UPSC Current Affairs 22 January 2026 — The Hindu
Editorial
- Should corruption charges need prior sanction?
- Judicial removal — tough law with a loophole
- Lowering the age of juvenility for crimes is a step back
- Why AI infrastructure matters more
- data point
National
- EC discretion during SIR is not unregulated authority, says SC
- ‘Freebies’ different from investing in welfare for the marginalised, says SC
- Multi-disciplinary team of experts to ‘define’ Aravallis
- SC tells States to frame policy on police media briefing in 3 months
- ‘Logical discrepancies’ in Bengal SIR defy science, EC informs SC
Business
- ‘Geopolitical tensions point to elevated risks, policy uncertainty’
- Cabinet okays ₹5,000 crore equity infusion into SIDBI
- Bank of India Q3 PAT rises 7.4% to ₹2,705 crore
- China can’t make consumers buy, leans on services to drive economy
Foreign
- As Trump covets Greenland, the Arctic island still holds hazardous U.S. waste
- Trump calls for ‘immediate’ talks on Greenland but rules out use of force
- British Hindus protest against minority attacks in Bangladesh