UPSC Current Affairs 16 April 2026 — The Hindu

• States’ seats will rise 50% after delimitation: Centre
• Women’s reservation and delimitation should be delinked
• Implications of increasing the size of the Lok Sabha
• How proposed delimitation would redraw political map
• Chhattisgarh sets up panel for preparing UCC draft
• Justice Shekhar Yadav retires amid pending impeachment
• West Asia crisis: India’s exports plunge 7.44% in March; trade gap narrows
• HC permits IVF procedure for soldier in vegetative state
• Gems and jewellery exports fall to 5-year low
• China weighs curbs on solar gear exports to U.S.
• ‘Israeli support for Iran attack slumps’
• Iran says blockade a threat to ceasefire; warns it will shut down Red Sea traffic
• Girls outshine boys in CBSE class 10 exam
• Hoist black flags to protest delimitation move, says Stalin
• Vijay slams Centre, calls amendment Bill a ‘biased move’
• ED attaches ₹159.51-crore assets in West Bengal illegal coal mining case
• Door-to-door visits for Census start in 8 States, U.T.s today
• Centre’s proposed delimitation move ‘brazenly discriminatory against Punjab’, says Akali Dal
• Telangana govt. releases caste survey findings
• Implement menstrual leave policy, Karnataka HC tells govt.
• Women’s Reservation Bill will be passed: Naidu
• Placing women at the core of democracy
• BJP’s failed Christian outreach attempt
• Efficiency of British railways
• Why is the Strait of Hormuz critical to global energy flows?
• Amazon signs $11.57 bn deal for satellite firm Globalstar
• Vance confronts tough crowd at top conservative event over Trump’s war
• Devastating inferno
• ‘Uniform Civil Code will erase tribal identity; won’t accept it’
• Women in Kinnaur to get monthly aid of ₹1,500
• New brain-inspired ‘memristors’ promise to reduce AI energy use
• Devious menace
• Dry days
• Hotel-goers complain of decline in quality
• What changed in Hungary’s election?
• Beyond consent: how power, legal ambiguities, and attitudes enable abuse
• The DAILY QUIZ
• Know your English
• ‘Memflation’ drove PC sales in first quarter, says Gartner
• WPI inflation rises to 38-month high of 3.88%
• China to ‘resolutely support’ Cuba against sustained threats from U.S.
• ‘50% increase in seats is an illusion, a plan to mask fall’
• ‘People denied benefits due to Mamata govt.’
• Unemployment rate shows a slight increase in March
• Convene special session of Assembly to discuss delimitation: BJD chief
• Mayawati advocates sub-quota for SC, ST, OBC women within 33% reservation
• Entry of ‘fertile women’ antithetical to the identity of Sabarimala deity, says temple board in top court
• The SCIENCE QUIZ
• New tool predicts how pollen travels through cities
• Illegalities alleged in Sir Dorabji Tata Trust
• Carmakers navigating costly, tricky transition to battery storage systems
• Xi meets Russian FM as leaders flock to China over West Asia war
• A plate of fish, a dash of pride: polls, Poila Boishakh prove to be heady mix
• Bageshwar Dham gets govt. nod to receive foreign funds
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• Career conversations to enable students make better choices
• Decoding the Ramayana
• letters to the editor
• India laps up most of Venezuelan, Russian crude oil
• LIC launches apps for clients, intermediaries
• Airfares surge more than 40% amid tensions in West Asia
• TheraNym to invest up to $175 mn for new facility
• War delayed plans for UAE, Dubai markets: Zoya
• Create Medic enters India, plans to invest ₹120 crore
• Higher oil prices, yields, no rate cuts? No issue for U.S. stocks
• United’s chief takes fight with American to White House
• Grieving streets
• Trump ‘asked China’s Xi’ not to give Iran weapons
• Israeli military strikes south of Beirut amid talks in Washington
• ‘China moves to block entrance to disputed South China Sea shoal’
• Vatican should ‘stick to matters of morality’, says U.S. Vice-President
• Sudan enters a fourth year of war as officials lament an ‘abandoned crisis’
• Protect and serve
• Gaza flotilla from Spain to challenge Israeli blockade
• BJP trying to ‘gerrymander’ all Lok Sabha constituencies in ‘anti-national’ act: Rahul
• Backing T.N. CM’s stand on delimitation: CPI(M) leader
• SC stays HC order protecting Pawan Khera from arrest
• Crashed dreams, survival questions abound after power plant tragedy
• ED searches premises linked to AAP MP; PM has begun prep for 2027 Punjab poll, says Kejriwal
• Samrat sworn in as Bihar’s first BJP Chief Minister as Nitish leaves his post
• Shah says BJP will prioritise solving Gurkha issues in Bengal
• Smriti promises monthly aid for Bengal women
• Governor Ravi pitches for revival of Bengal’s past glory
• Searing heat
• Nara Lokesh elevated as TDP national working president
• Pro-Orban President must resign, says Hungary’s Magyar
• Trump seeks to extend foreign surveillance as U.S. privacy concerns remain
• INDIA bloc rejects delimitation move
• ‘DMK-Congress set to secure a two-thirds majority in T.N. poll’
• Suvendu alleges ‘Arabic culture’ push in Bengal
• 38 booked, 23 held in U.P. over violence on Ambedkar Jayanti
• Presence of children at poll campaign in Erode causes concern
• AAP slams Centre over revised BBMB appointment norms
• Five killed, 15 injured as blast rips through house in A.P.
• PM Modi holds roadshow in T.N.
• Congress suspends MLC after bypoll row
• Karnataka Congress MLA convicted in murder case
• Wild elephant dies in Kerala after iron pipe pierces chest
• Stand-up comedian held for remarks on Pawan Kalyan
• Nine killed in Turkiye school shooting
• Gaza civil defence says toddler among 10 killed in Israeli strikes
• Bowlers’ day out as RCB coasts to victory against a listless LSG
• Rohit’s injury in focus for desperate MI
• Noor’s technical refinement does the job
• It’s Vaishali’s time to hog the limelight
• Vaishali wins Candidates, to challenge Ju for world title
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• Been a long road for me... plan is to keep playing: RCB’s Hazlewood
• England all-rounder Jacks set to link up with MI later this week
• ‘Tyagi bowling exceptionally well is a positive to take forward’
• Rahane fined ₹12 lakh for KKR’s slow over-rate against CSK
• Atletico Madrid baulks Barcelona’s riposte to reach the semifinals
• NorthEast snatches a draw against Kerala Blasters
• Hockey Jharkhand is a women’s powerhouse
• Back trouble ends Axelsen’s career
• Recognising excellence
• Real Madrid great Santamaria passes away aged 96
• Shubhankar goes to the top; Baisoya breaks course record
• Indian women’s football team finishes third
• Abhishek and Axar added to NADA’s RTP
• Infosys ropes in Alcaraz as global brand ambassador
• First impressions and the lasting impact