UPSC Current Affairs 05 August 2026 — The Hindu

Editorial

  • Jammu and Kashmir — the elusive quest for Statehood
  • NATO enters a new strategic era of transformation
  • What can be done to curb ‘paper leaks’ and ensure institutional accountability?
  • Out of work and outraged
  • Top spot
  • data point
  • Delimitation may be less attractive for BJP now

National

  • SC seeks Centre’s response to challenge against CAPF Act
  • CBT mode for NEET under consideration, Centre informs SC
  • Students in ‘severe pain’ need apology, not PM’s ‘forgiveness’: Rahul Gandhi
  • Parliament clears Bill on births, deaths registration
  • 10-km mining buffer applies to all wetland reserves: SC
  • Karnataka HC recognises the ‘right to be forgotten’
  • Questions for Phase 2 of Census likely to be out soon
  • Govt. efforts since 2014 paid off in sports arena: Minister
  • Supreme Court raises third-party insurance period for new vehicles
  • 3 widely used medicines classified as carcinogenic by WHO research agency

Business

  • Wind turbine firms seek export-linked sops, PLI
  • Govt. introduces Bill to ‘make it easier to do business in India’

Foreign

  • Dissanayake says he favours ‘national consensus’ before drafting Constitution

Science

  • SpaceX rocket stage hurtles toward moon, astronomers hot on its trail