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
- Prime Minister highlights the Economic Survey as a comprehensive picture of India’s Reform Express, reflecting steady progress in a challenging global environment
- English rendering of PM’s remarks at the beginning of the Budget Session of Parliament
- Text of the Opening Remarks by Hon’ble Vice-President of India and Chairman, Rajya Sabha Shri C.P. Radhakrishnan at the commencement of the 270th Session of Rajya Sabha
- MoCA initiated immediate investigative mechanisms following unfortunate aircraft accident near Baramati
- Allocation of Upgradable Equipment to States
- Internet Connectivity in Rural and Remote Areas
- CULTURAL MAPPING OF RURAL INDIA
- INAUGURATION OF PROJECT TOWARDS DEVELOPMENT OF CIVIL AVIATION INFRASTRUCTURE AT LEH
- STATE LEVEL INNOVATIONS IN AGRICULTURAL GOVERNANCE LEADING TO POSITIVE OUTCOMES: ECONOMIC SURVEY
- “INDIA’S MOVEMENT FROM SWADESHI TO STRATEGIC RESILIENCE, AND FROM RESILIENCE TO STRATEGIC INDISPENSABILITY, CANNOT BE ACHIEVED THROUGH INSULATION ALONE”: ECONOMIC SURVEY 2025-26
- PLI Scheme for Food Processing Industries
- ACHIEVEMENTS AND STATUS OF SBM-U
- TAP WATER TO ALL RURAL HOUSEHOLDS
- FREE LEGAL AID SERVICES
- CASES RESOLVED THROUGH ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION MECHANISMS
- DIGITAL MODERNISATION OF LEGAL SERVICES
- DECLINE IN CONVICTION RATE IN FAST-TRACK COURTS
- Centre Releases More Than 1,156 Crores under Fifteenth Finance Commission Grants for Rural Local Bodies of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tripura
- IEW 2026: India’s Bioenergy Growth Can Outpace Overall Energy Demand, Says Secretary, MoPNG at the Global Energy Conclave
- IEW 2026: Domestic Manufacturing and Grid Integration Central to India’s Clean Energy Transition
- IEW 2026: Coal to Remain the Mainstay of Energy as India Looks to Triple Per Capita Energy Consumption
- FROM POWER DEFICIT TO POWER SUFFICIENT
- 100 m long ‘Make in India’ Steel Bridge Completed in Ahmedabad for Mumbai–Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project
- Fourth Railway Line Approved Between Baikunth and Urkura at ₹426 Crore
- IDENTIFYING YOUNG SCIENTISTS AND ENCOURAGING RESEARCH
- Astronomers probe into intriguing beats from black hole systems
- Pre-Release Consultative Workshop on Base Revision of GDP, IIP and CPI scheduled to be held at Chennai tomorrow
- Promotion of Indian Tourism
- Cultural Corridor Under PRASHAD Scheme
- Arrivals of Foreign Tourists
- Over 2 crores youth registered on MY Bharat portal since its launch
- Promotion of Sports in J&K
- NHRC, India hosts 40 Sri Lankan senior civil services officers on their exposure visit to the Commission as part of NCGG capacity building initiative under ITEC programme of MEA
- The Beating Retreat ceremony displays the strength of India’s rich military heritage: PM
- Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth conducts Training Programme on “Identification of Flora” in Wayanad, Kerala
- MODERNIZATION OF INDIAN MUSEUMS AND DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
- INDIAN NAVY’S FIRST TRAINING SQUADRON CONCLUDES VISIT TO PHUKET DEEP SEA PORT, THAILAND
- CAQM Conducts Inspection Drive in Greater Noida; Targeted Corrective Actions Directed
- Adoption of Modern Processing Technologies
- Projects Approved under Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana
- Development of Modern Jaggery Processing Infrastructure
- Small Food Processing Units under PMFME
- Support to Micro and Small Food Processing Enterprises Under PMFME
- ESTABLISHING LEGAL RESOURCE CENTRES IN TRIBAL BELTS
- Commercial disputes settled through pre-institution mediation under the Commercial Courts Act, 2015
- Inclusive Energy Transition Needs Bankable Solutions: Pradip Kumar Das, CMD, IREDA at India Energy Week 2026
- IEW 2026: Third Day of India Energy Week 2026 Highlights Data, Technology and Balanced Pathways for Energy Security
- IEW 2026: Energy Data Must Anticipate Growth, Not Chase It, Says Pankaj Jain at IEW 2026
- Completion of Chennai-Bengaluru Expressway
- PROMOTION OF RURAL TOURISM
- Regulation of Influencer Driven Tourism Content on Digital Platform
- Development of Tourism Infrastructure
- NCSM Enthralls Visitors with Interactive Science Exhibition at Bharat Parv 2026
- Prime Minister shares glimpses from Beating Retreat 2026
- Chief Minister of Meghalaya meets the Prime Minister
- Shri HD Deve Gowda Ji meets the Prime Minister
- Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah pays last respects to Ajit Pawar ji in Baramati, Maharashtra
- SAIL secures Great Place to Work certification third time in a row