.
UPSC angle: Prelims: PMKSY components. · Mains: post-harvest losses and food processing.
2 Dec 2025GS3 · Defence technologyPIB 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