The daily Current Affairs feed

The Current Affairs tab is your daily, exam-focused news brief — every article already mapped to its GS paper, linked to the static topic behind it, and ready to test you. This guide shows you around the feed, explains when new briefs arrive, and walks through everything inside an article.

Open the Current Affairs feed

1. Open Dooit and tap CA in the bottom navigation bar.
2. Or, from the home screen, tap Current Affairs ("Read today's intelligence brief"). Both routes land on the same feed.

What you'll see on the feed

From top to bottom:

• The pinned header TODAY'S INTELLIGENCE BRIEF — it stays visible while you scroll.
• A search box (Search articles...) that filters the feed live by title, summary and category as you type.
• Category pills: All, Economy, International Relations, Polity and Environment, plus a bookmark-icon Saved pill at the end. An article on any other subject still appears under All.
• The Weekly / Monthly Revision card — your door to the 7-day and 30-day revision digest. See The Digest & older days.
• A large featured card — the lead brief of the day, with a red HIGH PRIORITY badge, headline, a short summary and the read time.
• LATEST BRIEFS — the rest of the day's articles.

Every article card shows a topic badge, a bookmark icon, the headline, a short line on why it matters for UPSC, and chips for the date, read time ("4 min read") and priority.

When new briefs arrive — and why dates are honest

New briefs are published in batches through the day, roughly every couple of hours from about 6 AM to midnight IST. Pull down on the feed any time to check for fresh ones — the refresh spinner stays until the feed has re-checked.

Every card carries an honest date label: Today, Yesterday, "N days ago", and then short dates like "8 Apr". If today's briefs haven't been published yet — common early in the morning — the feed shows the latest available day instead of an empty screen. So a card saying Yesterday at 7 AM is normal, not a glitch: the label tells you exactly which day you are reading, and there is always something to study.

Want a ping when fresh briefs land? Turn on the Current Affairs Digest notification — see Notifications & reminders.

Inside an article, top to bottom

Tap any card to open the full brief. The page is built for exam study, in this order:

1. UPSC RELEVANCE — which GS paper and topic the news belongs to (for example "GS Paper 2 — Polity"), or General Studies when it isn't pinned to a single paper.
2. STATIC FOUNDATION — Dooit links the news to the static Learn topic behind it. Tap Read static base to open that note first, or Practice MCQs to quiz yourself on it. When only the subject matches, you'll get a Browse Learn button instead.
3. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — the brief itself: what happened and why it matters.
4. PROBABLE QUESTION — an exam-style question on the article, with a TEST YOURSELF button that launches a short quiz seeded from it.
5. RELATED PYQS — previous-year questions that touch the same theme.
6. ORIGINAL SOURCE — attribution for the underlying news. Tap the share icon at the top of the screen to copy that link ("Source link copied to clipboard."). The icon is dimmed when an article has no source link.
7. ASK AI ABOUT THIS — the floating button at the bottom. It opens Q&A pre-filled with a detailed question about the article. See Ask your first question.

Some sections only appear when the article has them — a brief without related PYQs simply skips that card. At the top of the page you'll also find the bookmark icon (save for later) and a flag icon to report anything that looks wrong to our team.

What's free and what uses your AI allowance

Reading Current Affairs is free on every plan — the feed, full articles, the digest and bookmarking cost nothing. The AI actions are different: ASK AI ABOUT THIS, TEST YOURSELF and Practice MCQs use your daily AI allowance when a fresh answer or fresh questions have to be generated for you. If you've used up today's AI actions, you'll see a friendly note inviting you back tomorrow. How much allowance you get depends on your plan — see Free vs paid.

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