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Day 96: 24 March target

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🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 20 MARCH 2026

🔆 REGULATORY / RBI
📍 Global Recognition
✅ RBI selected for “Global Initiative of the Year” award by Central Banking (London)
✅ Reason: Launch of “.bank.in” domain migration initiative
✅ Key stakeholders: Govt of India, NIXI, Banks, IDRBT

🔆 INTERNATIONAL
📍 Global Health Governance
✅ Argentina formally withdraws from WHO (effective March 2026)
➡ Exit under Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
➡ Requires 1-year notice period

📍 Maritime Law (USA)
✅ Temporary waiver of Jones Act (Merchant Marine Act, 1920) for 60 days
➡ Regulates shipping between US ports

📍 Global Rankings
✅ World Happiness Report 2026 released
➡ Finland ranks 1st (9th consecutive year)
➡ India rank: 116 | Lowest: Afghanistan

🔆 NATIONAL
📍 Geo-Heritage
✅ GSI declares Kalijnagar Fossil Hill (Banda, UP) as National Geo-Heritage Site
➡ Shows major Eparchaean Unconformity (~1.5 billion years gap)

📍 Green Buildings
✅ Reliance MET City (Jhajjar, Haryana) becomes India’s 1st LEED Platinum pre-certified project

📍 Regional Connectivity
✅ MoCA launches ‘Fare Se Fursat’ scheme inaugural flight Rewa–Raipur

📍 Ocean Technology
✅ NIOT tests Floating LiDAR Buoy System near Muttom coast (TN)
➡ Measures ocean wind conditions up to 300 m height

📍 Festivals
✅ Chaitra Sukladi, Ugadi, Gudi Padwa, Cheti Chand, Navreh mark regional New Years across India

📍 Cyber Crime
✅ Highest total cybercrime cases: Karnataka (~21,889)
✅ Highest cybercrime rate: Telangana

🔆 DEFENCE
📍 Naval Manufacturing
✅ Keel laying of 2 Next-Gen Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) at Ratnagiri (MH)
➡ Shipyard: Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd

📍 Military Exercise
✅ Indian Army conducts Exercise Amogh Jwala at Babina Field Firing Ranges (UP)

🔆 MoUs / PARTNERSHIPS
📍 Green Shipping
✅ SCI signs contract with Mazagon Dock for Green Methanol Vessel

📍 Culture & Tech
✅ India–Indonesia partnership on AI-based restoration of Prambanan Temple

📍 Defence Communication
✅ HQ IDS signs MoU with ISRO’s Space Applications Centre
➡ Aim: Improve satellite communication & telemedicine for Armed Forces

🔆 STATES
📍 Puducherry
✅ Pondicherry University launches ‘Blue Voice’ app for coastal fishers

🔆 SCHEMES
📍 Export Support
✅ Govt launches Resilience & Logistic Intervention for Export Promotion (RELIEF) scheme
➡ Supports exporters impacted by West Asia conflict
➡ Benefits: Financial support + cargo coverage + MSME focus

🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS
✅ Global Recycling Day — 18 March 2026
➡ Theme: “Don’t Think Waste — Think Opportunity”

🔆 APPOINTMENTS
✅ Bhumikka Shrestha → Nepal’s 1st transgender woman MP (2026)
✅ Vikram Doraiswami → India’s next Ambassador to China

🔆 AWARDS / BOOKS
✅ Jawed Ashraf conferred France’s Legion d’Honneur (Commander rank)
✅ Nita Ambani receives KISS Humanitarian Award 2025 (Bhubaneswar)
✅ Book wins William Dalrymple Prize
➡ “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World”

🔆 SCIENCE & TECH
✅ Adobe + NVIDIA collaborate on 3D Digital Twin technology

🔆 SPORTS
✅ India to host World Indoor Athletics Championships 2028
➡ Venue: Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar
✅ Lionel Messi becomes 2nd footballer to score 900 official goals
➡ Only behind Cristiano Ronaldo (965 goals)

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🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 23 MARCH 2026

🔆 REGULATORY BODIES

📍 RBI Central Board Meeting
✅ 622nd meeting held on 20 March 2026
✅ Location: Patna
✅ Chaired by RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra
✅ Approved RBI Budget 2026–27 (covers expenditure & operations)
✅ Reviewed global & domestic economic situation, geopolitical risks & financial market concerns
✅ Approved Utkarsh 3.0 (2026–29) — RBI’s medium-term strategy framework

📍 State Borrowings (March 2026)
✅ Total raised: ₹45,960 crore via State Government Securities (SGS)
✅ Major contributors:
➡ Karnataka: ₹10,000 crore
➡ Tamil Nadu: ₹8,000 crore
➡ Madhya Pradesh: ₹5,800 crore
➡ UP & West Bengal: ₹3,500 crore each
➡ Andhra Pradesh & Haryana: ₹3,000 crore each
➡ Gujarat & Punjab: ₹2,000 crore each
➡ Delhi & Kerala: ₹1,000 crore each

🔆 BANKING & FINANCE

📍 New Income-tax Rules 2026
✅ Effective from 1 April 2026
✅ Strengthened Significant Economic Presence (SEP) rules
➡ Tax applies if transactions > ₹2 crore or user base > 3 lakh
✅ Audit trail mandatory for 7 years for stock exchange compliance
✅ Introduces zero-coupon bond framework & standard valuation methods

🔆 INTERNATIONAL

📍 World’s Largest Gas Field
✅ South Pars / North Dome gas field in Persian Gulf
✅ Shared by Iran & Qatar
✅ Holds ~19% of global gas reserves — largest reservoir on Earth

📍 Global Terrorism Index 2026
✅ Published by Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)
✅ Pakistan ranked 1st (most affected)
✅ India ranked 13th
✅ Terrorism deaths declined by ~28% globally

🔆 NATIONAL

📍 National Dental Commission (NDC)
✅ Constituted by MoHFW — replaces Dental Council of India
✅ Statutory body under National Dental Commission Act, 2023
✅ Came into force on 19 March 2026
✅ Aim: Improve dental education quality & global alignment

📍 Expert Committee on Invasive Alien Species
✅ Formed by National Biodiversity Authority (NBA)
✅ Tenure: 2 years
✅ Mandate: Prepare national IAS list & mitigation strategies

📍 5G Innovation Hackathon 2026
✅ Launched by Department of Telecommunications
✅ Duration: 20 March – 17 April 2026
✅ Seed funding support: ₹50 lakh
✅ Aim: Promote indigenous 5G, AI & IoT solutions

📍 Prakriti 2026 – Carbon Markets Conference
✅ Organised by Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) in New Delhi
✅ Indian Carbon Market Portal launched
✅ Focus: Carbon finance, climate action & global partnerships

🔆 DEFENCE

📍 INS Taragiri (Project 17A)
✅ To be commissioned on 3 April 2026 at Visakhapatnam
✅ Built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd
✅ Stealth frigate with 75%+ indigenous content
✅ Equipped with MR-SAM, ASW systems & supersonic missiles

🔆 STATES

📍 Telangana Budget 2026–27
✅ Outlay: ₹3.24 lakh crore
✅ Target: $1 trillion state economy by 2034
✅ GSDP growth rate: 10.7% (above national average)

📍 Bihar Diwas 2026
✅ Observed on 22 March
✅ Bihar formed in 1912, separated from Bengal Presidency

🔆 SCHEMES

📍 REPM Manufacturing Scheme
✅ Aim: Create 6,000 MTPA capacity for Rare Earth Permanent Magnets
✅ Outlay: ₹7,280 crore
✅ Strategic use in EVs, renewables, defence & electronics

🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS

📍 World Water Day 2026
✅ Observed on 22 March
✅ Theme: “Water and Gender”
✅ Linked to SDG-6 (Clean Water & Sanitation)

📍 International Day of Forests
✅ Observed on 21 March
✅ Theme: “Forests and Economies”

🔆 AWARDS / BOOKS

📍 Guinness World Record
✅ Bhupathiraju Anmish Varma — fastest climb of Seven Volcanic Summits
✅ Completed expedition in 92 days

📍 Book Launch
✅ Kailash Satyarthi releases “Karuna: The Power of Compassion”

🔆 SPORTS

📍 Khelo India Tribal Games 2026
✅ Host: Chhattisgarh
✅ Venues: Raipur, Jagdalpur, Surguja
✅ Dates: 25 March – 3 April 2026

📍 Squash – Indian Open 2026
✅ Women’s Singles Winner: Anahat Singh
✅ Men’s Singles Winner: Abhay Singh

📍 Swimming World Record
✅ Cameron McEvoy (Australia) sets 50m freestyle record — 20.88 sec

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🔆 Barabar Caves

📍 About
✅ Oldest surviving rock-cut caves in India (Mauryan period: 322–185 BCE).
✅ Location: Barabar Hills, Makhdumpur (Jehanabad district, Bihar) — ~24 km north of Gaya.
✅ Two groups → Barabar Hill (4 caves) and Nagarjuni Hill (3 caves).

📍 Historical Significance
✅ Ashokan dedicatory inscriptions in name of “King Piyadasi” (Ashoka) for Ajivika ascetics.
✅ Nagarjuni caves dedicated by Dasharatha Maurya (Ashoka’s grandson).
✅ Considered birthplace of Ajivika sect.

📍 Architectural Features
✅ Carved from single granite rock with mirror-like Mauryan polish.
✅ Lomas Rishi Cave: earliest chaitya arch (chandrashala) → prototype for later caves (Ajanta, Karla).
✅ Unique echo effect inside chambers.

📍 Religious & Cultural Aspects
✅ Primarily Ajivika caves (later Buddhist, Jain & Hindu associations).
✅ Baba Siddhanath (Shiva) Temple atop Barabar Hill — Gupta period origin.

📍 Important Caves (Barabar Hill)
✅ Sudama Cave
✅ Lomas Rishi Cave
✅ Karan Chaupar Cave
✅ Visvakarma Cave

➡️ These caves strongly influenced later Indian rock-cut architectural tradition.

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🔆 Personality in News: Guru Hargobind Sahib

Union Home Minister paid tributes to Guru Hargobind Sahib on his Jyoti-Jyot Diwas, remembering his role in strengthening Sikhism and protecting humanity.

📍 About Guru Hargobind Sahib (1595–1644)
✅ Sixth Sikh Guru, son of Guru Arjan Dev ji.
✅ Born at Guru Ki Wadali (near Amritsar) on 9 June 1595.
✅ Became Guru in 1606 at the age of 11.
✅ Took the title “Sachcha Padshah” (True Emperor).

📍 Philosophy – Concept of Miri-Piri
✅ Wore two swords — Miri (temporal power) & Piri (spiritual power).
✅ Propounded the ideal of “Saint-Soldier”, encouraging Sikhs to combine spiritual strength with martial courage.
✅ Promoted military training and martial arts among Sikhs.

📍 Military & Administrative Contributions
✅ Fought five battles with Mughal forces (during reigns of Jahangir and Shah Jahan) — Rohilla (1621), Amritsar (1634), Mehraj-Lahira, Kartarpur (1635), Palahi.
✅ Maintained a force of about 700 cavalry and 60 artillerymen; Pathan soldiers led by Painda Khan.
✅ Established Akal Takht Sahib (1609) opposite Harmandir Sahib as the seat of Sikh temporal authority.
✅ Built Lohgarh Fort and protective walls around Amritsar for defence.
✅ Encouraged martial songs (Vars) sung daily by Dhadd players to inspire bravery.

📍 Imprisonment & Title “Bandi Chhor Baba”
✅ Imprisoned at Gwalior Fort (1609–1612) by Jahangir.
✅ Secured release with help from spiritual leaders like Mian Mir.
✅ Insisted on the release of 52 imprisoned princes along with him → earned title “Bandi Chhor Baba.”
✅ His return to Amritsar is commemorated as Bandi Chhor Diwas (coincides with Diwali celebrations in Sikh tradition).

📍 Legacy
✅ Passed away in 1644 at Kiratpur Sahib.
✅ Death anniversaries of Sikh Gurus are observed as Jyoti-Jyot Diwas.
✅ His son Guru Tegh Bahadur later became the Ninth Sikh Guru (1664).

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🔆 Superconductivity

📍 Why in News?
Scientists used pressure quenching technique to increase the temperature required for superconductivity by about 18°C at room pressure, moving closer to practical high-temperature superconductors.

📍 What is Superconductivity?
✅ Discovered by Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1911)
✅ Property of certain materials to conduct direct current (DC) with zero electrical resistance when cooled below a critical temperature (Tc)
✅ Tc (Critical Temperature): Temperature at which material becomes superconducting

📍 Key Properties
✅ Zero Electrical Resistance: No energy loss during current flow → extremely efficient power transmission
✅ Meissner Effect: Complete expulsion of magnetic field from inside the superconductor (perfect diamagnetism)

📍 Applications
✅ Medical: MRI machines (strong stable magnetic fields)
✅ Science: Particle accelerators like LHC
✅ Transport: Maglev trains (magnetic levitation → frictionless movement)
✅ Energy: High-efficiency power cables & storage
✅ Technology: Quantum computing & advanced sensors

📍 Significance of New Research
➡️ Moving towards higher-temperature superconductivity reduces cooling cost
➡️ Enhances feasibility of large-scale real-world applications

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🔆 Initiatives for Promoting Orange Economy

📍 Context:
✅ Government launched National AI Skilling Initiative, MyWAVES, and Advanced Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) with in-built satellite tuners to boost India’s Orange (Creative) Economy.

📍 What is Orange Economy?
✅ Also called Creative Economy — sectors driven by ideas, creativity, culture, technology and intellectual property.
✅ Includes media, entertainment, digital content, design, gaming, arts, advertising, etc.
✅ Focuses on value creation through innovation rather than traditional manufacturing.

📍 National AI Skilling Initiative
✅ Ministry: Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
✅ Partners: Google & YouTube
✅ Aim: Train 15,000 professionals from creative & media sectors in AI tools and digital content creation.
✅ Implementation: Through Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT)
✅ Significance:
➡️ Enhances digital storytelling, content monetisation & global competitiveness
➡️ Supports future-ready creative workforce

📍 MyWAVES Platform
✅ A structured User-Generated Content (UGC) platform on WAVES OTT (Prasar Bharati).
✅ Enables citizens to create, upload and share digital content.
✅ Promotes grassroots creativity, local culture and digital participation.

📍 Advanced Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) & In-built Satellite Tuners
✅ Enhances accessibility & discoverability of content on TV platforms.
✅ Reduces dependence on external set-top boxes → lowers cost & improves user experience.
✅ Strengthens broadcast-digital convergence ecosystem.

📍 Overall Significance
✅ Boosts creative industries & digital economy growth.
✅ Promotes employment, innovation and cultural soft power.
✅ Aligns with Digital India & Atmanirbhar Bharat vision.

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🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 24 MARCH 2026

🔆 INTERNATIONAL

📍 UN World Water Development Report 2026
✅ Released by UN-Water | Theme: “Water & Gender”
✅ 2.1 billion lack safe drinking water
✅ 3.4 billion lack safe sanitation
✅ Women spend 250 million hours daily collecting water

📍 Diego Garcia Strategic Issue
✅ Largest island of Chagos Archipelago (Indian Ocean)
✅ Hosts US-UK military base
✅ UK transferred sovereignty of islands to Mauritius (2025)

🔆 NATIONAL

📍 Bharat Electricity Summit (BES) 2026
✅ First edition held at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi (19–22 March)
✅ Indian Carbon Market Portal launched
✅ Theme: Electrifying Growth. Empowering Sustainability.

📍 Rare Earth Magnet Pilot Plant
✅ Set up at ARCI Hyderabad under DST
✅ Produces Nd-Fe-B high-performance magnets
✅ Supports Atmanirbhar deep-tech ecosystem

📍 National DMF Summit 2026
✅ Organised by Ministry of Mines
✅ Focus: Better use of District Mineral Foundation funds
✅ Link with Aspirational District & Block Programmes

📍 Trade Developments
✅ China becomes India’s 3rd largest export destination
✅ Border trade via Lipulekh Pass (Uttarakhand) to restart after 7 years

📍 Governance & Digital Reforms
✅ Real-Time Internal Audit Portal launched by MoRD
✅ Govt introduces Model Context Protocol (MCP) server integrated with e-Sankhyiki for AI data access

🔆 DEFENCE

📍 Exercise KAKADU 2026
✅ Multinational naval exercise hosted by Australia
✅ India participated with INS Nilgiri
✅ Won Kakadu Shield Trophy during harbour phase

🔆 MOUs

📍 FSI – BISAG-N MoU
✅ Promote geospatial tech, AI/ML & remote sensing in forest management
✅ Signed during SC-NBWL meeting (Dehradun)

📍 RRU – SSB Academy MoU
✅ Aim: Strengthen national security training & capacity building
✅ RRU is an Institution of National Importance

🔆 SCHEMES

📍 Mission Shakti
✅ Focus: Women safety, security & empowerment
✅ Sub-schemes: One Stop Centres, WHL, BBBP, PMMVY, Sakhi Niwas etc.

🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS

📍 World Down Syndrome Day — 21 March
✅ Theme 2026: “Together Against Loneliness”

📍 Shaheed Diwas — 23 March
✅ Honours Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev

🔆 AWARDS

📍 ICC Player of the Month (Feb 2026)
✅ Sahibzada Farhan (Pakistan) — Men’s award
✅ Arundhati Reddy (India) — Women’s award

🔆 SCIENCE & TECH

📍 Minor Planet Centre Discovery
✅ 15 new moons discovered (Jupiter-4, Saturn-11)
✅ MPC works under International Astronomical Union

🔆 SPORTS

📍 Historic Cricket Feat (Rwanda)
✅ Fanny Utagushimaninde (15 yrs) becomes youngest Women’s T20I centurion

📍 NBA Record
✅ LeBron James becomes player with most regular-season games (1,612)

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🔆 Revolutionary Activities (Phase: 1907–17)

📍 The Anushilan Samiti (1902) – Bengal
✅ Founded by Promotha Mitter; included Jatindranath Banerjee & Barindra Kumar Ghosh
✅ Published Yugantar & Sandhya Prakash
✅ Promoted Swadeshi dacoities, physical training & moral education

📍 Attempt on Sir Fuller’s Life (1907) – Bengal
✅ Attempt by Yugantar on Lt. Governor Fuller
✅ Fuller later resigned

📍 Muzaffarpur / Alipore Conspiracy Case (1908) – Bengal
✅ Prafulla Chaki & Khudiram Bose targeted Magistrate Kingsford
✅ Aurobindo Ghosh acquitted
✅ Khudiram Bose executed; Barindra Ghosh given life imprisonment

📍 Barrah Dacoity (1908) – Bengal
✅ Conducted by Dacca Anushilan under Pulin Das to fund revolution

📍 Delhi Conspiracy Case (1912) – Delhi
✅ Rash Behari Bose & Sachindra Sanyal attempted assassination of Viceroy Hardinge
✅ Bomb thrown at Viceroy’s procession

📍 German Plot / Zimmermann Plan (1916–17) – Bengal
✅ Led by Jatindranath Mukherjee (Bagha Jatin) & Yugantar
✅ Planned German arms import during WWI
✅ Used Swadeshi & boat dacoities for funds

📍 Ramosi Peasant Force (1879) – Maharashtra
✅ Organised by Vasudev Balwant Phadke against British rule

📍 Chapekar Brothers Case (1897) – Maharashtra
✅ Damodar & Balkrishna assassinated Plague Commissioner Rand & Lt. Ayerst

📍 Mitra Mela (1899) – Maharashtra
✅ Founded by V.D. Savarkar
✅ Later merged with Abhinav Bharat

📍 Killing of A.M.T. Jackson (1909) – Maharashtra
✅ Anant Laxman Kanhere assassinated Collector Jackson
✅ Led to Kanhere’s execution & Savarkar’s imprisonment

📍 Punjab Extremism – Punjab
✅ Initiated by Lala Lajpat Rai
✅ Leaders included Lala Hardayal & Bhai Parmanand
✅ Turned militant after British repression

📍 Assassination of Robert Ashe (1911) – Madras
✅ Vanchi Iyer killed District Collector Ashe

📍 Bharat Swashasan Samiti / Indian Home Rule Society (1905) – London
✅ Founded by Shyamji Krishnavarma
✅ Associated with Savarkar & Hardayal
✅ Published The Indian Sociologist

📍 Assassination of Curzon-Wyllie (1909) – London
✅ Madanlal Dhingra shot Curzon-Wyllie

📍 Ghadar Party (1913) – San Francisco
✅ Founded by Sohan Singh Bhakna, Lala Hardayal, Kartar Singh Sarabha
✅ Aimed at all-India uprising with German support in WWI
✅ Promoted anti-imperialist literature & armed rebellion

📍 Berlin Committee (1915) – Germany
✅ Led by Virendranath Chattopadhyaya & others under Zimmermann Plan
✅ Planned rebellion & foreign invasion of British India

📍 Missions to Kabul, Persia, Turkey
✅ Led by Raja Mahendra Pratap, Barkatullah & Obeidullah Sindhi
✅ Tried forming Provisional Government of India in Kabul

📍 Singapore Mutiny (15 Feb 1915) – Singapore
✅ Led by Jamadar Chisti Khan & others (5th Light Infantry)
✅ Suppressed; resulted in executions & life sentences

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