The PRESS Pad

This Week’s Top Current Affairs: Important national and international developments from 12–18 October 2026, explained for UPSC Prelims and Mains with key facts, analysis and practice questions. If you missed the UPSC Weekly Current Affairs of the past week | October 5 to 11, 2026, read it here. Economy • Additional Tier-1 (AT-1) bond — The Supreme Court upheld the quashing of Yes Bank’s Rs 8,415-crore Additional Tier-1 (AT-1) bond write-off. Following the ruling, the lender’s

This Week’s Top Current Affairs: Important national and international developments from 5–11 October 2026, explained for UPSC Prelims and Mains with key facts, analysis and practice questions. Reports • Living Planet Report 2026 — Recently, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) biennial Living Planet Report, 2026, has been released. For three decades, this WWF Report has tracked the state of the natural world. — The latest edition reveals the scale of nature’s decline but it a