EconomyThe Hindu, Page 1GS3Must read
Nobel economics prize 2026 goes to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford for stabilisation work
Why does what people expect about tomorrow decide how well a central bank can steady the economy today?
UPSC current affairs today
Tuesday, 13 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 5 stories
EconomyIndian Express, Page 1GS3GS2Must read
Retail inflation rises to 5.54% in September as food prices jump; rural CPI crosses 6%
Inflation is still inside the RBI's band nationally, so why has rural India already crossed the 6% red line?
Environment and geographyThe Hindu, NewsGS3GS2Must read
IPCC meets in Addis Ababa amid deadlock over when to publish its next climate reports
Should the world's climate science arrive in time for the 2028 stocktake, or wait so poorer nations can be heard?
Environment and geographyThe Hindu, Page 6GS3GS1
Op-ed: A warming Himalaya demands a rethink of how the mountains are developed
If glaciers are losing ice twice as fast as before, can roads, dams and tunnels keep being built the old way?
Society, justice and ethicsThe Hindu, Page 9GS2GS1
Explained: Why India needs a trained, formal workforce to care for its elderly
India's elderly will more than double by 2050, so who will care for them when families no longer can?
Also in today's papers
- Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh face drought after a deficient monsoon The Hindu · GS3 · Prelims
- Op-ed: The Election Commission's growing credibility crisis The Hindu · GS2
- Supreme Court on a plea to make Hindi its official language The Hindu · GS2 · Prelims
- What WWF's Living Planet Index 2026 does and does not say about wildlife decline The Hindu · GS3 · Prelims
- How the 2025-26 SIR of electoral rolls differs from the 2002-04 revision The Hindu · GS2 · Prelims
- NSA Doval speaks to Iranian counterpart after attacks on ships with Indian crew in Strait of Hormuz The Hindu · GS2 · GS3 · Prelims
- Supreme Court asks Centre to plan price caps for all drugs, not only cancer medicines The Hindu · GS2 · GS3 · Prelims
- Fresh protests over the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project in Arunachal Pradesh Indian Express · GS3 · GS2 · Prelims
- Op-ed: Spread of unapproved herbicide-tolerant Bt cotton seeds Indian Express · GS3 · Prelims
- Op-ed: India's science problem is priorities, not talent Indian Express · GS3
- Op-ed: Merging BharatNet and PM-WANI to scale up public Wi-Fi Indian Express · GS3 · Prelims
- Op-ed: How India should respond to the US green card crackdown Indian Express · GS2 · GS3
- IMF raises India's 2026-27 growth forecast to 7% Indian Express · GS3 · Prelims
- Rupee posts biggest daily gain in six months after RBI forex measures Indian Express · GS3 · Prelims
- Centre and States to use data analytics to widen the GST base Indian Express · GS3 · Prelims
- Navy commissions INS Mangrol, third Mahe-class anti-submarine shallow water craft PIB · GS3 · Prelims
- IMD launches Cyclone Warning and Marine Weather Services Decision Support System PIB · GS3 · Prelims
- Rural Development Ministry and National Academy of RUDSETI sign MoU to train 6.35 lakh rural youth PIB · GS2 · GS3 · Prelims
- 16th India-UK Joint Economic and Trade Committee meeting reviews early gains of CETA PIB · GS2 · GS3 · Prelims
- Five years of PM GatiShakti National Master Plan PIB · GS3 · Prelims
This week
12 October 2026 Monday
- Supreme Court, in a Sunday sitting, bars illegal detention of peaceful protesters in Delhi
- Op-ed: At 21, the RTI Act's duty of proactive disclosure is still widely ignored
- Heat-induced sex reversal makes frogs more vulnerable to extinction, study finds
- Explained: India's three-part Black Sea truce plan for the Russia-Ukraine war
- Indo-French TRISHNA thermal imaging satellite expected to launch in 12 to 16 months
11 October 2026 Sunday
- UN rights office flags mass detentions at Delhi protest; India calls it 'interference'
- Madras HC: private institutions and employers in Tamil Nadu cannot compel caste disclosure
- JJ Act at ten: CJI seeks trained defence lawyers for children and stigma-free records
- Goyal says India-US trade pact will be finalised keeping 'changed circumstances' in mind
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
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