UPSC Current Affairs 01 February 2026 — The Hindu

Editorial

• Why is India-EU trade agreement significant?
• What’s ailing India’s battery scheme for EVs?

National

• ‘El Nino may occur after July; clear picture to emerge after April’
• Professors, students protest against stay on UGC equity rules
• Why has EC deployed micro observers only in Bengal, asks Mamata
• Tigers find a safe perch in Pench

Business

• Will ISRO’s arm NSIL pick up the slack of a flat space budget?

Science

• IIT-Kanpur team develops new way to predict solar cycles