UPSC Civil Services Current Affairs One-liners — Last 3 months
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Wed, 08 Jul 2026
- PM Narendra Modi visited the UNESCO World Heritage Prambanan Temple Complex in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on 8 July 2026 and, with President Prabowo Subianto, unveiled a plaque starting ASI's conservation project there.
- Researchers at the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism developed a method to reconstruct the topside ionosphere over the Indian region by combining COSMIC radio occultation data with ground ionosonde observations (DST release, 8 July 2026).
Tue, 07 Jul 2026
- The Ministry of Education released the UDISE+ 2025-26 report on school education on 7 July 2026: teachers rose to 1,02,73,020, secondary dropout fell to 7.0% and secondary GER rose to 71.7%.
- PM Narendra Modi and President Prabowo Subianto held official talks at Istana Merdeka, Jakarta, on 7 July 2026 during the PM's State Visit to Indonesia (6–8 July), with 14 agreements including BrahMos cooperation.
- The Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) 5.0 has issued 4,11,497 guarantees worth ₹1,55,229 crore, with 98% of guarantees by number going to MSMEs (Finance Ministry, 7 July 2026).
- The 4th National Steering Committee of PM-SETU on 7 July 2026 approved a nationwide rollout across all 200 ITI clusters and Strategic Investment Plans worth ₹1,237.58 crore in Odisha, Gujarat and Telangana.
- PM Narendra Modi announced on 7 July 2026 that IIM Bangalore will set up its first international campus at Singhasari SEZ, Malang, Indonesia.
- President Prabowo Subianto conferred the 'Bintang Adipurna of the Republic of Indonesia', the country's highest civilian honour, on PM Narendra Modi on 7 July 2026.
Mon, 06 Jul 2026
- The Department of Consumer Affairs amended the Legal Metrology (General) Rules, 2011 (announced 6 July 2026), cutting the standard weights needed to verify instruments of one tonne and above from 50% to 20% of capacity after a repeatability test.
- An international team including Dr Aru Beri of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics used the e-MERLIN radio array to study 280 nearby galaxies and found weakly active black holes in nearly a quarter of them (DST, 6 July 2026).
- Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah addressed the 5th Foundation Day of the Ministry of Cooperation on 6 July 2026, citing nine national-level cooperative societies and a database of over 32 crore members.
- MoSPI released the report of the Expert Committee on Energy Statistics, chaired by IIT Delhi Director Dr Rangan Banerjee, on 6 July 2026, recommending methods for biofuels and filling data gaps in captive power and EV electricity use.
- India produced 42.1 Mt of crude steel in April–June 2026, up 3.0%, while finished steel consumption rose 8.3% to 41.6 Mt, the Steel Ministry reported on 6 July 2026.