Polity and governanceThe Hindu, NationalGS2Must read
UN rights office flags mass detentions at Delhi protest; India calls it 'interference'
When police stop a protest before it begins, where does public order end and the right to assemble begin?
UPSC current affairs today
Sunday, 11 October 2026. The Hindu, The Indian Express and PIB, cut down to what UPSC can ask, mapped to the syllabus and to every previous-year question. Free and open source.
Today's 4 stories
Society, justice and ethicsThe Hindu, Tamil NaduGS1GS2Must read
Madras HC: private institutions and employers in Tamil Nadu cannot compel caste disclosure
If the State needs caste data for reservation, why should a private employer's form demand it?
Society, justice and ethicsThe Hindu, NationalGS2
JJ Act at ten: CJI seeks trained defence lawyers for children and stigma-free records
Ten years on, over half the cases before Juvenile Justice Boards are pending. What went wrong?
EconomyThe Hindu, BusinessGS3GS2
Goyal says India-US trade pact will be finalised keeping 'changed circumstances' in mind
India and the US agreed a trade framework in February. Then a US court rewrote the tariff rules. What now?
This week
10 October 2026 Saturday
- MP High Court strikes down 27% OBC quota, restores 14% to keep the 50% ceiling
- Supreme Court calls blanket Metro and train shutdown before Delhi protest 'overreaching'
- Critical minerals stockpiling policy likely within a month, says Mines Secretary
- Op-ed: WHO's first child obesity guidelines call for action beyond the clinic
- US sanctions the International Criminal Court itself, hours after Navi Pillay wins Nobel
9 October 2026 Friday
- GST Council recommends ending arrest powers and raising prosecution threshold to ₹5 crore
- Supreme Court says Jharkhand's DGP rule prima facie defies Prakash Singh, widens scrutiny
- Centre to cap trade margins on 110 non-scheduled cancer drugs at 30%
- WMO says El Niño will peak in December, with record Pacific warming forecast
- Explained: Why stubble fires in Punjab and Haryana keep coming back
8 October 2026 Thursday
- RBI raises repo rate to 5.5%, first hike since 2023, shifts to 'calibrated tightening'
- Living Planet Report 2026: monitored wildlife populations fell 73% from 1970 to 2022
- Explained: detention vs arrest, and the limits the law places on police powers
- Chemistry Nobel 2026 to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for amplifying molecular 'handedness'
- Op-ed: India's stakes in the WHO Pandemic Agreement as pathogen-sharing talks drag on
7 October 2026 Wednesday
- Physics Nobel 2026 goes to Francis Halzen for the IceCube neutrino observatory
- Cabinet approves ₹10,000 crore SME Growth Fund to put equity into growing small firms
- Editorial: India's leprosy numbers overshoot targets, two decades after 'elimination'
- Sukma gram sabha denies burial land to tribal Christians, citing PESA
- At pre-COP31 talks in Fiji, India says climate action has no 'one-size-fits-all' path
6 October 2026 Tuesday
- Nobel Prize in Medicine 2026 goes to the pioneers of optogenetics
- Supreme Court says it never approved the modified Form 6, issues notice to the EC
- India and Switzerland sign five pacts, including a five-year visa and mobility deal
- Why Buxa is bringing tigers back: a tigress from Bihar starts West Bengal's reintroduction
- Op-ed: Make cancer a notifiable disease so that every diagnosis is counted
5 October 2026 Monday
- Does a valid visa guarantee entry into India? The Delhi High Court says no
- Official rabies death count is under 1% of ICMR's estimate, clouding the 2030 goal
- One year of two-slab GST: Finance Minister cites a wider base and higher collections
- Op-ed: Over-regulation is stifling India's universities; one regulator may not fix it
- Op-ed: In a trade deal with the US, India should value terms that are hard to reverse
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