Sunday, 9 August 2026

WEEKLY CURRENT AFFAIRS 3RD TO 9TH AUGUST 2026

1) Sachin Siwas Clinched The Gold Medal In Men's Boxing 60 Kg Category At 23rd Commonwealth Games Glassglow 2026 

2) Ankush Panghal Wins The Gold Medal In Men's Boxing 80 kg Category At 23rd Commonwealth Games Glassglow 2026 

3) Lovlina Borgohain Clinched The SILVER MEDAL In Women's Boxing 75 Kg Category At 23rd Commonwealth Games Glassglow 2026 

4) Arundhati Chaudhary Wins Gold Medal In Women's Boxing 70 Kg Category At 23rd Commonwealth Games 2026 

5) Narender Berwal Wins Silver In Men's Boxing in 90 Kg Category At 23rd Commonwealth Games Glassglow 2026 

6) Gulveer Singh Wins Bronze Medal In Men's 5000 meter At 23rd Commonwealth Games 2026 

7) Mahindra Group Has Launched A New Aerospace Company Named - NOVAVAYU Aerospace 

8) Odisha Cabinet Has Approved The PMAY - ( U) Bandhu - a Rs 1615. Crores State Scheme To Complement PMAY- U 2.0 

9) ODISHA Cabinet Has Approved The Mega Economic Region - The BKPPER Set To Odisha's First Integrated Economic Corridor 

* Amendment To ODA Act - 1982 New Chapter II A 

* Multi District Economic Corridor For Jobs, Investment And Infrastructure 

* BKPPER - Bargarh - Jharsuguda -Sambalpur - Berhampur - Gopalpur - Jeypore - KORAPUT 

* The Cabinet Has Cleared The ODISHA Development Authority ( Amendment) Bill 2026, Which Allows The Creation Of Economic Region Development Authority ( ERDAs) Across State 

* ODISHA Chief Secretary Anu Garg Highlights The BKPPER - Region As Economic Corridor 

10) TANVI SHARMA Wins The Women's Single Title At TAIPEI OPEN 2026 ( Badminton Super 300) 

11) The Fifth Ship Of Diving Support Craft Project DSC A24 Launched On 1st August 2026, Built By Titagarh Railway System At Kolkata 

12) India's Research And Development Spending 

13) ODISHA Police Rescued 17590 Missing WOMEN And Children In 2026 

14) UPI Recorded 23.66 Billion Transaction Worth Rs 29.9 Lakh Crores In July 2026 

15) N R Krishnaswamy, A Senior Orthodontist From Chennai Became The First Orthodontist From India To Qualify As Diplomat Of The European Board Of Orthodontics ( EBO)



16) Vijay Sundar Prasanth & Ram Kumar Ramanathan Wins The Men's Double Title At ATP 75 BONN Challenger 

17) India's Krishna Mahendran & Alyssa Ahn Finishes As Runners Up At ITF W35 Florence 

18) Hungarian PRIME MINISTER Peter Magyar Announced The Shut Down Of Only Nuclear Power Plant 

19) President Droupadi MURMU Has Virtually Flagged Off The President Bodyguard ( PBG) Solideration From Delhi 

20) India's Coal Production Growth ( 7.51% in July 2026 ( 86.33 MT Production in July 2026) As Compared To ( 73.57 MT in July 2025) 

21) Sikkim Nathu La BORDER Resumes On Trading After 6 Years Between India And China 

22) Treesa And Gayatri Gopichand Have Wins The Women's Double Title At Philippine International Challenge 

23) Ginnapaul Sonna Wins The Men's Single Title At Philippine International Challenge 


24) India's Sanya Vats Finishes As Runners Up At Squash Victorian Open 2026 

25) India Finishes With 39 Medals Including 13 Gold, 17 Silver And 9 Bronze Medal At 23rd Commonwealth Games Glassglow 2024) ( 4th Spot) Overall 

INDIAN Organ Donation Day - 3rd August 


1) A New Catfish Species PSEUDECHENEIS LIKIMROENSIS Described From Nagaland 

* SPECIES Named After LIMIMRO River 



2) India Finishes At Fourth Position At 23rd Commonwealth Games 2026 Glassglow 

3) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Has Virtually Inaugurated The ASIP Technologies Rs 2387. Crores OSAT Semiconductor Technology At Tarluvada, Andhra Pradesh 

4) Maharshtra Became The Top State With Highest UPI TRANSACTION ( Rs 2,67,412 Crores )

5) Emma Finucane Became The First Sprinter To Win 4 Gold Medal in A Single Tournament At 23rd Commonwealth Games 2026 

6) Scottish Wheelchair Racer Melanie Woods Received The Prestigious David Dixon Award 

7) Heritage Conservationist And Konark Sun Temple Researchers Anil Dey Passed Away.



8) Vishwesh Negi Appointed As Indian Ambassador To Republic Of Iran 

9) India's First Braille Book On Drug Prevention Launched In Bhubaneswar, Odisha 

* Book Titled On Drug Prevention  - Yes To Life No To Drugs - 

* Launched By Social Worker - Dr Mohammad Imran Ali 

10) Willie Walsh Takes Charge As Indigo CEO 

11) Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Pandavis Has Inaugurated The NVIDIA - Powered AI Centre Of Competency At Ramdeobaba University 

12) The Indian Statistical Institute Bill 2026 And 

* The Bankers Book Evidence Bill 2026 Introduced In Lok SABHA ( Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Introduced) 

13) On The Occasion Of 16th National Organ Donation Day, Union Minister Of Health And Family Welfare Anupriya Patel Launched The Year Long - JUG JUG JIYO Campaign To Honour Organ Donors And Their Families 

* She Also Launched The e- Pratyaropan, India's Next Generation National Platform For Organ And Tissue Donation And Plantation 

14) Foreign Minister Of Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Saidov Arrives India 

15) New Delhi Host The 4th Tri Service Future Warfare Course 

16) Air Chief Marshal A P Singh, Chief Of Air Staff Of Indian Air Force On Visit To Vietnam 

17) India Is Home To 13,703 SPECIES Of Lepidoptera Butterflies And Moths, ( Which Is 8.25% Of World) 

18) Lok SABHA Passes The Supreme Court ( Number Of Judges) Amendment Bill 2026 ( 34- to 38) Including CJI 

19) AIIMS Bhubaneswar Odisha Has Wins National Organ Transplant AWARD 

20) Rajya Sabha Passes The Micro, Small And Medium Entreprise Development ( Amendment) Bill 2026 

21) RETIRED IPS OFFICER Shobha Ohatkar Has Appointed As The Chairperson Of The Bihar Staff Selection Commission ( BSSC) Under The BSSC Act 2002

22) President Droupadi MURMU Inaugurated The Jagadguru Kripalu University At Kataka, Odisha 

23) Punjab State Minister Barinder Kumar Launched The Punjab Mining Management System ( PMMS) Portal 

24) President Droupadi MURMU Has Unveiled The Statue Of Freedom Fighter  Utkalamani Gopabandhu Das In New Delhi 

25) Senior Bjp LEADER And Madhya Pradesh Minister Paras Chandra Jain Passed Away 

26) Young Cyclist Harshita Jakhar Became First Indian Woman To Feature At Tour de France Femmes In Switzerland 

27) GLAW LAKE OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH Gets RAMSAR Site (101st RAMSAR SITES OF INDIA) 
International Clouded Leopard Day - 4th August 

THEME 2026 - Clouded Leopards: Guardians Of The Forest 

International Owl Awareness Day - 4th August 

1) FSSAI Has Prohibited Dabur India From Selling Food Products Carrying Misleading 100% Claims.


2) India Recorded 20,138 Organs Plants In 2025, 

* 4990 Transplant In 2013 

* India Now Ranked Third Globally In Organ Transplant 

* Reports By National Organ And Tissue Transplant Organisation ( NOTTO) 

* United States (2), China (2) 

* Delhi Topped With 4564 Ranked One - 

* Tamilnadu With (2796) 

* Maharshtra (2136) 

* Telengana (1523) 

* Kerala ( 1489) 

( Tamilnadu Ranked One In Deceased Organ Donors With 266) followed By Maharashtra (205), Telengana (198), Karnataka (154) Kerala (152) 


3) Murmansk, Russia The First Nuclear Power Ice Breaker - Lenin - Is in News ( Unveiled in 1959) 

4) Department Of Post Released The Commemorative Postage Stamp To Mark Centenary Of Satish Gujral 



5) Director Of Indian Institute Of Astrophysics ( IIA) Smt Annapurni Subramaniam Has Received The Prestigious Vikram Sarabhai MEDAL 2026 

6) IIT Hyderabad Launched The India's First Industry - Academia Programme In Nuclear Technology - ANUGYAN 

* IIT Hyderabad In Collaboration With Crimson Energy Experts Private Limited ( CEEPL) Inaugurated The ANUGYAN 

* ANUGYAN - Is The Nuclear Technology Orientation Programme ( NTOP)

* Expertise To Equip Participants With Advanced Knowledge In Reactor Physics, Thermal Hydraulic, Small Modular Reactor ( SMRs), Nuclear Safety, Regulatory Compliance, And Simulator Based Training 

* This Efforts To Make India's Nuclear Power Capacity To 100 GWE By 2047


7) India's R & D Expenditure Has Crossed Rs 2.44 Lakh Crores Gross Expenditure On R & D ( GERD) Increase From Rs 79,356 Crores (2013/14) To Rs 2,44,768 Crores (2023/24) 

8) Arunachal Pradesh 's Nikter Yati Wins Gold Medal At International Taekwondo Championships in Thailand 

9) Azad Engineering And DRDO India Successfully Manufacturing And Delivery OF India's First Indigenous 350 Kg Thrust Class - Expandable Turbojet Engine 

10) FORMER West Bengal Governor , And Senior Leader Padmashree Dr D Y Patil Passed Away 


11) ARUNACHAL PRADESH Governor Shri K T Parnaik Honours IMC Mayor Likha Nari Tadar With Land Of The Rising Sun Medallion 



12) Justice M S Liberhan, Who Headed Babri Masjid inquiry Commission Has Passed Away 

13) Veteran Congress Leader Karuthodi Radhakrishnan Passed Away 

14) Sumant Rao Pendharkar, Director Of Vico Laboratories Passed Away 

15) Professor Chandra Murthy, Has Been Appointed As The First Nokia Supported Chair Professor In AI & Communication At IISC 

16) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Has Introduced The The Taxation And Other Laws ( Amendment) Bill 2026 In Lok SABHA 

17) Indian Men's Team Wins Bronze In Sepaktakraw World Championships ( Thai Kings Cup) 

18) The Appropriation Bill 3 ( Amendment,) bill Passed in Lok SABHA 

19) ODISHA Police Signed MoU with NFSU For The Strengthening The Cyber Crime Investigation 

20) Alex Ela Clinched The Women's Single Title At Mubadala DC Open 2026

21) A S Rajeev, Former Bank of Maharashtra MD Took Charge As The Acting CVC 

22) 18 Years Old 364 Days YOUNG Boy Nathan Thomas Become The World's Youngest Professor At Miami Dade College. 

23) Union Agriculture Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan Has Unveiled The Indigenous African Swine Fever ( ASF) Vaccine Developed By ICAR ( MA-104) 



24) India Has Bought Back 274 Fugitive Criminals From 36 Countries From 2019

25) India's Author Ashwin Sanghi Wins The Inaugural JSW Prize In Literature At Bhutan 



26) JKNC Chief Farooq Abdullah Has Launched The Book - Vaiko In Parliament 

27) Fuego, In Guetmala Volcano Erupts 

1) Parliament Passed The Registration Of Birth And Deaths Amendment ( Bill) 2026 


2) Bhubaneswar, Odisha Host The 13th BRICS Education Ministers Meeting And 3rd BRICS Senior Official Meeting From 5-7th August 2026 

3) Jan Elaine Soriano Wins The 2026 Science & PINS Prize For Neuromodulation For Work, That Could Prevent Blood Pressure Crises After Spinal Cord Injury 

4) Nauru, The World's Third Smallest Country ( Of PACIFIC Islands) Has Changed It's Name To Republic Of Naoero 

* Total Population Is 12,000 

* Independent On 1968 

5) Indian Council Of Agricultural Research ( ICAR) Has Developed India's First Fully Annotated Telomere - to - Telomere Reference Genome Of Pigeonpea Variety Named ASHA 

* Popularly Known As ARHAR Or TUR 


6) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Has Keep Unchanged It's Repo Rate - 5.25% For FY 2026/27 

* Marginal Standing Facility & Bank Rate REMAINS Same (5.50%) 

* Standing Deposit Facility ( SDF) Remains At 5.0% 

* Real GDP Growth Projected 6.7% For FY 2026/27 

* CPI Inflation For 2026/27 - Projected 5.00% 


7) The Durian Flavour Book Author - Gurjit Singh 

8) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman On 4th August 2026 Introduced The The Taxation And Other Laws ( Amendment) Bill on Lok SABHA 

* This Bill Aims To Revamps India's Tax Framework To Draw Foreign Capital, Bolster Electronic Manufacturing, Build Artificial Intelligence, And Cloud Infrastructure, Help To Global Hub For Rough Diamond Trade 


9) Supreme Court Extended The Mandatory Third Party Motor Insurance Coverage Of New Vehicle By a Year 

10) Researchers At IIT ROORKEE Have Developed A Catalytic Strategy That Enable The Conversion Of Renewable Alcohol Into High Value Organic Molecule Using An Earth Abundant Nickel Catalyst 

11) Tamilnadu State Government Has Allocated Rs 5,462 Crores For Pensioners ( Budget), Rs 11,532 Crores For Revenue & Disaster Management, Rs 475 Crores For Stamps And Registration, Rs 438 Crores For Natural Resources 

12) Andhra Pradesh Minister Nara Lokesh And Badminton Star PV SINDHU Have Inaugurated And Laid Foundation Stone of PV SINDHU Centre Of Sports Excellence At Vishakapatnam 


13) An Indian Flagged Merchant Vessel - With 13 Indian nationals Aboard Come Under Attack At The Off Coast Of Oman 

14) IIT Bhubaneswar Signed MoU with Banashree Semiconductor To Advance Chip Design Research 

15) The Government Of India Has Extended One More Year Of Shri T V Somanthan As  Cabinet Secretary 

16) Indian Contingent Have Win 11 Medals Including 2 Gold, 3 Silver And 6 bronze medal At Indonesia Open Taekwondo 

17) IFS OFFICER T Armstrong Has Appointed As Indian Ambassador To Republic Of Armenia 

18) Government Of India Has Approved One Year Extension For Govind Mohan As Union Home Secretary 

19) Air India Has Appointed Tewolde Gebremariam As It's New CEO 

20) Linthoi Chanambam Is Became The Junior World Number 1 In Judo 






National Handloom Day - 7th August 


1) Indian Veteran Actor Pradeep Rawat Passed Away.

2) Union Road And Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari To Present The Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak To 12 Rat Miners For Their Contribution In The Rescue Of Silkyara Tunnel 

3) A Schedule -1 Sambar Deer ( Rusa Unocolour) Classified As Vulnerable On The IUCN Red List, Was Rescued By The Forest Department.

4) 2005 Batch Madhya Pradesh Based IAS OFFICER Rahul Jain Has Been Appointed As The Senior Adviser To The Executive Director Of India At IMF 

5) Gujarat Has Identified 22 Cases Of Chandipura Virus 

6) Col Shikha Bhadauria ASSUMED As Command Of 32 BRTF, Project BEACON On 30th April 2026, To Support The Amarnath Yatra In Kashmir 

7) 2002 Batch Punjab Based IAS OFFICER Baldeo Purushartha Has Appointed As Senior Adviser To The Executive Director At The Asian Development Bank ( ADB) In Manila For 3 Years 

8) NITI AYOG Released The Report - Reimagining Care: Strategies For Empowering Care Givers In Viksit Bharat @2047 

9) 2005 Batch IAS OFFICER Balamurgan D Has Been Appointed As The Minister ( Agriculture) At The Embassy Of India, Rome For 3 Years 

10) Squadron Leader Bhawana Kanth Has Successfully Completed The Prestigious Fighter Combat Leader ( FCL) Course At The Tactics And Air Combat Development Establishment TACDE In Gwalior 

11) Gray Cornelius Has Been Appointed As The Indian Under 18 Men's Rugby Head Coach 

12) 2008 Batch IAS OFFICER Shri Brijmohan Mishra Has Been Appointed As The Minister ( Economic & Commercial) At The Indian Embassy In Tokyo 

13) Anand Prakash Appointed As The Indian High Commissioner To Eswatini 

14) Princess Isabella Makes History As First Danish Royal Woman In Military Service 



15) Devesh Uttam Has Been Appointed As The Indian Ambassador To Ethiopia 

16) Governance & Development In Karnataka Book Author - Anil Kumar Vaddiraju 

17) The Meghalaya Government Has Launched The Tourist Buddy SCHEME 

18) JSW Motors Limited Has Appointed Former Journalist Pankaj Doval As Senior Vice President ( Corporate Affairs & Public POLICY) 

19) Dr Varsha Ashok Aglawe Has Became The First Woman And 54th Director General Of Geological Survey Of India (GSI)



20) I AM MY OWN LAXMI Book On Kiran Bedi ( Author - Aarti Gupta) 

21) Lok SABHA Passes The Taxation And Other Laws Amendment Bill 2026 On 6th August 2026 

22) Ms Jivisha Joshi Gangopadhyay (2013 Batch IRTS) Appointed As First Secretary ( Legal) Permanent Mission Of India To The World Trade Organisation (WTO), Geneva 



23) Cabinet Approved The Rs 23,731 Crores GOBARDHAN Scheme To Boost Clean Energy 

24) Senior Literature And Doh Poet Shri Srinivas Vinayak Kulkarni Passed Away 

25) The 8th Edition Of Exercise EX TARKASH, Bilateral Special Force Exercise Between National Security Guard ( NSG) India And The United States Special Operation Forces ( US SOF) Was Conducted From 13th July To 7th August 2026 
( HELD AT CHENNAI) 

1) Reserve Bank of India ( RBI) Has Released A List Of 17 Large ( Upper Layer or UL) Non - Banking Finance Companies ( NBFCs) Including Tata Sons 


Infrastructure Finance Company - 

a) REC Limited 
b) Power Finance Corporation Limited 
c) Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited 
d) Housing And Urban Development Corporation Limited 

DEPOSIT TAKING NBFC - ICC 

a) Bajaj Finance Limited 
b) Shri Ram Finance Limited 
c) Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Service Limited 

DEPOSIT TAKING HFC - 

a) LIC Housing Finance Limited 


NON - DEPOSIT TAKING NBFC -ICC 

a) Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company LIMITED 

b) Tata Capital Limited 

C) Muthoot Finance Limited 

D) Aditya Birla Capital Limited 

e) L & T Finance Limited 



f) HDB Financial Service Limited 

G) Piramal Finance Limited 

CORE INVESTMENT COMPANY - 

a) Tata Sons Private Limited 
b) 

NON DEPOSIT TAKING HFC - 
a) Bajaj Housing Finance Limited 

2) Congress Rajya Sabha MP Neeraj Dangi Has Been Appointed As The New Whip Of The Congress Party In Parliament.

3) AI Powered Robot - DSC - Arjun Deployed At Bhubaneswar Railway Station ODISHA 

4) Sufiya Sufi Became The First Person To Run From Kanyakumari To Karakoram (5000 Km In 86 Days & 2 Hours) 

5) Boleng, In Arunachal Pradesh To Host The Asian Rafting Championships 2026 In October 2026 

6) R Praggnanandhaa Wins The 2026 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz Tournament 2026

7) Doctors At AIIMS Delhi Have Successfully Performed Bariatric Surgery On a 32 Years Old Man Weighing 209 Kg 

8) Biam Festival Celebrated By Nagaland 's Khiamniungan Tribe 

9) India Ranked 176th Out Of 177 Countries In The Environmental Performance Index 2026 

10) Justice Abha Nayar Patel, First Woman Judge Of Zambian Supreme Court ( Indian Origin) 



11) The Micro, Small And Medium Entreprise Development Amendment Bill Passed on Lok SABHA 

12) Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio Inaugurated The Chief Minister's Yarn Bank Scheme On The Occasion Of National Handloom Day 2026 

13) DEVELOPING CHAMPION IN CRICKET Book Author - SENIOR Journalist Vedam Jaishankar 

14) Ariha Pangambam Became The India's First SENIOR Individual Women's Gold In Asian Aerobic Gymnastics Championship 



15) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari Has Set To Rename The Housing Scheme - Banglar Bari To Paschim bangla Awas 

16) Odisha And Madhya Pradesh Government Has Signed A Strategic Partnership To Accelerate The Renewable Energy 

17) Meghalaya Launched The MISSION To Protect Clouded Leopard 

18) Bengaluru Based Startup Astrobase Space Has Unveiled The EVEREST, India's First Fully INTEGRATED 80 Tonne Full Flow Stage Combustion Engine Running On Liquid Oxygen And Methane 

* Fourth Country To Initiate 
( Russia, USA, CHINA) 

19) Madhya Pradesh Hockey Academy Wins The 4th Hockey India Sub Junior Woman Academy Championship 2026 

20) Pakistan, Saudi Arabia And Turkiye Have SIGNED A Joint Defence Agreement 

1) President Droupadi MURMU Presented Sant Kabir Handloom Awards And National Handloom Awards 2025 


2) New Delhi Host The 9th India Medical Device 2026 

Theme 2026 - Towards Vikasit Bharat: Advancing India As a Global Hub For Quality Medical Devices 

3) Researchers From Delhi University And CSIR IMTECH Have Discovered A New Bacteria Species - Microbacterium Pollutisoli In Uttar Pradesh 

4) India Has Presented 5 Young Peacocks, Four Blue And One Rare White ( UN Colours) To The UN Office At Geneva 

5) Digilocker Partners With AAERI To Fast Track Document Verification For Indian Students Heading To Australia 

* New AAERI Verify Platform Eliminate Manual Paperwork Using India's DIGITAL Public Infrastructure, 

( NeGD Partner's With AAERI Launched New Digital Platform - AAERI VERIFY ) 

6) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurated The PARAM PRAGYA, An AI Powered High Performance Super Computer Facility At The Sonipat Campus At IIT DELHI 


7) Ashmita Chaliha Beats India's Rakshita Ramraj To Reach Final At Korea Masters 2026 ( Badminton) 

8) Ashish Yadav Wins SILVER In Javelin Throw At The World Athletics U-20 Championships 

9) Latha Rajnikanth, Wife Of Actor Rajnikant Launched The MAKKAL MEDAI Citizen's Platform In Chennai 

10) Titli Maji Clinched Silver In Women's 45 Kg Category Weightlifting At Tashkent 2026 Asian Youth And Junior Weightlifting And Championships 

11) 2006 BATCH IPS OFFICER Sanjukta Prasor Has Been Appointed As The IG, CRPF ( ASSAM BASED) 



12) Typhoon Dolphin Hits At Japan 

13) Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh Has Inaugurated India's First Of Its Kind Eco Educational Hub Developed by CSIR - NBRI At Lucknow 

14) The Maiden India - Myanmar Joint HADR Exercise RAHAT MITRA Concluded In Chennai 



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