CLAT current affairs in 30 days

How the 30 days work

Twenty-five days each take one theme, from Parliament and the courts to trade deals, defence, the economy and sport, and cover it in five to eight stories: 155 in all. Every story says what happened, gives the background you need to answer a question on it, and links to its source. Each day ends with a short quiz, 203 questions across the course, with answers and explanations.

Days 7, 14, 21 and 28 are reviews: the week in one line per story, then questions drawn from it. Day 30 puts the whole course on one page with a final test. The stories run from late 2025 to October 2026, the window CLAT 2027 draws on, arranged by subject rather than by month, because that is how the paper asks.

One day takes about 40 minutes: read the stories, take the quiz without looking back, then reread the stories behind the questions you missed. For more on any legal story, the Legal Updates feed has the judgments in full.

Week 1: The Constitution at work

• Day 1: Parliament and the Constitution
  A constitutional amendment that failed, one that finally came into force, a Speaker who survived a removal motion, and a State that changed its name. Six stories from Parliament in 2026, each tied to the Article it turns on.
• Day 2: Elections and the Election Commission
  The voter-roll revision that went to the Supreme Court and then went national, the notices to remove the Chief Election Commissioner, and two rulings on how an election can be challenged. Know Articles 324, 326 and 329 cold.
• Day 3: Fundamental rights in the courts
  Seven decisions from 2026 that widened what Articles 14, 19 and 21 protect: menstrual health, dignity at the end of life, adoption, footpaths, a pregnancy at 30 weeks and the mother tongue. Learn the right, the Article and one line of reasoning for each.
• Day 4: Federalism and the States
  President's Rule ends in Manipur, a third State passes a Uniform Civil Code, a tribal council in Mizoram stays under the Governor, Sikkim closes fifty years of statehood, and Parliament limits State taxes on minerals. Each one tests who holds power: the Union, the State or the people of a region.
• Day 5: Watchdogs and commissions
  The bodies that advise, audit and police the government, and who leads them in 2026: NITI Aayog, the NCBC, the CVC, the Lokpal, the Public Accounts Committee and the Enforcement Directorate. For each, know whether it is constitutional, statutory or executive.
• Day 6: The new laws of 2026
  Seven pieces of 2026 law-making, from decriminalising minor offences to tougher penalties for exam paper leaks. For each, know what it changes, which earlier law it touches, and the one principle a passage could build on.
• Day 7: Week 1 review: The Constitution at work
  Every story from days 1 to 6 in one line each, then 18 questions drawn from the week. Get one wrong and go back to that day before moving on.

Week 2: Courts and the law

• Day 8: The judiciary as an institution
  Not what the courts decided, but how they run: four more Supreme Court judges, a Constitution Bench question on who picks the Election Commission, a penalty quashed for AI-invented case law, the first paperless State judiciary, and why you cannot film a hearing on your phone.
• Day 9: Crime, evidence and punishment
  Eight Supreme Court rulings from September and October 2026 that restate the core of criminal law: who may impose life without remission, when death is the right sentence, what proves a bribe, why a police confession is not evidence, and how a chain of circumstances must hold. Most come straight from CLAT's legal-reasoning syllabus.
• Day 10: Contracts, property, family and arbitration
  The private-law side of the 2026 Supreme Court: where an arbitration is seated, who can be dragged into one, what an oral contract needs, why an agreement to sell gives no title, a widow's estate, a child's custody, and a refund owed even without a contract. These are the principles CLAT's legal passages are built from.
• Day 11: Equality, reservation and public service
  Articles 14, 16 and 311 at work in 2026: the creamy layer, a 27% OBC quota struck down for crossing 50%, reservation after religious conversion, protection against removal from service, an 'outstanding' officer wrongly retired, and the proportionality test applied to a trade restriction.
• Day 12: Technology, platforms and the consumer
  How the law reached online platforms in 2026: a messaging app blocked before an exam, GST on every rupee staked in online games, a hash database against child abuse material, a court-run campaign against 'digital arrest' scams, honest discounts on shopping sites, crypto exchanges told to register, and red warning labels on junk food.
• Day 13: International law and treaties
  A high-seas treaty comes into force, a former President faces trial at the ICC, a European State leaves the landmine ban, the nuclear review conference fails again, India rejects another Indus Waters award, and the Chagos handover stalls. Learn each treaty's year, purpose and India's position.
• Day 14: Week 2 review: Courts and the law
  Every story from days 8 to 13 in one line each, then 18 questions drawn from the week. Get one wrong and go back to that day before moving on.

Week 3: India and the world

• Day 15: The neighbourhood
  India's borders and near neighbours in 2026: Myanmar's new President comes to India first, a Vice-President's first visit to Sri Lanka, Nepal's objection to the Kailash route, China's roads in the Shaksgam Valley, a lapsed US waiver at Chabahar, and a Bangladeshi at the head of the UN General Assembly.
• Day 16: Trade deals and tariffs
  2026 was India's year of trade agreements: a deal with the EU after nearly two decades, an interim framework with the US after a tariff war, an FTA with New Zealand, the UK pact in force, talks opened with the Gulf, while the WTO's ministerial meeting stalled and Europe's carbon border tax began.
• Day 17: Summits and groupings
  India hosted the world twice in 2026, for the AI Impact Summit and the BRICS summit, and travelled to the G7 in France and the Nordic summit in Norway. The Quad's foreign ministers met in New Delhi. For each: where, when, who chairs, and one outcome.
• Day 18: Flashpoints: war, force and the world order
  The year force returned to the front page: US forces seize Venezuela's President, the US and Israel go to war with Iran and its Supreme Leader is killed, a Pakistan-brokered memorandum briefly reopens the Strait of Hormuz, the last US-Russia nuclear arms treaty lapses, and the US quits dozens of international bodies, including India's Solar Alliance.
• Day 19: Defence and security
  India's third nuclear missile submarine, a new Chief of Defence Staff and a new Navy chief on the same day, BrahMos sold to a second country, and India's first national counter-terrorism policy. Defence questions are about firsts, names and the chain of command.
• Day 20: The UN and international bodies
  Who sits where in 2026: five new Security Council members, the race to succeed António Guterres, an Indian as Vice-President of the FATF, the ILO's first convention on gig work, India's push for full IEA membership, and the postponed first summit of the India-led Big Cat Alliance.
• Day 21: Week 3 review: India and the world
  Every story from days 15 to 20 in one line each, then 18 questions drawn from the week. Get one wrong and go back to that day before moving on.

Week 4: Economy, environment and science

• Day 22: Budget, growth and the RBI
  The numbers behind 2026: the Economic Survey's forecast, a Budget built on a 4.3% deficit, the 16th Finance Commission's new formula, GDP measured on a new base year, the RBI's record payout to the government, and its first rate hike since 2023.
• Day 23: Schemes, surveys and the census
  The government at work in 2026: a new rural employment law replaces MGNREGA, India's first digital census begins with caste counted again, NFHS-6 reports on the nation's health, the EV subsidy is extended at half the rate, and small businesses get paid faster.
• Day 24: Environment and conservation
  A century of Ramsar sites, India steps back from hosting COP33, the first conference on leaving fossil fuels, new waste rules, a seventh draft for the Western Ghats, the emperor penguin declared Endangered, and World Environment Day in Baku. Environment questions mix law, places and dates.
• Day 25: Energy security
  A war that closed the Strait of Hormuz made energy the story of 2026. Learn the law that opened nuclear power to private firms, India's leap from E20 to E85 fuel, a record year for wind, the buffers India keeps in underground caverns, and the climate targets that frame all of it.
• Day 26: Science, space and technology
  Humans fly round the Moon for the first time since 1972, ISRO's workhorse rocket fails twice running, India ships its first memory chips, Indian-built AI models arrive, and an AI company holds back a model it judged too capable at finding software flaws.
• Day 27: Reports and indices
  Five rankings you may be asked about: corruption, global risks, nuclear arsenals, the gender gap and human development. For each: who publishes it, where India stands, and who tops it.
• Day 28: Week 4 review: Economy, environment and science
  Every story from days 22 to 27 in one line each, then 18 questions drawn from the week. Get one wrong and go back to that day before moving on.

The final stretch

• Day 29: Days, anniversaries and sport
  The quick-fire marks: 150 years of Vande Mataram and a law to protect it, the EU's leaders at the Republic Day parade, Yoga Day in Kolkata, and a sporting year with a third T20 World Cup for India, a second World Cup for Spain, and India fourth at both the Commonwealth and Asian Games.
• Day 30: Final revision: the whole course on one page
  Every story from the 25 content days as a one-line fact, in course order, and a 25-question test with one question from each day. Read the list the night before the exam.

Practise by subject

The same questions, grouped by subject instead of by day, are on the practice pages: polity, Supreme Court judgments, new laws, international affairs, economy, science and environment and defence, reports and sport.

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