🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 3 FEBRUARY 2026

🔆 FINANCE

📍 Insurance Claims (FY 2024–25)
✅ 8.35 lakh+ claims settled under govt schemes
➡ PMJJBY: 6.3 lakh+
➡ General Insurance: 1.67 lakh
➡ Health Insurance: 99,000+

📍 Women Inclusion
✅ ~50% beneficiaries women under PMSBY

📍 IRDAI
✅ Regulator against insurance mis-selling
✅ Ensures transparency & policyholder protection

📍 GST Collections
✅ Jan 2026 GST: ₹1.93 lakh crore
✅ Growth: +6.2% YoY

🔆 INTERNATIONAL

📍 La Biennale di Venezia
✅ India returns after 7 years with National Pavilion
📍 Event: 61st International Art Exhibition
📍 Venue: Venice, Italy
📍 Theme:
✅ “Geographies of Distance: Remembering Home”
📍 Dates: 9 May – 22 Nov 2026

📍 US–India Trade
✅ US cuts tariffs on Indian goods 25% → 18%
📍 India commits:
✅ Reduce barriers on US goods
✅ Buy US energy & tech
📍 US President: Donald Trump

📍 Climate Risk Study
✅ Conducted by University of Oxford
📍 Published in Nature Sustainability
📍 Key Finding:
✅ India among most vulnerable to extreme heat by 2050

🔆 NATIONAL

📍 Supreme Court
✅ Directs Centre to set up Pennaiyar River Tribunal
📍 States: Tamil Nadu – Karnataka
📍 Under: Inter-State River Water Disputes Act, 1956

📍 Future Warfare Course
✅ 3rd edition launched in New Delhi
📍 Conducted by:
➡ HQ Integrated Defence Staff
➡ CENJOWS
📍 Objective:
✅ Re-examine modern warfare doctrines & strategies

📍 New Baggage Rules, 2026
✅ Duty-free allowance raised:
➡ Indians: ₹50,000 → ₹75,000
➡ Foreign tourists: ₹15,000 → ₹25,000

📍 Jewellery Allowance
✅ Women: 40 g
✅ Others: 20 g

📍 IIFT Ranked No.1
✅ Tops Times B-School Ranking 2026
📍 Known for:
✅ International trade & global business
📍 Upcoming offshore campus: Dubai

🔆 ENVIRONMENT / CLIMATE

📍 Extreme Heat Projections
✅ By 2050 (2°C warming):
➡ 3.79 billion people exposed globally
➡ ~40% world population at risk

📍 High-Risk Countries
✅ India, Nigeria, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan

📍 Zero Dumpsites Target
✅ Programme: DRAP
📍 Goal: Zero dumpsites by Oct 2026
📍 Linked to: Swachh Bharat Mission
📍 Current Status:
➡ 2,479 legacy dumpsites
➡ 25 crore MT waste

🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

📍 India-AI Impact Summit 2026
📍 Venue: Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi
📍 Dates: 16–20 Feb 2026

📍 3 Pillars (Sutras)
✅ People | Planet | Progress

📍 Key Themes
✅ Safe AI | Inclusion | Innovation
✅ Democratizing AI | AI for social good

📍 Moltbook Platform
✅ Social media platform only for AI agents
✅ Humans can observe, not participate
✅ Powered by advanced LLMs

🔆 DEFENCE

📍 Yantra India Limited
✅ Granted Miniratna Category-I status
📍 Benefit:
✅ Capex approval up to ₹500 crore without govt clearance

📍 Exercise Agni Pariksha
✅ Army + ITBP joint exercise
📍 Location: Arunachal Pradesh
📍 Objective:
✅ Improve joint operational readiness

🔆 MoUs

📍 Highway Cybersecurity
✅ Indian Highways Management Co. + NFSU
📍 Objective:
✅ Cyber forensics & data protection for highways

🔆 STATES

📍 Kerala
✅ New orchid species discovered in Kanthalloor
📍 Near Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot

📍 Nagaland
✅ New plant species: Hoya nagaensis
📍 Found in community-managed forests

📍 Gujarat
✅ Becomes India’s No.1 renewable energy contributor
➡ Installed capacity: 42.58 GW
➡ National share: 16.5%

📍 Andhra Pradesh
✅ CM launches Pilloo AI
📍 Voice-based accounting app for MSMEs

🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS

📍 2 February
✅ Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Day
✅ World Wetlands Day
📍 Theme: “Wetlands and Traditional Knowledge”

🔆 SPORTS

📍 Asian Rifle & Pistol Shooting Championships 2026
📍 Venue: Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range, New Delhi
📍 Participants: 17 Asian countries

📍 Pro Wrestling League 2026
✅ Champion: Haryana Thunders
📍 Runner-up: Delhi Dangal Warriors

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UPSC CSE 2026 Notification

Total Vacancy -    933 (approximately)

LAST DATE FOR RECEIPT OF ONLINE APPLICATIONS : 24.02.2026 till 6 PM

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Civil Services year-wise Seats

CSE 2011.....910
CSE 2012....998
CSE 2013....1228
CSE 2014....1364
CSE 2015 .....1164
CSE 2016......1079
CSE 2017......980
CSE 2018......782
CSE 2019......896
CSE 2020......796
CSE 2021......712
CSE 2022.... 1011
CSE 2023..... 1105
CSE 2024..... 1056
CSE 2025.... 979
CSE 2026.... 933

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🔆 Foreign Travellers to India – Chronological Table (Prelims Ready)

📍 4th Century BCE
✅ Ruler: Chandragupta Maurya (Mauryan Empire)
✅ Traveller: Megasthenes

📍 5th Century CE
✅ Ruler: Chandragupta II (Gupta Empire)
✅ Traveller: Fa-Hien (Faxian)

📍 7th Century CE
✅ Ruler: Harsha
✅ Traveller: Xuanzang (Hiuen Tsang)

📍 7th Century CE (Post-Harsha period)
✅ Institution: Nalanda University
✅ Traveller: Yijing (I-Tsing)

📍 10th Century CE
✅ Period: 914–928
▪ Rulers: Rashtrakuta, Gurjara-Pratihara
▪ Traveller: Al-Masudi (Iraq)

✅ Period: 973–1048
▪ Ruler: Mahmud of Ghazni
▪ Traveller: Al-Biruni (Uzbekistan)

✅ Period: 940–1019
▪ Traveller: Firdausi (Iran) – “Homer of the East”

📍 13th Century CE
✅ Year: 1227
▪ Ruler: Slave Dynasty (Delhi Sultanate)
▪ Traveller: Minhaj-us-Siraj (Iran)

✅ Period: 1292–93
▪ Ruler: Pandyas
▪ Traveller: Marco Polo (Italy)

📍 14th Century CE
✅ Period: 1304–1377
▪ Ruler: Muhammad bin Tughlaq
▪ Traveller: Ibn Battuta (Morocco)

📍 15th Century CE
✅ Year: 1420
▪ Traveller: Niccolò de’ Conti (Italy)

✅ Period: 1440s
▪ Ruler: Deva Raya II (Vijayanagar)
▪ Traveller: Abdur Razzaq Samarqandi (Uzbekistan)

✅ Year: 1469
▪ Ruler: Bahmani Sultanate
▪ Traveller: Afanasi Nikitin (Russia)

📍 16th Century CE
✅ Year: 1518
▪ Ruler: Vijayanagar
▪ Traveller: Duarte Barbosa (Portugal)

✅ Year: 1520
▪ Ruler: Krishnadevaraya
▪ Traveller: Domingo Paes (Portugal)

✅ Period: 1536–1600
▪ Ruler: Akbar
▪ Traveller: Antonio Monserrate (Spain)

📍 17th Century CE
✅ Period: 1600–67
▪ Ruler: Shah Jahan
▪ Traveller: Peter Mundy (England)

✅ Period: 1605–89
▪ Rulers: Shah Jahan & Aurangzeb
▪ Traveller: Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (France)

✅ Period: 1620–88
▪ Ruler: Aurangzeb
▪ Traveller: François Bernier (France)

📍 UPSC Relevance
✅ GS1 – Ancient & Medieval History
✅ Prelims Favourite – Foreign accounts on India

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🔆 Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan (PM-SYM)

📅 Launched: 2019
🏛 Type: Central Sector Scheme
📌 Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Labour and Employment
🎯 Purpose: Social security & old-age income support for unorganised sector workers

📍 Key Highlights

✅ Target Group:
▪ Unorganised workers earning ≤ ₹15,000/month
▪ Age group: 18–40 years

✅ Pension Benefit:
▪ ₹3,000/month after attaining 60 years of age

✅ Nature of Scheme:
▪ Voluntary & contributory
▪ 50:50 contribution model (Subscriber : Government)

📍 Eligibility Criteria

✅ Must be 18–40 years old
✅ Monthly income ≤ ₹15,000
❌ Not an income tax payer
❌ Not covered under NPS / EPFO / ESIC or organised sector schemes

📍 Coverage & Beneficiaries

✅ Unorganised workers such as:
▪ Street vendors
▪ Agricultural labourers
▪ Construction workers
▪ Domestic workers
▪ Other informal sector occupations

📍 Major Features

✅ Assured Pension:
▪ ₹3,000/month via DBT after 60 years

✅ Family Pension:
▪ On death of subscriber, spouse gets 50% of pension

✅ Enrollment:
▪ Through Common Services Centres (CSCs)
▪ Requires Aadhaar, mobile number & bank account
▪ Contribution via auto-debit

✅ Exit & Withdrawal:
▪ Exit before 60 → own contribution + interest
▪ In case of death/permanent disability → spouse may continue or withdraw

✅ Grievance Redressal:
▪ 24×7 helpline
▪ Online portal/app

📍 Implementation Mechanism

✅ Implemented through:
▪ Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC)
▪ CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd (CSC-SPV)

📍 Latest Update (July 2024)

✅ Over 50 lakh unorganised workers enrolled
✅ Highest registrations:
▪ Haryana: 8.25 lakh
▪ Uttar Pradesh: 6.8 lakh
▪ Maharashtra: 6.1 lakh

📌 Why Important for UPSC?
✅ GS-1: Poverty & Development
✅ GS-2: Welfare schemes, Government interventions
✅ GS-3: Inclusive growth, Social security

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