🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 6 MARCH 2026

🔆 BANKING & FINANCE

📍 Digital Rupee (e₹)
✅ India’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) issued by RBI
✅ Legal tender & sovereign currency

📍 UN Praises India’s Women Banking Inclusion Model
📍 Scheme Highlighted
✅ Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY)

📊 Achievements
✅ 290+ million women brought into banking
✅ Women hold ~56% accounts under PMJDY

📍 Success Factors
✅ Digital ID
✅ Simplified account opening
✅ Digital payments ecosystem

🔆 INTERNATIONAL

📍 World’s Richest People (Forbes 2026)
🏆 Elon Musk remains world’s richest person
💰 Net worth: $841.4 billion

📊 Countries represented in Top 10
✅ United States – majority
✅ France – 1 billionaire
✅ Others – limited representation

📍 Yellowstone’s Echinus Geyser Erupts After 6 Years
📍 Location: Yellowstone National Park, USA
📍 Known as world’s largest acidic geyser

📍 Montana Installs First Gandhi Bust
📍 Location: University of Montana, USA
📍 Venue: Mike Mansfield Center
🎁 Gift from Government of India

📍 UN Women Report 2026
📊 Women possess only 64% of men’s legal rights globally

📍 Key Issues
✅ 54% countries lack consent-based rape laws
✅ Many countries still allow child marriage
✅ 44% countries lack equal pay laws

📍 Chile Eliminates Leprosy
🏥 Verified by WHO & PAHO
✅ No local transmission since 1993

🌍 Global context
✅ Jordan (2024) – first country verified
✅ Chile – second globally, first in Americas

📍 Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease)
🦠 Caused by Mycobacterium leprae

🔆 NATIONAL

📍 Digital Tools Launched for Census 2027
👤 Launched by Union Home Minister Amit Shah

📍 Platforms
✅ House Listing Block Creator Web App
✅ HLO Mobile App
✅ Self-Enumeration Portal
✅ Census Monitoring System

📍 Developed by
✅ C-DAC

📍 Mascots
✅ Pragati – women
✅ Vikas – men

📍 India’s First Riverine Lighthouses on Brahmaputra
📍 National Waterway-2 (NW-2)

📍 Locations (Assam)
✅ Bogibeel
✅ Pandu
✅ Silghat
✅ Biswanath Ghat

📍 Key Features
✅ Height: 20 m
✅ Range: 14 nautical miles
✅ Fully solar powered

📍 Oxford Museum Returns Tirumankai Alvar Bronze
🏛 Museum: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (UK)
📍 Origin: Soundararajaperumal Temple, Tamil Nadu

📍 Tirumankai Alvar
✅ One of the 12 Alvar saints of Vaishnavism

📍 GI-Tagged Karbi Anglong Ginger Exported to London
📍 State: Assam

📍 Cultivation methods
✅ Jhum cultivation
✅ Tila (hill-slope) farming

📍 Characteristics
✅ Strong aroma
✅ Intense flavour

📍 India Promotes Sustainable Tourism at ITB Berlin 2026
👤 Minister: Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

📍 Tourism Initiatives
✅ Swadesh Darshan Scheme
✅ PRASHAD Scheme

📍 Connectivity expansion
✅ Airports increased from 74 → 160+

🔆 MoUs

📍 India–Finland Agreements
👤 Leaders: PM Narendra Modi & President Alexander Stubb

📍 Cooperation Areas
✅ Environmental cooperation
✅ Migration & mobility
✅ Statistics collaboration

📍 Event
✅ Raisina Dialogue 2026

🔆 STATES

📍 Maharashtra Introduces Offline e-Crop Registration
📍 Under Digital Crop Survey (DCS)

📍 Feature
✅ Farmers can capture crop photos offline
✅ Auto-upload when internet available

📍 Hatti Risala Festival (Maharashtra)
📍 Location: Jalna
📅 Held on Dhulivandan (day after Holi)
🎯 Symbol of communal harmony

📍 Community Conservation in Ladakh
🦆 Villagers protect Ruddy Shelducks during breeding season
📍 Breeding area: Mudh Valley, Ladakh

📍 Oleum Gas Leak in Palghar
📍 Oleum: Sulphur trioxide dissolved in sulphuric acid

📍 Agencies involved
✅ NDRF
✅ BARC

📍 Darjeeling Hill Festival
👤 Inaugurated by President Droupadi Murmu
📍 Venue: Raj Bhavan (Lok Bhavan), Darjeeling

📍 Cultural highlights
✅ Dokra metal craft
✅ Toda tribal embroidery

🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS

📅 International Day for Disarmament & Non-Proliferation Awareness
📅 Observed: 5 March

🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

📍 Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD)
🦠 Viral disease affecting cassava crops

📍 Impacts
✅ Root necrosis
✅ Severe yield losses

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🔆 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel – (1875–1950)

📍 About Sardar Patel
✅ Born 31 October 1875, Gujarat (peasant family).
✅ Birth anniversary = Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day).
✅ Known as the Iron Man of India.

📍 Pre-Independence Contributions
✅ Kheda Satyagraha (1918) & Ahmedabad Mill Strike → emerged as national leader.
✅ Bardoli Satyagraha (1928) → led peasants against revenue hikes; earned the title “Sardar”.
✅ As INC President (Karachi, 1931) → passed resolutions on Fundamental Rights & Economic Policy.

📍 Post-Independence Contributions
✅ Architect of Political Integration → unified 500+ princely states (e.g., Junagadh, Hyderabad via Operation Polo).
✅ Ensured internal stability during Partition as India’s first Deputy PM & Home Minister.
✅ Built the All India Services (IAS, IPS) → India’s administrative “Steel Frame”.

📍 Values
✅ Integrity
✅ Leadership
✅ Patriotism
✅ Courage & Determination

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🔆 Shipbuilding Financial Assistance Scheme (SBFAS)

📍 In News
✅ The Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways (MoPSW) notified operational guidelines for two major initiatives:
▪️ Shipbuilding Financial Assistance Scheme (SBFAS)
▪️ Shipbuilding Development Scheme (SbDS)

📍 About SBFAS
✅ Objective:
▪️ Financial assistance of 15%–25% per vessel, based on vessel category (small, large, specialised)
▪️ Strengthen domestic shipbuilding competitiveness

✅ National Shipbuilding Mission:
▪️ To ensure coordinated planning and execution of shipbuilding initiatives

✅ Shipbreaking Credit (New Provision):
▪️ Ship owners scrapping vessels at Indian yards receive 40% of scrap value as credit
▪️ Promotes circular economy and domestic ship recycling

📍 About Shipbuilding Development Scheme (SbDS)
✅ Objective: Long-term capacity and capability creation in shipbuilding

✅ Key Provisions:
▪️ Development of greenfield shipbuilding clusters
▪️ Expansion & modernisation of existing brownfield shipyards
▪️ Establishment of India Ship Technology Centre under Indian Maritime University

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🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 7 MARCH 2026

🔆 NATIONAL

📍 IBM Launches Infrastructure Innovation Centre
📍 Location: Bengaluru

🎯 Focus
✅ Hybrid cloud technologies
✅ Enterprise AI infrastructure development

📍 Centre established within IBM India Systems Development Lab (ISDL)

📍 Cycling League of India (CLI)
🚴 World’s first franchise-based road cycling league

👤 Launched by: Mansukh Mandaviya

📍 League Structure
✅ 8 franchises
✅ Teams include international & junior cyclists

📍 Competition Format
✅ Criterium races
✅ Team time trials
✅ Mass start races

📍 Mahila Jan Sunwai Programme
👤 Organised by National Commission for Women (NCW)

📅 Start: 8 March 2026

📍 Under Programme
✅ Rashtriya Mahila Aayog Aapke Dwaar

🎯 Objective
✅ Provide direct grievance redressal for women

📍 Raisina Dialogue 2026

📍 Theme
✅ “Saṁskāra – Assertion, Accommodation, Advancement”

📍 Organised by
✅ Observer Research Foundation (ORF)
✅ Ministry of External Affairs

📍 New Initiative
✅ Raisina Science Diplomacy Initiative (SDI) launched

📍 Noida International Airport (Jewar) Gets Aerodrome License

✈ Regulator: DGCA

📍 Developer
✅ Yamuna International Airport Pvt Ltd (YIAPL)
➡ Subsidiary of Zurich Airport International AG

📍 Features
✅ Runway: 3,900 m × 45 m
✅ ILS + Aeronautical Ground Lighting for 24×7 operations

📍 Capacity
✅ Phase-1: 12 million passengers/year
✅ Final capacity: 70 million passengers/yea

📍 Revamped MPLADS eSAKSHI Portal Dashboard

📍 Launched: 1 April 2023

📍 Developed by
✅ Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI)

📍 Features
✅ Online fund authorisation for MPs
✅ Real-time monitoring of projects & expenditure

🔆 DEFENCE

📍 Minuteman III Missile Test (USA)

🚀 Type: Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)

📍 Features
✅ Part of US nuclear triad
✅ Speed: Mach 23
✅ Range: 6,000+ miles

🔆 MoUs

📍 Pondicherry University – CCPD MoU

📍 Aim
✅ Promote accessibility & inclusion for persons with disabilities

📍 CCPD
✅ Under Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities

📍 Adani Group Partners with UNESCO

📅 Event: World Engineering Day 2026

📍 Project Highlight
⚡ Khavda Renewable Energy Park (Gujarat)

📍 Key Facts
✅ Area: 538 sq km
✅ Target capacity: 30 GW by 2029

📍 DGT–Bajaj Auto Flexi-MoU

📍 Under Revised Flexi-MoU Scheme (2024)

📍 Key Points
✅ Bajaj Auto becomes Industry Training Partner
✅ 1,000 trainees in first year
✅ Training up to 24 months

🔆 STATES

📍 Kerala Launches “MeHEALTH” App

📍 Purpose
✅ Locate government hospitals & services
✅ Provide details of labs, pharmacies & blood banks

📍 Andhra Pradesh Fertility Incentive Scheme

💰 Incentive: ₹25,000

📍 Applicable for
✅ Second or third child

📍 Reason
📊 State TFR: 1.5 (below replacement level 2.1)

📍 Gujarat Launches “herSTART 5.0”

🎯 Promote women-led startups

📍 Support
✅ Mentorship
✅ Incubation
✅ Market access

📍 Launched at Gujarat University

🔆 SCHEMES / GOVERNANCE

📍 SWAYATT Initiative (GeM)
📅 Launched: 19 Feb 2019

📍 Full Form
✅ Startups, Women and Youth Advantage through e-Transactions

🎯 Aim
✅ Inclusive government procurement

📍 Platforms
✅ Startup Runway
✅ Womaniya

📊 Impact
✅ Women entrepreneur orders: ₹83,323 crore (FY26)

🔆 WOMEN ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVES

📍 Key Schemes
✅ Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana
✅ DAY-NRLM
✅ NaMo Drone Didi Yojana
✅ Lakhpati Didi Scheme
✅ PM Mudra Yojana
✅ PM Jan Dhan Yojana
✅ PM SVANidhi
✅ Stand-Up India Scheme

🔆 IMPORTANT DAY

📅 World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development
📅 Observed: 4 March 2026

📍 Theme 2026
✅ “Smart Engineering for Sustainable Future through Innovation and Digitalization”

🔆 APPOINTMENTS

📍 Dr Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi
✅ Reappointed Drugs Controller General of India

📍 New Governors / LGs Appointed
✅ Shiv Pratap Shukla – Telangana
✅ Jishnu Dev Varma – Maharashtra
✅ Syed Ata Hasnain – Bihar
✅ Nand Kishore Yadav – Nagaland
✅ R.N. Ravi – West Bengal
✅ Kavinder Gupta – Himachal Pradesh
✅ Rajendra Arlekar – Tamil Nadu
✅ Taranjit Singh Sandhu – LG Delhi
✅ Vinai Kumar Saxena – LG Ladakh

🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

📍 Vikram-1 Rocket (Skyroot Aerospace)

🚀 India’s first private orbital rocket

📍 Launch Site
✅ Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota

📍 Features
✅ Height: ~75 ft
✅ Payload: 300 kg to orbit
✅ Engines: Kalam-1200, Kalam-250, Kalam-125

📍 Named after Vikram Sarabhai

🔆 SPORTS

📍 India Reaches 4th Men’s T20 World Cup Final

📍 Semi-final
🏏 India defeated England by 7 runs

📍 Final
🏟 Venue: Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad
⚔ Opponent: New Zealand

📍 India’s T20 WC Final Appearances
✅ 2007
✅ 2014
✅ 2024
✅ 2026

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🔆 Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)

📍 Why in News?
✅ The Government of India is establishing a first-of-its-kind integrated plant based on Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) at Kavaratti, in Lakshadweep.

📍 What is Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)?
✅ Renewable energy technology that generates electricity using the temperature difference between warm surface water and cold deep ocean water.

📍 Key Conditions
✅ Requires ~20°C temperature difference between surface and deep ocean water.
✅ Therefore, OTEC is mainly viable in tropical ocean regions (30°N – 30°S latitude).

📍 Working Mechanism
✅ Warm surface seawater heats a working fluid (such as ammonia) causing it to vaporize.
✅ The vapor drives a turbine connected to a generator, producing electricity.
✅ Cold deep-sea water is then used to condense the vapor back to liquid, completing the cycle.

📍 Significance
✅ Round-the-clock renewable energy (unlike solar or wind).
✅ Useful for island and coastal regions with limited energy resources.
✅ Can also support desalination of seawater and cold-water aquaculture

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🔆 Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP)

📍 Why in News?
✅ Janaushadhi Diwas (7 March) is observed to raise awareness about Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana and promote the use of affordable generic medicines.

📍 About PMBJP

✅ Launched: 2008 as Jan Aushadhi Scheme

✅ Revamped: 2015 as PMBJP

✅ Objective:
• Provide quality generic medicines at affordable prices to the public.

✅ Nodal Agency:
• Department of Pharmaceuticals

✅ Implementation Agency:
• Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Bureau of India

📍 Key Initiatives under PMBJP

✅ Janaushadhi Suvidha Sanitary Napkin
• Oxo-biodegradable sanitary pads available at ₹1 per pad.
• Promotes affordable menstrual hygiene.

✅ Jan Aushadhi Sugam Mobile App
• Helps users locate nearby Kendras, check medicine availability and compare prices.

✅ Expansion of Jan Aushadhi Kendras (JAKs)
• Franchise-based model to expand affordable medicine outlets nationwide.

✅ Cooperative Sector Participation
• Uses rural cooperative networks to improve last-mile access to medicines.

✅ JAKs at Railway Stations
• Ensures access to affordable medicines for travellers and migrant workers.

📍 Major Achievements

✅ Wide Network Expansion
• 18,000+ Jan Aushadhi Kendras established across India.

✅ Large Medicine Basket
• 2000+ medicines and 300+ surgical items available.

✅ Huge Public Savings
• Medicines worth ₹7,700 crore sold (by June 2025).
• Generated ₹38,000 crore savings for citizens.

📍 Significance

✅ Improves accessibility and affordability of medicines.
✅ Reduces out-of-pocket health expenditure.
✅ Strengthens public healthcare and generic medicine usage in India.

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Deccan Sultanate
Vijayanagar kingdom
Southern kingdoms
Cultural development of medieval period-Bhakti, sufi, Vaishnavaite, etc.
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Security
Disaster management

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