🔆 Place in News: Myanmar

📍 Why in News?
✅ Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) won elections in Myanmar

📍 Political–Geographical Profile
✅ Capital: Naypyidaw
✅ Region: Southeast Asia

📍 Land Boundaries
✅ West: Bangladesh, India
✅ North & Northeast: China
✅ East: Laos
✅ Southeast: Thailand

📍 Maritime Boundaries
✅ South: Andaman Sea
✅ Southwest: Bay of Bengal

📍 Physiography
✅ Mountain Ranges: Bago Yoma, Rakhine Yoma, Tenasserim Hills, Shan Hills
✅ Highest Peak: Hkakabo Razi
✅ Major Rivers: Irrawaddy, Chindwin, Salween, Mekong

📍 Natural Resources
✅ Petroleum, natural gas
✅ Timber, coal
✅ Tin, copper, tungsten, lead
✅ Marble, limestone
✅ High hydropower potential


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🔆 White-bellied Heron

📍 Context
✅ Union Environment Ministry panel recommended environmental clearance for the Kalai-II Hydroelectric Project on the Lohit River (Arunachal Pradesh)
✅ Conservationists flagged serious threats to the White-bellied Heron, one of the world’s rarest birds

📍 About White-bellied Heron
✅ Other names:
• Imperial Heron
• Great White-bellied Heron

✅ Key features:
• Second-largest living heron species
• Distinct white belly with dark upper plumage
• Non-migratory, but shows local / post-breeding dispersal

📍 Habitat
✅ Prefers undisturbed riverine ecosystems
✅ Found along rivers and wetlands in the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas

📍 Geographical Distribution
✅ Indian Subcontinent → Southeast Asia
✅ India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam
✅ Also found in Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar

📍 Conservation Status
✅ IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered
✅ India: Schedule-I species under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972

📍 Why the News Matters
✅ Hydropower projects may:
• Alter natural river flow and sediment regimes
• Destroy nesting and feeding habitats
• Increase human pressure in fragile Himalayan ecosystems

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🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 27 JANUARY 2026

🔆 BANKING & FINANCE

📍 UPI Global Expansion
✅ Japan to trial India’s UPI in 2026
📍 Partners:
➡ NPCI
➡ NTT Data (Japan)
📍 Mode:
✅ QR-based, direct debit from Indian bank accounts

📍 UPI Countries
✅ Bhutan, Singapore, France, Sri Lanka, UAE
✅ Japan next
📍 NPCI also helping Peru & Namibia build UPI-like systems

🔆 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

📍 India–EU Relations
✅ EU leaders chief guests at 77th Republic Day
📍 Followed by 16th India–EU Summit
📍 Agenda:
✅ Free Trade Agreement
✅ Security & Defence Partnership

📍 Trade & Investment
✅ EU = India’s largest goods trading partner
➡ Trade: $136 bn (2024–25)
➡ Services trade: $53 bn (record)
➡ EU FDI stock: €140 bn
➡ 6,000+ European firms in India

📍 Strategic Shift
✅ Trade moving to electronics, machinery, speciality chemicals
✅ Supports China-Plus-One strategy

🔆 NATIONAL AFFAIRS

📍 Republic Day Parade 2026
✅ Bactrian camels “Galwan & Nubra” to march on Kartavya Path
📍 Showcases Ladakh’s cold-desert heritage

📍 About Bactrian Camel
✅ Double-humped | Cold-desert adapted
✅ India: Found only in Nubra Valley (Ladakh)
📍 Conservation:
➡ Wild: Critically Endangered
➡ Domestic: Common

📍 Agarwood Economy
✅ ₹80 crore Agarwood Value Chain Development Scheme launched in Tripura
📍 Target:
✅ ₹2,000 crore turnover
📍 Agarwood:
➡ Fragrant resin from Aquilaria trees
➡ CITES Appendix-II listed

📍 Public Health – Malaria
✅ India cuts malaria cases & deaths by 80%+ (2015–2023)
📍 Zero indigenous cases:
✅ 160 districts across 23 States/UTs
📍 Key Initiatives:
✅ NFME (2016–2030)
✅ National Strategic Plan (3Ts)
✅ MERA India (ICMR)

📍 Tourism Development
✅ ₹450 crore Matabari Tourism Circuit foundation laid (Tripura)
📍 Focus:
✅ Spiritual & eco-tourism
✅ Community livelihoods

📍 Electoral Reforms
✅ ECI releases report “2025: A Year of Initiatives & Innovations”
📍 Occasion:
✅ 16th National Voters’ Day 2026
📍 Theme:
✅ My India, My Vote
📍 ECI Chair assumes leadership of International IDEA

🔆 ENVIRONMENT & BIODIVERSITY

📍 Wildlife Sighting
✅ Asiatic Wild Dog (Dhole) spotted for first time in Ratapani Tiger Reserve (MP)
📍 Status:
➡ IUCN: Endangered
➡ WPA: Schedule-II

📍 Gharial Conservation
✅ Gandak River (Bihar) becomes India’s 2nd-largest gharial habitat
📍 Adult population:
➡ 2015: 54 → 2025: 400+
📍 Status:
➡ IUCN: Critically Endangered

🔆 DEFENCE / AVIATION

📍 Wings India 2026
✅ Asia’s largest civil aviation event
📍 Date: 28–31 Jan 2026
📍 Venue: Begumpet Airport, Hyderabad
📍 Theme:
✅ Indian Aviation: Paving the Future

🔆 STATES

📍 Tamil Nadu
✅ Dugong Conservation Centre plan sent back for redesign
📍 Reason:
➡ CRZ-I & CRZ-III ecological sensitivity

📍 Assam
✅ First phase of Assam’s largest multi-sports stadium to be inaugurated
📍 Location: Dibrugarh
📍 Capacity: 35,000

📍 Madhya Pradesh
✅ 2026 to be observed as Year of Agriculture
📍 Agri budget rises to ₹27,000 crore
📍 New tiger reserve:
✅ Madhav National Park (9th)

🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS

📍 26 January
✅ International Customs Day
✅ International Day of Clean Energy

🔆 OBITUARY

📍 Cricket Administration
✅ Former BCCI President Inderjit Singh Bindra passes away

🔆 AWARDs

📍 Jeevan Raksha Padak Awards 2025
✅ 30 awardees
➡ Sarvottam: 6
➡ Uttam: 6
➡ Jeevan Raksha: 18
📍 Established: 1961

📍 Analytics & Governance
✅ Anna Chakra (DFPD) shortlisted for Franz Edelman Award 2026
📍 Purpose:
✅ Optimise PDS logistics using analytics

🔆 GALLANTRY AWARDS

📍 Ashoka Chakra
✅ Awarded to Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla
📍 Achievement:
✅ First Indian to visit ISS

📍 Kirti Chakra
✅ Major Arshdeep Singh
✅ Naib Subedar Doleshwar Subba Singh
✅ Group Captain Prashanth Balakrishnan Nair

📍 Padma Shri
✅ K. Pajanivel (Silambam exponent, Puducherry)

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🔆 Interim Government of India (1946–47)
📍 Period: 2 Sept 1946 – 15 Aug 1947
📍 Head: Jawaharlal Nehru

🏛️ Key Ministers & Portfolios

✅ Jawaharlal Nehru
• Vice-President, Executive Council
• External Affairs
• Commonwealth Relations

✅ Vallabhbhai Patel
• Home
• Information & Broadcasting

✅ Baldev Singh
• Defence

✅ C. Rajagopalachari
• Education

✅ C. H. Bhabha
• Works, Mines & Power

✅ Rajendra Prasad
• Agriculture & Food

✅ Jagjivan Ram
• Labour

✅ Asaf Ali
• Railways

🕌 Muslim League Members

✅ Liaquat Ali Khan
• Finance

✅ Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar
• Commerce

✅ Abdur Rab Nishtar
• Communications

✅ Ghazanf ar Ali Khan
• Health

✅ Jogendra Nath Mandal
• Law

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🔆 National Critical Mineral Mission (NCCM / NCMM)

📍 Key Facts
✅ Launch: 2025 (Union Budget 2024–25)
✅ Approved by Cabinet: Jan 2025
✅ Outlay: ₹16,300 crore
✅ Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Mines
✅ Target: 1,200 exploration projects (2024–25 to 2030–31) by GSI

📍 About National Critical Mineral Mission

✅ Adopted Whole-of-Government approach
• Coordination with ministries, PSUs, private sector & research institutions

✅ Administrative Ministry: Ministry of Mines
✅ Empowered Committee:
• Chaired by Cabinet Secretary
• Members from key stakeholder ministries

📍 Objectives

✅ Secure critical mineral supply chains (domestic + overseas)
✅ Reduce import dependence & geopolitical risks
✅ Strengthen value chain:
• Exploration → Mining → Beneficiation → Processing → Recycling
✅ Boost technology, skills, finance & global competitiveness

📍 Exploration Push

✅ GSI mandate: 1,200 projects
✅ Focus on deep-seated & strategic minerals

📍 What are Critical Minerals?

✅ Essential for economic development & national security
✅ Vulnerable due to:
• Import dependence
• Geographical concentration of supply

📍 Legal Backing

✅ 30 Critical Minerals identified (Nov 2022 committee)
✅ 24 minerals added to Part D, Schedule I of MMDR Act, 1957
◦ Gives Central Government exclusive auction powers

📍 India’s Critical Minerals List (Important for Prelims)

✅ Lithium, Cobalt, Nickel, Graphite
✅ Rare Earth Elements (REEs), PGE
✅ Copper, Tin, Tungsten, Titanium
✅ Gallium, Germanium, Indium
✅ Antimony, Vanadium, Zirconium, Silicon, etc.

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Modern History
Topics:
Revision
PYQs


Current Affairs:
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🔆Important Conferences Related to Environment

✅Ramsar Convention - 1971
✅Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora - 1973
✅Montreal Protocol - 1987
✅Vienna Convention      - 1988
✅Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) - 1992
✅United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - 1992
✅Basel Convention       - 1989
✅Rio Summit             - 1992
✅Stockholm Convention   - 2001
✅Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety - 2000
✅UN-REDD               - 2008
✅Nagoya Protocol       - 2010
✅Minamata Convention   - 2013
✅United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) - 1994
✅Kyoto Protocol        - 1997
✅Rotterdam Convention   - 1998

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