Important Articles from The Hindu Newspaper: 23/5/2026

Front Page

• SC refers UAPA bail curbs question to larger Bench
  • GS -3 Internal Security
  • Read about UAPA – Key provisions – Concerns
• Birth rate, infant deaths fall in India, finds survey
  • GS -2 Health
• Smart border project set to make frontiers ‘impregnable’: Shah
  • GS -3 Internal Security
• Parents, students challenge CBSE three-language rule in apex court
  • GS -2 Education

World

• ‘India sees relations with China in a bilateral context, but Beijing has never seen it that way’
  • GS -2 India and its neighbourhood relations
  • Read about India – China Relationship
• Dhaka seeks Hasina’s return through legal process, says Minister
  • GS -2 India and its neighbourhood relations
  • Read about India – Bangladesh Relationship

Business

• March 2026 saw net foreign investments decline to -$11.7 bn
  • GS -3 Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.
• Demand driving growth, but economic outlook somewhat clouded: RBI report
  • GS -3 Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.

News

• Centre asks States, U.T.s to step up Ebola surveillance
  • GS -2 Health
• 139 Indians released from Russian military service, Centre tells SC
  • GS -2 Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.
• Centre says it will bring back people sent to Bangladesh
  • GS -2 India and its neighbourhood relations
• India, Cyprus elevate bilateral ties to strategic partnership; ink pact for defence cooperation
  • GS -2 Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.
• Jaishankar to host Quad Ministers’ meet on May 26; discuss ‘free Indo-Pacific’
  • GS -2 Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.
• EC announces Rajya Sabha polls for 24 seats on June 18
  • GS -2 Parliament and State Legislature
• Reconstituted PAC meets; BJP objects to committee taking up issues suo motu
  • Prelims – PAC
    

Editorial

• Cyber warfare is outpacing global legal accountability
  • GS -3 Challenges to internal security through communication networks, role of media and social networking sites in internal security challenges, basics of cyber security; money-laundering and its prevention.
• Home and abroad
  • GS -2 Bilateral Relationship
• Alarm bells
  • GS -3 Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.