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🔆 ONE LINERS – 11 SEPTEMBER 2026

📍 POLITY & GOVERNANCE

🔆 First-Ever CSR Framework for Coal Companies
🟢 Ministry of Coal & Coal India Limited (CIL) marked major healthcare milestones and launched India’s first sector-specific CSR framework for coal companies.
🟢 Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojana: Funded 1,050+ bone marrow transplants, providing up to ₹10 lakh per child across 21 hospitals.
🟢 Nanha Sa Dil: Screened 2 lakh+ children and completed 1,500 free heart surgeries for children with congenital heart defects.
🟢 CSR Framework: Aims to channel mining-sector CSR funds more effectively towards local community health and education.

📍 ECONOMY

🔆 Demat 2.0 – Corporate Bond Tokenisation
🟢 SEBI & RBI launched the Demat 2.0 pilot at the Global Fintech Fest, Mumbai.
🟢 Objective: Test tokenisation of corporate bonds using CBDC and blockchain for faster settlement.
🟢 Tokenisation: Converting financial assets into smaller digital units, potentially enabling wider participation in asset ownership.
🟢 Led by CDSL & NSDL, with participation from BSE, NSE, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank & NPCI.
🟢 Demat 1.0 (1996): Digitised shareholding; Demat 2.0 adds tokenised securities and smart contracts.
🟢 Future scope includes equity, mutual funds and gold; RBI is also exploring gold tokenisation.

🔆 First Shipment of Lithium from Zimbabwe
🟢 India’s Lohum dispatched its first shipment of lithium ore from Matabeleland South Province, Zimbabwe.
🟢 Secured 10 mining blocks covering 1,100 hectares, with estimated deposits of 30–40 million tonnes.
🟢 Expected production: 300,000 metric tonnes lithium carbonate equivalent, valued at around $7 billion.
🟢 Expansion option covers up to 90 adjacent blocks.
🟢 Supports India’s broader critical minerals value chain, including refining, advanced manufacturing and recycling.

📍 ENVIRONMENT

🔆 Badingilo–Boma Landscape – South Sudan’s First UNESCO World Heritage Site
🟢 Boma & Badingilo National Parks were designated as South Sudan’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2026.
🟢 Covers around 30 million acres and forms part of Africa’s largest intact savanna ecosystem.
🟢 Protects the migration of around 6 million antelopes, including white-eared kob and Mongalla gazelle.
🟢 Supports around 470 bird species, including shoebills, storks and kingfishers.
🟢 Landscape comprises interconnected wetlands, swamps, woodlands and grassy plains, linked to the Sudd Ramsar wetland.
🟢 Significance: Strengthens biodiversity conservation, protection of migratory species and international investment in the region.

📍 DEFENCE

🔆 El Alamein International Airshow 2026
🟢 IAF Sarang Helicopter Display Team reached Egypt for the 2nd El Alamein International Airshow.
🟢 Sarang is the world’s only five-helicopter display team, flying the indigenously designed ALH Dhruv.
🟢 Displays include the famous “Dolphin Leap” and new “Spot Stall Turn” manoeuvres.
🟢 Highlights India’s precision flying, synchronisation and indigenous aerospace capability.

🔆 22nd India–US Yudh Abhyas Exercise
🟢 22nd edition of Exercise Yudh Abhyas is being conducted in India between the Indian Army and US Army.
🟢 Focus: High-altitude warfare, long-range precision fires, counter-drone operations and interoperability.
🟢 US participation includes the 11th Airborne Division and 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force (3MDTF).
🟢 Includes command-post exercises, field training and combined live-fire demonstrations.
🟢 New feature: M-LIDS (Mobile-Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aircraft Integrated Defeat System) deployed in India for the first time.

🔆 4th Edition – Exercise Samudra Laksamana
🟢 INS Mysore arrived at Lumut, Malaysia for the bilateral maritime exercise with the Royal Malaysian Navy.
🟢 Activities include cross-deck visits, operational interactions and sporting events.
🟢 Objective: Enhance interoperability, professional exchange and mutual understanding.
🟢 Aligned with India’s MAHASAGAR vision and the ASEAN–India Year of Maritime Cooperation 2026.

📍 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

🔆 CE20 Cryogenic Engine – 220 kN Thrust
🟢 ISRO successfully conducted a flight-acceptance hot test of the CE20 cryogenic engine at an uprated 220 kN thrust.
🟢 Date: 9 September 2026 | Venue: ISRO Propulsion Complex, Mahendragiri, Tamil Nadu.
🟢 The engine is earmarked for the C32 upper stage of an upcoming LVM3 mission.
🟢 Higher thrust is expected to enhance LVM3 payload capability and support the Gaganyaan programme.

🔆 India’s Nuclear Arsenal – FAS Report
🟢 Federation of American Scientists (FAS) estimates India possesses around 190 nuclear warheads.
🟢 Around 30 warheads are associated with new missiles under production, while 160+ are estimated for operational launchers.
🟢 India has produced around 730 kg of weapon-grade plutonium, estimated to be sufficient for approximately 140–225 warheads.
🟢 India continues to modernise its air-, land- and sea-based nuclear delivery systems.
🟢 Nuclear doctrine remains based on credible minimum deterrence and No First Use (NFU).
🟢 FAS notes uncertainty regarding India’s progress on boosted-fission and thermonuclear designs.

🔆 Bird Hearing Technology – Bhoramdev Wildlife Sanctuary
🟢 Chhattisgarh Forest Department will introduce audio-based bird hearing technology in Bhoramdev Wildlife Sanctuary.
🟢 Audio-recording devices will capture bird and animal sounds across core and buffer zones.
🟢 Helps identify species presence, behaviour and impacts of human activity and natural factors.
🟢 Initially focused on birds, with scope to expand monitoring to smaller animals and insects.
🟢 The 351 sq km sanctuary will use a grid-based survey for device installation.
🟢 Complements camera traps, enabling more comprehensive biodiversity monitoring.

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🔆 Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY): Six Years

📍 Why in News?
🟢 PMMSY completed six years on 10 September 2026.
🟢 Launched in 2020–21, it aims to modernise India’s fisheries value chain.
🟢 BE 2026–27: ₹2,500 crore.

📍 Scheme at a Glance
🟢 Total Outlay: ₹20,750 crore.
🟢 Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying — Department of Fisheries.
🟢 Structure: Umbrella scheme comprising Central Sector (CS) and Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) components.
🟢 Builds on the earlier Blue Revolution scheme, expanding from production to the wider value chain.

📍 PM-MKSSY
🟢 Pradhan Mantri Matsya Kisan Samridhi Sah-Yojana — 2023–24 to 2026–27.
🟢 Outlay: ₹6,000 crore.
🟢 Focus: formalisation, insurance and institutional finance.

📍 Progress & Outcomes
🟢 Approved projects: ₹21,394.88 crore as of 11 August 2026, including Central share of ₹9,510.89 crore.
🟢 Fish production: 141.64 lakh tonnes (2019–20) → 197.75 lakh tonnes (2024–25).
🟢 Fisheries exports: ₹46,663 crore (2019–20) → ₹73,890 crore (2025–26).
🟢 Government cites 58 lakh direct and indirect jobs in fisheries and aquaculture-related activities.

📍 Infrastructure & Collective Institutions
🟢 ₹2,797 crore approved for cold-chain and marketing infrastructure.
🟢 Includes 775 cold storages/ice plants, 24 wholesale and 117 retail fish markets and 28,000+ fish transportation units.
🟢 2,195 Fish Farmers Producer Organisations (FFPOs) supported with ₹544.86 crore.
🟢 100 Climate Resilient Coastal Fishermen Villages identified; ₹200 lakh per village under the CS component.

📍 Digital Fisheries Ecosystem
🟢 National Fisheries Digital Platform (NFDP) launched in September 2024 under PM-MKSSY.
🟢 37 lakh+ registrations as of 8 September 2026.
🟢 Enables access to credit, insurance and traceability.

📍 Technologies to Know
🟢 RAS: Recirculates and filters water for intensive aquaculture with minimal land and water use.
🟢 Bio-floc: Uses beneficial microbes to recycle nutrients and requires little water exchange.
🟢 NFDB: National Fisheries Development Board, strengthened under the CS component.

📍 Critical Challenges
🟢 Government employment/income figures are self-reported and not independently verified outcomes.
🟢 Concerns over deep-sea fishing regulation and overexploitation of coastal stocks.
🟢 Small and traditional fishers may face limited access to benefits linked to formal registration and institutional credit.

📍 Significance
PMMSY marks a shift from production-oriented fisheries policy towards an integrated value-chain approach covering infrastructure, exports, digital governance and fisher welfare.

📌 Mains Practice Question

Discuss the role of the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana in transforming India’s fisheries value chain. What structural challenges remain in ensuring the scheme’s benefits reach small and traditional fishers?
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🔆 ONE LINERS – 12 SEPTEMBER 2026

📍 HISTORY, ART & CULTURE

🔆 Brick Structure Found in Kollidam Riverbed
🟢 A possible Sangam-period water-management structure, around 2,000 years old, was found on the Kollidam riverbed at Koogur near Lalgudi, Tiruchi district, Tamil Nadu.
🟢 The site is close to the ancient Kallanai dam, traditionally attributed to Karikala Chola.
🟢 Structure contains large rectangular and wedge-shaped bricks along with stone structural elements.
🟢 Likely function: sluice, inlet/outlet channel or canal-regulating structure for water management.
🟢 Its design is comparable to an ancient water-management structure at Vanagiri near Kaveripoompattinam (Poompuhar).
🟢 Kurampu refers to a water-management structure comparable to a check dam, mentioned in literary and inscriptional sources.
🟢 Kollidam River: Northern and larger distributary of the Kaveri, splitting near Srirangam and flowing into the Bay of Bengal near Pazhaiyar.

🔆 Thirukkural – Gift to Russian President
🟢 Ahead of the BRICS Summit in New Delhi, the Indian Prime Minister gifted the Russian President a Russian-translated edition of Thirukkural.
🟢 Written by Thiruvalluvar, the classical Tamil text contains 1,330 couplets arranged in 133 chapters.
🟢 Each couplet (Kural) consists of seven words.
🟢 Three themes: Aram (Virtue) – 38 chapters; Porul (Polity) – 70; Inbam (Love) – 25.
🟢 First published in English in 1840 and subsequently translated into 60+ languages.
🟢 The Russian translation was done by Naira Mkrtchyan and published in 2026 by the Central Institute of Classical Tamil.

📍 GEOGRAPHY

🔆 Bakhira Lake – Palaeoclimate Archive
🟢 Bakhira Lake, located in Sant Kabir Nagar, eastern Uttar Pradesh, is the largest natural floodplain wetland in the state.
🟢 It forms part of the Ghaghara–Rapti alluvial system and is a perennial oxbow/floodplain wetland formed by migration and cut-off of the Rapti River.
🟢 Designated a Ramsar Site in 2022.
🟢 Sediment records extend back around 25,000 years, providing a long-term palaeoclimate archive.
🟢 Findings can support agricultural planning, flood/drought mitigation, water-resource management and wetland conservation in the Central Ganga Plain.
🟢 Important habitat for migratory and resident waterbirds.

📍 POLITY & GOVERNANCE

🔆 Recognition of Political Parties – TVK
🟢 The Election Commission of India (ECI) recognised TVK as a State Party in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
🟢 ECI registers and recognises political parties under the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968, based on electoral performance.
🟢 State Party: A registered party can qualify through any one of five criteria, including 6% votes + 2 Assembly seats, 3%/3 Assembly seats, 1 Lok Sabha seat + 6% votes, 1/25th Lok Sabha seats, or 8% valid votes.
🟢 National Party: Recognition requires satisfaction of any one of three prescribed criteria.
🟢 Recognised parties enjoy reserved symbols, up to 40 star campaigners, free broadcast time on state media and other electoral facilities.
🟢 Recognition is important for a party’s electoral identity and campaign privileges.

🔆 National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK)
🟢 Bhagwat Prasad Makwana assumed charge as Chairperson of the NCSK.
🟢 Constituted on 12 August 1994 as a statutory body under the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis Act, 1993.
🟢 After the Act lapsed in 2004, NCSK became a temporary non-statutory body, with its tenure periodically extended; currently extended up to 31 March 2028.
🟢 Mandate: Safeguard the rights, interests and welfare of Safai Karamcharis and monitor implementation of relevant laws and schemes.
🟢 Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment.
🟢 Composition: Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson, 5 members including at least one woman member, and a Secretary.

📍 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & ISSUES

🔆 International Space Summit 2026 – India–France Cooperation
🟢 India and France signed/announced three agreements at the International Space Summit in Paris.
🟢 Space Surveillance:Safran Space–Dhruva Space contracts worth €5 million+ for technologies supporting India’s planned 52-satellite space-surveillance constellation (2027–30).
🟢 Satellite Launches: French launch-services provider RIDE! and India’s TakeMeToSpace agreed to launch two satellites, including an atmospheric re-entry capsule aboard PSLV.
🟢 Microsatellites:U-Space–AXISCADES commercial cooperation to explore India’s growing microsatellite market.
🟢 Significance: Deepens India–France strategic cooperation in space technology, surveillance and commercial launch services.

📍 ENVIRONMENT

🔆 National Forest Martyrs Day 2026
🟢 Observed annually on 11 September to honour forest guards, rangers and community members who lost their lives protecting forests, wildlife and biodiversity.
🟢 2026 Theme:“Guardians of the Green: Honouring Sacrifice, Sustaining Biodiversity.”
🟢 The date commemorates the Khejarli Sacrifice of 1730 in Rajasthan.
🟢 Led by Amrita Devi Bishnoi, more than 360 Bishnoi community members sacrificed their lives while protecting sacred Khejri trees.
🟢 The sacrifice is regarded as an inspiration for later environmental movements such as the Chipko Movement.
🟢 Focus: Recognising frontline conservation personnel and strengthening public responsibility for forest and wildlife protection.

📍 SECURITY

🔆 Lipulekh Pass – India–Tibet Trade Route Reopens
🟢 The India–Tibet trade route through Lipulekh Pass has reopened, with a 17-member Indian delegation entering Taklakot, Tibet.
🟢 Located at 17,000+ feet in Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, connecting the Kumaon region with Tibet near the India–Nepal–China trijunction.
🟢 The route was closed after the 1962 India–China war; trade resumed in 1992 but was suspended again in 2019.
🟢 India–Nepal territorial issue: Nepal claims the Kalapani region near the pass; India rejects the claim.
🟢 Indian traders export spices, tea, jaggery, sugar candy, cosmetics and household goods and import wool, pashmina, yak hair, garments and footwear.
🟢 Reopening is expected to revive cross-border trade and livelihoods in Dharchula and surrounding border villages.

📍 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

🔆 OneTag – FASTag Portability
🟢 Union Minister launched OneTag at the Global Fintech Fest 2026, Mumbai.
🟢 Allows users to change their FASTag issuer bank while retaining the existing physical tag.
🟢 Joint initiative of IHMCL and NPCI, promoted by NHAI and NPCI.
🟢 Service will be available through the Rajmargyatra app.
🟢 India has 98%+ FASTag penetration, with around 13 crore NETC FASTags issued and approximately 6 crore active tags.
🟢 Long-term goal: barrier-free tolling, using AI and automatic number-plate recognition for zero stoppage and zero waiting time.

🔆 7th Global Fintech Fest 2026
🟢 The Global Fintech Fest (GFF 2026) is being held in Mumbai as a four-day global fintech gathering.
🟢 Organised by Payments Council of India (PCI), NPCI and Fintech Convergence Council (FCC).
🟢 Theme:“Potential to Impact: Trusted, Connected, Global Systems for Inclusive Finance.”

📍 MISCELLANEOUS

🔆 Digvijay Diwas 2026
🟢 Observed annually on 11 September to commemorate Swami Vivekananda’s historic address at the World’s Parliament of Religions, Chicago, on 11 September 1893.
🟢 He began with “Sisters and Brothers of America”, receiving an enthusiastic response.
🟢 Presented India’s philosophical traditions, particularly Vedanta, on the global stage.
🟢 Emphasised religious tolerance, universal acceptance, interfaith harmony and universal brotherhood.
🟢 Digvijay means “proclamation of victory” and symbolises India’s victory in the realm of ideas and spiritual thought.

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