PSIR Optional Current Affairs 2025 – International Relations and Indian Politics

Paper 2B: International Relations

1. BRICS Expansion and Prospects of BRICS Currency
2. Resurgence of Right-Wing Politics in Advanced Democracies
3. China’s Renaming of Arunachal Pradesh Locations and India’s Rejection
4. From iCET to TRUST – Ind US Tech Collaboration
5. India’s Chabahar Port Operational Agreement with Iran and INSTC
6. India Afghanistan Relations Since Return of Taliban
7. Operation Sindoor and Its Long Term Implications

Paper 1B: Indian Government and Politics

1. National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and Indian Federalism
2. Judicial Activism in India: Evolution, Implications and the Way Forward
3. One Nation, One Election Proposal
4. Theoretical Analysis of Women’s Reservation Bill
5. The Need of Caste Census in India
6. Regulation of free speech on online platforms
7. Feasibility of Uniform Civil Code in India
8. Where the Right Wing Politics of India Headed?

Making Best Use of PSIR Current Affairs 2025

If you’re preparing for this years’ Mains exam (or Mains 2026), please pay close attention to what’s written ahead.

This is a compilation of 15 most important topics from the perspective of PSIR 2025 Mains exam. We’ve chosen all the topics based on suggestions received from various students like you. Thus, there is good probability of a direct question being asked in PSIR, or in GS2 from the topics given in this book.

However, the value of these articles is not limited to the direct questions only. These articles cover a lot of theoretical analysis of contemporary issues, commenting on Indian and World Politics. So, a lot of content can be used in your answers to substantiate the arguments you’ll be making. An example from recent happenings and a theoretical insight will certainly make your copy stand out and fetch you additional marks.

Further, these articles contains a lot of keywords, which are part of contemporary discussion. I will recommend picking out such keywords, understand their meaning, and use them in your answers. This will give a scholarly flavour to your answers.

Last but not the least, a single reading of this PDF won’t help much. It’s just 75 pages, and we’ll recommend at least 3 readings of it before exam, including highlighting keywords and remembering important arguments from exam viewpoint. This will ensure that you’re able to make best use of this compilation.

Wish you all the best.

Your Suggestions for PSIR Current Affairs 2025

With Mains 2025 (and beyond) in mind, we are writing above articles for the purpose of PSIR Optional Current Affairs. We will be writing about 2 articles per week so that by 10^th August all the intended articles are done. We are only choosing topics which are important from PSIR perspective.

UPSC asks around 4-5 current affairs based questions (out of 56) in PSIR. These topics are not only from the preceding year, but stretches to last 2-3 years. Accordingly we’ve chosen above as the most important topics for PSIR Current Affairs.

As you must be aware, we also had sought input from you all regarding inclusion of topics in above list for PSIR Current Affairs 2025. We received good feedback in form of emails replies, Telegram messages and also as you can see below, the comments on this post. Accordingly, following two topics have been included in the above list of PSIR Current Affairs.

1. Resurgence of Right-Wing Politics in Advanced Democracies
2. Where the Right Wing Politics of India Headed?
3. — Not yet decided —

Apart from given topics, we will be adding one more topic – mostly from International Relations. if you feel any important topic is missing, please suggest it in comments section. We’ll consider it for article. In fact, we request you to do so, so that these articles on PSIR Current Affairs are truly useful for Mains 2025.

Also, know that these articles on PSIR Current Affairs will be different from we usually read in institutions’ monthly magazines. Our focus will be more on scholarly analysis and understanding long term implications of political happenings rather than providing details of what happened. This will help you in writing better answers.

Since UPSC asks questions from happenings of last 2-3 years, we will also recommend going through the important topics in 2023 compilation of PSIR Current Affairs.

Regards,
Abhijeet Pimparkar

P.S. (5th August 2025) – Thank you for all your suggestions regarding topics for PSIR Current Affairs. Do check out the final compilation of current affairs 2025.