06th August, 2026

1. C-DAC and the Geological Survey of India (GSI) Sign MoU to Advance Mineral Exploration and Disaster Management
2. IIT Hyderabad and Crimson Energy Launch India’s First Nuclear Training Programme ‘ANUGYAN’
3. ICAR Develops India’s First Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Genome of the Pigeonpea Variety ‘Asha’
4. Jupiter Wagons and Lucchini RS Partner to Establish a Rail Wheel Manufacturing Platform in India
5. Niyo Forex and GlobalPay Secure Perpetual Authorised Dealer Category-II (AD-II) Licence from RBI
6. Air India Appoints Tewolde Gebremariam as Chief Executive Officer
7. Air India and Azerbaijan Airlines Sign a Codeshare Partnership
8. Prasanta Mahapatra Assumes Charge as Executive Director of SEBI
9. Former Bihar and Tripura Governor and Padma Shri Awardee D. Y. Patil Passes Away
10. Cabinet Secretary T. V. Somanathan and Home Secretary Govind Mohan Receive One-Year Extension
11. Indigenous African Swine Fever (ASF) Vaccine Developed by ICAR
12. TRAI Revamps the MyCall App to Improve Voice Call Quality
13. Supreme Court Tightens Rules to Curb Digital Arrest Scams
14. Hiroshima Day 2026 – August 6
15. 16th Hockey India Junior Men National Championship Begins in Coimbatore

National News

IIT Hyderabad Launches Civil Nuclear Technology Programme

• What: IIT Hyderabad, in partnership with Crimson Energy Experts Pvt Ltd (CEEPL), launched ANUGYAN – Nuclear Technology Orientation Programme (NTOP) to develop skilled professionals for India’s civil nuclear energy sector.
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  • The three-month residential programme provides industry-oriented training in reactor technologies, nuclear safety, Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) compliance, and simulator-based operations.
  • The initiative supports India’s target of increasing nuclear power capacity from 8.8 GWe to 100 GWe by 2047, while IIT Hyderabad, CEEPL, and Dassault Systèmes signed an MoU to establish the Centre of Design Excellence in Nuclear Engineering (CODENE).
  • The launch of ANUGYAN follows an MoU signed between IIT Hyderabad, Dassault Systèmes and Crimson Energy Experts during Bharat Innovate 2026 in Nice, France.

Jupiter Wagons Partners with Lucchini RS for Railwheel Manufacturing

• What: Jupiter Wagons Ltd (India) partnered with Lucchini RS Holding SpA (Italy) to establish India’s first fully integrated private-sector railwheel manufacturing platform.
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  • Lucchini RS Holding SpA and SIMEST SpA will invest around €28 million (₹307 crore) under the Sistema Italia framework to acquire a 25% stake in Jupiter Tatravagonka Railwheel Factory Pvt Ltd (JTRWF), with 15% and 10% stakes, respectively.
  • JTRWF will integrate its Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar facility with a greenfield plant in Odisha to manufacture rail wheels, axles, and wheelsets.

Supreme Court Issues Directions to Curb Digital Arrest Scams

• What: The Supreme Court of India issued nationwide directions to curb digital arrest scams, directing the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to frame a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) within four weeks for handling mule accounts.
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  • A Bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant directed States to operationalise grievance redressal, money restoration modules, and the e-Zero First Information Report (e-Zero FIR) mechanism.
  • According to the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), digital arrest complaints declined from 1,23,672 in 2024 to 16,377 up to 30 June 2026.
  • The Court also asked the Government to examine a technological kill switch for unusually long video calls, while an Inter-Departmental Committee (IDC) will study a shared liability and victim compensation framework.

Banking and Economy

Niyo Forex and WSFx Global Pay Secures Perpetual AD Category-II Licence

• What: Niyo Forex, operating through Kanji Forex Private Limited, received a perpetual Authorised Dealer Category-II (AD-II) licence from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), ensuring long-term continuity of its foreign exchange operations.
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  • The licence enables Niyo Forex to expand foreign exchange services and branches without repeated RBI approvals, meeting rising demand from overseas travel, education, business, and cross-border transactions.
  • WSFx Global Pay Limited also received an expanded AD-II licence under the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 2026 (FEMA 2026).
  • The expanded licence allows WSFx Global Pay to handle eligible non-trade transactions, process trade remittances up to ₹25 lakh, and appoint Forex Correspondent Agencies to expand regulated foreign exchange services across India.

Science and Technology

ICAR Develops India’s First Indigenous African Swine Fever Vaccine

• What: Scientists at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research–National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (ICAR–NIHSAD), Bhopal, developed India’s first indigenous live attenuated vaccine against African Swine Fever (ASF) to protect pigs and support farmers.
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  • The vaccine uses a Genotype II African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) with gene deletions, cultured in the MA-104 cell line.
  • The MA-104 cell line enables low-cost, large-scale production, while helping prevent losses caused by ASF, which previously resulted in ₹276 crore losses in Assam and ₹982 crore losses affecting 11,382 households in Mizoram.

TRAI Revamps MyCall App for Voice Call Quality Assessment

• What: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) revamped the TRAI MyCall mobile application to enable users to rate and report their real-time voice calling experience.
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  • The app enables users to rate calls, report call issues, test network coverage, and help TRAI and telecom operators improve voice call quality using quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) data.

Agriculture and Rural Development

ICAR Develops India’s First T2T Genome of Pigeonpea

• What: The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) developed India’s first fully annotated telomere-to-telomere (T2T) reference genome of the pigeonpea variety ‘Asha’, providing a complete genetic blueprint for a major pulse crop.
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  • The project was led by the ICAR–National Institute for Plant Biotechnology (NIPB), New Delhi, building on its achievement of publishing the world’s first draft genome of a pulse crop in 2011.
  • The genome assembly spans 752.65 million base pairs across 92 contigs, covering all 11 chromosomes, 11 centromeres, and 22 telomeres.
  • Researchers identified 36,557 genes, and the genome sequence was deposited in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database on 20 April 2026.
  • The resource will accelerate the development of climate-resilient and high-yielding pigeonpea varieties through gene discovery, molecular breeding, and genome editing, supporting the Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses target of 35 million tonnes of pulse production by 2030–31.

Important Days

Hiroshima Day 2026 – August 6

• The United Nations General Assembly established the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (26 September) in December 2013, with annual observance beginning in 2014.

Sports

16th Hockey India Junior Men National Championship Begins

• The 16th Hockey India Junior Men National Championship 2026 began in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, with 30 teams competing until 8 August for the national title across three divisions.

Memorandum of Understanding

C-DAC and GSI Sign MoU for Geoscience Collaboration

• What: The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and the Geological Survey of India (GSI) signed an Umbrella Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in New Delhi to collaborate in geoscience, mineral exploration, and disaster management.
• Tell me more:
  • The partnership uses AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC) for advanced subsurface exploration to accelerate critical mineral and Rare Earth Element (REE) discovery and strengthen technological self-reliance.
  • The collaboration will support landslide monitoring using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), early warning systems, and Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) studies.

Appointments

Air India Appoints Tewolde Gebremariam as CEO and MD

• Air India appointed Tewolde Gebremariam as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director (MD), succeeding Campbell Wilson to lead the airline’s next phase of growth.
• Separately, Air India signed a codeshare agreement with Azerbaijan Airlines, placing its code on Delhi–Baku and Mumbai–Baku flights, allowing passengers to book the entire journey on one ticket.
• Air India currently has 26 codeshare partnerships and over 120 interline agreements with airlines worldwide.

Prasanta Mahapatra Takes Charge as SEBI Executive Director

• What: Prasanta Mahapatra assumed charge as Executive Director of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to oversee the Corporation Finance Investigation Department and the Recovery and Refund Department.
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  • Before his appointment, Mahapatra served as Chief General Manager at SEBI.

Cabinet Secretary and Home Secretary Get One-Year Extension

• The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) approved a one-year extension in the tenure of Cabinet Secretary T. V. Somanathan and Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan.
• His tenure has been extended beyond 30 August 2026 by one year.

Miscellaneous

Former Governor Dr D Y Patil Passes Away

• What: Former Governor of Tripura and Bihar Dr D Y Patil passed away in Kolhapur at 90 years of age after making enduring contributions in politics education and social service.
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  • Dr D. Y. Patil founded Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology (RAIT) in 1983, received the Padma Shri in 1991, and established the D. Y. Patil Group, which now manages 180+ educational institutions.

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