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March 2026
March 2026's current affairs recap — 125 topics across 11 subjects, curated by Vaidra's editorial team and tagged for UPSC Prelims and Mains.
Q1. Which ECI tech initiative lets citizens report MCC violations, with flying squads resolving them within 100 minutes?
Q2. The Sixth Schedule of the Constitution currently applies to tribal areas in which states?
Q3. The Chief Election Commissioner of India can be removed from office only in the same manner as a:
Q4. Under Article 157 of the Constitution, the minimum age to become a Governor is:
Q5. The Supreme Court's November 2024 guidelines against punitive 'bulldozer justice' demolitions were issued under which constitutional provision?
Q6. Article 323B of the Constitution empowers Parliament and State Legislatures to establish tribunals for subjects such as:
Q7. Under Article 324 of the Constitution, superintendence, direction and control of elections vests in the:
Q8. In the 16th Finance Commission's revised horizontal devolution formula, which criterion carries the highest weight?
Q9. Which country became the first to enact a nationwide social media ban for children?
Q10. Changing the name of a state under Article 3 of the Constitution requires:
Q11. The Guillotine procedure for Demands for Grants applies to:
Q12. Which year's DoPT clarification included PSU/private-sector salaries in the OBC creamy-layer income test, causing the disputed unequal treatment?
Q13. The 21st Law Commission (2018) held that a Uniform Civil Code is:
Q1. Who was named Player of the Tournament in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2026?
Q2. Approximately what share of India's landmass is classified as earthquake-prone?
Q1. BRICS+ (with its 2024 expansion) accounts for approximately what share of global GDP?
Q2. India and Finland's Joint Task Force on 6G links Bharat 6G Alliance with which Finnish institution?
Q3. The SAR Convention (1979), under which India's Coast Guard operates, was adopted under which international body?
Q4. Which UN Charter provision generally bars the use of force against another state's territorial integrity?
Q5. The Durand Line runs approximately how many kilometres, from the Karakoram Range to the Registan Desert?
Q6. Which Israeli drone systems does India operate under bilateral defence cooperation?
Q7. The UNHRC, established in 2006 and headquartered in Geneva, replaced which earlier body?
Q8. In 1998, which body did the EU use to challenge the US's Section 301 provisions, with India, Brazil and China as third parties?
Q9. India's status with the IAEA is that of a:
Q10. The International Energy Agency was established in 1974 following which crisis?
Q11. What share of India's oil imports (2.5-2.7 million barrels/day) transits the Strait of Hormuz?
Q12. Which of these is the world's largest natural gas field, located in Iran?
Q13. India's crude oil suppliers have expanded from 27 countries (2006-07) to approximately how many currently?
Q14. Pakistan's military operation against Afghan Taliban/TTP positions was named:
Q15. Which country is the world's largest producer of potash, crucial for India's fertiliser security, as highlighted in India-Canada ties?
Q16. The ISA's 'Towards 1000' targets include installing how much solar capacity by 2030?
Q1. Which market instrument has unlocked Rs 1.5 lakh crore for India's infrastructure sector?
Q2. What percentage of credit must Regional Rural Banks direct to Priority Sectors, versus commercial banks' 40% target?
Q3. The Washington Consensus broadly advocated Liberalisation, Privatisation, Globalisation and:
Q4. Under the current farm loan waiver scheme, overdue crop loans up to what amount (as of 30 Sept 2025) are waived?
Q5. Which occupations are identified as LEAST exposed to AI automation?
Q6. What share of national income is earned by India's top 10%, per the income mobility data?
Q7. Which export category jumped from 7th to 3rd-largest in India's exports between FY22 and FY25?
Q8. Roughly how much of India's food/farm exports to West Asia were at risk during the 2026 conflict, per the Global Trade Research Initiative?
Q9. How many days of crude cover does India's current Strategic Petroleum Reserve (~5.33 million tonnes) provide?
Q10. India's FTA network is projected to cover what share of its export basket by 2026, up from 22% in 2019?
Q11. Under the food sector reforms, a Central FSSAI Licence is required for turnover above:
Q12. BHAVYA is implemented by the National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation under which department?
Q13. Which of these major states was rated 'Aspirational' (lagging) in the Fiscal Health Index 2026?
Q14. India's ATMP facility at Sanand marks the start of India's first:
Q15. The new GDP series replaces single deflation with which method in manufacturing and agriculture?
Q16. Under Section 45ZA of the RBI Act, who sets India's inflation target, and how often?
Q17. Under the 2026 Order's four-tier gas allocation, what percentage is guaranteed to fertilizer plants?
Q18. Which of these is a Phase-I Strategic Petroleum Reserve site in India?
Q1. Under Defence Forces Vision 2047, the 'Era of Consolidation' phase runs from:
Q2. In early 2026, China demonstrated a single soldier controlling a drone swarm of how many drones?
Q3. Which ministry unveiled India's first National Counter-Terrorism Policy and Strategy, PRAHAAR?
Q4. China's Xiaokang village strategy, described as a 'Great Wall of Villages', is backed by which 2022 law?
Q5. INS Taragiri belongs to which frigate project, comprising 7 stealth guided-missile frigates?
Q6. The Free Movement Regime (FMR) movement limit along the Indo-Myanmar border was cut from 16 km to how many km in December 2024?
Q7. Per SIPRI's 2025 report, which country was India's top arms supplier in 2021-25?
Q8. India's rank in the Global Terrorism Index 2026 was:
Q9. Which India-US foundational defence agreement, signed in 2020, deals with geospatial cooperation?
Q1. Which megacity was the only one to stay below the national PM2.5 standard of 40 µg/m³?
Q2. India's per-capita water availability is projected to reach how much by 2050, nearing the scarcity threshold?
Q3. Which carbon capture route is described as most energy-intensive, due to low ambient CO2 concentration?
Q4. What is the current global forest cover against a 75% 'safe limit', per SOE 2026?
Q5. The National Chambal Sanctuary spans which three states?
Q6. The Great Indian Bustard is placed under which CITES Appendix and IUCN status?
Q7. What is the current total number of cheetahs in India under Project Cheetah, including cubs born at Kuno National Park?
Q8. Has India ratified the Espoo Convention (1991) on transboundary environmental impact assessment?
Q9. India's updated NDC raises its 2035 target for emissions-intensity of GDP reduction (vs 2005) to:
Q10. The KMGBF's '30x30' target, adopted at CBD COP15 (2022), aims to conserve what share of land and sea by 2030?
Q11. Which programme (Phase-1, 2023-26) addresses Glacial Lake Outburst Flood risk in India's Himalayan states?
Q12. The WMO report on Earth's Energy Imbalance hitting a 65-year peak was released to mark:
Q13. Which case established the Precautionary Principle and Polluter Pays Principle in Indian environmental law?
Q1. India's Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) potential, per the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, is estimated at:
Q2. What does the Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture do to improve LLM efficiency?
Q3. Which of these is NOT one of the four domains of the National Quantum Mission?
Q4. NavIC's Standard Positioning Service (SPS) for civilians operates on which frequency bands, offering under 20m accuracy?
Q1. Which incident triggered the HSRA's plan to kill police officer Scott, resulting in the mistaken killing of J.P. Saunders?
Q2. Which organisation, founded by Ambedkar in 1924, organised the Mahad Satyagraha?
Q3. Which tribal painting tradition is associated with the Rathwa and Bhil tribes of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, featuring horses of Baba Pithora?
Q4. Which British law did Gandhi defy by making salt at Dandi on 6 April 1930?
Q5. Who was the first-ever Jnanpith Award winner, in 1965?
Q6. Which dating technique is used at excavation sites when no organic material is available for radiocarbon dating?
Q7. The Gyan Bharatam initiative fulfils which Fundamental Duty under the Constitution?
Q1. JJM aims to provide Functional Household Tap Connections (Har Ghar Jal) at what per-capita daily supply level?
Q2. How many 'Hub' ITIs will mentor nearby 'Spoke' ITIs under the PM SETU Hub-and-Spoke model?
Q3. India will host its first-ever Global Big Cat Summit 2026, inviting how many range countries?
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Q1. World Tuberculosis Day is observed annually on:
Q2. How many under-five deaths occurred globally in 2024, per the UN IGME report?
Q3. Which amendments gave 33% reservation to women in Panchayati Raj Institutions and Urban Local Bodies?
Q4. Which Indian state has given government employees 2 days/month of menstrual leave since 1992?
Q5. Per a 2023 Lancet study, prison inmates face how much higher TB risk than the general population?
Q6. Which state accounted for 173 of the 180 cases nationwide of denial of public spaces to Scheduled Castes?
Q7. Which 2021 case directed ex gratia Covid-19 death compensation of ₹50,000 via State Disaster Response Funds?
Q8. How many psychiatrists per 100,000 population does India have, against the WHO norm of 3?
Q9. Urban TFR trails rural TFR in India at approximately:
Q10. Which case first read a right to die into Article 21, later reversed by Gian Kaur (1996)?
Q11. Which 2014 case recognised transgender persons as a third gender and affirmed self-identification?
Q12. HPV types 16 and 18 cause what share of Indian cervical cancer cases?
Q13. India's rank in the World Happiness Report 2026 was: