UPSC Current Affairs 04 April 2026 — The Hindu

• Plan to relocate Great Nicobar’s tribal communities stirs fresh concern
• Election petitions must be decided on basis of material on record: SC
• SC upholds appointments to Telangana Group-1 posts
• Rajasthan High Court expunges remarks on Transgender Act
• Russia expresses readiness to boost oil, LNG supplies to India
• INS Aridhaman, nuclear-powered submarine, enters India’s naval fleet
• RBI okays Emirates NBD Bank buying up to 74% RBL stake
• T.N. CM raises concern over FCRA Bill, calls it ‘draconian’
• Govt.’s delimitation move ‘dangerous’, cautions Congress
• UNSC delays vote on authorising force to protect Strait of Hormuz
• U.S. jet shot down in Iran, one crew member rescued
• Home Ministry revises classification of districts affected by left-wing extremism
• The Hindu Group, SRMIST to host deep tech summit
• Indigenous stealth frigate INS Taragiri commissioned
• Kerala’s development decade
• Iran may be losing the battles, but it might still win the war
• Fear of the foreign
• Lessons unlearned
• Patented drug tariffs: ‘India more or less shielded’
• Jan Vishwas: govt. for minor offence case withdrawal
• One rescued after U.S. fighter jet shot down in Iran
• Beyond enrichment: mapping Iran’s potential sprint to a nuclear bomb
• letters to the editor
• MSMEs ‘reluctant’ to switch over to piped natural gas supplies
• PNB officers’ union flags mass Scale IV transfers
• Greece announces govt. reshuffle after EU farm scandal resignations
• Bangladesh adopts major measures to conserve energy
• India and Azerbaijan reset ties a year after Operation Sindoor row
• Walk of devotion
• Special court closes Panchkula land case against Hooda, AJL
• 102 Assam candidates face criminal cases: ADR
• Left-ISF rift over selection of candidate
• Compliance eased for managing plastic waste
• 14759
• Salvation within reach
• Solan housing ‘scam’: BJP seeks probe by sitting HC judge
• Flutter over grading third language
• ‘Mounjaro brides’: weight loss jabs are part of pre-wedding preparation
• Ship carrying Iranian crude heading to India changes course to China
• Care-giving firms eye therapy market for development delays
• West Asia: govt. eyes boost to induction heater output
• HZL’s output of mined metal, refined metal rises in Q4
• Min Aung Hlaing elected Myanmar President; to be sworn in next week
• Hegseth asked U.S. Army chief of staff George to step down
• American strikes on Iran may amount to war crimes: experts
• Peace talks between Afghanistan, Pakistan are advancing, says China
• Bahrain cracks down on dissent as Iran war reignites internal unrest
• Lebanon’s displaced Shia Muslims face hostility as airstrikes fuel fear, evictions
• Solemn strides
• Pradhan calls for ‘Mahakal standard time’ instead of GMT
• Police arrest the ‘mastermind’ of Malda violence
• ‘Congress has become ideologically bankrupt’
• Pakistan jibes become central to BJP’s Assam poll narrative
• Only NDA can rid Assam of infiltrators: Yogi
• Cow, buffalo for each tribal family in Assam, says Shah
• Row over Rajasthan varsity event sparks NSUI, police clash
• Drowning in monsoon, dreaming of growth
• European airlines race for Asia’s direct traffic
• Ukraine says 10 killed in ‘massive’ Russian missile and drone attacks
• NDA aims to retain Puducherry as PM leads a roadshow
• Theorising a third term for LDF in Kerala, one couplet at a time
• Owaisi planted as ‘distraction’ by BJP: Cong
• Bihar hooch tragedy: toll rises to five, 12 arrested
• Ganderbal encounter: J&K L-G orders magisterial inquiry
• T.N. Cong. renominates 12 MLAs in list of 27; Melur nominee yet to be decided
• BJP’s list of 27 candidates in T.N. has old guards, known faces, first-timers; 5 are women
• Rift out in open: Chadha attacks AAP, party hits back
• Pednekar pulls plan to add devotional text to curriculum
• The putrid mix of money and medical malpractice
• In Nalanda, faith turned fatal
• Suicide car bomb blast targeting police station kills five in Pakistan
• Kings ace a big chase, make it two out of two
• Off-season training improved my bowling, reckons Nitish
• Rahane hits back at critics, says no issues with strike rate
• No stopping Sindarov; Pragg held to a draw
• CSK breaches the 200-run mark at Chepauk for first time in two years
• We have to be better defensively while bowling, admits Fleming
• Spinners having an off-day cost us the match: CSK skipper Ruturaj
• Abhishek fined 25% of match fee for breaching IPL Code of Conduct
• scoreboard
• The IPL’s Impact Player rule: a disruptor that needs disrupting?
• stacking up
• Coming from Manchester, there were no culture shocks for me in India
• Beauty spot