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4 October 2026

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  1. Parliamentary standing committees reconstitutedPolity · asked in UPSC 2013
  2. Tiger reintroduction in Buxa, West BengalEnvironment · asked in UPSC 2012; factual, Prelims-type
  3. People's Plan Campaign 2026–27 launched through special Gram SabhasPolity · factual, Prelims-type
  4. NITI Aayog launches Special Campaign 6.0 on cleanliness and pendencyPolity · factual, Prelims-type
  5. Finance Commission chair sees no major food crisis for IndiaEconomy · factual, Prelims-type
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Polity
PolityGAPrelims ★★★★☆ Mains ★★★☆☆

Five chairs changed, but who sits on them? The 21+10 committee rule GS2 Polity tests

Parliamentary standing committees reconstituted

खबर में क्यों? Five committee chairs changed; TMC lost two chairmanships.

प्रीलिम्स Each Departmentally Related Standing Committee has 31 members, 21 from the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha.

मेन्स GS2 Polity: Parliament. Issue: reconstitution of standing committees and the shift of chairmanships between parties. Provision: committees of 31 membe…

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EnvironmentGAPrelims ★★★★★ Mains ★★☆☆☆

A tigress returns to a reserve that lost all its tigers: the Buxa reintroduction GS3 Conservation tests

Tiger reintroduction in Buxa, West Bengal

खबर में क्यों? Buxa gets a tigress to rebuild its tiger population.

प्रीलिम्स Buxa Tiger Reserve is located in Alipurduar district of West Bengal and shares borders with Bhutan and Assam.

मेन्स GS3 Environment: Conservation. Local extinction of tigers in Buxa shows that protected status alone does not hold a population; the Wildlife (Protecti…

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PolityGAPrelims ★★★★☆ Mains ★★★☆☆

Sabki Yojana, Sabka Vikas: which village-level plan does this Gram Sabha drive build? A GS2 Panchayati Raj staple

People's Plan Campaign 2026–27 launched through special Gram Sabhas

खबर में क्यों? Gram Sabhas on 2 October kicked off the annual village planning campaign.

प्रीलिम्स The People's Plan Campaign seeks participatory preparation of the Gram Panchayat Development Plan through Gram Sabhas.

मेन्स GS2 Governance: Panchayati Raj. Participatory planning is mandated by Article 243G and the 73rd Amendment, and the People's Plan Campaign operationali…

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Polity
PolityGAPrelims ★★★★☆ Mains ★★★☆☆

Special Campaign 6.0 is more than a clean-up drive: the NITI Aayog governance link GS2 answers need

NITI Aayog launches Special Campaign 6.0 on cleanliness and pendency

खबर में क्यों? NITI Aayog starts the sixth edition of its Swachhata and pendency campaign.

प्रीलिम्स NITI Aayog is a non-statutory, non-constitutional body set up by a Union Cabinet resolution in 2015 to replace the Planning Commission.

मेन्स GS2 Governance: administrative pendency and poor office hygiene weaken service delivery, so the annual Special Campaigns set time-bound targets for cl…

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EconomyGAPrelims ★★★★☆ Mains ★★★☆☆

Who chairs the 16th Finance Commission, and why a food-crisis forecast matters for GS3 Economy

Finance Commission chair sees no major food crisis for India

खबर में क्यों? Panagariya and Sitharaman give a steady outlook on food and growth.

प्रीलिम्स The Finance Commission is a constitutional body under Article 280, constituted by the President, normally every five years.

मेन्स GS3 Economy: food security and growth. Global supply disruptions raise the issue of India's food self-sufficiency; the policy base is buffer stocks, t…

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Polity
PolityGAPrelims ★★★☆☆ Mains ★★★☆☆

41 Zila Parishads, 457 Samitis, 14,403 panchayats: who runs these polls? Article 243K, GS2 Polity explained

Rajasthan panchayat elections in four phases from 23 October

खबर में क्यों? Rajasthan holds four-phase panchayat polls from 23 October across all three tiers.

प्रीलिम्स Article 243K provides for the State Election Commission to conduct all elections to panchayats.

मेन्स GS2 Polity: local self-government. The issue is timely and free-and-fair panchayat elections; Article 243K and 243E mandate a State Election Commissio…

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EconomyGAPrelims ★★★☆☆ Mains ★★★☆☆

RBI borrows from banks to drain cash: the VRRR reverse repo mechanism GS3 monetary policy answers need

RBI names Sudhakar Malli Executive Director; schedules VRRR auction

खबर में क्यों? RBI appointment, a liquidity-absorbing VRRR auction and its crypto stance.

प्रीलिम्स The Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) comprises repo and reverse repo operations through which the RBI manages short-term liquidity.

मेन्स GS3 Economy: Monetary policy. Surplus liquidity can blunt policy transmission and fuel inflation, so the RBI uses LAF tools such as VRRR to absorb it …

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Economy
EconomyGAPrelims ★★★☆☆ Mains ★★★☆☆

Four countries, none in the EU: the EFTA list every trade-agreement answer in GS2 must name

India–EFTA partnership: "one plus one equals three"

खबर में क्यों? The India–EFTA TEPA, in force since 1 October 2025, is highlighted as a template for Europe ties.

प्रीलिम्स The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) comprises Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.

मेन्स GS2 International Relations / GS3 Economy: India's trade diversification is shifting towards comprehensive partnerships such as the India–EFTA TEPA. A…

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Economy
EconomyGAPrelims ★★★☆☆ Mains ★★★☆☆

Light-touch yet risk-proportionate: the regulation idea from the Kautilya Conclave that GS3 reform answers need

5th Kautilya Economic Conclave begins in New Delhi

खबर में क्यों? The three-day conclave opened with calls for risk-proportionate regulation.

प्रीलिम्स Risk-proportionate regulation means the intensity of regulatory oversight is scaled to the level of risk an activity poses, rather than applying uniform rules to all.

मेन्स GS3 Economy (Reforms): India's regulatory state faces the tension between protecting consumers and financial stability and avoiding over-regulation th…

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International RelationsGAPrelims ★★★★☆ Mains ★★★☆☆

70,000 Indian workers headed to Russia: the GS2 labour-mobility angle and India's Ukraine ceasefire proposal

Russia to take about 70,000 Indian skilled workers this year

खबर में क्यों? Labour mobility with Russia and a Ukraine ceasefire proposal from India feature in India's diplomacy.

प्रीलिम्स Labour mobility agreements allow skilled workers of one country to be employed in another under agreed terms.

मेन्स GS2 (International Relations): India–Russia ties now include skilled labour mobility alongside trade, investment and energy. Russia's labour demand of…

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International RelationsGAPrelims ★★★★☆ Mains ★★★☆☆

100 million barrels released at once: the G7 oil reserve move and India's energy security stakes for GS3

G7 agrees to release 100 million barrels of oil from emergency stocks

खबर में क्यों? G7 countries will jointly draw down emergency oil stocks.

प्रीलिम्स The G7 is an informal grouping of advanced economies: US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada, with the EU as a non-enumerated member

मेन्स GS2 International Relations / GS3 Economy: energy security. Geopolitical disruption raises oil prices, and the G7 responds with coordinated release of…

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International
International RelationsGAPrelims ★★★★☆ Mains ★★★☆☆

Why does an intermediate-range missile test breach UNSC sanctions? The North Korea facts GS2 Security tests

North Korea says it tested an intermediate-range missile

खबर में क्यों? Pyongyang reports a missile test amid border tension.

प्रीलिम्स Statement: Intermediate-range ballistic missiles have a range longer than short-range but shorter than intercontinental ballistic missiles. This is correct.

मेन्स GS2 International Relations and Security: North Korea's missile tests, set against border tension, challenge the UNSC sanctions regime and regional st…

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EnvironmentGAPrelims ★★★★☆ Mains ★★☆☆☆

Limbless, burrowing and new to Kolhapur: caecilian facts behind Western Ghats hotspot questions in GS3 Prelims

New caecilian from Kolhapur adds to North Western Ghats biodiversity

खबर में क्यों? A new caecilian species was described from Kolhapur.

प्रीलिम्स Caecilians are limbless amphibians that live mostly underground and resemble earthworms or snakes.

मेन्स GS3 Environment: Discovery of cryptic species such as caecilians shows how much of the Western Ghats' biodiversity is still undocumented, even in a re…

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⚡ Quick facts 22

One line each · the facts exams ask

  1. SportsIndia finished second to Uzbekistan at the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand.
  2. SportsAman Sehrawat won gold in the men's 57 kg freestyle wrestling at the 2026 Asian Games.
  3. SportsDeepak Punia won bronze in the men's 97 kg freestyle wrestling at the Asian Games.
  4. SportsWest Indies beat India by five wickets in the third ODI while chasing 352, despite KL Rahul's unbeaten 129.
  5. WorldThe 5th Kautilya Economic Conclave was inaugurated in New Delhi by Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan.
  6. AppointedSudhakar Malli has been appointed an Executive Director of the Reserve Bank of India.
  7. SchemeThe RoDTEP export-incentive scheme has been extended, a move welcomed by the CII.
  8. ReportUPI handled 145 billion transactions in April–September 2026, up 27% from 114 billion a year earlier.
  9. WorldPerim Island lies in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait at the southern entrance of the Red Sea.
  10. SchemeNITI Aayog held a national workshop on SDG budgeting in Kolkata under its State Support Mission.
  11. SchemeNITI Aayog organised a national workshop titled "Viksit Panchayat".
  12. DefenceThe S-400 Triumf is a long-range surface-to-air missile system.
  13. ReportThe Global Multidimensional Poverty Index measures poverty through 10 indicators.
  14. DayNational Engineers' Day is observed on 15 September, the birth anniversary of Sir M. Visvesvaraya.
  15. WorldChina launched an anti-dumping probe into EU chemical imports ahead of trade talks.
  16. WorldIraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces are Iran-backed Shia armed groups that operate within the Iraqi military structure.
  17. SchemeSpecial Gram Sabhas on Gandhi Jayanti took up rural drinking water under Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0.
  18. WorldNorth Korea tested an intermediate-range missile, with Kim Yo Jong issuing a statement.
  19. KarnatakaThe Bengaluru–Mumbai Vande Bharat Sleeper, numbered 27652 from KSR Bengaluru to CSMT, will run six days a week.
  20. KarnatakaKerala will launch its IT Parks Affiliation Scheme on 6 October 2026 to link IT firms outside government parks.
  21. KarnatakaBengaluru Jatre, a 10-day cultural festival, will be held from 4 December.
  22. KarnatakaOver 23,700 Form-7 applications were received in Karnataka after the SIR claims and objections period.

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Parliamentary standing committees reconstituted
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Consider the following statements: The parliamentary Committee on public accounts 1. consists of not more than 25 Members of the Lok Sabha 2. scrutinizes approp…

Tiger reintroduction in Buxa, West Bengal
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Consider the following protected areas: 1. Bandipur 2. Bhitarkanika 3. Manas 4. Sunderbans Which of the above are declared Tiger Reserves?

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