21st September

Monetary Policy Committee Notifications

India’s real rate moment, the cost of delay

Op-ed | Economics | Mains GS3: GS3-01.Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.

Foreign Policy Watch: India-Sri Lanka

SLINEX-26: India-Sri Lanka Maritime Exercise

PIBPrelims Only | International Relations | Mains GS2: GS2-18.Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.

Festivals, Dances, Theatre, Literature, Art in News

National Film Awards 2026

PIBPrelims Only | Art and Culture | Mains GS1: GS1-01.Indian Culture- Salient aspects of Art Forms, Literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times.

Ralph Lauren to Fendi: Why Indian crafts are easy to borrow, hard to protect

Explained | Art and Culture | Mains GS1: GS1-01.Indian Culture- Salient aspects of Art Forms, Literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times.

NPCIL begins fuel loading at RAPP-8, unit nears operation

Indigenous/Made in India | Science and Technology | Mains GS3: GS3-13.Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc:

Study attempts to find out how India made diabetes medicines affordable

| Science and Technology | Mains GS3: GS3-17.Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, Robotics, Nano-technology, Bio-technology and issues relating to Intellectual Property Rights.

The copyright stakes in the EU FTA

Bills/Act/Laws | Science and Technology | Mains GS3: GS3-17.Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, Robotics, Nano-technology, Bio-technology and issues relating to Intellectual Property Rights.

Pacing AI development: the debate

Explained | Science and Technology | Mains GS3: GS3-17.Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, Robotics, Nano-technology, Bio-technology and issues relating to Intellectual Property Rights.

Missing measure in India’s magnet mission

Op-ed | Geography | Mains GS1: GS1-12.Distribution of key Natural Resources (world, South Asia and Indian subcontinent)

Ethanol vision needs a feedstock reality check

Op-ed | Environment | Mains GS3: GS3-13.Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc:

Botswana cheetah released in MP’s Gandhi Sagar park

National Parks/WSSpecies | Environment | Mains GS3: GS3-18.Conservation, Environmental Pollution and Degradation, Environmental Impact Assessment.

Urban demand is reorganising global wildlife trafficking web

IOCRSpecies | Environment | Mains GS3: GS3-18.Conservation, Environmental Pollution and Degradation, Environmental Impact Assessment.

Punjab’s drug scourge needs policy, not slogans

Op-ed | Internal Security | Mains GS3: GS3-23.Security Challenges and their Management in Border Areas – Linkages of Organized Crime with Terrorism.

Forces comb Pir Panjal to stop terrorist movement between Jammu, Kashmir

| Internal Security | Mains GS3: GS3-23.Security Challenges and their Management in Border Areas – Linkages of Organized Crime with Terrorism.

Six high-tech Army labs to weed out foreign bugs from drones, cameras

| Internal Security | Mains GS3: GS3-21.Role of External State and Non-state Actors in creating challenges to Internal Security.

Japan Air Force chief flies in Tejas jet, hails progress in defence partnership

| International Relations | Mains GS2: GS2-18.Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.

India’s BRICS diplomacy is more than one summit’s result

IOCROp-ed | International Relations | Mains GS2: GS2-18.Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.

The paradox of self-reliance: India-China trade dynamics

| International Relations | Mains GS2: GS2-19.Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora.

Serious escalation

Bills/Act/LawsOp-ed | International Relations | Mains GS2: GS2-19.Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora.

NGOs vs. GoI: The Conflicts and Scrutinies

India’s NGOs at a new funding crossroads

Bills/Act/LawsOp-ed | Governance | Mains GS2: GS2-11.Development processes and the development industry —the role of NGOs, SHGs, various groups and associations, donors, charities, institutional and other stakeholders.

In India’s capital, Delhiites reduced to documents

DOMR | Polity | Mains GS2: GS2-08.Salient features of the Representation of People’s Act.

How agentic AI could transform the way we make digital payments

DOMR | Economics | Mains GS3: GS3-17.Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, Robotics, Nano-technology, Bio-technology and issues relating to Intellectual Property Rights.