UPSC Current Affairs 20 January 2026 — The Hindu

• SC flags ‘stress’ triggered by SIR in Bengal
• Include proposal to link digital currencies on the BRICS agenda, says RBI
• IMF upgrades India’s growth projection to 7.3%
• SC gives two-week deadline for sanction to prosecute Vijay Shah
• Himachal Cabinet allows ‘orphan and widow cess’ on fuel
• SC stays Rajasthan HC order to move 1,102 liquor outlets
• Infighting kills third Kaziranga tiger within a fortnight
• ‘Threshold for significant index likely at ₹20,000 cr.’
• High Seas Treaty takes effect after 60 countries ratify
• HC quashes tax notices to NDTV founders
• What is T.N.’s new hybrid pensionmodel?
• Commerce dept. pushes move in face of global uncertainties, U.S. tariffs
• Govt. removes QCO on textile machinery imports
• Rising state borrowings complicate Indian central bank’s rate playbook
• EU, U.K. attempt negotiating with Trump, while keeping possibility of retaliation open