News

• Polity › Elections, Delimitation

  Telangana’s 94 Lakh Electors Face SIR Scrutiny

  GS2 · GS2-08.Salient features of the Representation of People’s Act.

  19 Aug 2026

  Explained States

• International Relations › International Stories of Key Importance

  Carbon Tax War? BRICS Challenges the EU

  GS2 · GS2-18.Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.

  19 Aug 2026

  Explained

• Economics › Budget, Fiscal Policy

  Why corporate investment has not revived despite tax cuts and cheap credit

  GS3 · GS3-01.Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.

  19 Aug 2026

  Explained

• Economics › Energy

  New PNG Connections Get a Gas Boost: Extra 200 SCM Allocation

  GS3 · GS3-13.Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc:

  19 Aug 2026

  Prelims Only Schemes

• Polity › Fundamental Rights and Duties

  A secular republic’s sacrilege problem and the legal price of criticising holy writ

  GS2 · GS2-01.Indian Constitution-Historical underpinnings & evolution; Features, amendments, significant provisions, basic structure of Constitution

  19 Aug 2026

  Bills/Act/Laws Prelims Only SC Judgements

• Economics › Bonds

  Government explores routing gold monetisation through jewellers after bank scheme’s weak record

  GS3 · GS3-01.Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.

  19 Aug 2026

  Explained Schemes

• Governance › Various Acts

  Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Act, 2026 makes obstructing Vande Mataram an offence

  GS2 · GS2-01.Indian Constitution-Historical underpinnings & evolution; Features, amendments, significant provisions, basic structure of Constitution

  19 Aug 2026

  Bills/Act/Laws

• Governance › Tribunal · Polity

  Tribunals Reforms Bill, 2026 creates National Tribunals Commission after a decade-long tussle with the Supreme Court

  GS2 · GS2-09.Appointment to various Constitutional posts; Constitutional Bodies(powers, functions and responsibilities); Statutory, Regulatory and Quasi-judicial bodies

  19 Aug 2026

  Bills/Act/Laws Explained

• Economics › BoP,FDI,FPI,External Financing

  RBI to close FCNR(B) concessional swap window a month early on August 31

  GS3 · GS3-01.Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.

  19 Aug 2026

  Prelims Only

• Governance › Census

  Census 2027 questionnaire notified with 40 questions and India’s first caste enumeration since Independence

  GS2 · GS2-10.Government Policies & Interventions for development of various sectors (issues in their design, implementation)

  19 Aug 2026

  Explained