UPSC Current Affairs 26 August 2026 — The Hindu

• OBC creamy-layer criteria: SC likely to set up special Bench
• U.S. sanctions 4 India-based firms over Iran imports
• India, China discuss ways to push border delimitation
• Extend time for filing claims, verifying voters during SIR: Karnataka CM to EC
• End the culture of secrecy in judicial appointments
• 50 years ago: WHO to collaborate in Ayurvedic project
• UN panel flags violations against SC, ST, Rohingya
• Aravalli panel failed to conduct adequate study, say activists
• SC bars police from coercive action against journalist
• Models struggled to predict the 2026 monsoon’s rapid changes
• After HC intervention, junior doctors in A.P. call off strike
• The limits of air power, implications for theatre-isation
• T.N. can lead India on revenue reform
• Wearing hijab not established as ‘essential religious practice’ for women in Islam, says HC
• U.S. sanctions 4 Indian firms over Iran imports
• Root causes
• Escape velocity
• Karnataka’s draft SIR rolls reveal alarming levels of deletion
• The recruitment controversy in Andhra
• 100 years ago: World’s altitude record
• Manipur groups ask govt. to defer Census in State
• SC likely to form special Bench on OBC criteria
• India, China discuss border delimitation
• BJP, Opposition spar in panel over demand for crackdown debate
• Supreme Court flags sparse data on Bengal SIR appeals as municipal polls close in
• War weighing on business confidence, says RBI bulletin
• ‘Infra projects see cost overrun of ₹3.4 lakh cr.’
• Race against time
• Youth vote and its electoral impact
• How AI firms are destroying physical books to train their models