Daily Current Affairs based initiatives for UPSC examination
9 PM Daily Current Affairs Brief
- Allowing constructive criticism of Government Policies
- Rise of excise duty on Petrol and Fiscal stance of government
- Frequent transfer of public servants affect public administration
- Delhi Court’s ruling on Disha Ravi Toolkit case
- How to become Petroleum Independent?
- Australia’s news media bargaining code
- Landmark verdict on Sexual harassment and its value for Women
- Science and Technology in India’s foreign policies
- Challenges in controlling Zoonotic diseases in India
- Why India-China Border disputes are unresolved?
- Why Sedition law needs a relook?
- The trend of Undermining the Role of Upper House
- Impacts of School Closures and way forward
- Clean energy is the key to COVID-19 recovery
- Centre’s decision over Finance Commission’s recommendations
- Importance of Perseverance Mission on Mars
- Why Complete Elimination Strategy of COVID virus is not feasible?
- ‘Weakness of Indian state’ in elimination of poverty
- Overexpansion of IIT’s will reduce its standards
- A tussle between Australia and Facebook over News Charges
- Need to regulate Big techs in India
- Judicial Review and Public Protests in India
- Factors affecting present inflation level in India
- Importance of COVID 19 learnings in fight against tuberculosis
- Importance of Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover
- Conservation of migratory birds
- Issues in the draft rules for the Code on Social Security 2020
- Issues in Taxing PF contribution
- Balancing freedom of speech and national security
- A robust ‘health and well-being budget for 2021-22’
7 PM Daily Editorial
- Saksham campaign and the importance of fuel conservation – Explained Pointwise
- Clean drinking water to all: Initiatives and challenges – Explained Pointwise
- Conclusive land titling system in India and its challenges – Explained pointwise
- Amendments proposed to the Juvenile Justice Act – Explained pointwise
- The issue of Road Safety in India – Explained pointwise
- [Downloads] 7PM Compilation -February, 2021 – 1st and 2nd week
- Sexual Harassment of women at the workplace – Explained pointwise
- New Geo-Spatial data Policy and its implications – Explained pointwise
- Toolkit conspiracy case and its imapct on India- Explained Pointwise
- Link between Dam and Natural disasters – Explained Pointwise
10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz
- 10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | February 24 2021
- 10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | February 23 2021
- [Downloads] 10 PM Compilation -February, 2021 – Second week
- 10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | February 22 2021
- 10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | February 21 2021
- 10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | February 20 2021
- 10 PM Daily Current Affairs Quiz | February 19 2021
Must Read News Articles
- Must Read Current Affairs Articles I 25th Feb. 2021
- Must Read Current Affairs Articles I 24th Feb. 2021
- Must Read Current Affairs Articles I 23rd Feb. 2021
- Must Read Current Affairs Articles I 22nd Feb. 2021
- Must Read Current Affairs Articles I 20th Feb. 2021
- Must Read Current Affairs Articles I 19th Feb. 2021
- Must Read Current Affairs Articles I 18th Feb. 2021
Weekly Current Affairs Compilations
- [Download] 9PM Compilation –February, 2021 – Third week
- [Downloads] Prelims Marathon Compilation – February, 2021 – 3rd week
- [Downloads] 10 PM Compilation -February, 2021 – Second week
- [Downloads] Prelims Marathon Compilation – February, 2021 – 2nd week
- [Downloads] Prelims Marathon Compilation – February, 2021 – 1st week
- [Download] 9PM Compilation – February, 2021 – First week
- [Downloads] 7PM Compilation -February, 2021 – 1st and 2nd week
Monthly Current Affairs for UPSC
- [Downloads] 10 PM Monthly Compilation | January, 2021
- [Downloads] 9PM Monthly Compilation | January, 2021
- [Downloads] Prelims Marathon Monthly Compilation | January, 2021
- [Downloads] 9PM Monthly Compilation | December, 2020
- [Downloads] 10 PM Monthly Compilation | December, 2020
- [Downloads] Prelims Marathon Monthly Compilation | December, 2020
- [Downloads]Monthly Compilation of 7PM Editorials December, 2020
Reading and understanding Current Affairs for UPSC examination is a must. It is not only a requirement of IAS exam preparation but also a job requirement of an administrator to stay aware and understand the issues appearing in Daily Current Affairs, to handle them efficiently and effectively.
In the Civil Service examination, be it Prelims or Mains, the weightage of questions asked directly or indirectly from the daily current affairs has increased manifold over the years. In the Prelims examination, while UPSC is asking 20+ questions every year directly from monthly current affairs, the portion of the questions based on topics appearing in daily current affairs news is significant.
Below is the table describing the trend of direct current affairs questions asked by UPSC in Prelims examination.

Blog.forumias.com we are providing Daily Current Affairs material for UPSC & IAS Exams
ForumIAS always providing daily Current Affairs study materials for free to the UPSC aspirants in the form of brief Current Affairs and Editorial. It is not a new initiative, Since its inception, ForumIAS is committed to providing, aspirants with the monthly current affairs material. ForumIAS has been one of the first platforms that started providing summaries and comprehensive analysis of the Daily Current Affairs for UPSC in the form of 9 PM brief and 7 PM Editorials.
For practice, ForumIAS started providing Current affairs based Mains Marathon for Mains Practice and current affairs based Prelims Marathon for Practice of prelims.
All our initiatives are, to this date are running consistently and successfully. Lakhs of students have been benefitted from these current affairs initiatives and will keep on providing such benefits for many upcoming years.
Daily Must Read Current Affairs Articles
One of the challenges aspirants face is which article is important from the exam point of view. Our Must-Read Current Affairs Article Initiative Provides a list of the most important Current Affairs articles of the Day.
9 PM Daily Current Affairs Brief
Our daily 9 PM brief provides Daily Current Affairs summaries in notes format. In this initiative, our editorial team tries to make the task easier for you by sifting through 4 to 5 relevant newspapers such as The Hindu, Indian Express, Times of India, etc., skimming Current Affairs articles, and presenting the details in a concise form. These entire articles briefed and brought together for the day that we call as 9 PM Daily Brief. You don’t need to look anywhere more for your daily news bytes.
7 PM Daily Current Affairs Editorials
For mains examinations, aspirants require an in-depth understanding of the daily issues appearing in Current Affairs. You need to understand the issue itself and its Causes, impacts, and way forward. Under this initiative, our editorial team provides you with an in-depth analysis of the most important daily current affairs issue in the news. You will be able to build an overall understanding of the issue by reading these news articles.
How to Prepare Current Affairs Notes?
Methods of Notes Current Affairs Notes preparation: Techniques and methods of preparing current affairs notes differ from aspirant to aspirant. Some prefer handwritten notes, while others like to make online notes of current affairs for revision purposes. No method is the best one, the selection of the method totally depends upon the comfort level of an aspirant.
Limit sources of reading current affairs today: This is one of the crucial aspect of the Current Affairs Preparation. Aspirants sometimes start using so many sources for current affairs that it becomes impossible for them to cover everything important properly and unmanageable after reading that. Thus aspirants must limit their daily current affairs source to 3-4 only i.e. 1 good newspaper like Indian Express or The Hindu, PIB, 1 good current affairs compilation website like ForumIAS or any other website.
How long to read? Many aspirants spend 5-6 hours of their daily time on just reading newspapers and other sources of current affairs, leaving them with very little time to spend on the static part and their optional. Ideally, 2-3 hours should be more than sufficient to read current affairs today
thoroughly.
How to read current affairs? If you go through the question papers of UPSC asked in the previous years, simply reading the news will not help to crack this examination. You should also read the aspects around the topic of the news and should not involve yourself around political debates. You should try to find out the background of the issue, Socio-Economic-Political-Environmental impacts of the issue, Reasons behind the issue and solutions for that. For example:
If you are reading an issue related to Compensation Cess, Other then the conceptual aspects of the compensation Cess, you must read: –
- Background of the issue i.e. cover from the intro of GST and the commitments made by centre to states regarding Compensation cess to present.
- Provisions in the constitution, related to the division of financial powers between centre and states
- Reasons for shortfall in Compensation cess
- Cover Impacts of the shortfall from different dimensions, for example: On the federal structure, on the Socio-economic status of states etc.
- Recomendations and way forward by economists and experts