Top UPSC Current Affairs January 2026 — PIB
- Prime Minister welcomes new Ramsar sites at Patna Bird Sanctuary and Chhari-Dhand
- Union Environment Minister Shri Bhupender Yadav announces Addition of 2 New Wetlands to India's Ramsar List, ahead of World Wetlands Day 2026
- India-EU Free Trade Pact Covers One-Third of World Population, Impacts 25% of Global GDP: Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Shri Piyush Goyal
- MoSPI organized Third Pre-release Consultative Workshop on the Base Revision of GDP, IIP and CPI on 30th January 2026 at Chennai
- Economic Survey 2025-26
- 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
- Prime Minister shares glimpses of the conclusion of the historic India-EU Free Trade Agreement
- New Solid Waste Management Rules Notified; To Come into Force from April 1, 2026
- India and the European Union Conclude Free Trade Agreement Negotiations on Financial Services
- List of Outcomes: Visit of President of the European Council and President of the European Commission to India
- India–EU Free Trade Agreement Concluded: A Strategic Breakthrough in India’s Global Trade Engagement
- National Household Income Survey (NHIS) and Annual Survey of Incorporated Service Sector Enterprises (ASISSE) on 28th and 29th January 2026 at Chennai
- Padma Awards 2026 announced
- Release of Discussion Paper on “Changes in Methodology of Quarterly GDP series and Sub-national Accounts”
- CDS releases Military Quantum Mission Policy Framework
- Government notifies Greenhouse Gas Emission Intensity Targets for 208 more Carbon-intensive Industries
- DRAFT NATIONAL ELECTRICITY POLICY (NEP), 2026 RELEASED FOR PUBLIC CONSULTATION WITH STAKEHOLDERS
- Dr Jitendra Singh interacts with journalists at Media Round Table
- NITI Aayog releases three reports on green transition in cement, aluminium and MSME sectors
- INDEX OF EIGHT CORE INDUSTRIES (BASE YEAR: 2011-12=100) FOR DECEMBER, 2025
- List of Outcomes: Visit of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of UAE to India
- Joint Statement: Visit of President of the UAE, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to India
- Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh Launches India’s First Open-Sea Marine Fish Farming Project at North Bay, Andaman Sea; Ministry of Earth Sciences to Collaborate with UT Government of A&N
- POWER DISTRIBUTION UTILITIES RECORD POSITIVE PAT AFTER YEARS OF LOSSES; THIS MARKS A NEW CHAPTER, SAYS POWER MINISTER
- International Year of Cooperatives 2025
- Chips to Start-up (C2S) Programme
- ‘Historic reforms for farmers’: Union Agriculture Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan shares details of new Seed Act
- 150 years of Vande Mataram to be the theme of Republic Day Parade 2026 at Kartavya Path
- Integrating Tribal Healers into Community Healthcare: National Capacity Building Programme for Tribal Healers Begins
- The cumulative exports (merchandise & services) during April-December 2025 is estimated at US$ 634.26 Billion, as compared to US$ 607.93 Billion in April-December 2024, an estimated growth of 4.33%.
- Female LFPR and WPR recorded a yearly high in December, 2025 Overall Unemployment Rate broadly stable
- Ministry of Tribal Affairs to Organize India’s First National Capacity Building Programme for Tribal Healers to Strengthen Health Outreach in Tribal Areas
- NITI Aayog Releases Export Preparedness Index (EPI) 2024
- PFRDA issues NPS Vatsalya Scheme Guidelines 2025 to strengthen long-term financial security for Minors
- Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah, lays the foundation stone of the BSL-4 Bio-Containment Facility of the Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre in Gandhinagar
- India – Germany Joint Statement
- List of Outcomes: Visit of the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany to India (January 12-13, 2026)
- CONSUMER PRICE INDEX NUMBERS ON BASE 2012=100 FOR RURAL, URBAN AND COMBINED FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER, 2025
- NOTIFICATION OF NATIONAL SPORTS GOVERNANCE (NATIONAL SPORTS BODIES) RULES, 2026
- Viksit Bharat-G RAM G aligned with the Vision of Viksit Bharat@2047 – Dr. Sukanta Majumdar
- India Marks Record-Breaking Year in Clean Energy in 2025 : Union Minister Pralhad Joshi
- India–Oman CEPA
- DRDO conducts successful ground test of full scale actively cooled long duration Scramjet Engine for Hypersonic Missile Programme
- Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah chairs 9th Apex-Level Meeting of NCORD in New Delhi
- Ministry of Tourism Completes 75 Projects under Swadesh Darshan Scheme Launched in 2015
- NOTIFICATION OF NATIONAL SPORTS BOARD (SEARCH-CUM-SELECTION COMMITTEE) RULES, 2026
- Government invites public comments on Draft Pesticides Management Bill, 2025
- India enters into an era of 'Clean, Green Highways', with the successful Technology Transfer titled “Bio-Bitumen via Pyrolysis: From Farm Residue to Roads”, an indigenous innovation developed by CSIR‑Central Road Researc...
- FIRST ADVANCE ESTIMATES OF GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT, 2025-26
- In pursuance of the Union Budget 2025-26 announcement, Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Ministry of Finance, has created a three-year Public Private Partnership (PPP) project pipeline
- YEAR END REVIEW 2025: MINISTRY OF PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS
- Celebrating 80th Foundation Day of CSIR-NPL, Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh inaugurates the World's second "National Environmental Standard Laboratory" and the World's fifth "National Primary Standard Facility for Sol...
- Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah, chairs a meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Home Affairs at Sri Vijaya Puram in Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Two Key Interventions Launched to Strengthen MSME Exports under Export Promotion Mission
- Government approves 22 proposals under the 3rd tranche of Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS)
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Health Security se National Security (HSNS) Cess Act, 2026 and HSNS Cess Rules, 2026
- Union Health Minister Shri J. P. Nadda Releases 10th Edition of Indian Pharmacopoeia
- Credit Guarantee Scheme for Exporters (CGSE) made operational through Jan Samarth Portal w.e.f. 1 December 2025
- Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi receives a delegation of Arab Foreign Ministers
- Ministry of Minority Affairs launches two additional modules, named Survey Module and Waqf Property Lease Module on the UMEED Central Portal
- Lakshya Zero Dumpsite: India’s Drive to Eliminate City Dumpsites Under Swachh Bharat Mission
- Year-End Review 2025: Driving Digital Justice, Consumer Trust and Quality in India’s Marketplace
- Connectivity projects in North East Region
- India AI Impact Summit Receives Phenomenal Global Response, India’s AI Ecosystem Developing in a Systematic Manner: Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw
- Secretary, DFS Chairs Review Meeting of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) today
- Monthly Review of Accounts of Government of India upto December 2025 (FY 2025-26)
- Indian Railways Speeds Up Kavach 4.0 Safety Rollout with 472 km Commissioned Across Three Sections
- Economic Survey 2025-26 Highlights India’s Shift Toward High-Value Pharma and Innovation
- 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
- India and European Union Reaffirm Cooperation in Secure 6G Technologies and Trusted Telecom Supply Chains
- New Aadhaar App dedicated to the nation