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🔆 President’s Address 2026
🏛️ Governance & Social Justice
✅ 25 crore people lifted out of poverty in last decade
✅ ₹6.75 lakh crore DBT delivered in just one year
✅ 95 crore citizens now under social security (vs 25 crore in 2014)
✅ Jan-Vishwas Act: 300+ provisions decriminalised
🏠 Welfare & Human
Development
✅ 4 crore pucca houses built; 32 lakh in last year
✅ Jal Jeevan Mission: 12.5 crore households with tap water
✅ Ujjwala Yojana: 10+ crore LPG connections
✅ Ayushman Bharat: 11 crore free treatments
✅ Vay Vandana Cards: 1 crore senior citizens covered
🌾 Agriculture, Fisheries & Blue Economy
✅ Record foodgrain production: 350+ million tonnes
✅ World’s largest rice producer (150 MT)
✅ 2nd largest fish producer globally
✅ Fish production doubled since 2014 (~200 lakh tonnes)
✅ Millets (Shree-Anna) promoted globally
✅ National Missions on Edible Oils, Oilseeds & Pulses
🚆 Infrastructure & Connectivity
✅ ₹50 lakh crore+ infra investment in 11 years
✅ 1000 km+ Metro network — 3rd largest globally
✅ 150+ Vande Bharat trains operational
✅ Chenab Bridge: world’s highest railway arch bridge
✅ National Waterways expanded from 5 to 100+
🏭 Manufacturing, Jobs & Startups
✅ PLI investments: ₹2 lakh crore
✅ Electronics production: 6× growth (₹11 lakh crore)
✅ Defence production: ₹1.5 lakh crore; exports ₹23,000 crore
✅ Semiconductors: 10 fabs approved; nano-chip push
✅ Startups: ~2 lakh registered; India = 3rd largest ecosystem
⚡ Energy & Green Transition
✅ Target: 500 GW renewable capacity by 2030
✅ SHANTI Act: 100 GW nuclear energy by 2047
✅ PM Surya Ghar Yojana: 20 lakh rooftop solar systems
🧑🎓 Youth, Skills & Education
✅ 4 Labour Codes for simplified labour regulation
✅ PM Vishwakarma: 20 lakh artisans trained
✅ Mudra Yojana: ₹38 lakh crore credit to MSMEs
✅ AI skilling: 10 lakh youth trained
✅ Semiconductor workforce: 60,000 trained
🛡️ Security & Internal Stability
✅ Operation Sindoor: decisive counter-terror response
✅ Maoism reduced from 126 districts → 8
✅ Indus Water Treaty suspension linked to terror response
✅ Mission Sudarshan Chakra underway
🌍 Foreign Policy & Global South
✅ India–EU FTA negotiations concluded
✅ India as bridge power amid global conflicts
✅ Leadership in BRICS, G20, SCO, BIMSTEC
✅ First responder in global disasters (Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Afghanistan)
🏛️ Culture & Knowledge Systems
✅ 150 years of Vande Mataram celebrated
✅ Gyan Bharatam Mission: digitisation of manuscripts
✅ UNESCO tag for Diwali
✅ Constitution translated into Santhali
📌
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🏛️ Governance & Social Justice
✅ 25 crore people lifted out of poverty in last decade
✅ ₹6.75 lakh crore DBT delivered in just one year
✅ 95 crore citizens now under social security (vs 25 crore in 2014)
✅ Jan-Vishwas Act: 300+ provisions decriminalised
🏠 Welfare & Human
Development
✅ 4 crore pucca houses built; 32 lakh in last year
✅ Jal Jeevan Mission: 12.5 crore households with tap water
✅ Ujjwala Yojana: 10+ crore LPG connections
✅ Ayushman Bharat: 11 crore free treatments
✅ Vay Vandana Cards: 1 crore senior citizens covered
🌾 Agriculture, Fisheries & Blue Economy
✅ Record foodgrain production: 350+ million tonnes
✅ World’s largest rice producer (150 MT)
✅ 2nd largest fish producer globally
✅ Fish production doubled since 2014 (~200 lakh tonnes)
✅ Millets (Shree-Anna) promoted globally
✅ National Missions on Edible Oils, Oilseeds & Pulses
🚆 Infrastructure & Connectivity
✅ ₹50 lakh crore+ infra investment in 11 years
✅ 1000 km+ Metro network — 3rd largest globally
✅ 150+ Vande Bharat trains operational
✅ Chenab Bridge: world’s highest railway arch bridge
✅ National Waterways expanded from 5 to 100+
🏭 Manufacturing, Jobs & Startups
✅ PLI investments: ₹2 lakh crore
✅ Electronics production: 6× growth (₹11 lakh crore)
✅ Defence production: ₹1.5 lakh crore; exports ₹23,000 crore
✅ Semiconductors: 10 fabs approved; nano-chip push
✅ Startups: ~2 lakh registered; India = 3rd largest ecosystem
⚡ Energy & Green Transition
✅ Target: 500 GW renewable capacity by 2030
✅ SHANTI Act: 100 GW nuclear energy by 2047
✅ PM Surya Ghar Yojana: 20 lakh rooftop solar systems
🧑🎓 Youth, Skills & Education
✅ 4 Labour Codes for simplified labour regulation
✅ PM Vishwakarma: 20 lakh artisans trained
✅ Mudra Yojana: ₹38 lakh crore credit to MSMEs
✅ AI skilling: 10 lakh youth trained
✅ Semiconductor workforce: 60,000 trained
🛡️ Security & Internal Stability
✅ Operation Sindoor: decisive counter-terror response
✅ Maoism reduced from 126 districts → 8
✅ Indus Water Treaty suspension linked to terror response
✅ Mission Sudarshan Chakra underway
🌍 Foreign Policy & Global South
✅ India–EU FTA negotiations concluded
✅ India as bridge power amid global conflicts
✅ Leadership in BRICS, G20, SCO, BIMSTEC
✅ First responder in global disasters (Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Afghanistan)
🏛️ Culture & Knowledge Systems
✅ 150 years of Vande Mataram celebrated
✅ Gyan Bharatam Mission: digitisation of manuscripts
✅ UNESCO tag for Diwali
✅ Constitution translated into Santhali
📌
#GS2 #GS3 #Governance #Economy #SocialJustice #Infrastructure #InternalSecurity
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🔆 Aspirational District Programme (ADP) & Aspirational Block Programme (ABP)
📍 In News:
NITI Aayog launched Sampoornata Abhiyan 2.0 to ensure saturation of key performance indicators under the Aspirational Districts Programme and Aspirational Blocks Programme.
📍 Sampoornata Abhiyan 2.0
✅ Launched by: NITI Aayog
✅ Objective:
• Sustained push to achieve last-mile saturation of key development indicators
• Covers Aspirational Districts + Aspirational Blocks
📍 Aspirational District Programme (ADP) – 2018
✅ Launched by: NITI Aayog
✅ Coverage: 112 districts across India
✅ Core Aim:
• Rapid and effective transformation of backward districts through convergence, collaboration, and competition
📌 Key Focus Areas (5 Themes)
✅ Health & Nutrition
✅ Education
✅ Agriculture & Water Resources
✅ Financial Inclusion & Skill Development
✅ Infrastructure
📌 Monitoring Mechanism
✅ Progress measured on: 49 key development indicators
✅ Real-time data-driven ranking to promote competitive federalism
📍 Aspirational Block Programme (ABP) – 2023
✅ Launched by: NITI Aayog
✅ Coverage:
• 513 Blocks
• Spread across 329 districts
✅ Objective:
• Saturation of essential government services at the block level
• Strengthen grassroots governance and last-mile delivery
📌 ADP vs ABP – Quick Comparison
✅ ADP (2018): District-level transformation (112 districts)
✅ ABP (2023): Block-level saturation (513 blocks)
✅ Common Approach:
• Outcome-based monitoring
• Convergence of schemes
• Cooperative & competitive federalism
📌 Prelims Pointers
✅ Both ADP & ABP are NITI Aayog initiatives
✅ Sampoornata Abhiyan 2.0 = Saturation drive
✅ ADP → 49 indicators | 5 themes
✅ ABP → Last-mile service delivery focus
#goverment_schemes
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📍 In News:
NITI Aayog launched Sampoornata Abhiyan 2.0 to ensure saturation of key performance indicators under the Aspirational Districts Programme and Aspirational Blocks Programme.
📍 Sampoornata Abhiyan 2.0
✅ Launched by: NITI Aayog
✅ Objective:
• Sustained push to achieve last-mile saturation of key development indicators
• Covers Aspirational Districts + Aspirational Blocks
📍 Aspirational District Programme (ADP) – 2018
✅ Launched by: NITI Aayog
✅ Coverage: 112 districts across India
✅ Core Aim:
• Rapid and effective transformation of backward districts through convergence, collaboration, and competition
📌 Key Focus Areas (5 Themes)
✅ Health & Nutrition
✅ Education
✅ Agriculture & Water Resources
✅ Financial Inclusion & Skill Development
✅ Infrastructure
📌 Monitoring Mechanism
✅ Progress measured on: 49 key development indicators
✅ Real-time data-driven ranking to promote competitive federalism
📍 Aspirational Block Programme (ABP) – 2023
✅ Launched by: NITI Aayog
✅ Coverage:
• 513 Blocks
• Spread across 329 districts
✅ Objective:
• Saturation of essential government services at the block level
• Strengthen grassroots governance and last-mile delivery
📌 ADP vs ABP – Quick Comparison
✅ ADP (2018): District-level transformation (112 districts)
✅ ABP (2023): Block-level saturation (513 blocks)
✅ Common Approach:
• Outcome-based monitoring
• Convergence of schemes
• Cooperative & competitive federalism
📌 Prelims Pointers
✅ Both ADP & ABP are NITI Aayog initiatives
✅ Sampoornata Abhiyan 2.0 = Saturation drive
✅ ADP → 49 indicators | 5 themes
✅ ABP → Last-mile service delivery focus
#goverment_schemes
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🔆 Polar Vortex – Winter Storms in USA (Prelims Ready)
📍 What is Polar Vortex?
✅ Large, persistent low-pressure cold air mass over Polar Regions
✅ Contained by Polar-front Jet Stream (separates cold polar & warm tropical air)
📍 Rotation
✅ Counter-clockwise → North Pole
✅ Clockwise → South Pole
📍 Formation Factors
✅ Strong temperature gradient (pole vs tropics)
✅ Coriolis force (Earth’s rotation)
✅ Pressure gradient force
✅ Jet stream interaction
📍 Stability Mechanism
✅ Strong vortex → Jet stream tight & circular → Cold air locked near poles
✅ Weak vortex → Jet stream wavy → Cold air spills south (USA winter storms)
📍 Types
✅ Tropospheric PV: 10–15 km (direct weather effects)
✅ Stratospheric PV: 15–50 km (strongest in winter)
📍 Impacts
✅ Extreme cold waves in mid-latitudes
✅ Ozone depletion (esp. Antarctic ozone hole)
✅ Climate link: Arctic amplification → more instability & frequent cold outbreaks
📍 India Angle
⚠️ No direct impact
✅ Indirect influence via Western Disturbances pushed by Arctic winds
#Geography #Climatology
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📍 What is Polar Vortex?
✅ Large, persistent low-pressure cold air mass over Polar Regions
✅ Contained by Polar-front Jet Stream (separates cold polar & warm tropical air)
📍 Rotation
✅ Counter-clockwise → North Pole
✅ Clockwise → South Pole
📍 Formation Factors
✅ Strong temperature gradient (pole vs tropics)
✅ Coriolis force (Earth’s rotation)
✅ Pressure gradient force
✅ Jet stream interaction
📍 Stability Mechanism
✅ Strong vortex → Jet stream tight & circular → Cold air locked near poles
✅ Weak vortex → Jet stream wavy → Cold air spills south (USA winter storms)
📍 Types
✅ Tropospheric PV: 10–15 km (direct weather effects)
✅ Stratospheric PV: 15–50 km (strongest in winter)
📍 Impacts
✅ Extreme cold waves in mid-latitudes
✅ Ozone depletion (esp. Antarctic ozone hole)
✅ Climate link: Arctic amplification → more instability & frequent cold outbreaks
📍 India Angle
⚠️ No direct impact
✅ Indirect influence via Western Disturbances pushed by Arctic winds
#Geography #Climatology
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Day 43: 30 January target:
Modern History
Topics:
Revision
PYQs
Current Affairs:
No current affairs for today
#UpscRevisionProgram
After completion of target post 'DONE'
In comment section. Targets are decided as per practical approach. In remaining time, you can study whatever you want.
Thank you.
https://t.me/CSE_EXAM
https://t.me/upsc_answer_written
Modern History
Topics:
Revision
PYQs
Current Affairs:
No current affairs for today
#UpscRevisionProgram
After completion of target post 'DONE'
In comment section. Targets are decided as per practical approach. In remaining time, you can study whatever you want.
Thank you.
https://t.me/CSE_EXAM
https://t.me/upsc_answer_written
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#Goodmorning
⏳114 days left CSP26[ 24-05-26]
⏳203 days left CSM26 [ 21-08-26]
⏳170 days left CAPF AC 19 July
⏳129 days Left OPSC prelims 07 June
⏳122 days left MPSC (MH) prelims [ 31-05-26]
⏳RAS PRELIMS may
⏳86 days Left MPPSC (MP) Prelims 26 April
⏳86 days Left HCS Prelims 26 April
⏳85 days Left bpsc mains 25 April
⏳72 days Left CDS1 /NDA 12 April
⏳60 days Left PPSC mains 1 April
⏳39 days Left JPSC PRELIMS 8 March
⏳23 days CGPSC prelims 22 February
#Target
#TargetOnlyone
#Accountability
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⏳114 days left CSP26[ 24-05-26]
⏳203 days left CSM26 [ 21-08-26]
⏳170 days left CAPF AC 19 July
⏳129 days Left OPSC prelims 07 June
⏳122 days left MPSC (MH) prelims [ 31-05-26]
⏳RAS PRELIMS may
⏳86 days Left MPPSC (MP) Prelims 26 April
⏳86 days Left HCS Prelims 26 April
⏳85 days Left bpsc mains 25 April
⏳72 days Left CDS1 /NDA 12 April
⏳60 days Left PPSC mains 1 April
⏳39 days Left JPSC PRELIMS 8 March
⏳23 days CGPSC prelims 22 February
#Target
#TargetOnlyone
#Accountability
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🔆 Brass Work in India – Key Crafts & Centres
📍 Pembarthi Crafts (Telangana)
✅ Centre: Warangal district, Telangana
✅ Feature: Exquisite sheet metal (brass) art
✅ Used to adorn temple chariots and shrines
📍 Dhokra Casting
✅ Centres: Odisha and West Bengal
✅ Technique: Traditional Lost Wax Method
✅ Material: Alloy of nickel, brass, and zinc
✅ One of the oldest surviving metal casting traditions in India
📍 Gaja Tandava
✅ Centre: Kerala
✅ Theme: Lord Shiva depicted in Tandava posture
✅ Represents cosmic dance and dynamic energy
📍 Rare Jain Imagery & Icons
✅ Centre: Karnataka
✅ Reflects the presence of ancient Jain pilgrimage centres
✅ Features finely crafted Jain Tirthankara images
📍 Pahaldar Lamps
✅ Centres: Jaipur and parts of Uttar Pradesh
✅ Made from copper and brass
✅ Produced in varied styles and shapes, used in rituals & decor
#prelims
#art_and_culture
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📍 Pembarthi Crafts (Telangana)
✅ Centre: Warangal district, Telangana
✅ Feature: Exquisite sheet metal (brass) art
✅ Used to adorn temple chariots and shrines
📍 Dhokra Casting
✅ Centres: Odisha and West Bengal
✅ Technique: Traditional Lost Wax Method
✅ Material: Alloy of nickel, brass, and zinc
✅ One of the oldest surviving metal casting traditions in India
📍 Gaja Tandava
✅ Centre: Kerala
✅ Theme: Lord Shiva depicted in Tandava posture
✅ Represents cosmic dance and dynamic energy
📍 Rare Jain Imagery & Icons
✅ Centre: Karnataka
✅ Reflects the presence of ancient Jain pilgrimage centres
✅ Features finely crafted Jain Tirthankara images
📍 Pahaldar Lamps
✅ Centres: Jaipur and parts of Uttar Pradesh
✅ Made from copper and brass
✅ Produced in varied styles and shapes, used in rituals & decor
#prelims
#art_and_culture
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https://t.me/upsc_art_and_culture
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🔆 Major Space Telescopes & Observatories
📍 Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
✅ Wavelength Range:
• Visible light
• Ultraviolet light
✅ Purpose:
• Imaging distant galaxies, stars, and nebulae
✅ Key Discoveries:
• Age of the universe
• Evidence for dark energy
• Understanding formation of stars and galaxies
📍 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO)
✅ Wavelength Range:
• Gamma rays
✅ Purpose:
• Study of high-energy astronomical phenomena
✅ Key Discoveries:
• Identification of new gamma-ray sources
• Gamma-ray bursts
• Active galactic nuclei
📍 Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO)
✅ Wavelength Range:
• X-rays
✅ Purpose:
• Observation of hot, high-energy objects in space
✅ Key Discoveries:
• Detailed images of hot gas around
• Galaxies
• Galaxy clusters
📍 Spitzer Space Telescope (SST)
✅ Wavelength Range:
• Infrared
✅ Purpose:
• Observing cool and dusty objects
✅ Key Discoveries:
• Detection of exoplanets
• Insights into galaxy formation
• Study of star-forming regions
📌 Quick Prelims Takeaways
✅ Visible/UV → Hubble
✅ Gamma rays → Compton Observatory
✅ X-rays → Chandra
✅ Infrared → Spitzer
#GS3
#prelims
#science_technology
#science_and_technology
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📍 Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
✅ Wavelength Range:
• Visible light
• Ultraviolet light
✅ Purpose:
• Imaging distant galaxies, stars, and nebulae
✅ Key Discoveries:
• Age of the universe
• Evidence for dark energy
• Understanding formation of stars and galaxies
📍 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO)
✅ Wavelength Range:
• Gamma rays
✅ Purpose:
• Study of high-energy astronomical phenomena
✅ Key Discoveries:
• Identification of new gamma-ray sources
• Gamma-ray bursts
• Active galactic nuclei
📍 Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO)
✅ Wavelength Range:
• X-rays
✅ Purpose:
• Observation of hot, high-energy objects in space
✅ Key Discoveries:
• Detailed images of hot gas around
• Galaxies
• Galaxy clusters
📍 Spitzer Space Telescope (SST)
✅ Wavelength Range:
• Infrared
✅ Purpose:
• Observing cool and dusty objects
✅ Key Discoveries:
• Detection of exoplanets
• Insights into galaxy formation
• Study of star-forming regions
📌 Quick Prelims Takeaways
✅ Visible/UV → Hubble
✅ Gamma rays → Compton Observatory
✅ X-rays → Chandra
✅ Infrared → Spitzer
#GS3
#prelims
#science_technology
#science_and_technology
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🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 29 JANUARY 2026
🔆 BANKING & FINANCE
📍 Insurance Sector
✅ Boards of Axis Max Life Insurance & Max Financial Services approve in-principle amalgamation
📍 Structure:
➡ MFSL (holding company) to merge into AMLI
➡ MFSL shareholders to receive AMLI shares
➡ Share ratio to be finalised
📍 Legal Basis
✅ Enabled by Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment) of Insurance Laws Act, 2025
📍 Regulatory approval pending from IRDAI
📍 Industrial Growth
✅ IIP growth (Dec 2025): 7.8%
📍 25-month high – MoSPI
📍 Sector-wise:
✅ Manufacturing: 8.1%
✅ Mining: 6.8%
✅ Electricity: 6.3%
📍 Upcoming Data Revisions:
✅ GDP base year → 2022–23 (27 Feb 2026)
✅ CPI base year → 2024 (12 Feb 2026)
✅ IIP base year → 2022–23 (28 May 2026)
🔆 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
📍 Climate Change
✅ USA exits Paris Climate Agreement for the second time
📍 Paris Agreement
✅ Adopted: COP-21, 2015 (Paris)
✅ In force since: 2016
✅ Parties: 195 (194 countries + EU)
✅ Objective:
➡ Keep temperature rise well below 2°C
➡ Pursue efforts to limit to 1.5°C
📍 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
✅ First Council of National Coordinators (CNC) meeting for 2026 held in Beijing
📍 Chairmanship: Kyrgyz Republic
📍 About CNC
✅ Core coordination & management body of SCO
✅ Prepares groundwork for:
➡ Council of Heads of State (CHS)
➡ Council of Heads of Government (CHG)
📍 SCO Basics
✅ Established: 2001 | HQ: Beijing
✅ Official languages: Chinese & Russian
✅ Members: 10 countries
➡ India (2017), Pakistan (2017), Iran (2023), Belarus (2024)
🔆 NATIONAL AFFAIRS
📍 Film & Culture
✅ 12th Smile International Film Festival for Children & Youth (SIFFCY) begins
📍 Venue: New Delhi | Duration: 7 days
📍 Organisers:
✅ Smile Foundation
✅ Dept. of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities
📍 Theme:
✅ Diversity
✅ Equity
✅ Inclusion
📍 Prison Reforms
✅ 9th National Conference of Correctional Administrators held in Visakhapatnam
📍 Organised by:
➡ BPRD
➡ Andhra Pradesh Prisons Dept.
📍 Financial Support:
✅ ₹160 crore for prisoner safety & welfare
✅ ₹20 crore/year for Support to Poor Prisoners Scheme
📍 Environment Governance
✅ GoI amends Uniform Consent Guidelines under:
➡ Air Act, 1981
➡ Water Act, 1974
📍 Key Changes:
✅ One-time Consent to Operate (CTO) fee
✅ Validity: 5–25 years
✅ Reduced procedural delays
✅ Strengthened SPCB & PCC functioning
🔆 CULTURE & HERITAGE
📍 Film Festival
✅ 11th Ajanta–Ellora International Film Festival held in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (MH)
📍 Highlights:
✅ Padmapani Award conferred on Ilaiyaraaja
✅ Opening film: Siret (Spain)
📍 Buddhist Heritage
✅ Odisha’s Buddhist Diamond Triangle added to UNESCO Tentative List
📍 Sites:
➡ Lalitgiri
➡ Udayagiri
➡ Ratnagiri
📍 Significance:
✅ 1,500 years of Buddhist history
✅ Covers Hinayana, Mahayana & Vajrayana phases
🔆 AGRICULTURE & FISHERIES
📍 Fishing Infrastructure
✅ GoI approves ₹200 crore Smart Fishing Harbour at Mayabunder (A&N Islands)
📍 Scheme: PM Matsya Sampada Yojana
📍 Capacity:
✅ 430 vessels
✅ 10,000 tonnes fish/year
📍 Goal:
✅ Sustainable fishing
✅ ₹1 lakh crore seafood export target by 2030–31
🔆 PANCHAYATI RAJ / GOVERNANCE
📍 MoPR Initiatives
✅ Felicitation of 240 Panchayat representatives (Republic Day invitees)
📍 Key Launches:
✅ PANCHAM Chatbot (with UNICEF)
✅ PESA State Rankings 2024–25
➡ Maharashtra – 1st
➡ Madhya Pradesh – 2nd
➡ Himachal Pradesh – 3rd
🔆 ENERGY
📍 India Energy Week 2026
✅ OPEC projects India as largest driver of global oil demand growth till 2050
📍 Key Projections:
✅ Additional demand: +8.2 mbpd by 2050
✅ Main drivers:
➡ Transport
➡ Petrochemicals
➡ Industry
🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
📍 Digital Identity
✅ New Aadhaar App dedicated to the nation
📍 Key Features:
✅ Selective data sharing
✅ QR-based verification
✅ Face authentication
✅ Biometric lock/unlock
✅ “One Family – One App” concept
📍 Education & AI
✅ CCSU Meerut becomes India’s first AI-enabled State University (pilot)
📍 Partners:
➡ MSDE
➡ Google Cloud
➡ CCSU
🔆 ENVIRONMENT
📍 Waste Management
✅ New Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026 notified
📍 Effective from: 1 April 2026
🔆 BANKING & FINANCE
📍 Insurance Sector
✅ Boards of Axis Max Life Insurance & Max Financial Services approve in-principle amalgamation
📍 Structure:
➡ MFSL (holding company) to merge into AMLI
➡ MFSL shareholders to receive AMLI shares
➡ Share ratio to be finalised
📍 Legal Basis
✅ Enabled by Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment) of Insurance Laws Act, 2025
📍 Regulatory approval pending from IRDAI
📍 Industrial Growth
✅ IIP growth (Dec 2025): 7.8%
📍 25-month high – MoSPI
📍 Sector-wise:
✅ Manufacturing: 8.1%
✅ Mining: 6.8%
✅ Electricity: 6.3%
📍 Upcoming Data Revisions:
✅ GDP base year → 2022–23 (27 Feb 2026)
✅ CPI base year → 2024 (12 Feb 2026)
✅ IIP base year → 2022–23 (28 May 2026)
🔆 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
📍 Climate Change
✅ USA exits Paris Climate Agreement for the second time
📍 Paris Agreement
✅ Adopted: COP-21, 2015 (Paris)
✅ In force since: 2016
✅ Parties: 195 (194 countries + EU)
✅ Objective:
➡ Keep temperature rise well below 2°C
➡ Pursue efforts to limit to 1.5°C
📍 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
✅ First Council of National Coordinators (CNC) meeting for 2026 held in Beijing
📍 Chairmanship: Kyrgyz Republic
📍 About CNC
✅ Core coordination & management body of SCO
✅ Prepares groundwork for:
➡ Council of Heads of State (CHS)
➡ Council of Heads of Government (CHG)
📍 SCO Basics
✅ Established: 2001 | HQ: Beijing
✅ Official languages: Chinese & Russian
✅ Members: 10 countries
➡ India (2017), Pakistan (2017), Iran (2023), Belarus (2024)
🔆 NATIONAL AFFAIRS
📍 Film & Culture
✅ 12th Smile International Film Festival for Children & Youth (SIFFCY) begins
📍 Venue: New Delhi | Duration: 7 days
📍 Organisers:
✅ Smile Foundation
✅ Dept. of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities
📍 Theme:
✅ Diversity
✅ Equity
✅ Inclusion
📍 Prison Reforms
✅ 9th National Conference of Correctional Administrators held in Visakhapatnam
📍 Organised by:
➡ BPRD
➡ Andhra Pradesh Prisons Dept.
📍 Financial Support:
✅ ₹160 crore for prisoner safety & welfare
✅ ₹20 crore/year for Support to Poor Prisoners Scheme
📍 Environment Governance
✅ GoI amends Uniform Consent Guidelines under:
➡ Air Act, 1981
➡ Water Act, 1974
📍 Key Changes:
✅ One-time Consent to Operate (CTO) fee
✅ Validity: 5–25 years
✅ Reduced procedural delays
✅ Strengthened SPCB & PCC functioning
🔆 CULTURE & HERITAGE
📍 Film Festival
✅ 11th Ajanta–Ellora International Film Festival held in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (MH)
📍 Highlights:
✅ Padmapani Award conferred on Ilaiyaraaja
✅ Opening film: Siret (Spain)
📍 Buddhist Heritage
✅ Odisha’s Buddhist Diamond Triangle added to UNESCO Tentative List
📍 Sites:
➡ Lalitgiri
➡ Udayagiri
➡ Ratnagiri
📍 Significance:
✅ 1,500 years of Buddhist history
✅ Covers Hinayana, Mahayana & Vajrayana phases
🔆 AGRICULTURE & FISHERIES
📍 Fishing Infrastructure
✅ GoI approves ₹200 crore Smart Fishing Harbour at Mayabunder (A&N Islands)
📍 Scheme: PM Matsya Sampada Yojana
📍 Capacity:
✅ 430 vessels
✅ 10,000 tonnes fish/year
📍 Goal:
✅ Sustainable fishing
✅ ₹1 lakh crore seafood export target by 2030–31
🔆 PANCHAYATI RAJ / GOVERNANCE
📍 MoPR Initiatives
✅ Felicitation of 240 Panchayat representatives (Republic Day invitees)
📍 Key Launches:
✅ PANCHAM Chatbot (with UNICEF)
✅ PESA State Rankings 2024–25
➡ Maharashtra – 1st
➡ Madhya Pradesh – 2nd
➡ Himachal Pradesh – 3rd
🔆 ENERGY
📍 India Energy Week 2026
✅ OPEC projects India as largest driver of global oil demand growth till 2050
📍 Key Projections:
✅ Additional demand: +8.2 mbpd by 2050
✅ Main drivers:
➡ Transport
➡ Petrochemicals
➡ Industry
🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
📍 Digital Identity
✅ New Aadhaar App dedicated to the nation
📍 Key Features:
✅ Selective data sharing
✅ QR-based verification
✅ Face authentication
✅ Biometric lock/unlock
✅ “One Family – One App” concept
📍 Education & AI
✅ CCSU Meerut becomes India’s first AI-enabled State University (pilot)
📍 Partners:
➡ MSDE
➡ Google Cloud
➡ CCSU
🔆 ENVIRONMENT
📍 Waste Management
✅ New Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026 notified
📍 Effective from: 1 April 2026
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📍 Key Changes:
✅ Four-stream waste segregation:
➡ Wet
➡ Dry
➡ Sanitary
➡ Special Care waste
✅ Bulk Waste Generators defined (≥100 kg/day or ≥20,000 sq m)
🔆 STATES
📍 Jammu & Kashmir
✅ Tawi Boating Festival begins in Jammu
📍 Artificial lake created on River Tawi
📍 Maharashtra
✅ Launch of India’s first menopause clinics in public hospitals
📍 Kerala
✅ Declares Bacillus subtilis as State Microbe
📍 First Indian state to do so
📍 Uttarakhand
✅ New mushroom species Hemileccinum indicum discovered in oak forests
📍 Gujarat
✅ Namo Laxmi Scheme – ₹1,250 crore for girls’ education (Classes 9–12)
📍 Rajasthan
✅ Launch of RAJ-UNNATI digital governance platform
📍 Inspired by PRAGATI model
🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS
📍 28 January
✅ Birth Anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai (Punjab Kesari)
🔆 APPOINTMENTS
📍 Sports Administration
✅ Randhir Singh steps down as President of Olympic Council of Asia (OCA)
📍 New President: Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani
🔆 AWARDS
📍 National Model Youth Gram Sabha Awards
✅ Conferred by MoPR at Bharat Mandapam
📍 Objective:
✅ Promote civic engagement & grassroots democracy
🔆 SCIENCE & TECH (CLIMATE)
📍 Glacier Hazards
✅ IIT Guwahati identifies 492 potential glacial lake sites in Eastern Himalayas
📍 Risk:
✅ Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs)
#CurrentAffairs
✅ Four-stream waste segregation:
➡ Wet
➡ Dry
➡ Sanitary
➡ Special Care waste
✅ Bulk Waste Generators defined (≥100 kg/day or ≥20,000 sq m)
🔆 STATES
📍 Jammu & Kashmir
✅ Tawi Boating Festival begins in Jammu
📍 Artificial lake created on River Tawi
📍 Maharashtra
✅ Launch of India’s first menopause clinics in public hospitals
📍 Kerala
✅ Declares Bacillus subtilis as State Microbe
📍 First Indian state to do so
📍 Uttarakhand
✅ New mushroom species Hemileccinum indicum discovered in oak forests
📍 Gujarat
✅ Namo Laxmi Scheme – ₹1,250 crore for girls’ education (Classes 9–12)
📍 Rajasthan
✅ Launch of RAJ-UNNATI digital governance platform
📍 Inspired by PRAGATI model
🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS
📍 28 January
✅ Birth Anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai (Punjab Kesari)
🔆 APPOINTMENTS
📍 Sports Administration
✅ Randhir Singh steps down as President of Olympic Council of Asia (OCA)
📍 New President: Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani
🔆 AWARDS
📍 National Model Youth Gram Sabha Awards
✅ Conferred by MoPR at Bharat Mandapam
📍 Objective:
✅ Promote civic engagement & grassroots democracy
🔆 SCIENCE & TECH (CLIMATE)
📍 Glacier Hazards
✅ IIT Guwahati identifies 492 potential glacial lake sites in Eastern Himalayas
📍 Risk:
✅ Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs)
#CurrentAffairs
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