Current affairs curated for UPSC competitive exams.
Answer: Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) won their first-ever IPL title in 2025, ending a long wait. The final was played at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad.
Answer: India Stack
India Stack refers to India's open API-based Digital Public Infrastructure comprising Aadhaar (identity), UPI (payments), DigiLocker (documents), and other interoperable systems.
Answer: 2022
India-UAE CEPA was signed in February 2022 and came into force in May 2022 — India's first CEPA with a Gulf country, targeting bilateral trade of $100 billion.
Answer: True
India held the SCO Chairmanship in 2022-23 and hosted the SCO Summit virtually in July 2023. The in-person foreign ministers' meeting was held in Goa.
Answer: True
India aims to increase nuclear power capacity from ~7 GW to 22 GW by 2031-32 as part of its clean energy mix, with new reactors at Gorakhpur, Jaitapur, and Kovvada.
Answer: 5+3+3+4
NEP 2020 introduced the 5+3+3+4 curricular structure: Foundational (5 years), Preparatory (3 years), Middle (3 years), and Secondary (4 years) stages.
Answer: Palk Strait Crossing
India and Sri Lanka have discussed a Palk Strait road-rail bridge/tunnel project to restore connectivity between the two nations, reviving the ancient Ram Setu route.
Answer: Mauritius
Mauritius is historically the top source of cumulative FDI into India due to treaty benefits, followed by Singapore, USA, Netherlands, and Japan.
Answer: False
India is structurally a current account deficit country due to high import bills (crude oil, gold, electronics). India occasionally posts surpluses during COVID-era import compression.
Answer: Indian Rupee and third-country currencies
India has been paying for Russian oil using Indian rupees and third-country currencies like UAE dirhams and Chinese yuan, reducing dependence on the US dollar after sanctions.
Answer: Human, animal, and environmental health
'One Health' is an integrated approach recognising that human health, animal health, and ecosystem health are interconnected and interdependent.
Answer: Tamil
Sangam literature is one of the earliest bodies of classical Tamil literature.
Answer: Satyajit Ray
The copper plaque handed to every Sahitya Akademi winner was designed by Satyajit Ray — the celebrated Bengali filmmaker was also an accomplished graphic artist and designer.
Answer: 24
Sahitya Akademi awards are given in 24 languages — the 22 languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, plus English and Rajasthani, which the Akademi recognises separately.
Answer: Novel
Devabrat Das won for his Assamese novel Karhi Khelar Sadhu. His win represents the novel category among the four novels recognised in the 2025 Sahitya Akademi Awards.
Answer: Allahabad
Mamta Kalia's memoir Jeete Jee Allahabad centres on Allahabad (now Prayagraj), a city long associated with Hindi literary circles. The book won the 2025 Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi.
Answer: Crimson Spring
Navtej Sarna's novel Crimson Spring won the 2025 Sahitya Akademi Award for English. Sarna, a former IFS officer who served as India's Ambassador to the US, had been writing fiction alongside his diplomatic career.
Answer: 16 March 2026
The awards were announced on 16 March 2026, months after the Akademi had to cancel its original December 2025 press conference when the Ministry of Culture asked for a review of the awards process.
Answer: Cassandra Kulukundis
Cassandra Kulukundis won the inaugural Best Casting Oscar for One Battle After Another. The Academy had first announced this category in February 2024. It is the first new competitive Oscar category since Best Animated Feature was introduced in 2001.
Answer: Norway
Norway's Sentimental Value, directed by Joachim Trier, won the Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards. The film also received acting and other nominations that night.