Current Affairs for UPSC Civil Services

What UPSC actually asks from current affairs

UPSC rarely asks a date or a name on its own. It asks what a scheme is *for*, which ministry runs it, and how it connects to something structural — so every digest here leads with the mechanism, not the headline.

Environment and international relations carry disproportionate Prelims weight relative to how much space they get in the news, which is why they sit near the top of this page rather than in the order the papers ran them.

Mains rewards the same material re-used as evidence in an answer. The digests keep a short 'why this matters' line for exactly that — it is the sentence you want to be able to reproduce eight months later.

How far back to revise. Prelims draws on roughly 12–18 months of current affairs, so the full archive matters here — not just the last few weeks.