🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS – 07 AUGUST 2026
🔆 HISTORY, ART & CULTURE
📍 Hero Stone Solves Hoysala Dynasty Mystery
✅ A newly discovered Hero Stone inscription at Neeragunda, Karnataka has resolved the long-standing debate over Hoysala King Vishnuvardhana’s death
✅ Commissioned by Maravve in memory of her husband Boppa, who died shortly after the king
✅ Inscription dates Vishnuvardhana’s death to 11 December 1141 CE
✅ Confirms he died at Bankapura
✅ The Hoysala Dynasty ruled much of present-day Karnataka from the 10th to 14th centuries
🔆 POLITY & GOVERNANCE
📍 ANUGYAN Programme Launched
✅ ANUGYAN (Nuclear Technology Orientation Programme) launched jointly by IIT Hyderabad and Crimson Energy Experts
✅ India’s first industry-academia programme for the civil nuclear energy sector
✅ Three-month residential programme for engineers and professionals
✅ Aims to help increase India’s nuclear power capacity from 8.8 GWe to 100 GWe by 2047
✅ Open to engineering graduates, PSU officials, EPC contractors and industry professionals
🔆 INTERNATIONAL
📍 10th BRICS Industry Ministers’ Meeting
✅ Held in Jaipur, Rajasthan under India’s BRICS Chairship
✅ Theme: “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability”
✅ Adopted a Joint Declaration
✅ Key outcomes include cooperation on MSMEs, Start-ups, Photovoltaic Industry and Logistics
✅ Finalised the SME Working Group Framework and Innovation Action Plan
📍 ‘Seafarer-First’ Initiative
✅ Launched by the Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways
✅ Aims to protect Indian merchant navy personnel in conflict-prone West Asian waters
✅ Covers the Strait of Hormuz, Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman
✅ Prioritises the safety and welfare of Indian seafarers irrespective of vessel nationality
🔆 ENVIRONMENT
📍 Mission Clouded Leopard
✅ Meghalaya launched Mission Clouded Leopard
✅ Dedicated conservation programme for the Mainland Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)
✅ The Clouded Leopard is the State Animal of Meghalaya
✅ Focuses on habitat protection, landscape connectivity, anti-poaching measures and community participation
📍 FAO Peat-Emit Report 2026
✅ Released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
✅ Provides updated methods to estimate greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands and organic soils
✅ Peatlands occupy only 3–4% of Earth’s land but store about 30% of global soil organic carbon
✅ Highlights increasing emissions from degraded and drained peatlands
✅ Identifies major data gaps in Africa and Latin America
🔆 DEFENCE
📍 Agni-4 Ballistic Missile Successfully Test-Fired
✅ India successfully tested the Agni-4 Medium-Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM)
✅ Conducted from Integrated Test Range, Chandipur (Odisha)
✅ Strike range of up to 4,000 km
✅ Two-stage solid-fuel missile
✅ Capable of carrying nuclear and conventional warheads
✅ Equipped with an advanced re-entry heat shield capable of withstanding temperatures above 3,000°C
🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
📍 mFlusiva – World’s First mRNA Seasonal Influenza Vaccine
✅ US FDA approved mFlusiva (mRNA-1010)
✅ Developed by Moderna
✅ World’s first mRNA-based seasonal influenza vaccine
✅ Approved for adults aged 50 years and above
✅ Can be developed in about 6 weeks, compared to nearly 6 months for conventional egg-based vaccines
📍 ‘Ghost Particles’ Aid Nuclear Monitoring
✅ Scientists from France’s Double Chooz Collaboration precisely measured antineutrino (“ghost particle”) emissions from spent nuclear fuel
✅ Enables remote monitoring of nuclear fuel and detection of illicit plutonium extraction
✅ Antineutrinos pass through matter almost unaffected
✅ Even after reactor shutdown, radioactive decay continues to emit measurable antineutrinos
🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS
📍 ‘India Day’ Declared in Massachusetts
✅ Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu declared 15 August as “India Day”
✅ Marks India’s 79th Independence Day
✅ Recognises the contributions of the Indian-American community
✅ India has the world’s largest diaspora with over 3.6 crore people of Indian origin living abroad
✅ More than 50 lakh people of Indian origin reside in the United States
#CurrentAffairs
🔆 HISTORY, ART & CULTURE
📍 Hero Stone Solves Hoysala Dynasty Mystery
✅ A newly discovered Hero Stone inscription at Neeragunda, Karnataka has resolved the long-standing debate over Hoysala King Vishnuvardhana’s death
✅ Commissioned by Maravve in memory of her husband Boppa, who died shortly after the king
✅ Inscription dates Vishnuvardhana’s death to 11 December 1141 CE
✅ Confirms he died at Bankapura
✅ The Hoysala Dynasty ruled much of present-day Karnataka from the 10th to 14th centuries
🔆 POLITY & GOVERNANCE
📍 ANUGYAN Programme Launched
✅ ANUGYAN (Nuclear Technology Orientation Programme) launched jointly by IIT Hyderabad and Crimson Energy Experts
✅ India’s first industry-academia programme for the civil nuclear energy sector
✅ Three-month residential programme for engineers and professionals
✅ Aims to help increase India’s nuclear power capacity from 8.8 GWe to 100 GWe by 2047
✅ Open to engineering graduates, PSU officials, EPC contractors and industry professionals
🔆 INTERNATIONAL
📍 10th BRICS Industry Ministers’ Meeting
✅ Held in Jaipur, Rajasthan under India’s BRICS Chairship
✅ Theme: “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability”
✅ Adopted a Joint Declaration
✅ Key outcomes include cooperation on MSMEs, Start-ups, Photovoltaic Industry and Logistics
✅ Finalised the SME Working Group Framework and Innovation Action Plan
📍 ‘Seafarer-First’ Initiative
✅ Launched by the Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways
✅ Aims to protect Indian merchant navy personnel in conflict-prone West Asian waters
✅ Covers the Strait of Hormuz, Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman
✅ Prioritises the safety and welfare of Indian seafarers irrespective of vessel nationality
🔆 ENVIRONMENT
📍 Mission Clouded Leopard
✅ Meghalaya launched Mission Clouded Leopard
✅ Dedicated conservation programme for the Mainland Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)
✅ The Clouded Leopard is the State Animal of Meghalaya
✅ Focuses on habitat protection, landscape connectivity, anti-poaching measures and community participation
📍 FAO Peat-Emit Report 2026
✅ Released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
✅ Provides updated methods to estimate greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands and organic soils
✅ Peatlands occupy only 3–4% of Earth’s land but store about 30% of global soil organic carbon
✅ Highlights increasing emissions from degraded and drained peatlands
✅ Identifies major data gaps in Africa and Latin America
🔆 DEFENCE
📍 Agni-4 Ballistic Missile Successfully Test-Fired
✅ India successfully tested the Agni-4 Medium-Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM)
✅ Conducted from Integrated Test Range, Chandipur (Odisha)
✅ Strike range of up to 4,000 km
✅ Two-stage solid-fuel missile
✅ Capable of carrying nuclear and conventional warheads
✅ Equipped with an advanced re-entry heat shield capable of withstanding temperatures above 3,000°C
🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
📍 mFlusiva – World’s First mRNA Seasonal Influenza Vaccine
✅ US FDA approved mFlusiva (mRNA-1010)
✅ Developed by Moderna
✅ World’s first mRNA-based seasonal influenza vaccine
✅ Approved for adults aged 50 years and above
✅ Can be developed in about 6 weeks, compared to nearly 6 months for conventional egg-based vaccines
📍 ‘Ghost Particles’ Aid Nuclear Monitoring
✅ Scientists from France’s Double Chooz Collaboration precisely measured antineutrino (“ghost particle”) emissions from spent nuclear fuel
✅ Enables remote monitoring of nuclear fuel and detection of illicit plutonium extraction
✅ Antineutrinos pass through matter almost unaffected
✅ Even after reactor shutdown, radioactive decay continues to emit measurable antineutrinos
🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS
📍 ‘India Day’ Declared in Massachusetts
✅ Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu declared 15 August as “India Day”
✅ Marks India’s 79th Independence Day
✅ Recognises the contributions of the Indian-American community
✅ India has the world’s largest diaspora with over 3.6 crore people of Indian origin living abroad
✅ More than 50 lakh people of Indian origin reside in the United States
#CurrentAffairs
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🔆 Quit India Movement | Bharat Chhodo Andolan
📍 Why in News?
✅ The Chairman of Rajya Sabha made a solemn reference in Parliament to commemorate the 84th Anniversary of the Quit India Movement
🔆 About the Quit India Movement
✅ Also known as August Kranti
✅ A mass movement launched by the Indian National Congress (INC) demanding an immediate end to British colonial rule
✅ Launched on 8 August 1942
✅ Major mass mobilisation began after the arrest of Congress leaders on 9 August 1942
✅ Famous slogan – “Do or Die” (Karo Ya Maro)
🔆 Launch & Leadership
📍 Location
✅ Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay, now known as August Kranti Maidan, Mumbai
📍 Key Leaders
✅ Mahatma Gandhi
✅ Jawaharlal Nehru
✅ Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
✅ Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
✅ Aruna Asaf Ali
🔆 Background
📍 World War II
✅ Japan’s advance through Southeast Asia after the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the war closer to India
✅ Fall of Singapore and Rangoon intensified fears of Japanese invasion
📍 Failure of Cripps Mission, 1942
✅ Sir Stafford Cripps offered post-war constitutional arrangements, including Dominion Status
✅ Congress rejected the proposal as it did not provide immediate self-government
✅ Failure of negotiations increased political frustration and strengthened the demand for British withdrawal
📍 Congress Decisions
✅ Congress Working Committee adopted the Quit India proposal at Wardha in July 1942
✅ AICC formally approved the resolution at Bombay on 8 August 1942
🔆 Major Events
📍 Mass Arrests
✅ In the early hours of 9 August 1942, British authorities arrested major Congress leaders
✅ The arrests created a leadership vacuum and triggered spontaneous mass protests across India
📍 Underground Resistance
✅ Aruna Asaf Ali hoisted the national flag at Gowalia Tank Maidan
✅ Usha Mehta operated the underground Congress Radio
✅ Underground networks helped maintain communication and resistance
📍 Parallel Governments
✅ Tamluk Jatiya Sarkar – Midnapore, Bengal
✅ Prati Sarkar – Satara, Maharashtra, associated with Nana Patil
✅ Balia – Uttar Pradesh, led by Chittu Pandey
🔆 British Repression
✅ British authorities used mass arrests, police firing, censorship, and heavy fines
✅ More than 1 lakh people were imprisoned
✅ Railways and telegraph networks were targeted by protesters as part of resistance activities
🔆 Significance
✅ Demonstrated the widespread popular rejection of British colonial rule
✅ Disrupted colonial administrative machinery in several regions
✅ Strengthened the demand for complete independence
✅ Made continued British rule increasingly difficult after the Second World War
✅ Became a crucial milestone in the transition towards Indian independence in 1947
🔆 Prelims Facts
✅ Year – 1942
✅ Date of launch – 8 August 1942
✅ Place – Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay
✅ Slogan – Do or Die
✅ Underground Radio – Usha Mehta
✅ Flag at Gowalia Tank – Aruna Asaf Ali
✅ Satara Parallel Government – Nana Patil
✅ Balia Parallel Government – Chittu Pandey
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📍 Why in News?
✅ The Chairman of Rajya Sabha made a solemn reference in Parliament to commemorate the 84th Anniversary of the Quit India Movement
🔆 About the Quit India Movement
✅ Also known as August Kranti
✅ A mass movement launched by the Indian National Congress (INC) demanding an immediate end to British colonial rule
✅ Launched on 8 August 1942
✅ Major mass mobilisation began after the arrest of Congress leaders on 9 August 1942
✅ Famous slogan – “Do or Die” (Karo Ya Maro)
🔆 Launch & Leadership
📍 Location
✅ Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay, now known as August Kranti Maidan, Mumbai
📍 Key Leaders
✅ Mahatma Gandhi
✅ Jawaharlal Nehru
✅ Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
✅ Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
✅ Aruna Asaf Ali
🔆 Background
📍 World War II
✅ Japan’s advance through Southeast Asia after the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the war closer to India
✅ Fall of Singapore and Rangoon intensified fears of Japanese invasion
📍 Failure of Cripps Mission, 1942
✅ Sir Stafford Cripps offered post-war constitutional arrangements, including Dominion Status
✅ Congress rejected the proposal as it did not provide immediate self-government
✅ Failure of negotiations increased political frustration and strengthened the demand for British withdrawal
📍 Congress Decisions
✅ Congress Working Committee adopted the Quit India proposal at Wardha in July 1942
✅ AICC formally approved the resolution at Bombay on 8 August 1942
🔆 Major Events
📍 Mass Arrests
✅ In the early hours of 9 August 1942, British authorities arrested major Congress leaders
✅ The arrests created a leadership vacuum and triggered spontaneous mass protests across India
📍 Underground Resistance
✅ Aruna Asaf Ali hoisted the national flag at Gowalia Tank Maidan
✅ Usha Mehta operated the underground Congress Radio
✅ Underground networks helped maintain communication and resistance
📍 Parallel Governments
✅ Tamluk Jatiya Sarkar – Midnapore, Bengal
✅ Prati Sarkar – Satara, Maharashtra, associated with Nana Patil
✅ Balia – Uttar Pradesh, led by Chittu Pandey
🔆 British Repression
✅ British authorities used mass arrests, police firing, censorship, and heavy fines
✅ More than 1 lakh people were imprisoned
✅ Railways and telegraph networks were targeted by protesters as part of resistance activities
🔆 Significance
✅ Demonstrated the widespread popular rejection of British colonial rule
✅ Disrupted colonial administrative machinery in several regions
✅ Strengthened the demand for complete independence
✅ Made continued British rule increasingly difficult after the Second World War
✅ Became a crucial milestone in the transition towards Indian independence in 1947
🔆 Prelims Facts
✅ Year – 1942
✅ Date of launch – 8 August 1942
✅ Place – Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay
✅ Slogan – Do or Die
✅ Underground Radio – Usha Mehta
✅ Flag at Gowalia Tank – Aruna Asaf Ali
✅ Satara Parallel Government – Nana Patil
✅ Balia Parallel Government – Chittu Pandey
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🔆 e-Courts Mission Mode Project
📍 Why in News?
✅ India’s judiciary is transitioning from a paper-based system to digitally enabled courts under the e-Courts Mission Mode Project
🔆 About e-Courts Mission Mode Project
✅ Launched in 2007
✅ Objective – To digitise court processes, records, and services and improve access to justice for judges, lawyers, litigants, and citizens
✅ Implemented as part of the National e-Governance Plan
🔆 Phases of e-Courts
📍 Phase I (2011–2015)
✅ Laid the foundation through computerisation of 14,000+ courts
✅ Developed basic network infrastructure for technology-enabled judicial services
📍 Phase II (2015–2023)
✅ Introduced citizen-centric services such as National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG), e-Filing, and e-Sewa Kendras
✅ Expanded video-conferencing infrastructure more than fivefold
📍 Phase III (2023–2027)
✅ Focuses on digital and paperless courts
✅ Large-scale digitisation of legacy court records
✅ Promotes virtual hearings and interoperability
✅ Uses Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Analytics, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
🔆 Major Benefits & Initiatives
📍 National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG)
✅ Online dashboard providing information on pending and disposed cases, court orders, judgments, and case details
✅ Separate dashboards for the Supreme Court, High Courts, and District Courts
✅ Improves transparency, accountability, judicial planning, and case monitoring
📍 e-Filing
✅ Enables filing of documents online from anywhere
✅ Supports online payments, e-signatures, Vakalatnamas, application filing, and case tracking
✅ Provides multilingual support and reduces dependence on physical paperwork
📍 Virtual Hearings & Nyaya Shruti
✅ Video conferencing allows litigants, lawyers, witnesses, prisoners, and other stakeholders to participate remotely
✅ Nyaya Shruti enables virtual testimony of accused persons, witnesses, police, prosecutors, experts, and prisoners
📍 e-Sewa Kendras
✅ Citizen-friendly digital help centres established in court complexes
✅ Assist with case status, hearing dates, certified copies, e-filing, digital signatures, e-payments, and virtual hearings
✅ Help citizens access free legal aid and other judicial services
🔆 Digital Criminal Justice Ecosystem
📍 Interoperable Criminal Justice System (ICJS)
✅ Connects Police, Courts, Prisons, Prosecution, and Forensic institutions
✅ Enables electronic exchange of FIRs, charge-sheets, court orders, and forensic reports
📍 Key Platforms
✅ CCTNS – Computerisation and networking of police processes
✅ e-Sakshya – Digital collection and management of evidence
✅ e-Summons – Electronic generation and transmission of court summons
✅ e-Forensic – Digital management of forensic cases
✅ e-Prison – Digital prison and prisoner management
✅ e-Prosecution – Digital coordination between police and prosecution
✅ NAFIS – Centralised fingerprint identification system
✅ MedLEaPR – Digital medico-legal examination and post-mortem reporting
✅ ITSSO – Tracks investigation of sexual offences against statutory timelines
🔆 Other Digital Innovations
📍 National Service and Tracking of Electronic Processes
✅ Enables GPS-based tracking of summons and notices
✅ Makes service of judicial processes faster and more transparent
📍 Digital Access & Tracking
✅ Around 4 lakh SMS messages and 6 lakh emails are sent daily by the judiciary
✅ e-Courts portals receive around 35 lakh visits daily
✅ e-Courts app has recorded around 3.84 crore downloads
✅ JustIS App assists judges with case management
🔆 AI & Technology under Phase III
📍 Emerging Tools
✅ LegRAA – Assists judges in legal research and document analysis
✅ Digital Courts 2.1 – Enables paperless case management through a single-window platform
✅ ASR-SHRUTI – Voice-to-text technology for judicial proceedings
✅ PANINI – Translation support for Indian languages
✅ eSCR – Enables access to judgments and their translation into 18 Indian languages
✅ AI tools are being used to detect defects in e-filed petitions and extract metadata
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📍 Why in News?
✅ India’s judiciary is transitioning from a paper-based system to digitally enabled courts under the e-Courts Mission Mode Project
🔆 About e-Courts Mission Mode Project
✅ Launched in 2007
✅ Objective – To digitise court processes, records, and services and improve access to justice for judges, lawyers, litigants, and citizens
✅ Implemented as part of the National e-Governance Plan
🔆 Phases of e-Courts
📍 Phase I (2011–2015)
✅ Laid the foundation through computerisation of 14,000+ courts
✅ Developed basic network infrastructure for technology-enabled judicial services
📍 Phase II (2015–2023)
✅ Introduced citizen-centric services such as National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG), e-Filing, and e-Sewa Kendras
✅ Expanded video-conferencing infrastructure more than fivefold
📍 Phase III (2023–2027)
✅ Focuses on digital and paperless courts
✅ Large-scale digitisation of legacy court records
✅ Promotes virtual hearings and interoperability
✅ Uses Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Analytics, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
🔆 Major Benefits & Initiatives
📍 National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG)
✅ Online dashboard providing information on pending and disposed cases, court orders, judgments, and case details
✅ Separate dashboards for the Supreme Court, High Courts, and District Courts
✅ Improves transparency, accountability, judicial planning, and case monitoring
📍 e-Filing
✅ Enables filing of documents online from anywhere
✅ Supports online payments, e-signatures, Vakalatnamas, application filing, and case tracking
✅ Provides multilingual support and reduces dependence on physical paperwork
📍 Virtual Hearings & Nyaya Shruti
✅ Video conferencing allows litigants, lawyers, witnesses, prisoners, and other stakeholders to participate remotely
✅ Nyaya Shruti enables virtual testimony of accused persons, witnesses, police, prosecutors, experts, and prisoners
📍 e-Sewa Kendras
✅ Citizen-friendly digital help centres established in court complexes
✅ Assist with case status, hearing dates, certified copies, e-filing, digital signatures, e-payments, and virtual hearings
✅ Help citizens access free legal aid and other judicial services
🔆 Digital Criminal Justice Ecosystem
📍 Interoperable Criminal Justice System (ICJS)
✅ Connects Police, Courts, Prisons, Prosecution, and Forensic institutions
✅ Enables electronic exchange of FIRs, charge-sheets, court orders, and forensic reports
📍 Key Platforms
✅ CCTNS – Computerisation and networking of police processes
✅ e-Sakshya – Digital collection and management of evidence
✅ e-Summons – Electronic generation and transmission of court summons
✅ e-Forensic – Digital management of forensic cases
✅ e-Prison – Digital prison and prisoner management
✅ e-Prosecution – Digital coordination between police and prosecution
✅ NAFIS – Centralised fingerprint identification system
✅ MedLEaPR – Digital medico-legal examination and post-mortem reporting
✅ ITSSO – Tracks investigation of sexual offences against statutory timelines
🔆 Other Digital Innovations
📍 National Service and Tracking of Electronic Processes
✅ Enables GPS-based tracking of summons and notices
✅ Makes service of judicial processes faster and more transparent
📍 Digital Access & Tracking
✅ Around 4 lakh SMS messages and 6 lakh emails are sent daily by the judiciary
✅ e-Courts portals receive around 35 lakh visits daily
✅ e-Courts app has recorded around 3.84 crore downloads
✅ JustIS App assists judges with case management
🔆 AI & Technology under Phase III
📍 Emerging Tools
✅ LegRAA – Assists judges in legal research and document analysis
✅ Digital Courts 2.1 – Enables paperless case management through a single-window platform
✅ ASR-SHRUTI – Voice-to-text technology for judicial proceedings
✅ PANINI – Translation support for Indian languages
✅ eSCR – Enables access to judgments and their translation into 18 Indian languages
✅ AI tools are being used to detect defects in e-filed petitions and extract metadata
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🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS – 08 AUGUST 2026
🔆 GEOGRAPHY
📍 Shrinking Danube River
✅ Danube River, Europe’s second-longest river, has reached historic record-low water levels
✅ Flows from Germany to the Black Sea, passing through 10 countries
✅ Volga is Europe’s longest river
✅ Major causes: Sahara-fuelled heatwaves and severe rainfall deficits
✅ Impacts include disrupted supply chains, emergency energy shutdowns and halted tourism
✅ Falling water levels have also exposed buried historical remains
🔆 POLITY & GOVERNANCE
📍 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (Amendment) Bill, 2026
✅ Parliament passed the MSME (Amendment) Bill, 2026
✅ Central Government empowered to notify MSME categories using investment and turnover criteria
✅ Filing of MSME memorandum made voluntary
✅ Governments can establish digital registration platforms
✅ CPSEs and notified entities required to clear MSME invoices through TReDS
✅ Courts may order payment of at least 50% of awarded amount if a challenge remains pending beyond 6 months
✅ Mediation to be completed within 90 days
✅ Minor violations decriminalised; replaced with graded penalties of ₹1,000–₹50,000
📍 All-India Licence for Container Train Operators
✅ Indian Railways modified the Model Concession Agreement
✅ Container Train Operators (CTOs) can operate across all Indian Railways routes under a single licence
✅ Uniform registration fee: ₹25 crore
✅ Earlier route-wise permissions and separate fees removed
✅ Licence may be extended for another 20 years after expiry
🔆 INTERNATIONAL
📍 16th BRICS Trade Ministers’ Meeting
✅ Held in Jaipur, Rajasthan under India’s BRICS Chairship 2026
✅ Theme: “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability”
✅ Reaffirmed commitment to a reformed, consensus-based WTO with a functioning dispute-settlement system
✅ Adopted Jaipur Consensus
✅ Launched GVC Action Plan 2026–2030 focusing on SEZs and digital trade documentation
✅ Approved principles for cross-border digitally delivered services
✅ Established BRICS Technical Council alongside BRICS Connect
✅ Reviewed BRICS Economic Partnership Strategy 2030
📍 Ebola Outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo
✅ Confirmed Ebola cases surpassed 4,000 for the first time in the country’s history
✅ Reported as the DRC’s largest-ever Ebola outbreak
✅ Affected provinces: Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu, Haut-Uele and Tshopo
✅ Capital: Kinshasa
🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
📍 Hybrid Magneto-Rheometer Developed by IIT Patna
✅ IIT Patna developed a custom-designed hybrid magneto-rheometer
✅ Characterises next-generation magnetorheological (MR) fluids
✅ Simultaneously evaluates rheological properties (flow/deformation) and tribological properties (friction/wear)
✅ Tests fluids under combined compression and shear
✅ Generates a high-magnitude constant magnetic field using low electrical current
✅ Applications: automotive, robotics and healthcare
📍 Ancient Catastrophe of Neptune’s Moons
✅ NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detected magnesium-rich clay minerals on Neptune’s small moons and rings
✅ Minerals indicate prolonged interaction between liquid water and rock
✅ Evidence suggests Neptune’s original moon system may have been destroyed by a massive ancient catastrophe
✅ Present inner moons may have re-formed from the shattered remains of an earlier larger world
📍 X-Band Doppler Weather Radar at Wayanad
✅ IMD will commission an X-Band Doppler Weather Radar at Pulpally, Wayanad, Kerala
✅ Collaboration between Ministry of Earth Sciences, KSDMA and Pazhassi Raja College
✅ Coverage radius: 100 km
✅ Operates at 8–12 GHz frequency with 2–4 cm wavelength
✅ Short wavelengths enable detection of light rain, tiny water droplets and fog
✅ Aims to strengthen very-short-range weather forecasting and disaster warnings in the Western Ghats
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🔆 GEOGRAPHY
📍 Shrinking Danube River
✅ Danube River, Europe’s second-longest river, has reached historic record-low water levels
✅ Flows from Germany to the Black Sea, passing through 10 countries
✅ Volga is Europe’s longest river
✅ Major causes: Sahara-fuelled heatwaves and severe rainfall deficits
✅ Impacts include disrupted supply chains, emergency energy shutdowns and halted tourism
✅ Falling water levels have also exposed buried historical remains
🔆 POLITY & GOVERNANCE
📍 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (Amendment) Bill, 2026
✅ Parliament passed the MSME (Amendment) Bill, 2026
✅ Central Government empowered to notify MSME categories using investment and turnover criteria
✅ Filing of MSME memorandum made voluntary
✅ Governments can establish digital registration platforms
✅ CPSEs and notified entities required to clear MSME invoices through TReDS
✅ Courts may order payment of at least 50% of awarded amount if a challenge remains pending beyond 6 months
✅ Mediation to be completed within 90 days
✅ Minor violations decriminalised; replaced with graded penalties of ₹1,000–₹50,000
📍 All-India Licence for Container Train Operators
✅ Indian Railways modified the Model Concession Agreement
✅ Container Train Operators (CTOs) can operate across all Indian Railways routes under a single licence
✅ Uniform registration fee: ₹25 crore
✅ Earlier route-wise permissions and separate fees removed
✅ Licence may be extended for another 20 years after expiry
🔆 INTERNATIONAL
📍 16th BRICS Trade Ministers’ Meeting
✅ Held in Jaipur, Rajasthan under India’s BRICS Chairship 2026
✅ Theme: “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability”
✅ Reaffirmed commitment to a reformed, consensus-based WTO with a functioning dispute-settlement system
✅ Adopted Jaipur Consensus
✅ Launched GVC Action Plan 2026–2030 focusing on SEZs and digital trade documentation
✅ Approved principles for cross-border digitally delivered services
✅ Established BRICS Technical Council alongside BRICS Connect
✅ Reviewed BRICS Economic Partnership Strategy 2030
📍 Ebola Outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo
✅ Confirmed Ebola cases surpassed 4,000 for the first time in the country’s history
✅ Reported as the DRC’s largest-ever Ebola outbreak
✅ Affected provinces: Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu, Haut-Uele and Tshopo
✅ Capital: Kinshasa
🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
📍 Hybrid Magneto-Rheometer Developed by IIT Patna
✅ IIT Patna developed a custom-designed hybrid magneto-rheometer
✅ Characterises next-generation magnetorheological (MR) fluids
✅ Simultaneously evaluates rheological properties (flow/deformation) and tribological properties (friction/wear)
✅ Tests fluids under combined compression and shear
✅ Generates a high-magnitude constant magnetic field using low electrical current
✅ Applications: automotive, robotics and healthcare
📍 Ancient Catastrophe of Neptune’s Moons
✅ NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detected magnesium-rich clay minerals on Neptune’s small moons and rings
✅ Minerals indicate prolonged interaction between liquid water and rock
✅ Evidence suggests Neptune’s original moon system may have been destroyed by a massive ancient catastrophe
✅ Present inner moons may have re-formed from the shattered remains of an earlier larger world
📍 X-Band Doppler Weather Radar at Wayanad
✅ IMD will commission an X-Band Doppler Weather Radar at Pulpally, Wayanad, Kerala
✅ Collaboration between Ministry of Earth Sciences, KSDMA and Pazhassi Raja College
✅ Coverage radius: 100 km
✅ Operates at 8–12 GHz frequency with 2–4 cm wavelength
✅ Short wavelengths enable detection of light rain, tiny water droplets and fog
✅ Aims to strengthen very-short-range weather forecasting and disaster warnings in the Western Ghats
#CurrentAffairs
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🔆 RANKS & REPORTS
📍 FAO Food Price Index
✅ Monthly trade-weighted index tracking international prices of major food commodities
✅ Global food prices reached a 3-year high in July 2026
✅ Surge may trigger renewed domestic food inflation within 3–6 months
✅ Key factors: geopolitical conflicts, disruption of Black Sea trade routes, Strait of Hormuz risks and extreme climate events
📍 World Development Report 2026 – The Promise of Artificial Intelligence
✅ Published by the World Bank
✅ AI could accelerate developing-country economic progress if key infrastructure gaps are addressed
✅ High-income countries face over 3× higher GenAI automation risk than low- and middle-income countries
✅ AI could improve productivity in 16%+ of jobs in developing economies and 18%+ in advanced economies
✅ Developing countries face gaps in reliable electricity, internet, data systems, skills and institutions
✅ AI can improve agricultural productivity and climate resilience with adequate infrastructure and equitable access
#CurrentAffairs
📍 FAO Food Price Index
✅ Monthly trade-weighted index tracking international prices of major food commodities
✅ Global food prices reached a 3-year high in July 2026
✅ Surge may trigger renewed domestic food inflation within 3–6 months
✅ Key factors: geopolitical conflicts, disruption of Black Sea trade routes, Strait of Hormuz risks and extreme climate events
📍 World Development Report 2026 – The Promise of Artificial Intelligence
✅ Published by the World Bank
✅ AI could accelerate developing-country economic progress if key infrastructure gaps are addressed
✅ High-income countries face over 3× higher GenAI automation risk than low- and middle-income countries
✅ AI could improve productivity in 16%+ of jobs in developing economies and 18%+ in advanced economies
✅ Developing countries face gaps in reliable electricity, internet, data systems, skills and institutions
✅ AI can improve agricultural productivity and climate resilience with adequate infrastructure and equitable access
#CurrentAffairs
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