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🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 6 FEBRUARY 2026

🔆 INTERNATIONAL

📍 UN Contributions
✅ India pays USD 35.18 million to UN Regular Budget (2026)
➡ Secures place on UN Honour Roll
➡ Supports peace, development & human rights work

📍 Critical Minerals
✅ USA launches FORGE Initiative
📍 Full form:
➡ Forum on Resource, Geostrategic Engagement
📍 Objective:
➡ Secure & diversify global critical mineral supply chains
➡ Successor to Minerals Security Partnership (MSP)
➡ India among participating nations

🔆 NATIONAL

📍 Medicinal Plants Governance
✅ National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) launches digital portal for:
➡ Electronic Certificates of Origin (CoO)
➡ Cultivated medicinal plants
📍 Benefits:
➡ Single-window system
➡ Automated Form-12
➡ Supports ABS exemptions
📍 NBA:
➡ Established: 2003
➡ HQ: Chennai

📍 Disaster Management
✅ NDMA releases India’s first SOP on:
➡ Comprehensive Disaster Victim Identification
➡ Mass fatality incidents
📍 Key features:
➡ National Dental Data Registry
➡ Forensic archaeology methods

📍 Startup Ecosystem
✅ Govt extends Startup India recognition for Deeptech firms to 20 years
📍 Notified by DPIIT (4 Feb 2026)
📍 New thresholds:
➡ Turnover cap: ₹300 crore
➡ R&D-intensive, high-tech focus firms
➡ Long gestation allowed

📍 AI in Governance
✅ SabhaSaar Initiative
➡ AI-based Gram Sabha meeting summarisation
➡ Adopted by 1.11 lakh Gram Panchayats
➡ Launched: 14 Aug 2025
➡ By Ministry of Panchayati Raj + IndiaAI

📍 Startup Support
✅ SAMRIDH Programme (MeitY)
➡ Supports 300 tech startups
➡ Financial support up to ₹40 lakh/startup
➡ Implemented by MeitY Startup Hub

🔆 DEFENCE

📍 Mountaineering Diplomacy
✅ Rajnath Singh flags off Mount Aconcagua Expedition
📍 Location:
➡ Andes, Argentina (6,960 m)
📍 Significance:
➡ Highest peak outside Asia
➡ Western Hemisphere’s highest
➡ Organised by NIM + JIM&WS

📍 Naval Technology
✅ Sagar Defence delivers first Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) to Indian Navy
📍 Features:
➡ Speed > 50 knots
➡ 12.7 mm gun
➡ Missile & loitering munition capable
➡ Patrol + strike role

📍 IAF Exercise
✅ Exercise Vayu Shakti-2026
📍 Venue:
➡ Pokaran, Rajasthan
📍 Highlights:
➡ 120+ aircraft
➡ Rafale, Su-30, Tejas, Apache, Chinook
➡ Largest day-night air power exercise

🔆 MoUs / FEDERALISM

📍 Nagaland
✅ Centre + Nagaland Govt + ENPO sign pact for:
➡ Frontier Nagaland Territorial Authority (FNTA)
📍 Covers districts:
➡ Tuensang, Mon, Kiphire, Longleng, Noklak, Shamator

🔆 STATES / ENVIRONMENT / CULTURE

📍 Karnataka
✅ Launch of Automatic Property Mutation System
➡ Faster land record updates post sale/inheritance

📍 Gujarat
✅ Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary records 5+ lakh birds
➡ 21% rise due to reduced tourism
➡ Ramsar site (since 2012)

📍 Hakki-Pikki Tribe
✅ Karnataka-based Scheduled Tribe
➡ Traditional bird-catchers
➡ Speak Vaagri (UNESCO-listed endangered language)

🔆 SCHEMES

📍 Cooperative Sector
✅ NCDC implements:
➡ Yuva Sahakar Scheme (youth-led cooperatives)
➡ Swayamshakti Sahakar Yojana (women SHGs)
➡ Financial & livelihood support

🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS

📍 World Interfaith Harmony Week
✅ Observed: 1–7 February 2026

🔆 APPOINTMENTS

📍 International Sports Governance
✅ Soraya Aghaei Hajiagha (Iran) becomes IOC’s first female member from Iran
➡ Elected at 145th IOC Session, Milan

🔆 OBITUARIES

📍 Academia
✅ Renowned sociologist Dr. Andre Beteille passes away
➡ Padma Bhushan (2005)

📍 Travel Writing
✅ Hugh Gantzer (Padma Shri) passes away at 95

🔆 AWARDS

📍 Humanitarian Award
✅ Queen Mother of Bhutan receives 22nd Upendra Nath Brahma ‘Soldier of Humanity’ Award
📍 Venue:
➡ Bodoland University, Assam

📍 Education
✅ Rouble Nagi (India) wins Global Teacher Prize 2026
➡ Prize: USD 1 million
➡ Event: World Government Summit, Dubai

🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

📍 Robotics
✅ Addverb launches India’s first wheeled industrial humanoid – Elixis-W
📍 Features:
➡ Physical AI
➡ Dual-arm dexterity
➡ Warehouse & factory use
📍 Launched at LogiMAT India 2026

🔆 SPORTS

📍 Cricket
✅ RCB wins 2nd Women’s Premier League title

#CurrentAffairs

🔆 GI TAGGED HANDLOOM PRODUCTS (State-wise)

📍 Andhra Pradesh
✅ Uppada Jamdani Sarees
✅ Venkatagiri Sarees
✅ Mangalagiri Sarees & Fabrics
✅ Dharmavaram Handloom Pattu Sarees & Paavadas

📍 Gujarat
✅ Tangaliya Shawl
✅ Kachchh Shawls
✅ Patan Patola
✅ Rajkot Patola

📍 Himachal Pradesh
✅ Kullu Shawl
✅ Kinnauri Shawl

📍 Jammu & Kashmir
✅ Kashmir Pashmina
✅ Kani Shawl

📍 Karnataka
✅ Navalgund Durries
✅ Ilkal Sarees
✅ Molakalmuru Sarees
✅ Udupi Sarees
✅ Mysore Silk
✅ Guledgudd Khana

📍 Kerala
✅ Cannanore Home Furnishings
✅ Balaramapuram Sarees
✅ Kasaragod Sarees
✅ Kuthampully Sarees
✅ Chendamangalam Dhoties & Set
✅ Mundu–Kuthampully Dhoties & Set Mundu

📍 Madhya Pradesh
✅ Chanderi Sarees
✅ Maheshwar Sarees

📍 Maharashtra
✅ Solapur Chaddar
✅ Paithani Sarees
✅ Solapur Terry Towel
✅ Karvath Kati Tussar Sarees

📍 Manipur
✅ Shaphee Lanphee
✅ Wangkhei Phee
✅ Moirang Phee

📍 Odisha
✅ Kotpad Handloom
✅ Orissa Ikat
✅ Khandua Saree
✅ Gopalpur Tussar
✅ Dhalapathar Parda
✅ Sambalpuri Bandha Saree
✅ Bomkai Saree
✅ Habaspuri Saree
✅ Berhampur Patta (Phoda Kumbha) Saree

📍 Tamil Nadu
✅ Kancheepuram Silk
✅ Bhavani Jamakkalam
✅ Madurai Sungudi
✅ Arani Silk
✅ Kovai Kora Cotton Sarees
✅ Salem Silk (Salem Venpattu)

📍 Telangana
✅ Pochampally Ikat
✅ Gadwal Sarees
✅ Siddipet Gollabama
✅ Narayanpet Handloom Sarees

📍 Uttar Pradesh
✅ Banaras Brocades & Saree
✅ Mirzapur Handmade Dari

📍 West Bengal
✅ Santipore Saree
✅ Baluchari Saree
✅ Dhaniakhali Saree

📍 Other GI Tags
✅ Muga Silk – Assam
✅ Bhagalpur Silk – Bihar
✅ Champa Silk Saree – Chhattisgarh
✅ Kota Doria – Rajasthan
✅ Chakheshang Shawls – Nagaland

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🔆 Darien Gap: A Dangerous Migration Route

📍 What is the Darien Gap?
✅ The Darien Gap is a 97-km stretch of dense rainforest, swamps, and mountains, marking the only break in the Pan-American Highway, which otherwise runs from Alaska to Argentina.
✅ Due to its harsh terrain, hot & humid climate, and lack of infrastructure, the region has remained largely impenetrable.
✅ However, it has now become a major migration route, with thousands attempting to cross it to reach North America.

📍 Geographical Features
✅ Location: Border between Panama & Colombia.
✅ Terrain: Steep mountains, muddy swamps, fast-flowing rivers, and dense rainforests.
✅ Climate: Hot, humid, and rainy, with limited food & water resources.

📍 Geo-Political Significance
✅ Migration Crisis: Over 520,000 migrants crossed in 2023, and 300,000+ crossings in early 2024.
✅ ‘Donkey Route’: Migrants from India, Venezuela, Haiti, Pakistan, and others use this path via Panama, Costa Rica, and Guatemala before reaching Mexico.
✅ Criminal Activity: Controlled by smuggling networks, drug cartels, and armed groups who exploit migrants through violence, robbery, and extortion.
✅ Humanitarian Concerns: Reports of sexual assaults, deaths, and disappearances are rising, with overcrowded shelters and severe shortages of food, water, and medical aid.

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🔆 UAVs & Defence Robotics in India

📍 Indigenous Defence Systems (DRDO)
✅ NETRA
Airborne Early Warning & Control System (AEW&C / AWACS) for surveillance, target tracking, command & control

✅ Lakshya-2
Advanced pilotless target aircraft (PTA) for air-defence training, simulating enemy aircraft & weapon testing

✅ Nishant
Battlefield surveillance & reconnaissance UAV for target tracking, intelligence gathering & electronic warfare support

✅ Panchi
Tactical UAV with conventional take-off/landing for reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition & communication relay

✅ Daksh
Robotic system for IED detection & handling, EOD, NBC contamination monitoring, and search & rescue

✅ Daksh Mini
Compact ROV for confined space inspection, suspicious object extraction & SAR operations

✅ UXOR
System for unexploded ordnance (UXO) detection & neutralisation
Capable of handling bombs/missiles up to 1000 kg

📍 Indigenous UAV Platforms (DRDO)
✅ UAV-NETRA
Mini UAV for surveillance, reconnaissance, intelligence gathering & border monitoring

✅ Rustom-2
Long-endurance MALE UAV for ISR, electronic warfare, communication relay & precision strikes

📍 Imported UAVs (India’s Arsenal)
✅ Heron (Israel)
MALE UAV for ISR, border surveillance, target acquisition & communication relay

✅ FireFly (Israel)
Loitering munition for precision strikes on ground targets

✅ Harpy / Harop (Israel)
Loitering munitions for electronic warfare & precision attacks

✅ Predator (USA)
MALE UAV for ISR, strike missions & combat search and rescue

✅ Sea Guardian (USA)
Maritime surveillance UAV for maritime domain awareness & anti-submarine warfare

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🔆 Mahayana Buddhism: Schools of Thought

📍 Madhyamika School (Śūnyavāda – “All is Void”)
✅ Thinker: Nagarjuna (2nd Century AD)
✅ Core Philosophy: Follows the Middle Path — rejects both Nihilism (nothing exists) and Realism (everything is permanent)
✅ Key Idea: No fundamental difference between Samsara and Nirvana
✅ Ontology: Reality is Śūnya (Void) — absence of inherent existence
✅ Basic Text: Mūla Madhyamika Kārikā
✅ Philosophical Position: Middle ground between
— Sarvastivada (Doctrine that all is real)
— Yogacara (Mind-only school)
✅ Significance: Śūnyavāda forms the core of Tibetan Buddhism

📍 Yogacara School (Practice of Yoga / Vijñānavāda)
✅ Also Known As: Vijñānavāda (Doctrine of Consciousness)
✅ Propounded By: Asanga and Vasubandhu
✅ Core Focus: Consciousness and knowledge (Idealism)
✅ Ultimate Reality: “Suchness” (Tathatā), also called Dharmadhātu
✅ Basic Text: Sutralankara
✅ Vasubandhu’s Role:
— Converted from Sarvastivada to Mahayana
— Wrote commentary on Abhidhamma from Sarvastivada and Sautrantika perspectives
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📌 Quick Comparison
✅ Madhyamika → Emptiness (Śūnya), Middle Path
✅ Yogacara → Consciousness-only (Vijñāna)

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🔆 Devnimori Relics

📍 Why in News
✅ Exposition of the Holy Devnimori Relics inaugurated at Gangaramaya Temple, Colombo (Sri Lanka)
✅ Strengthens India–Sri Lanka Buddhist cultural ties

📍 About Devnimori (Merged Overview)
✅ Buddhist archaeological site near Shamlaji, Aravalli District (Gujarat)
✅ First explored in 1957 by Prof. S. N. Chowdhry
✅ Dates to 3rd–4th Century CE

📍 Key Archaeological Findings
✅ Sharira Stupa (stupas containing bodily relics of Buddha/important monks)
✅ Relic caskets with sacred ashes, copper box, gold & silver foil
✅ One casket bears Brahmi script (Sanskrit) inscription:
➡️ “Dashabala Sharira Nilaya” — Abode of the bodily relics of Lord Buddha

📍 Significance
✅ Among the earliest physical evidence of Buddha’s relic worship in India
✅ Highlights Gujarat’s role in early Buddhist spread
✅ Reinforces India’s soft power & cultural diplomacy via Buddhism

📌 UPSC Relevance
✅ GS-1 – Ancient History & Culture
✅ Prelims – Buddhism, Stupas, Inscriptions
✅ Essay – Cultural diplomacy & heritage

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🔆 Integrated Programme for the Textile Sector — Union Budget 2026–27

📍 What is the Integrated Programme
✅ A comprehensive, end-to-end policy framework
✅ Covers the entire textile value chain — fibre → fashion, village industries → global markets
✅ Objective: Competitiveness, employment, sustainability & self-reliance

📍 Five Sub-Components (Core Architecture)

✅ National Fibre Scheme
Focus on self-reliance across the fibre spectrum
Supports natural fibres (silk, wool, jute), man-made fibres, and new-age fibres

✅ Textile Expansion & Employment Scheme
Modernisation of traditional textile clusters
Capital support for machinery, technology upgradation
Creation of common testing & certification centres

✅ National Handloom & Handicraft Programme
Integration of existing schemes into one unified national framework
Strengthens handloom and handicrafts with better coordination

✅ Tex-Eco Initiative
Promotion of globally competitive and environmentally sustainable textiles & apparel
Aligns Indian textiles with green manufacturing standards

✅ Samarth 2.0
Modernisation of the textile skill ecosystem
Deeper collaboration with industry & academic institutions

📍 Other Key Textile Initiatives Announced

✅ Mahatma Gandhi Gram Swaraj Initiative
Strengthens khadi, handloom & handicrafts
Focus on branding, global market linkages
Supports One District One Product (ODOP)

✅ Mega Textile Parks & Technical Textiles
Boosts technical textiles — a high-growth segment
Critical for industrial, medical, defence & infrastructure applications

📌 Why It Matters
✅ GS-3: Industry, MSMEs, Employment, Sustainable Manufacturing
✅ Boosts Make in India & Atmanirbhar Bharat
✅ Links rural livelihoods with global value chains

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🔆 Endangered Languages in India & Government Efforts

📍 Context
✅ India is one of the world’s most linguistically diverse countries
✅ UNESCO lists 197 endangered languages in India
✅ Languages fall into categories: vulnerable, endangered, severely endangered, or extinct

📍 Examples of Critically Endangered Languages
✅ Great Andamanese – Andaman Islands
✅ Toda – Nilgiri Hills (Tamil Nadu)
✅ Asur – Jharkhand
✅ Koro – Arunachal Pradesh

🔆 Government Initiatives for Language Preservation

📍 Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages (SPPEL)
✅ Focus: Languages spoken by fewer than 10,000 people
✅ Aim: Documentation, research, and promotion
✅ 117 languages prioritised in the first phase

📍 UGC-supported Measures
✅ Funding for academic research on indigenous languages
✅ Establishment of Centres for Endangered Languages in Central Universities
✅ Promotion of interdisciplinary linguistic studies

📍 Training & Documentation Efforts
✅ Regular training programmes for linguists and researchers
✅ Preparation of:
 • Dictionaries
 • Grammar books
 • Audio-visual recordings
✅ Focus on long-term language survival and revival

🔆 Why It Matters
✅ Language loss = loss of oral history, folklore, ecological knowledge
✅ Preserving languages strengthens cultural diversity and identity
✅ Aligns with constitutional values of pluralism and inclusiveness

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🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 7 FEBRUARY 2026

🔆 REGULATORY / RBI

📍 RBI MPC – February 2026
✅ 59th Monetary Policy Committee meeting
📍 Dates: 4–6 Feb 2026
📍 Chair: Sanjay Malhotra, RBI Governor

📍 Policy Rates (Unchanged)
✅ Repo Rate: 5.25%
✅ SDF: 5.00%
✅ MSF & Bank Rate: 5.50%
✅ Policy stance: Neutral

📍 Growth Projections
✅ GDP 2025–26: 7.4%
✅ Q1 FY27: 6.9%
✅ Q2 FY27: 7.0%

📍 Inflation Outlook
✅ CPI inflation:
➡ Nov 2025: 0.7%
➡ Dec 2025: 1.3%
➡ FY26: 2.1%
➡ Q1 FY27: 4.0%

📍 Next MPC Meeting
✅ 6–8 April 2026

🔆 BANKING & FINANCE

📍 Forex Reserves
✅ India’s forex reserves hit historic high: $723.8 billion
📍 As on: 30 Jan 2026
📍 Import cover: 11+ months

📍 Components
✅ Foreign Currency Assets (largest)
✅ Gold
✅ SDR (IMF)
✅ Reserve Tranche Position (IMF)

📍 Digital Fraud Compensation Framework
✅ RBI introduces first-ever compensation scheme
📍 Relief:
✅ Up to 85% of loss OR ₹25,000 (whichever lower)
📍 Conditions:
✅ One-time relief
✅ Only for first fraud instance
📍 Cost sharing:
➡ RBI: major share
➡ Banks: 15%
➡ Customer loss: 15%

📍 Urban Cooperative Banks (UCBs) Reforms
✅ Four measures announced by RBI

📍 Key Highlights
✅ Higher limits for unsecured & nominal member loans
✅ Housing loan norms relaxed for Tier-III & IV UCBs
✅ Mission SAKSHAM launched
➡ Capacity building for 1.4 lakh+ UCB staff
✅ Review of licensing of new UCBs (after 20 years)

📍 Deposit Insurance Reform
✅ Risk-based deposit insurance premium from 1 April 2026
📍 Implemented by: DICGC

📍 Earlier system
✅ Flat rate: 12 paise per ₹100 deposits

📍 New system linked to:
➡ Capital adequacy
➡ Asset quality
➡ Earnings
➡ Liquidity
➡ Supervisory risk
📍 Premium variation capped at ±33.33%

📍 Kisan Credit Card (KCC) Reforms
✅ RBI to issue revised KCC guidelines

📍 Proposed changes
✅ Uniform crop season definition
✅ KCC tenure: 5 → 6 years
✅ Drawing limit aligned with Scale of Finance (SoF)

📍 KCC Basics
✅ Launched: 1998
✅ Collateral-free:
➡ Up to ₹2 lakh
➡ Up to ₹3 lakh under tie-ups
✅ Interest subvention: 3% (prompt repayment)

📍 NBFC Regulation
✅ RBI proposes exemption for Type-1 NBFCs
📍 Criteria:
➡ Asset size < ₹1,000 crore
➡ No public funds
➡ No customer interface
📍 Impact:
✅ Registered NBFCs may reduce from 9,000+ to ~50%

📍 Business Correspondents (BCs)

📍 Power Sector Finance
✅ PFC acquires 52.63% stake in REC from GoI
➡ REC becomes subsidiary of PFC
📍 Approved by: CCEA

📍 About REC
✅ Maharatna PSU
✅ Under Ministry of Power
✅ NBFC + PFI + IFC
✅ Finances power generation, transmission & distribution

📍 State Finances
✅ World Bank flags off-budget borrowings as fiscal risk
📍 Recommends Karnataka model (2014):
➡ PSU/SPV borrowings included in state liabilities
➡ Improves transparency & discipline

🔆 INTERNATIONAL

📍 Global Health
✅ New York City (USA) joins WHO-led GOARN
📍 Earlier: Illinois joined (3 Feb 2026)

📍 About GOARN
✅ Established: 2000
✅ Coordinated by: WHO
✅ Network: 360+ institutions
✅ Role: Detect & respond to global disease outbreaks

🔆 NATIONAL

📍 Clean Energy Transition
✅ NITI Aayog drafts blueprint to make Andhra Pradesh clean-energy hub by 2035
📍 Under:
➡ ASSET Platform (Accelerating Sustainable State Energy Transition)

📍 Current status
✅ ~47% power from renewables

📍 Public Broadcasting
✅ Prasar Bharati adopts digital-first strategy
📍 Covers:
➡ Akashvani
➡ Doordarshan
➡ WAVES OTT Platform

📍 Frameworks
✅ Content Sourcing Policy, 2024
✅ Pay-Per-View Framework, 2025

📍 Fiscal Transfers
✅ Centre releases ₹1,133 crore XV-FC grants
📍 States:
➡ Madhya Pradesh
➡ Punjab
➡ Telangana

📍 Grants Type
✅ Untied grants – local needs
✅ Tied grants – sanitation, water, waste management

📍 Port Security
✅ VOC Port Authority becomes India’s first port to deploy Anti-Drone System
📍 Implemented by:
➡ Central Electronics Limited (CEL)
➡ Under Ministry of Science & Technology

📍 Official Statistics
✅ NSO launches MCP Server (beta)
📍 Platform: eSankhyiki
📍 Purpose:
✅ Make govt data AI-ready

📍 Datasets available
➡ PLFS | CPI | ASI | IIP | NAS | WPI | Environmental Stats

📍 Power Sector Reforms

✅ MCA approves merger of 17 POWERGRID subsidiaries
📍 Into:
➡ POWERGRID Khavda II-C Transmission Ltd
➡ POWERGRID Vataman Transmission Ltd
📍 Appointed date: 1 April 2024

🔆 DEFENCE

📍 Strategic Missile Test
✅ India successfully test-fires Agni-III IRBM
📍 Range: 3,000–3,500 km
📍 Launch site: ITR, Chandipur
📍 Supervised by: Strategic Forces Command
📍 Capable of:
➡ Conventional & nuclear warheads

🔆 MoUs

📍 Agri-Logistics
✅ Ministry of Agriculture + Department of Posts MoU
📍 Objective:
✅ Faceless, traceable logistics for:
➡ Seeds
➡ Fertilisers
➡ Pesticides

📍 Digital Public Infrastructure
✅ India signs DPI cooperation MoUs with 23 countries
📍 Covers:
➡ Digital ID
➡ Payments
➡ Data exchange
➡ Service delivery

📍 India Stack
✅ Paperless | Cashless | Presence-less governance
✅ UPI live in 8+ countries

🔆 STATES

📍 Kerala
✅ First state to announce Elderly Budget (FY27)
📍 Allocation: ₹46,236.52 crore
📍 Share of state budget: 19.07%
📍 Major component:
✅ 68% for pensions

🔆 IMPORTANT DAY

📍 6 February
✅ International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation
📍 Theme 2026:
➡ “Towards 2030: No End to FGM Without Sustained Commitment and Investment”

🔆 SPORTS

📍 Asian Shooting Championships 2026
✅ Samrat Rana & Suruchi Singh win Silver
📍 Event:
➡ 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team

📍 Medal Tally
✅ India tops table:
➡ 10 Gold | 5 Silver | 1 Bronze

📍 ICC U-19 Men’s Cricket World Cup 2026
✅ India defeats England in Final
✅ 6th U-19 World Cup title for India

📍 Records
✅ India: 411/9 – highest team total in U-19 WC final
✅ Vaibhav Suryavanshi (14 yrs):
➡ 175 off 80 balls
➡ Highest individual score in U-19 WC final history

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🔆 Harappan Script

📍 Key Features
✅ Oldest script of the Indian subcontinent
✅ Written from right to left

📍 Decipherment Status
✅ Script has not been deciphered so far
✅ Shows no connection with West Asian scripts

📍 Nature of Inscriptions
✅ Most inscriptions found on seals
✅ Contain very short texts (only a few words)
✅ No long inscriptions like those of Egyptians or Mesopotamians
✅ Longest inscription has about 26 signs

📍 Script Characteristics
✅ Not alphabetical — signs do not represent vowels or consonants
✅ Dominated by pictographs
➡️ Around 250–400 signs, making it complex

📍 Purpose & Use
✅ Used for recording private property
✅ Helped in account keeping and trade management

📌 UPSC Relevance
✅ GS-1 – Ancient Indian History
✅ Prelims – Harappan Civilization (facts & features)

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🔆 Cloud Computing vs Edge Computing

📍 Core Difference
✅ Cloud Computing centralises data processing on remote servers
✅ Edge Computing processes data near the source, enabling real-time responses

📍 Data Processing
✅ Cloud Computing: Best suited for non-time-sensitive processing
✅ Edge Computing: Designed for real-time, high-speed processing

📍 Internet Connectivity
✅ Cloud Computing: Requires reliable and continuous internet
✅ Edge Computing: Works with limited or no internet connectivity

📍 Use Cases
✅ Cloud Computing:
Dynamic workloads, large datasets, data analytics, storage-heavy applications

✅ Edge Computing:
Highly sensitive data, real-time analytics, IoT, autonomous systems

📍 Cost Efficiency
✅ Cloud Computing: Costly when handling very large datasets
✅ Edge Computing: Cost-effective for large datasets by reducing data transfer

📍 Data Storage
✅ Cloud Computing: Data stored and processed in cloud data centres
✅ Edge Computing: Data processed locally at or near the device

📌 UPSC Relevance
✅ GS-3 – Science & Technology
✅ Important for topics like IoT, AI, 5G, Smart Infrastructure
✅ Frequently asked in Prelims conceptual questions

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