Daily notes mapped to syllabus topics, with “Asked before” PYQs and original practice MCQs.
On 20 June 2026 at Tarakeswar, Hooghly, the Prime Minister released the 23rd PM-KISAN instalment: over ₹18,880 crore to over 9.44 crore farmers, including 2.18 crore women, by DBT. Over ₹4.46 lakh crore has been paid since the scheme's 24 February 2019 launch. Eligible landholding families get ₹6,000 a year in three ₹2,000 instalments into Aadhaar-seeded accounts.
UPSC angle: Prelims: PM-KISAN design.
20 Jun 2026
The Health Ministry prohibited manufacture, sale and distribution for human use of 16 Fixed Dose Combinations under Section 26A of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, with immediate effect from 20 June 2026. An Expert Committee under DTAB reviewed FDCs after Supreme Court directions. The list covers certain dermatological, analgesic/antispasmodic and antibiotic combinations found to lack therapeutic justification.
UPSC angle: Prelims: Section 26A.
20 Jun 2026
Astronomers led from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics traced the origin of non-repeating fast X-ray transient EP241107a, detected on 7 November 2024 by China's Einstein Probe. Multi-wavelength data point to a gamma-ray-burst-like explosion from a massive-star collapse or a neutron-star merger — an orphan afterglow not seen directly in gamma rays. The study appeared in MNRAS.
UPSC angle: Prelims: transients, neutron stars.
19 Jun 2026
An Indian officer presently Secretary, Ministry of Culture, has been elected Vice-President of the Financial Action Task Force for July 2026 to June 2027, the Finance Ministry said on 19 June 2026. It is the first time India will hold the FATF Vice-Presidency. The Vice-President is elected by the FATF Plenary and assists the President.
UPSC angle: Prelims: FATF facts, grey list.
19 Jun 2026
A PIB backgrounder dated 19 June 2026 says India became effectively free from Left-Wing Extremism on 31 March 2026, the target set on 24 August 2024. Affected districts fell from 126 in 2014 to 2 in 2026; most-affected from 35 to zero. The frame is Vishwaas, Nirman and Jan Kalyan, building on the 2015 National Policy and Action Plan.
UPSC angle: Mains: development–security linkage in LWE.
19 Jun 2026
The Defence Ministry signed a contract with Bharat Forge Limited, Pune, on 19 June 2026 for 12 sets of 1.25 MW marine gas turbine generators for the Indian Navy at about ₹425 crore. The Buy (Indian) deal requires at least 60% indigenous content. The generators power combat systems, weapons and sensors on modern naval combatants.
UPSC angle: Prelims: DAP categories.
19 Jun 2026
DFPD launched an AI- and IoT-based Smart Warehousing System for foodgrain storage at Bharat Mandapam on 18 June 2026. It covers 215 CWC bag-based warehouses, with FCI deploying it in 150 more. The Ministry calls it the world's largest such public-sector warehousing deployment. Best CWC and FCI warehouses were felicitated under Depot Darpan.
UPSC angle: Prelims: FCI, CWC, Depot Darpan.
18 Jun 2026
The Centre has revived the Qadian–Beas railway line in Punjab's Majha region: 39.68 km broad gauge from Qadian (Gurdaspur) to Beas (Amritsar) at about ₹1,400 crore, by Northern Railway. First approved in 1928-29 and later stalled, it returned in the supplementary Railway Budget 2010-11 and now has a revised Detailed Estimate.
UPSC angle: Prelims: Majha region.
18 Jun 2026
ICAR–Indian Institute of Oilseeds Research, Hyderabad, has developed a patented biopolymer-based Smart Seed Coating Technology. Farmer-field demos in Telangana showed nearly 30% higher yields in groundnut and soybean versus usual practice. Multi-location AICRP-Seed trials reported productivity gains of 12 to 37% over untreated controls across several crops.
UPSC angle: Prelims: IIOR, NMEO.
18 Jun 2026
The Indian Coast Guard inducted the first of six indigenous Air Cushion Vehicles built by Chowgule and Company Private Limited in Goa on 18 June 2026. The hovercraft is meant to widen ICG's maritime response options. The Ministry of Defence contracted Chowgule for the six ACVs.
UPSC angle: Prelims: ACV use.
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