Navigation hub for the CAPF monthly current-affairs digests, explaining the durable-versus-dated method and listing the twelve monthly files from 2025-07 to 2026-06
Durable structural digest, not a record of specific dated news; verify current specifics against primary sources.
This module holds twelve monthly current-affairs digests, one per month from July 2025 to June 2026. Each digest is deliberately built from durable, structural, exam-relevant material only: the categories of schemes, the standing organisations and summit formats, the defence exercises that recur, the publishers of the major indices, the categories of awards, and the offices to which appointments are made. It does not record who won what, which country hosted a particular summit, or the exact date of any event. Those dated specifics are exactly the things that go stale and that get a candidate the negative mark, so this module flags every one of them as "verify the latest" against a primary source.
The reasoning is simple and matches how CAPF Paper I actually tests current events: most "current affairs" questions in the objective paper are static-general-knowledge questions wearing a topical hook. A question that looks like "X organisation was in the news, where is it headquartered" is really a static-GK question. The durable layer answers it; the headline does not. This module trains you to read every month's real news through that durable lens and to write only the reusable spine into your own notes.
The whole module rests on one distinction. Sort every item you meet in the news into one of two layers and treat each layer differently.
| Layer | What it is | Examples | How to treat it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Durable (structural) | Facts that stay true for years | The SCO carries a counter-terror mandate through its RATS body; the UNDP publishes the Human Development Index; the Param Vir Chakra is the highest wartime gallantry award; Exercise Varuna pairs India with France | Memorise once; reuse for years; safe to assert |
| Dated (headline) | Values that change with the news cycle | This year's HDI rank, the latest repo rate, the most recent summit host, this month's award recipients, the current edition number of an exercise | Never assert from memory; mark "verify the latest"; refresh from a primary source close to the exam |
Operational rule for the whole module: write the durable fact in full, and replace every dated value with the phrase "verify the latest". This protects your accuracy, because asserting a stale value in a negatively marked paper is worse than leaving it blank, and it matches how the examiner builds questions, because the testable core of a topical item is almost always its durable spine.
Each digest carries the same theme headings, in the same order, so revision is muscle memory:
Within each theme, every entry names the durable structure (what kind of thing recurs, where it sits, who runs it) and then flags the dated value to verify. No digest names a specific winner, host, rank or date.
(For the daily-brief format and an illustrative filled example, see 2026 06 01.)
Suppose a global innovation index is released during a month.
The lesson the illustration teaches is the entire module in miniature: log the publisher and what the index measures (durable), and quarantine the rank for late verification (dated).
These digests intentionally contain no fabricated headlines, no invented winners or hosts, and no specific event dates. Where a real value is needed, the digest says "verify the latest" and points to the primary source that carries it. Any practice question in this wiki that touches a topical item is labelled "Authored practice, not a verbatim PYQ", and dated facts inside it are flagged for verification.