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🔆 ONE-LINERS | 10 OCTOBER 2026

🔆 POLITY & GOVERNANCE
📍 National Strategy for Additive Manufacturing (NSAM) 2.0
🟢 Led by MeitY; aims to build India’s digital and 3D manufacturing ecosystem.
🟢 Target: USD 5 billion domestic AM market and 5% of the global market by 2030.
🟢 Focus: indigenous innovation, MSME support, electronics, defence, sustainability and global standards.
🟢 Phase 1 (launched February 2022): trained 1.54 lakh+ individuals, supported 56+ start-ups and developed 65 India-specific technologies.
🟢 Established 7 Development and Deployment Centres across Hyderabad, Mehsana, Pune, Visakhapatnam, Kolkata, Mandi and Bengaluru.
🟢 2nd National Additive Manufacturing Symposium (NAMS) held in New Delhi on 13 March 2026.

🔆 INFRASTRUCTURE
📍 Narendra Modi International Airport, Noida-Jewar
🟢 Uttar Pradesh Cabinet approved renaming Noida International Airport, Jewar; announced by CM Yogi Adityanath on 9 October 2026.
🟢 Located in Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, serving the National Capital Region.
🟢 Inaugurated on 28 March 2026; commercial operations commenced on 15 June 2026.
🟢 Developed through a public-private partnership involving Yamuna International Airport Pvt. Ltd. and Noida International Airport Ltd.
🟢 Phase I: 12 million passengers annually; planned ultimate capacity: 70 million passengers annually.

🔆 HEALTH
📍 JOSH (Joint Squad for Health) Initiative
🟢 Launched on 8 October 2026 under Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan to mobilise youth for TB elimination.
🟢 More than 6,347 squads; each comprises one Class-I government officer, five NCC cadets and five MY Bharat volunteers.
🟢 Functions: door-to-door screening, diagnostic referrals, treatment adherence and reduction of TB-related stigma.
🟢 Phase 1 covers 55 districts across 11 States/UTs, with planned expansion to 804 districts.
🟢 Implemented jointly by the Ministries of Health and Family Welfare, Youth Affairs and Sports, and Defence.
🟢 Activities monitored through the TB Mukt Bharat App, which also features the Khushi Avatar.

📍 World Mental Health Day — 10 October
🟢 2026 theme: “Lived experiences heard: real voices, real change.”
🟢 Announced by the WHO and World Federation for Mental Health.
🟢 WHO Atlas 2024: 80% of mental health policies/plans involved input from people with lived experience; 59% of mental health legislation consulted them.
🟢 45% reported ongoing collaboration with advocacy groups; 37% included people with lived experience in primary-care training.
🟢 Deinstitutionalisation: 9% of systems fully transitioned to community care, while 53% remained in early transition stages.

🔆 SECURITY
📍 EyeROV TROUT — Indigenous Underwater ROV
🟢 India’s first indigenous military-grade underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), developed by Kochi-based EyeROV.
🟢 Developed under the iDEX DISC 7 SPRINT Challenge for the Indian Armed Forces.
🟢 Two of five ordered systems delivered to the Indian Navy on 7 October 2026.
🟢 Operational depth: up to 300 metres; qualified by Directorate of Quality Assurance (Naval).
🟢 Applications: underwater surveillance, search and recovery, harbour security inspections and threat detection.

🔆 SCIENCE
📍 Wētāpunga — World’s Heaviest Insect
🟢 Scientific name: Deinacrida heteracantha; native to New Zealand.
🟢 Adult females can weigh around 70 grams and measure up to 10 cm in body length, with legs extending up to 20 cm.
🟢 Flightless and unable to jump; feeds mainly on green foliage, leaf litter and protein.
🟢 Invasive predators and habitat loss restricted the species largely to Little Barrier Island by the 1990s.
🟢 A 15-year captive-breeding programme led by New Zealand conservation partners enabled over 45 translocations, releasing approximately 11,000 individuals across eight predator-free islands and two fenced mainland sanctuaries.
🟢 Conservation status improved from Nationally Endangered to Nationally Increasing.

🔆 REPORTS & INDEX
📍 UNCTAD Trade and Development Report 2026
🟢 Title: “The Geoeconomics of Development.”
🟢 Global economic growth projected at 2.6% in 2026, compared with 2.9% in 2025.
🟢 Global merchandise and services trade expected to grow around 4% in real terms in 2026.
🟢 Asia is projected to contribute 59% of global economic growth; developing-economy growth is expected to slow to 4%.
🟢 Country growth projections: India 7.3%, China 4.5% and Indonesia 5.2%.
🟢 AI-related goods accounted for around one-sixth of global goods trade value and 42% of its growth in 2025.
🟢 An advanced AI server-rack case study found 68% of traced value went to profits, while workers received less than 15%.
🟢 Key concerns: AI-driven financial vulnerabilities, geoeconomic fragmentation, energy-price shocks and declining development assistance.
🟢 Middle East conflicts pushed oil prices above USD 110 per barrel; official development assistance is projected to fall nearly 7%.

🔆 MISCELLANEOUS
📍 Central Asian Flyway (CAF) Digital Hub
🟢 Open-access regional platform developed by the Central Asian Conservation Network (CACN) for migratory-bird conservation.
🟢 Covers 30 countries across North, Central and South Asia and supports information on 600+ bird species.
🟢 Features: bird-collision reporting, ringing and resighting records, educational resources and a multilingual regional database.
🟢 Supports cross-border collaboration among researchers, birdwatchers, educators and conservation agencies.
🟢 Complements international cooperation under the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) and the Central Asian Flyway Initiative.

📍 Iron Age Skeletal Remains — Tamil Nadu
🟢 Complete skeletal remains of two Iron Age individuals were discovered at Thelunganur, near Salem, Tamil Nadu.

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