UPSC Current Affairs 29 January 2026 — PIB
- Government Notifies Coking Coal as Critical & Strategic Mineral under MMDR Act, 1957
- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS INDIA AND EUROPEAN UNION FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
- INDIA’S GDP GROWTH FOR FY26 IS ESTIMATED AT 7.4 PER CENT DRIVEN BY THE DOUBLE ENGINE OF CONSUMPTION AND INVESTMENT
- HIGHLIGHTS: ECONOMIC SURVEY 2025-26
- India’s space economy at $8.4 billion, nearly 400 start-ups active after sector opened to private players: Dr. Jitendra Singh
- PARLIAMENT QUESTION: PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION IN SPACE ECONOMY
- PARLIAMENT QUESTION: IMPLICATIONS OF SHANTI ACT
- PARLIAMENT QUESTION: RARE EARTH MINERALS
- PARLIAMENT QUESTION: EXPANSION PROJECTS
- PARLIAMENT QUESTION: DOMESTIC EXPLORATIONAND AVAILIBILITY OF CRITICAL MINERALS
- PARLIAMENT QUESTION : SAFEGUARDS UNDER SHANTI ACT
- Centre, States Align to Scale AgriStack Across Schemes and Services at the National Workshop on AgriStack
- Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade Proposes Amendments to Designs Act to Align with Global Best Practices
- A CALIBERATED FISCAL STRATEGY HAS ANCHORED ECONOMIC STABILITY AMID GLOBAL ECONOMIC TURBULENCE: ECONOMIC SURVEY 2025-26
- FROM STABILITY TO STRENGTH: GROWTH ACCELERATES ALONG WITH LOWER INFLATION
- ASSET QUALITY OF SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (SCBs) WITNESSES SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT, RECOVERY RATE IN NPAs APPROXIMATELY DOUBLES FROM 13.2 PER CENT IN FY18 TO 26.2 PER CENT IN FY25
- AMIDST CONTINUOUS SHIFTS IN TRADE POLICIES AND GLOBAL UNCERTAINTIES, INDIA’S EQUITY MARKETS EXHIBITED MEASURED YET RESILIENT PERFORMANCE: ECONOMIC SURVEY 2025-26
- INDIA’S INNOVATION PERFORMANCE STRENGTHENS STEADILY, GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX RANK IMPROVES TO 38TH IN 2025 FROM 66TH IN 2019: ECONOMIC SURVEY 2025-26
- WORLD BANK RANKS INDIA AMONG THE TOP FIVE COUNTRIES IN TERMS OF PRIVATE INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE AMONG LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME ECONOMIES
- MICRO, SMALL, AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES FORM THE BACKBONE OF INDIA’S INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY: ECONOMIC SURVEY 2025-26
- INDIA REMAINS AS THE WORLD’S LARGEST RECIPIENT OF REMITTANCES, WITH INFLOWS REACHING USD 135.4 BILLION IN FY25
- RURAL EMPOYMENT SCHEME MGNREGS REACHED ITS LIMITS AND WARRANTED REASSESSMENT IN LIGHT OF EVOLVING RURAL REALITIES: ECONOMIC SURVEY
- TELE-DENSITY REACHES 86.76 % AND 5G SERVICES NOW AVAILABLE IN 99.9 % OF DISTRICTS IN THE COUNTRY
- INDIA ADOPTS A DEVELOPMENT-CENTRED, WHOLE-OF-ECONOMY CLIMATE STRATEGY: INTEGRATES ADAPTATION, MITIGATION AND BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE WITHIN ITS DEVELOPMENT MODEL, SAYS ECONOMIC SURVEY 2025-26
- DYNAMIC GROUNDWATER RESOURCES ASSESSMENT, 2025
- SOCIAL SECURITY FOR GIG AND PLATFORM WORKERS
- ELECTRICITY AMENDMENT BILL, 2025
- Cashless Treatment to Road Accident Victims
- FINANCING IN RESEARCH
- All India Workshop of Trainers (AIWOT) for National Household Income Survey (NHIS) and Annual Survey of Incorporated Services Sector Enterprises (ASISSE) conducted by NSO (FOD) on 28th and 29th January 2026 at Chennai.
- Press note on release of Expert Group Report on Comprehensive Updation of CPI
- PM interacts with CEOs and Experts working in AI Sector
- Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi's remarks at beginning of the Budget Session of 2026
- 28th CONFERENCE OF SPEAKERS AND PRESIDING OFFICERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH (CSPOC) 2026 WAS A GRAND SUCCESS: LOK SABHA SPEAKER
- PARLIAMENT QUESTION: STRATEGY FOR NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT
- PARLIAMENT QUESTION: NUCLEAR SAFETY AND SECURITY
- PARLIAMENT QUESTION: REGULATING PRIVATE OPERATORS IN NUCLEAR SECTOR
- PARLIAMENT QUESTION: IMPLEMENTATION CONCERNS OF SHANTI ACT
- “Economic Survey documents the strength of Indian agriculture and rural India”: Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan
- Satellite Communication Services
- Digital Inclusion of Rural and Remote Areas
- Union Minister Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia presents achievements of the Department of Telecommunications in providing connectivity to Gram Panchayats and vision for the coming years in Parliament
- Public Comments invited on Proposed Amendments in IEPFA (Accounting, Audit, Transfer and Refund) Rules, 2016 to Simplify Refund Process for low-value claims of investors
- MoU Exchanged to Establish Krishnamurthy Tandon School of Artificial Intelligence at IIM Ahmedabad
- PARLIAMENT QUESTION: ADVANCEMENTS IN WEATHER FORECASTING
- PARLIAMENT QUESTION: UPGRADATION IN OBSERVATION NETWORK
- PARLIAMENT QUESTION: FORECAST SYSTEM
- National Biodiversity Authority Disburses Rs 17 Lakh to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Under ABS Mechanism
- PREFACE OF ECONOMIC SURVERY 2025-26
- RURAL INFLATION ON A DECLINING TREND FURTHER REDUCING RURAL STRESS;
- INDIA'S MONETARY AND FINANCIAL SECTORS ROBUST DESPITE THE UNCERTAIN GLOBAL GEOPOLITICAL SCENARIO: ECONOMIC SURVEY 2025-26
- INDIA’S INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE REMAINS ROBUST AS INDUSTRY GROSS VALUE ADDED GREW BY 7.0 PERCENT YEAR-ON-YEAR, IN REAL TERMS, IN THE FIRST HALF OF FY2025-26: ECONOMIC SURVEY 2025-26
- FROM STABILITY TO NEW FRONTIERS, INDIA’S SERVICES EXPORTS GROWTH MORE THAN DOUBLED FROM 7.6% IN THE PRE-PANDEMIC PERIOD (FY16-FY20) TO 14% DURING FY23-FY25
- INDIA SHOULD PRIORITISE DECENTRALISED, APPLICATION-DRIVEN SYSTEMS OVER CAPITAL-INTENSIVE FRONTIER MODELS TO AVOID FRAGILE DEPENDENCIES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: ECONOMIC SURVEY
- INDIA’S EXTERNAL PERFORMANCE DEMONSTRATES RESILIENCE TO GLOBAL SHOCKS: ECONOMIC SURVEY 2025-26
- AGRICULTURE WILL BE CENTRAL TO ACHIEVING VIKSIT BHARAT, DRIVING INCLUSIVE GROWTH AND IMPROVING THE LIVELIHOODS OF MILLIONS: ECONOMIC SURVEY
- OBJECTIVE OF DOUBLING FARMER INCOME TO BE ACHIEVED THROUGH PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT AND POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL INTERVENTIONS: ECONOMIC SURVEY
- INCREASE IN AGRICULTURAL INPUT QUALITY, FARM MECHANISATION, MARKET SUPPORT, CROP INSURANCE AND CREDIT LEAD TO HUGE POSITIVE OUTCOMES: ECONOMIC SURVEY
- RAPID STRIDES IN RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE – INCLUDING ROADS, HOUSING, TAP WATER CONNECTION & DIGITAL CONNECTIVITY.
- INCLUSIVE GROWTH BASED ON SPIRIT OF ‘SABKA SAATH, SABKA VIKAS, SABKA PRAYAS, SABKA VISHWAS’ HAS YIELDED MEASURABLE GAINS FOR INDIA
- RIGHT SKILLING, ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT AND GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES CONTINUE TO BRING DOWN UNEMPLOYMENT, SAYS THE ECONOMIC SURVEY 2025-26
- SKILLING INDIA RIGHT TO MAKE IT FUTURE READY: ECONOMIC SURVEY 2025-2026
- EDUCATION THE CORE PILLAR OF HUMAN CAPITAL AND CENTRAL TO SHAPING THE NATION’S GROWTH PATH TOWARDS VIKSIT BHARAT @2047 : ECONOMIC SURVEY 2025-2026
- HEALTHY POPULATION A KEY PILLAR TO ENSURE RESILIENT FUTURE: ECONOMIC SURVEY 2025-26
- SIGNIFICANT STRIDES MADE IN PENSION AND INSURANCE COVER PROVIDING SOCIAL SECURITY OVER THE YEARS
- INDIA IS FAR MORE URBAN IN ECONOMIC AND FUNCTIONAL TERMS THAN OFFICIAL DEFINITIONS SUGGEST: ECONOMIC SURVEY 2025-26
- ECONOMIC SURVEY PROPOSES DISCIPLINED SWADESHI FOR STRATEGIC RESILIENCE: A THREE TIERED FRAMEWORK FOR STRATEGIC INDIGENISATION
- Under PM Modi’s Vision, India–Canada Talks on Clean Mobility and Critical Minerals Yield Positive Outcomes
- SCHEMES FOR URBAN POOR
- DUMP SITE REMEDIATION ACCELERATION PLAN
- STATUS AND SAFETY OF OLD DAMS
- NAMAMI GANGE MISSION PHASE-II
- ASSESSMENT OF THE FUNCTIONALITY OF HOUSEHOLD TAP WATER CONNECTIONS PROVIDED UNDER JJM
- EMPLOYEES’ ENROLMENT SCHEME 2025
- Limits of investment and turnover for classification of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) revised to enable higher efficiencies of scale, encourage technological up-gradation, better access to capital and enhan...
- IEW 2026: Policy Certainty, Low Renewable Energy Cost and Technology Adoption Drive India’s Hydrogen and Clean Fuel Momentum
- Collection and Fastag Adoption
- IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION POLICY-2020
- PARLIAMENT QUESTION: WOMEN IN STEM
- Assam Petro-Chemicals (APL) Signs MoU with Deendayal Port (DPA) to set up 150 TPD e-Methanol Plant at Kandla Port
- Flash Report on Central Sector Infrastructure Projects worth ₹150 crore and above
- International Tourist Arrivals to India Surge to 20.57 million in 2024, Marking Strong Post-Pandemic Growth
- NHRC, India takes suo motu cognizance of the reported protest by Kalbelia community demanding a designated place for burial of their kins in Barmer District Rajasthan
- Renewed Momentum in India–Canada Bilateral Relations