Chapter 1
Current Affairs 2025–26
Current affairs reach SSC, DSSSB and Delhi Police papers as short factual questions: who was appointed to a post, where a summit was held, which country topped an index and what a new law provides.
Current affairs reach SSC, DSSSB and Delhi Police papers as short factual questions: who was appointed to a post, where a summit was held, which country topped an index and what a new law provides. The questions are answered by memory, not by reasoning, so the facts must be revised in neat groups. Read this chapter by topic, learn the one-line facts, give the marked ones first priority, and return to the revision points a day before the paper. Always attach a month and a year to every fact, because the same question changes its answer from one year to the next.
Type 1
People in News: Administrators, Police and Security Chiefs
Questions of the type 'Who was appointed as ...?' dominate this group. They concern Secretaries to the Government of India, heads of police and security forces, and the first woman to hold a post. Learn each fact as a triplet: the person, the post and the month of appointment.
Pay special attention to every 'first woman' item, because examiners prefer it. Remember also the outgoing officer whenever the question asks whom the new appointee succeeded.
- Who was appointed as the new Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA) of India in November 2025?
- Who is serving as the Secretary of the Ministry of Earth Sciences ( MoES), Government of India, as of May 2025?
- Who was appointed as Secretary of the Ministry of Civil Aviation on 18 August 2025?
- Whom did Vir Vikram Yadav replace as Director General of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in March 2026?
- Who was appointed as the Secretary of the Department of Land Resources under the Ministry of Rural Development in April 2026?
Type 2
People in News: Corporate, Institutional and Global Appointments
This group covers heads of public sector companies, industry bodies, research institutes, cultural bodies and international organisations. The usual pattern is a company or body paired with a name and a month.
Group the facts by sector, such as energy companies, industry chambers, film bodies and health organisations, so that each name has a context to hang on.
- In May 2026, Prasoon Joshi was appointed as the Chairman of which organization?
- Who became the first person of Indian origin to be elected as President-elect of the American Medical Association (AMA)?
- Who took over as the Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of GAIL (India) Limited in March 2026?
- Who has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited in April 2026?
- Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification in May 2026?
Type 3
Summits, Conferences and Events
The commonly asked details of an event are its venue, its organiser, its theme and the person who inaugurated or addressed it. Keep these four columns in mind for every item in this list.
Events held in India are usually linked to a ministry; events abroad are linked to a city. Link the event to its host and the question becomes easy.
- Which ministry organised the Chintan Shivir held in Udaipur in January 2025?
- In June 2025, Startup Accelerator Platform 'WaveX' invited startups to develop an AI-powered real-time multilingual translation solution…
- Which Indian MP from the Rajya Sabha was part of the parliamentary delegation to the BRICS Forum in June 2025?
Type 4
Reports, Indices and Rankings
Every index has three things to remember: the publisher, the country at the top and India's rank. Learn the publisher first, because it is asked as often as the rank itself.
Do not mix the editions. The same index of different years gives different ranks for India, and the question always names the year. Note also the total number of countries ranked.
Type 5
Laws, Bills and Government Initiatives
This group holds the new criminal laws, Acts and Bills passed or introduced recently, and regulatory notices. For a law, remember the year, the Act it replaces or amends, and its one main provision.
For Delhi Police and similar papers the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam deserve a closer look, because they replace the older criminal laws.
Type 6
Elections, Firsts, Culture and Other News
Election questions ask for the winning party, the number of seats and the margin of the result. Keep the seat tally and the year of the election together, and remember who defeated whom in the headline contests.
The rest of the group is made of first-time achievements, awards, obituaries, health news and notable launches. Treat each as a single headline with a place, a name and a date.