UPSC Current Affairs 04 June 2026 — The Hindu

• U.S. moots 12.5% tariff on India for failure to enforce ‘forced labour’ regulations
• How India scaled its startup industry from 2016 to 2025
• Re-check ordered over Census data ‘discrepancies’
• Fairwood, SK Securities sign small reactor project pact
• Brazil takes a historic HDI leap with focused planning and public spending
• Union Cabinet approves ₹9,585-crore scheme to cut pollution in Delhi-NCR
• Is climate research being held back by local instrumentation?
• Reading for a warming world: books that rethink nature, development and survival
• RBI debunks reports on gold sale, says reserves are ‘steady at 880.52 tonnes’
• Nepal has not encroached even an inch of India’s land: former PM Oli