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Uttar Pradesh’s government schools fell from 1.63 lakh to 1.38 lakh in that identical year, a drop of over 25,000.

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🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS – 04 AUGUST 2026

🔆 HISTORY, ART & CULTURE

📍 Dhimsa Dance Sets Guinness World Record
✅ Over 13,000 tribal women and students performed Dhimsa Dance, creating a Guinness World Record
✅ Performed during the inauguration of Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport
✅ Dhimsa means “sound of footsteps”
✅ Traditional tribal folk dance of the Eastern Ghats (Araku Valley & Paderu in Andhra Pradesh; Koraput in Odisha)
✅ Performed to honour village deities, celebrate harvests, weddings and promote community unity

🔆 INTERNATIONAL

📍 Water Bombers Deployed in Greece
✅ Water-bombing aircraft resumed firefighting operations across Greece
✅ Used to drop water or fire retardants over wildfires
✅ Major firefighting operations underway in Psatha, Kryo Pigadi and Kandyli
✅ Severe wildfires continue across Boeotia and Attica regions
✅ Capital of Greece: Athens

🔆 BANKING & FINANCE

📍 India Achieves Near-Universal Banking Coverage
✅ 99.92% of inhabited villages now have a banking outlet within 5 km
✅ PM Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) has opened 58.77 crore bank accounts
✅ Digital initiatives include NABARD e-KYC, KRISHIKA Platform, and RBI’s MuleHunter AI
✅ Strengthens financial inclusion and digital banking ecosystem

📍 RBI’s Special Swap Facility
✅ RBI’s concessional swap window attracted US$ 40.816 billion in foreign inflows
✅ Supports FCNR(B) deposits, ECBs and OFCBs
✅ FCNR(B) contributed US$ 36.72 billion
✅ OFCBs: US$ 2.57 billion
✅ ECBs: US$ 1.5 billion
✅ Helps strengthen India’s balance of payments and reduce hedging costs

🔆 ENVIRONMENT

📍 Glaw Lake Becomes Arunachal Pradesh’s First Ramsar Site
✅ Located inside Kamlang Tiger Reserve, Lohit district
✅ Sacred lake for the Mishmi community
✅ Fed by mountain streams
✅ India now has 101 Ramsar Sites
✅ Tamil Nadu has the highest number (20), while West Bengal has the largest Ramsar area

📍 Roadmap for Active Management of Tigers in India Report
✅ Released by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)
✅ India has 3,682 tigers, around 75% of the global wild tiger population
✅ Nearly two-thirds of India’s 58 tiger reserves face declining prey base or poor habitat
✅ Only 20 tiger habitats possess both adequate prey and quality habitat
✅ Highlights need for active habitat and prey management

🔆 DEFENCE

📍 Exercise ROTOR CLAP III
✅ Annual Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (Counter-UAS) exercise
✅ Conducted by the Indian Air Force (IAF)
✅ Held at Pokhran Field Firing Range, Rajasthan
✅ First conducted in 2024
✅ Focuses on counter-drone operations

🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

📍 Znamya-2 Orbital Space Mirror Experiment
✅ Russian orbital experiment conducted in 1993
✅ Used an aluminium-coated Mylar mirror to reflect sunlight onto Earth’s night side
✅ Produced a moving light beam about 5 km wide
✅ Potential applications include night-time solar power and extended agricultural daylight
✅ Concerns include light pollution, astronomical interference, and ecological disruption

🔆 HEALTH

📍 India Leads in Living Donor Organ Transplants
✅ Announced during the 16th Indian Organ Donation Day (IODD)
✅ Organised by NOTTO under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
✅ 20,138 organ transplants performed in 2025 (highest ever)
✅ India ranks 3rd globally in total organ transplants
✅ Deceased donor transplants increased from 837 (2013) to 3,526 (2025)
✅ Launched Jug Jug Jiyo Abhiyaan, e-प्रत्यारोपण Platform, and NOTTO Mobile App
✅ Released National Brain Stem Death Certification Guidelines and Swap Transplantation Guidelines

🔆 SPORTS

📍 Commonwealth Games 2026 Concludes
✅ Held in Glasgow, Scotland
✅ Australia topped the medal tally with 171 medals (70 Gold)
✅ India finished 4th with 39 medals (13 Gold, 17 Silver, 9 Bronze)
✅ India’s best performance came in Boxing with 10 medals (7 Gold)
✅ Other major contributions: Athletics (10), Weightlifting (8), Para Athletics (6), Judo (4), Para Powerlifting (1)
✅ 2030 Commonwealth Games will be hosted by Ahmedabad, India

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🔆 Utkalmani Pandit Gopabandhu Das

📍 Why in News?
✅ The President of India unveiled the statue of Utkalmani Pandit Gopabandhu Das at Lajpat Bhawan, New Delhi.

📍 About
✅ Eminent freedom fighter, social reformer, educationist, poet, and journalist from Odisha.
✅ Revered as “Utkalmani” (The Jewel of Odisha).
✅ Dedicated his life to national freedom, social service, education, and the unification of Odia-speaking regions.

📍 Early Life
✅ Born:9 October 1877 at Suando village, near Puri, Odisha.
✅ Founded Kartavya Bodhini Samiti at Ravenshaw College to promote nationalism and social service.
✅ Qualified in B.A., M.A., and LL.B. from Calcutta University, but left legal practice for public service.

📍 Contributions
✅ First President of the Utkal Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) in 1920.
✅ Led the Non-Cooperation Movement in Odisha under Mahatma Gandhi.
✅ Played a key role in Utkal Sammilani, contributing to the creation of Odisha as India’s first linguistic state (1936).
✅ Joined Lala Lajpat Rai’s Servants of the People Society and later became its Vice-President.

📍 Major Works
✅ Founded Satyabadi Bana Bidyalaya (1909) at Sakhigopal based on the Gurukul system.
✅ Founded the Odia newspaper The Samaja (1919).
✅ Authored Bandi R Atmakatha, Dharmapada, and Kara Kabita.

📍 Legacy
✅ Passed away on 17 June 1928.
✅ Donated The Samaja and his properties to the Servants of the People Society.
✅ Remembered as a symbol of selfless service, nationalism, and educational reform.

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✅ Title:Utkalmani (The Jewel of Odisha)
✅ Birth:9 October 1877, Suando, Puri (Odisha)
✅ Founded:Satyabadi Bana Bidyalaya (1909), The Samaja (1919)
✅ First President:Utkal Pradesh Congress Committee (1920)
✅ Associated With:Non-Cooperation Movement, Utkal Sammilani, Servants of the People Society

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