UPSC Current Affairs 18 March 2026 — The Hindu

• A bit of a blur over India’s new carbon credit plan
• On scientific collaborations in BRICS
• Act ‘barbaric’, direct threat to regional peace: India
• Suspension of 8 MPs revoked; Speaker says fake images must not be displayed
• Centre to brief MPs on crop insurance scheme
• EC deploys over 1,000 central observers
• SC allows 12 weeks’ paid leave to all new adoptive mothers
• Muslim groups back SC observations on inheritance rights
• Why the affiliation system is outdated
• Ministry of Planning, Niti Aayog get House panel rap for ‘poor planning’ of finances
• Centre ensuring steady flow of cooking gas during turbulent times: Nirmala Sitharaman
• Donald Trump’s summit delay casts pall over U.S.-China trade truce
• ‘UGC-like funding powers to fall under Shiksha Adhishthan’
• India’s West Asia reset, more sinned against than sinning
• Coonoor polio vaccine unit to be closed
• US ‘transitory’ inflation turns 5, is still a big brat
• Gujarat UCC panel submits final report to CM Patel