🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS – 9 JULY 2026
🔆 BANKING & FINANCE
📍 IMF Cuts India’s FY27 Growth Forecast
✅ Released in World Economic Outlook (WEO)
✅ FY 2026–27 GDP forecast: 6.4%
✅ FY 2027–28 GDP forecast: 6.7%
✅ Global growth projected at 3.0% (2026) and 3.4% (2027)
✅ Report released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
📍 India Becomes 11th Largest FDI Destination
✅ Highlighted in UNCTAD World Investment Report 2026
✅ FDI inflows increased to US$38.89 billion in 2025
✅ India improved from 13th to 11th position globally
✅ Greenfield investment announcements reached US$74.12 billion
✅ India ranked 18th in global outward FDI
🔆 DIGITAL AWARENESS
📍 Meta Details Measures Against Child Abuse Content
✅ Government sought explanation over Instagram child abuse advertisements
✅ Meta deploying AI tools for detection and removal of abusive content
✅ Stronger monitoring of suspicious accounts involving children
✅ Enhances online child safety measures
🔆 ECONOMY
📍 India to Launch Index of Services Production (ISP)
✅ First release scheduled for 14 July 2026
✅ Developed by MoSPI
✅ Base Year: 2024–25
✅ Measures monthly performance of the services sector
✅ Complements the Index of Industrial Production (IIP)
📍 Information & Computer Services Get Highest Weight in ISP
✅ Highest sectoral weight: Information & Computer Services (21.9%)
✅ Followed by Retail Trade (18.5%) and Administrative Services (14.4%)
✅ Data sourced mainly from GSTN and administrative records
🔆 STATES
📍 Tamil Nadu Launches ‘Anywhere Registration’
✅ Paperless property registration through STAR 3.0
✅ Effective from 17 August 2026
✅ Covers first sale of plots, flats and title deed deposits
✅ Simplifies property registration process
📍 UP Mahila Samarthya Yojana 2026
✅ Implemented by UP State Rural Livelihood Mission (UPSRLM)
✅ Provides free skill training for rural women
✅ Eligible SHGs receive ₹15,000 revolving fund
✅ Supports women empowerment and rural livelihoods
🔆 NATIONAL
📍 Varanasi Airport to Get India’s First Six-Lane Runway Underpass
✅ To be built beneath an active airport runway
✅ Located at Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport
✅ Length: 450 metres
✅ Major engineering milestone for airport infrastructure
📍 India’s Energy Storage Requirement May Reach 888 GWh by 2035–36
✅ Based on India BESS Market Review
✅ Total requirement: 174 GW / 888 GWh
✅ Includes Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and Pumped Storage Projects (PSPs)
✅ Supports renewable energy integration
📍 Karnataka Recommends Three Global Tourism Destinations
✅ Destinations: Hampi, Mysuru and Lakkundi
✅ Proposed under Global Destination Development Project
✅ Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
✅ Promotes world-class tourism infrastructure
🔆 INTERNATIONAL
📍 PM Modi Visits Prambanan Temple in Indonesia
✅ Largest Hindu temple complex in Indonesia
✅ Built in the 9th century
✅ Dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma
✅ UNESCO World Heritage Site located at Yogyakarta
🔆 AGREEMENTS & MoUs
📍 Four States Sign Narmada Project Payment Pact
✅ States: Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra
✅ Resolves long-pending cost-sharing issues
✅ Covers Sardar Sarovar and Indira Sagar projects
✅ Based on Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal (NWDT) Award
📍 India & Indonesia Sign Defence Agreements
✅ 14 MoUs signed under Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
✅ Indonesia to procure BrahMos and Astra BVRAAM missiles
✅ Indonesia becomes third Southeast Asian country to acquire BrahMos
✅ Strengthens Indo-Pacific defence cooperation
🔆 AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
📍 Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for Haveli Sangeet
✅ Awardee: Acharya Shri Ranchhodlalji Goswami
✅ Honoured for preserving Pushtimarg Haveli Sangeet
✅ Award presented by Sangeet Natak Akademi
✅ Includes ₹25,000, plaque and Angavastram
📍 PM Modi Receives Indonesia’s Highest Civilian Honour
✅ Awarded Bintang Adipurna (Star of the Republic of Indonesia – First Class)
✅ Conferred by President Prabowo Subianto
✅ Indonesia’s highest civilian honour instituted in 1959
#CurrentAffairs
🔆 BANKING & FINANCE
📍 IMF Cuts India’s FY27 Growth Forecast
✅ Released in World Economic Outlook (WEO)
✅ FY 2026–27 GDP forecast: 6.4%
✅ FY 2027–28 GDP forecast: 6.7%
✅ Global growth projected at 3.0% (2026) and 3.4% (2027)
✅ Report released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
📍 India Becomes 11th Largest FDI Destination
✅ Highlighted in UNCTAD World Investment Report 2026
✅ FDI inflows increased to US$38.89 billion in 2025
✅ India improved from 13th to 11th position globally
✅ Greenfield investment announcements reached US$74.12 billion
✅ India ranked 18th in global outward FDI
🔆 DIGITAL AWARENESS
📍 Meta Details Measures Against Child Abuse Content
✅ Government sought explanation over Instagram child abuse advertisements
✅ Meta deploying AI tools for detection and removal of abusive content
✅ Stronger monitoring of suspicious accounts involving children
✅ Enhances online child safety measures
🔆 ECONOMY
📍 India to Launch Index of Services Production (ISP)
✅ First release scheduled for 14 July 2026
✅ Developed by MoSPI
✅ Base Year: 2024–25
✅ Measures monthly performance of the services sector
✅ Complements the Index of Industrial Production (IIP)
📍 Information & Computer Services Get Highest Weight in ISP
✅ Highest sectoral weight: Information & Computer Services (21.9%)
✅ Followed by Retail Trade (18.5%) and Administrative Services (14.4%)
✅ Data sourced mainly from GSTN and administrative records
🔆 STATES
📍 Tamil Nadu Launches ‘Anywhere Registration’
✅ Paperless property registration through STAR 3.0
✅ Effective from 17 August 2026
✅ Covers first sale of plots, flats and title deed deposits
✅ Simplifies property registration process
📍 UP Mahila Samarthya Yojana 2026
✅ Implemented by UP State Rural Livelihood Mission (UPSRLM)
✅ Provides free skill training for rural women
✅ Eligible SHGs receive ₹15,000 revolving fund
✅ Supports women empowerment and rural livelihoods
🔆 NATIONAL
📍 Varanasi Airport to Get India’s First Six-Lane Runway Underpass
✅ To be built beneath an active airport runway
✅ Located at Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport
✅ Length: 450 metres
✅ Major engineering milestone for airport infrastructure
📍 India’s Energy Storage Requirement May Reach 888 GWh by 2035–36
✅ Based on India BESS Market Review
✅ Total requirement: 174 GW / 888 GWh
✅ Includes Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and Pumped Storage Projects (PSPs)
✅ Supports renewable energy integration
📍 Karnataka Recommends Three Global Tourism Destinations
✅ Destinations: Hampi, Mysuru and Lakkundi
✅ Proposed under Global Destination Development Project
✅ Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
✅ Promotes world-class tourism infrastructure
🔆 INTERNATIONAL
📍 PM Modi Visits Prambanan Temple in Indonesia
✅ Largest Hindu temple complex in Indonesia
✅ Built in the 9th century
✅ Dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma
✅ UNESCO World Heritage Site located at Yogyakarta
🔆 AGREEMENTS & MoUs
📍 Four States Sign Narmada Project Payment Pact
✅ States: Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra
✅ Resolves long-pending cost-sharing issues
✅ Covers Sardar Sarovar and Indira Sagar projects
✅ Based on Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal (NWDT) Award
📍 India & Indonesia Sign Defence Agreements
✅ 14 MoUs signed under Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
✅ Indonesia to procure BrahMos and Astra BVRAAM missiles
✅ Indonesia becomes third Southeast Asian country to acquire BrahMos
✅ Strengthens Indo-Pacific defence cooperation
🔆 AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
📍 Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for Haveli Sangeet
✅ Awardee: Acharya Shri Ranchhodlalji Goswami
✅ Honoured for preserving Pushtimarg Haveli Sangeet
✅ Award presented by Sangeet Natak Akademi
✅ Includes ₹25,000, plaque and Angavastram
📍 PM Modi Receives Indonesia’s Highest Civilian Honour
✅ Awarded Bintang Adipurna (Star of the Republic of Indonesia – First Class)
✅ Conferred by President Prabowo Subianto
✅ Indonesia’s highest civilian honour instituted in 1959
#CurrentAffairs
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🔆 SPORTS
📍 Telangana to Host 8th Khelo India Youth Games
✅ Host State: Telangana
✅ Announced by Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya
✅ Khelo India launched in 2018
✅ Organised by Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports
🔆 RANKS & REPORTS
📍 UN SDG Report 2026 Released
✅ Only 36% of SDG targets are on track
✅ Nearly 50% have stalled
✅ 15% have regressed
✅ Access to electricity increased to 92% globally
✅ Released by the United Nations
🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
📍 ISRO Successfully Tests Main Parachute for Gaganyaan
✅ Conducted Integrated Main Parachute Airdrop Test (IMAT-05)
✅ Supports Gaganyaan G1 mission
✅ Tested at ADRDE
✅ Validates parachute performance under maximum load conditions
🔆 DEFENCE
📍 DRDO Successfully Tests Pinaka Long Range Guided Rocket
✅ Flight test conducted at Integrated Test Range
✅ Developed by ARDE with support from HEMRL, DRDL and RCI
✅ Strengthens India’s indigenous long-range artillery capability
#CurrentAffairs
📍 Telangana to Host 8th Khelo India Youth Games
✅ Host State: Telangana
✅ Announced by Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya
✅ Khelo India launched in 2018
✅ Organised by Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports
🔆 RANKS & REPORTS
📍 UN SDG Report 2026 Released
✅ Only 36% of SDG targets are on track
✅ Nearly 50% have stalled
✅ 15% have regressed
✅ Access to electricity increased to 92% globally
✅ Released by the United Nations
🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
📍 ISRO Successfully Tests Main Parachute for Gaganyaan
✅ Conducted Integrated Main Parachute Airdrop Test (IMAT-05)
✅ Supports Gaganyaan G1 mission
✅ Tested at ADRDE
✅ Validates parachute performance under maximum load conditions
🔆 DEFENCE
📍 DRDO Successfully Tests Pinaka Long Range Guided Rocket
✅ Flight test conducted at Integrated Test Range
✅ Developed by ARDE with support from HEMRL, DRDL and RCI
✅ Strengthens India’s indigenous long-range artillery capability
#CurrentAffairs
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🔆 PRISON SYSTEM IN INDIA
Subject: Governance / Polity
📍 Role of Prisons
✅ Rehabilitation: Reform and rehabilitate offenders for reintegration into society
✅ Moral Upliftment: Promote ethical values to prevent repeat offences
✅ Deterrence & Prevention: Discourage future crimes through correctional measures
✅ Prisons fall under the State List (Entry 4, List II, Seventh Schedule)
✅ Tihar Jail runs vocational training and counselling programmes for rehabilitation of women inmates
📍 Key Initiatives
✅ Model Prisons Act, 2023: Focuses on prison reforms and rehabilitation; intended to replace the Prisons Act, 1894
✅ Repatriation of Prisoners Act, 2003: Facilitates transfer and rehabilitation of foreign prisoners
✅ Entrepreneurship Development: Skill training enables inmates to earn livelihoods after release
✅ Tihar Jail inmates produce items such as cakes, LED bulbs and furniture
📍 Major Challenges
✅ Inhuman treatment and custodial abuse in prisons
✅ Staff shortage leading to poor security and prison management
✅ Overcrowding: Many prisons operate beyond sanctioned capacity
✅ Undertrial crisis: Around 76% of prison inmates are undertrials (Prison Statistics India 2020)
✅ Women prisoners face poor sanitation, nutrition and safety concerns
✅ Mental health issues: Large number of inmates suffer from psychological disorders
✅ Spread of diseases such as HIV and Tuberculosis
✅ Poor prison infrastructure including inadequate drinking water, sanitation and healthcare
📍 Important Facts
✅ India has around 1,400+ prisons, many functioning beyond 100% occupancy
✅ Prison staff-to-inmate ratio remains inadequate
✅ More than 19,000 women prisoners were lodged in Indian jails (2018)
📍 Way Forward
✅ Improve prison administration through better staffing and training
✅ Transform prisons into correctional institutions focused on reform rather than punishment
✅ Build more prisons to reduce overcrowding
✅ Ensure speedy trials to reduce undertrial population
✅ Expand the Open Prison System for eligible inmates
✅ Strengthen implementation of recommendations of the Mulla Committee and Krishna Iyer Committee on Prison Reforms
✅ Clearly define prisoners’ rights and responsibilities while ensuring humane treatment
📍 UPSC Prelims Pointers
✅ Prisons are a State Subject under Entry 4, List II
✅ Model Prisons Act, 2023 aims to modernize prison administration
✅ Prisons Act, 1894 is the colonial-era legislation proposed to be replaced
✅ Repatriation of Prisoners Act, 2003 deals with transfer of foreign prisoners
✅ Open Prisons have relatively relaxed security with emphasis on rehabilitation
📝 UPSC Mains Practice Question (GS-2)
“Indian prisons continue to face challenges of overcrowding, undertrial detention and inadequate rehabilitation. Discuss the major issues in prison administration and suggest reforms for creating a correction-oriented prison system.
#mains #polity
Subject: Governance / Polity
📍 Role of Prisons
✅ Rehabilitation: Reform and rehabilitate offenders for reintegration into society
✅ Moral Upliftment: Promote ethical values to prevent repeat offences
✅ Deterrence & Prevention: Discourage future crimes through correctional measures
✅ Prisons fall under the State List (Entry 4, List II, Seventh Schedule)
✅ Tihar Jail runs vocational training and counselling programmes for rehabilitation of women inmates
📍 Key Initiatives
✅ Model Prisons Act, 2023: Focuses on prison reforms and rehabilitation; intended to replace the Prisons Act, 1894
✅ Repatriation of Prisoners Act, 2003: Facilitates transfer and rehabilitation of foreign prisoners
✅ Entrepreneurship Development: Skill training enables inmates to earn livelihoods after release
✅ Tihar Jail inmates produce items such as cakes, LED bulbs and furniture
📍 Major Challenges
✅ Inhuman treatment and custodial abuse in prisons
✅ Staff shortage leading to poor security and prison management
✅ Overcrowding: Many prisons operate beyond sanctioned capacity
✅ Undertrial crisis: Around 76% of prison inmates are undertrials (Prison Statistics India 2020)
✅ Women prisoners face poor sanitation, nutrition and safety concerns
✅ Mental health issues: Large number of inmates suffer from psychological disorders
✅ Spread of diseases such as HIV and Tuberculosis
✅ Poor prison infrastructure including inadequate drinking water, sanitation and healthcare
📍 Important Facts
✅ India has around 1,400+ prisons, many functioning beyond 100% occupancy
✅ Prison staff-to-inmate ratio remains inadequate
✅ More than 19,000 women prisoners were lodged in Indian jails (2018)
📍 Way Forward
✅ Improve prison administration through better staffing and training
✅ Transform prisons into correctional institutions focused on reform rather than punishment
✅ Build more prisons to reduce overcrowding
✅ Ensure speedy trials to reduce undertrial population
✅ Expand the Open Prison System for eligible inmates
✅ Strengthen implementation of recommendations of the Mulla Committee and Krishna Iyer Committee on Prison Reforms
✅ Clearly define prisoners’ rights and responsibilities while ensuring humane treatment
📍 UPSC Prelims Pointers
✅ Prisons are a State Subject under Entry 4, List II
✅ Model Prisons Act, 2023 aims to modernize prison administration
✅ Prisons Act, 1894 is the colonial-era legislation proposed to be replaced
✅ Repatriation of Prisoners Act, 2003 deals with transfer of foreign prisoners
✅ Open Prisons have relatively relaxed security with emphasis on rehabilitation
📝 UPSC Mains Practice Question (GS-2)
“Indian prisons continue to face challenges of overcrowding, undertrial detention and inadequate rehabilitation. Discuss the major issues in prison administration and suggest reforms for creating a correction-oriented prison system.
#mains #polity
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🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS – 10 JULY 2026
🔆 ECONOMY
📍 ADB Lowers India’s FY27 GDP Growth Forecast
✅ Report: Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2026 – July Update
✅ FY 2026–27 GDP forecast: 6.6%
✅ FY 2027–28 forecast: 7.3%
✅ Inflation forecast raised to 5.2%
✅ Revision due to energy prices and global uncertainties
🔆 STATES
📍 Andhra Pradesh Launches Mee Bhoomi–Mee Hakku Programme
✅ Aims to resolve land ownership disputes
✅ Provides new Pattadar Passbooks to farmers
✅ Launched by Andhra Pradesh Government
📍 UP Launches Cashless Health Scheme for Teachers
✅ Chief Minister’s Teachers’ Cashless Medical Scheme
✅ Health cover up to ₹5 lakh
✅ Benefits over 15 lakh teaching and non-teaching staff and families
✅ Includes insurance support through State Bank of India
🔆 NATIONAL
📍 WIPO Report Highlights India’s Innovation Growth
✅ Report: World Intangible Investment Report 2026
✅ Released by WIPO and Luiss Business School
✅ India fastest-growing among 15 largest economies
✅ Intangible investment reached US$78.2 billion in 2023
📍 Centre Approves Procurement of Copra & Totapuri Mangoes
✅ State: Tamil Nadu
✅ 87,000+ MT copra under Price Support Scheme (PSS)
✅ 96,000+ MT Totapuri mangoes under Market Intervention Scheme (MIS)
✅ Protects farmers from distress sales
📍 EPFO Launches CITES 2.01 Platform
✅ Modernises EPFO’s digital infrastructure
✅ Consolidates 34 crore member accounts into a single database
✅ Auto-settlement limit increased from ₹1 lakh to ₹5 lakh
✅ EPF interest rate: 8.25% for FY 2025–26
📍 Navi Mumbai Airport Notified for Drug Imports
✅ Notified under Drugs Rules, 1945
✅ Total notified drug import ports increased to 42
✅ Decision by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
📍 India & Kyrgyzstan Establish Civilizational Studies Centre
✅ Centre established in Bishkek
✅ Focus on Manas and Mahabharata studies
✅ First Hindi translation of the Kyrgyz epic Manas released
🔆 AGREEMENTS & MoUs
📍 India & Australia Strengthen Strategic Partnership
✅ Signed Joint Declaration on Defence & Security Cooperation
✅ Adopted Maritime Security Collaboration Roadmap
✅ Australia to ensure long-term uranium supply to India
✅ Extended support for Gaganyaan Mission
🔆 SPORTS
📍 Aswath S Becomes India’s 98th Chess Grandmaster
✅ Hails from Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu
✅ Achieved final GM norm at Pune International Grandmaster Round Robin
✅ Defeated FM Kannan Vaidyanathan in the final round
🔆 SCHEMES
📍 Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM)
✅ Launched in 2014–15
✅ Implemented under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY)
✅ Promotes farm mechanisation for small and marginal farmers
✅ Subsidy up to 50% for eligible beneficiaries
✅ Higher funding support for North-Eastern States
🔆 RANKS & REPORTS
📍 Jaipur Enters Global Top 10 Happiest Cities
✅ Report: Happy City Index 2026
✅ Jaipur ranked 6th globally
✅ Only Indian city in the Global Top 10
📍 MoE Releases PGI-S & PGI-D Reports
✅ Released by Ministry of Education
✅ Evaluates school education performance of States/UTs and Districts
✅ Uses an absolute grading system instead of rankings
✅ Covers learning outcomes, governance, infrastructure and equity
🔆 SUMMITS & CONFERENCES
📍 Geneva to Host Global AI Summit 2027
✅ Scheduled for 21–22 June 2027
✅ Venue: Geneva, Switzerland
✅ To be held alongside ITU AI for Good Global Summit
🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
📍 ISRO Conducts Integrated Main Parachute Test for Gaganyaan
✅ Successfully completes IMAT-05
✅ Conducted at ADRDE, Sheopur (Madhya Pradesh)
✅ Supports first uncrewed Gaganyaan (G1) mission
✅ Dropped from IAF IL-76 aircraft at 2.5 km altitude
📍 CSIR-IICT Develops Indigenous Green Refrigerant Technology
✅ Developed HFO-1234yf process technology
✅ Environment-friendly refrigerant with low Global Warming Potential (GWP)
✅ Alternative to Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
📍 CSIR Develops Smart Algal Liquid Tree (SALT)
✅ Developed by CSIR-CIMFR
✅ Mobile photobioreactor using microalgae
✅ Absorbs CO₂ and releases oxygen
✅ Installed at Dhanbad and Singrauli
#CurrentAffairs
🔆 ECONOMY
📍 ADB Lowers India’s FY27 GDP Growth Forecast
✅ Report: Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2026 – July Update
✅ FY 2026–27 GDP forecast: 6.6%
✅ FY 2027–28 forecast: 7.3%
✅ Inflation forecast raised to 5.2%
✅ Revision due to energy prices and global uncertainties
🔆 STATES
📍 Andhra Pradesh Launches Mee Bhoomi–Mee Hakku Programme
✅ Aims to resolve land ownership disputes
✅ Provides new Pattadar Passbooks to farmers
✅ Launched by Andhra Pradesh Government
📍 UP Launches Cashless Health Scheme for Teachers
✅ Chief Minister’s Teachers’ Cashless Medical Scheme
✅ Health cover up to ₹5 lakh
✅ Benefits over 15 lakh teaching and non-teaching staff and families
✅ Includes insurance support through State Bank of India
🔆 NATIONAL
📍 WIPO Report Highlights India’s Innovation Growth
✅ Report: World Intangible Investment Report 2026
✅ Released by WIPO and Luiss Business School
✅ India fastest-growing among 15 largest economies
✅ Intangible investment reached US$78.2 billion in 2023
📍 Centre Approves Procurement of Copra & Totapuri Mangoes
✅ State: Tamil Nadu
✅ 87,000+ MT copra under Price Support Scheme (PSS)
✅ 96,000+ MT Totapuri mangoes under Market Intervention Scheme (MIS)
✅ Protects farmers from distress sales
📍 EPFO Launches CITES 2.01 Platform
✅ Modernises EPFO’s digital infrastructure
✅ Consolidates 34 crore member accounts into a single database
✅ Auto-settlement limit increased from ₹1 lakh to ₹5 lakh
✅ EPF interest rate: 8.25% for FY 2025–26
📍 Navi Mumbai Airport Notified for Drug Imports
✅ Notified under Drugs Rules, 1945
✅ Total notified drug import ports increased to 42
✅ Decision by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
📍 India & Kyrgyzstan Establish Civilizational Studies Centre
✅ Centre established in Bishkek
✅ Focus on Manas and Mahabharata studies
✅ First Hindi translation of the Kyrgyz epic Manas released
🔆 AGREEMENTS & MoUs
📍 India & Australia Strengthen Strategic Partnership
✅ Signed Joint Declaration on Defence & Security Cooperation
✅ Adopted Maritime Security Collaboration Roadmap
✅ Australia to ensure long-term uranium supply to India
✅ Extended support for Gaganyaan Mission
🔆 SPORTS
📍 Aswath S Becomes India’s 98th Chess Grandmaster
✅ Hails from Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu
✅ Achieved final GM norm at Pune International Grandmaster Round Robin
✅ Defeated FM Kannan Vaidyanathan in the final round
🔆 SCHEMES
📍 Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM)
✅ Launched in 2014–15
✅ Implemented under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY)
✅ Promotes farm mechanisation for small and marginal farmers
✅ Subsidy up to 50% for eligible beneficiaries
✅ Higher funding support for North-Eastern States
🔆 RANKS & REPORTS
📍 Jaipur Enters Global Top 10 Happiest Cities
✅ Report: Happy City Index 2026
✅ Jaipur ranked 6th globally
✅ Only Indian city in the Global Top 10
📍 MoE Releases PGI-S & PGI-D Reports
✅ Released by Ministry of Education
✅ Evaluates school education performance of States/UTs and Districts
✅ Uses an absolute grading system instead of rankings
✅ Covers learning outcomes, governance, infrastructure and equity
🔆 SUMMITS & CONFERENCES
📍 Geneva to Host Global AI Summit 2027
✅ Scheduled for 21–22 June 2027
✅ Venue: Geneva, Switzerland
✅ To be held alongside ITU AI for Good Global Summit
🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
📍 ISRO Conducts Integrated Main Parachute Test for Gaganyaan
✅ Successfully completes IMAT-05
✅ Conducted at ADRDE, Sheopur (Madhya Pradesh)
✅ Supports first uncrewed Gaganyaan (G1) mission
✅ Dropped from IAF IL-76 aircraft at 2.5 km altitude
📍 CSIR-IICT Develops Indigenous Green Refrigerant Technology
✅ Developed HFO-1234yf process technology
✅ Environment-friendly refrigerant with low Global Warming Potential (GWP)
✅ Alternative to Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
📍 CSIR Develops Smart Algal Liquid Tree (SALT)
✅ Developed by CSIR-CIMFR
✅ Mobile photobioreactor using microalgae
✅ Absorbs CO₂ and releases oxygen
✅ Installed at Dhanbad and Singrauli
#CurrentAffairs
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🔆 Right to be Forgotten (RTBF)
📍 Why in News?
✅ Delhi High Court laid down key principles governing the Right to be Forgotten (RTBF), emphasizing a balanced approach between privacy and the public’s right to know.
📍 What is the Right to be Forgotten (RTBF)?
✅ Right of an individual to request the removal, erasure, or de-indexing of personal information that is no longer necessary, relevant, or justified.
✅ Aims to protect privacy, dignity, reputation, and enable individuals to move on from past events.
✅ Not an absolute right—requires balancing with freedom of speech and public interest.
📍 Evolution in India
✅ Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (2017): Recognised Right to Privacy as a Fundamental Right under Article 21; informational privacy may include aspects of RTBF.
✅ High Courts (Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala & Orissa) have considered RTBF in cases involving acquittals, matrimonial disputes, sexual offences, and online personal data.
✅ Courts have consistently balanced privacy, free speech, open justice, and public interest.
📍 RTBF & DPDP Act, 2023
✅ DPDP Act, 2023 does not expressly recognise RTBF.
✅ Provides the Right to correction, updating, and erasure of personal data held by data fiduciaries after the purpose of processing ends or consent is withdrawn.
✅ RTBF extends beyond data protection by addressing public accessibility of information.
📍 Delhi High Court Ruling
✅ RTBF is not absolute; every request must be decided case by case.
✅ Courts must balance:
✅ Article 21 – Privacy, dignity, reputation.
✅ Article 19(1)(a) – Freedom of speech & expression.
✅ Public interest, judicial transparency & open justice.
✅ Judicial records generally remain public records.
✅ Courts may order search engine de-indexing or masking of personal identifiers instead of deleting judicial records.
📍 Constitutional Balance
✅ Article 21: Protects privacy, dignity, reputation, and personal autonomy.
✅ Article 19(1)(a): Protects free speech, press freedom, public access to information, and judicial transparency.
✅ Open Justice Principle: Ensures accountability, transparency, and public confidence in the judiciary.
📍 Challenges
✅ No comprehensive statutory RTBF framework.
✅ Information spreads across multiple websites, archives, and social media, making complete removal difficult.
✅ Foreign websites may not comply with Indian orders.
✅ AI systems, cached webpages, and archived databases can continue reproducing information.
✅ Divergent High Court rulings have created legal uncertainty.
📍 Way Forward
✅ Adopt a multi-layered mechanism:
✅ Data Fiduciaries – Handle routine deletion requests under the DPDP Act.
✅ Search Engines – Implement de-indexing orders where appropriate.
✅ Courts/Independent Adjudicatory Authority – Decide complex cases involving free speech, judicial records, and public interest.
✅ Strengthen coordination between Courts, the Data Protection Board of India, and digital platforms for consistent and constitutionally balanced outcomes.
📍 UPSC Prelims Fact
✅ The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 provides rights to correction, updating, and erasure of personal data, but does not explicitly recognise the Right to be Forgotten as an independent legal right.
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📍 Why in News?
✅ Delhi High Court laid down key principles governing the Right to be Forgotten (RTBF), emphasizing a balanced approach between privacy and the public’s right to know.
📍 What is the Right to be Forgotten (RTBF)?
✅ Right of an individual to request the removal, erasure, or de-indexing of personal information that is no longer necessary, relevant, or justified.
✅ Aims to protect privacy, dignity, reputation, and enable individuals to move on from past events.
✅ Not an absolute right—requires balancing with freedom of speech and public interest.
📍 Evolution in India
✅ Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (2017): Recognised Right to Privacy as a Fundamental Right under Article 21; informational privacy may include aspects of RTBF.
✅ High Courts (Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala & Orissa) have considered RTBF in cases involving acquittals, matrimonial disputes, sexual offences, and online personal data.
✅ Courts have consistently balanced privacy, free speech, open justice, and public interest.
📍 RTBF & DPDP Act, 2023
✅ DPDP Act, 2023 does not expressly recognise RTBF.
✅ Provides the Right to correction, updating, and erasure of personal data held by data fiduciaries after the purpose of processing ends or consent is withdrawn.
✅ RTBF extends beyond data protection by addressing public accessibility of information.
📍 Delhi High Court Ruling
✅ RTBF is not absolute; every request must be decided case by case.
✅ Courts must balance:
✅ Article 21 – Privacy, dignity, reputation.
✅ Article 19(1)(a) – Freedom of speech & expression.
✅ Public interest, judicial transparency & open justice.
✅ Judicial records generally remain public records.
✅ Courts may order search engine de-indexing or masking of personal identifiers instead of deleting judicial records.
📍 Constitutional Balance
✅ Article 21: Protects privacy, dignity, reputation, and personal autonomy.
✅ Article 19(1)(a): Protects free speech, press freedom, public access to information, and judicial transparency.
✅ Open Justice Principle: Ensures accountability, transparency, and public confidence in the judiciary.
📍 Challenges
✅ No comprehensive statutory RTBF framework.
✅ Information spreads across multiple websites, archives, and social media, making complete removal difficult.
✅ Foreign websites may not comply with Indian orders.
✅ AI systems, cached webpages, and archived databases can continue reproducing information.
✅ Divergent High Court rulings have created legal uncertainty.
📍 Way Forward
✅ Adopt a multi-layered mechanism:
✅ Data Fiduciaries – Handle routine deletion requests under the DPDP Act.
✅ Search Engines – Implement de-indexing orders where appropriate.
✅ Courts/Independent Adjudicatory Authority – Decide complex cases involving free speech, judicial records, and public interest.
✅ Strengthen coordination between Courts, the Data Protection Board of India, and digital platforms for consistent and constitutionally balanced outcomes.
📍 UPSC Prelims Fact
✅ The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 provides rights to correction, updating, and erasure of personal data, but does not explicitly recognise the Right to be Forgotten as an independent legal right.
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🔆 Underwater Fiber Optic Sensing System (UFOSS/FOSS)
📍 Why in News?
✅ DRDO has initiated indigenous UFOSS projects to strengthen underwater surveillance and maritime security.
📍 About UFOSS/FOSS
✅ Underwater Fiber Optic Sensing System (UFOSS), also known as Fiber Optic Sensing System (FOSS), converts subsea fiber-optic cables into a continuous underwater sensor network.
✅ Uses Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) and Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs) technologies.
📍 Key Features
✅ DAS: Converts the entire optical fiber into continuous sensing points to detect acoustic vibrations and seismic disturbances.
✅ FBGs: Measure strain, pressure, and temperature through changes in reflected wavelengths.
✅ Provides 24×7 persistent underwater monitoring through fixed seabed fiber-optic networks.
📍 Applications
✅ Detects and tracks submarines, surface ships, underwater drones, and other marine activities.
✅ Enhances Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) and Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW).
✅ Secures offshore oil & gas platforms, submarine communication cables, pipelines, and offshore wind farms.
✅ Supports earthquake monitoring, tsunami warning, oceanographic research, and disaster preparedness.
📍 Significance
✅ Strengthens India’s maritime security, especially in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).
✅ Provides continuous surveillance without relying on ships, aircraft, or sonobuoys.
📍 UPSC Prelims Facts
✅ UFOSS uses Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) and Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs).
✅ It enables real-time, 24×7 underwater surveillance using existing fiber-optic cable networks.
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📍 Why in News?
✅ DRDO has initiated indigenous UFOSS projects to strengthen underwater surveillance and maritime security.
📍 About UFOSS/FOSS
✅ Underwater Fiber Optic Sensing System (UFOSS), also known as Fiber Optic Sensing System (FOSS), converts subsea fiber-optic cables into a continuous underwater sensor network.
✅ Uses Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) and Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs) technologies.
📍 Key Features
✅ DAS: Converts the entire optical fiber into continuous sensing points to detect acoustic vibrations and seismic disturbances.
✅ FBGs: Measure strain, pressure, and temperature through changes in reflected wavelengths.
✅ Provides 24×7 persistent underwater monitoring through fixed seabed fiber-optic networks.
📍 Applications
✅ Detects and tracks submarines, surface ships, underwater drones, and other marine activities.
✅ Enhances Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) and Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW).
✅ Secures offshore oil & gas platforms, submarine communication cables, pipelines, and offshore wind farms.
✅ Supports earthquake monitoring, tsunami warning, oceanographic research, and disaster preparedness.
📍 Significance
✅ Strengthens India’s maritime security, especially in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).
✅ Provides continuous surveillance without relying on ships, aircraft, or sonobuoys.
📍 UPSC Prelims Facts
✅ UFOSS uses Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) and Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs).
✅ It enables real-time, 24×7 underwater surveillance using existing fiber-optic cable networks.
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⏳315 days left CSP27 [ 23-05-27]
⏳405 days left CSM27 [ 20-08-27]
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⏳26 days left Afcat 8 august
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🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS – 11 JULY 2026
🔆 STATES
📍 Sirsa Kinnow Receives GI Tag
✅ Becomes Haryana’s first exclusive GI-tagged fruit
✅ GI granted by GI Registry under DPIIT
✅ Hybrid of King Mandarin and Willow Leaf Mandarin
📍 Delhi Introduces Pink Saheli Smart Card
✅ Mandatory for free bus travel from 1 August 2026
✅ Replaces paper-based pink tickets
✅ Women must tap the card while boarding buses
🔆 NATIONAL
📍 Government Expands PM-SETU Across 200 ITI Clusters
✅ Approved investment: ₹1,237.58 crore
✅ Strengthens Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs)
✅ Five new ITI clusters approved in Odisha, Gujarat and Telangana
✅ Ministry: MSDE
📍 Adani Copper Receives LME Certification
✅ Kutch Copper Ltd. receives London Metal Exchange (LME) certification
✅ “Adani Copper” Grade-A cathodes now eligible for LME delivery
✅ Confirms global quality and responsible sourcing standards
📍 India Launches LoA Regime for High-Seas Fishing
✅ Introduces Letter of Authorisation (LoA) system
✅ Promotes sustainable deep-sea fishing and Blue Economy
✅ Enables Indian vessels to operate in EEZ and high seas
✅ India is the 2nd largest fish producer globally
📍 Uttarakhand Becomes Sixth Fully Literate State
✅ Achieves milestone under ULLAS Scheme and NEP 2020
✅ Joins Mizoram, Goa, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim
📍 Tamil Nadu Tops Higher Education GER
✅ Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER): 52.3%
✅ National average: 30%
✅ Data released through AISHE 2023–24
✅ Female GER continues to exceed male GER
🔆 INDIA & THE WORLD
📍 India & Indonesia to Jointly Develop Sabang Port
✅ Strengthens maritime cooperation and Indo-Pacific strategy
✅ Located on Weh Island, Aceh Province
✅ Close to the Strait of Malacca, a major global maritime chokepoint
🔆 AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
📍 DoT’s Samriddh Gram Wins WSIS Prize 2026
✅ Awarded at WSIS Forum 2026, Geneva
✅ Category: Action Line C6 – Enabling Environment
✅ Built on BharatNet to deliver integrated digital services in villages
📍 Sourav Ganguly Inducted into ICC Hall of Fame
✅ Becomes the 12th Indian to receive the honour
✅ Former Indian captain popularly known as “Dada”
🔆 SPORTS
📍 India & New Zealand Mark 100 Years of Sporting Relations
✅ Sporting ties began in 1926 with hockey
✅ Indian Army Hockey Team first toured New Zealand in 1926
✅ Major Dhyan Chand was part of the historic tour
🔆 RANKS & REPORTS
📍 Global Liveability Index 2026 Released
✅ Published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
✅ Copenhagen ranked the world’s most liveable city
✅ Indian rankings: New Delhi (120), Mumbai (121), Chennai (123), Bengaluru (127)
🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS
📍 World Population Day 2026
✅ Observed on 11 July
✅ Theme: “Realizing the hopes and aspirations of young people: today and in the future.”
✅ Declared by UNDP in 1989
🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
📍 India Launches Once-Weekly Basal Insulin Awiqli
✅ Introduced by Novo Nordisk India
✅ World’s first once-weekly basal insulin (Insulin Icodec)
✅ Reduces injections from 365 to 52 per year
✅ Designed for Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
🔆 DEFENCE
📍 INS Mahendragiri to be Commissioned
✅ Sixth Project 17A Nilgiri-class stealth frigate
✅ Contains over 75% indigenous content
✅ Built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd. (MDL)
✅ Designed by Warship Design Bureau (Indian Navy)
#CurrentAffairs
🔆 STATES
📍 Sirsa Kinnow Receives GI Tag
✅ Becomes Haryana’s first exclusive GI-tagged fruit
✅ GI granted by GI Registry under DPIIT
✅ Hybrid of King Mandarin and Willow Leaf Mandarin
📍 Delhi Introduces Pink Saheli Smart Card
✅ Mandatory for free bus travel from 1 August 2026
✅ Replaces paper-based pink tickets
✅ Women must tap the card while boarding buses
🔆 NATIONAL
📍 Government Expands PM-SETU Across 200 ITI Clusters
✅ Approved investment: ₹1,237.58 crore
✅ Strengthens Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs)
✅ Five new ITI clusters approved in Odisha, Gujarat and Telangana
✅ Ministry: MSDE
📍 Adani Copper Receives LME Certification
✅ Kutch Copper Ltd. receives London Metal Exchange (LME) certification
✅ “Adani Copper” Grade-A cathodes now eligible for LME delivery
✅ Confirms global quality and responsible sourcing standards
📍 India Launches LoA Regime for High-Seas Fishing
✅ Introduces Letter of Authorisation (LoA) system
✅ Promotes sustainable deep-sea fishing and Blue Economy
✅ Enables Indian vessels to operate in EEZ and high seas
✅ India is the 2nd largest fish producer globally
📍 Uttarakhand Becomes Sixth Fully Literate State
✅ Achieves milestone under ULLAS Scheme and NEP 2020
✅ Joins Mizoram, Goa, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim
📍 Tamil Nadu Tops Higher Education GER
✅ Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER): 52.3%
✅ National average: 30%
✅ Data released through AISHE 2023–24
✅ Female GER continues to exceed male GER
🔆 INDIA & THE WORLD
📍 India & Indonesia to Jointly Develop Sabang Port
✅ Strengthens maritime cooperation and Indo-Pacific strategy
✅ Located on Weh Island, Aceh Province
✅ Close to the Strait of Malacca, a major global maritime chokepoint
🔆 AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
📍 DoT’s Samriddh Gram Wins WSIS Prize 2026
✅ Awarded at WSIS Forum 2026, Geneva
✅ Category: Action Line C6 – Enabling Environment
✅ Built on BharatNet to deliver integrated digital services in villages
📍 Sourav Ganguly Inducted into ICC Hall of Fame
✅ Becomes the 12th Indian to receive the honour
✅ Former Indian captain popularly known as “Dada”
🔆 SPORTS
📍 India & New Zealand Mark 100 Years of Sporting Relations
✅ Sporting ties began in 1926 with hockey
✅ Indian Army Hockey Team first toured New Zealand in 1926
✅ Major Dhyan Chand was part of the historic tour
🔆 RANKS & REPORTS
📍 Global Liveability Index 2026 Released
✅ Published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
✅ Copenhagen ranked the world’s most liveable city
✅ Indian rankings: New Delhi (120), Mumbai (121), Chennai (123), Bengaluru (127)
🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS
📍 World Population Day 2026
✅ Observed on 11 July
✅ Theme: “Realizing the hopes and aspirations of young people: today and in the future.”
✅ Declared by UNDP in 1989
🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
📍 India Launches Once-Weekly Basal Insulin Awiqli
✅ Introduced by Novo Nordisk India
✅ World’s first once-weekly basal insulin (Insulin Icodec)
✅ Reduces injections from 365 to 52 per year
✅ Designed for Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
🔆 DEFENCE
📍 INS Mahendragiri to be Commissioned
✅ Sixth Project 17A Nilgiri-class stealth frigate
✅ Contains over 75% indigenous content
✅ Built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd. (MDL)
✅ Designed by Warship Design Bureau (Indian Navy)
#CurrentAffairs
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