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🔆 Aspirational District Programme (ADP) & Aspirational Block Programme (ABP)

📍 In News:
NITI Aayog launched Sampoornata Abhiyan 2.0 to ensure saturation of key performance indicators under the Aspirational Districts Programme and Aspirational Blocks Programme.

📍 Sampoornata Abhiyan 2.0

✅ Launched by: NITI Aayog
✅ Objective:
• Sustained push to achieve last-mile saturation of key development indicators
• Covers Aspirational Districts + Aspirational Blocks

📍 Aspirational District Programme (ADP) – 2018

✅ Launched by: NITI Aayog
✅ Coverage: 112 districts across India
✅ Core Aim:
• Rapid and effective transformation of backward districts through convergence, collaboration, and competition

📌 Key Focus Areas (5 Themes)

✅ Health & Nutrition
✅ Education
✅ Agriculture & Water Resources
✅ Financial Inclusion & Skill Development
✅ Infrastructure

📌 Monitoring Mechanism

✅ Progress measured on: 49 key development indicators
✅ Real-time data-driven ranking to promote competitive federalism

📍 Aspirational Block Programme (ABP) – 2023

✅ Launched by: NITI Aayog
✅ Coverage:
• 513 Blocks
• Spread across 329 districts

✅ Objective:
• Saturation of essential government services at the block level
• Strengthen grassroots governance and last-mile delivery

📌 ADP vs ABP – Quick Comparison

✅ ADP (2018): District-level transformation (112 districts)
✅ ABP (2023): Block-level saturation (513 blocks)
✅ Common Approach:
• Outcome-based monitoring
• Convergence of schemes
• Cooperative & competitive federalism

📌 Prelims Pointers

✅ Both ADP & ABP are NITI Aayog initiatives
✅ Sampoornata Abhiyan 2.0 = Saturation drive
✅ ADP → 49 indicators | 5 themes
✅ ABP → Last-mile service delivery focus

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🔆 Polar Vortex – Winter Storms in USA (Prelims Ready)

📍 What is Polar Vortex?
✅ Large, persistent low-pressure cold air mass over Polar Regions
✅ Contained by Polar-front Jet Stream (separates cold polar & warm tropical air)

📍 Rotation
✅ Counter-clockwise → North Pole
✅ Clockwise → South Pole

📍 Formation Factors
✅ Strong temperature gradient (pole vs tropics)
✅ Coriolis force (Earth’s rotation)
✅ Pressure gradient force
✅ Jet stream interaction

📍 Stability Mechanism
✅ Strong vortex → Jet stream tight & circular → Cold air locked near poles
✅ Weak vortex → Jet stream wavy → Cold air spills south (USA winter storms)

📍 Types
✅ Tropospheric PV: 10–15 km (direct weather effects)
✅ Stratospheric PV: 15–50 km (strongest in winter)

📍 Impacts
✅ Extreme cold waves in mid-latitudes
✅ Ozone depletion (esp. Antarctic ozone hole)
✅ Climate link: Arctic amplification → more instability & frequent cold outbreaks

📍 India Angle
⚠️ No direct impact
✅ Indirect influence via Western Disturbances pushed by Arctic winds

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🔆 Brass Work in India – Key Crafts & Centres

📍 Pembarthi Crafts (Telangana)
✅ Centre: Warangal district, Telangana
✅ Feature: Exquisite sheet metal (brass) art
✅ Used to adorn temple chariots and shrines

📍 Dhokra Casting
✅ Centres: Odisha and West Bengal
✅ Technique: Traditional Lost Wax Method
✅ Material: Alloy of nickel, brass, and zinc
✅ One of the oldest surviving metal casting traditions in India

📍 Gaja Tandava
✅ Centre: Kerala
✅ Theme: Lord Shiva depicted in Tandava posture
✅ Represents cosmic dance and dynamic energy

📍 Rare Jain Imagery & Icons
✅ Centre: Karnataka
✅ Reflects the presence of ancient Jain pilgrimage centres
✅ Features finely crafted Jain Tirthankara images

📍 Pahaldar Lamps
✅ Centres: Jaipur and parts of Uttar Pradesh
✅ Made from copper and brass
✅ Produced in varied styles and shapes, used in rituals & decor

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🔆 Major Space Telescopes & Observatories

📍 Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

✅ Wavelength Range:
• Visible light
• Ultraviolet light

✅ Purpose:
• Imaging distant galaxies, stars, and nebulae

✅ Key Discoveries:
• Age of the universe
• Evidence for dark energy
• Understanding formation of stars and galaxies

📍 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO)

✅ Wavelength Range:
• Gamma rays

✅ Purpose:
• Study of high-energy astronomical phenomena

✅ Key Discoveries:
• Identification of new gamma-ray sources
• Gamma-ray bursts
• Active galactic nuclei

📍 Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO)

✅ Wavelength Range:
• X-rays

✅ Purpose:
• Observation of hot, high-energy objects in space

✅ Key Discoveries:
• Detailed images of hot gas around
• Galaxies
• Galaxy clusters

📍 Spitzer Space Telescope (SST)

✅ Wavelength Range:
• Infrared

✅ Purpose:
• Observing cool and dusty objects

✅ Key Discoveries:
• Detection of exoplanets
• Insights into galaxy formation
• Study of star-forming regions

📌 Quick Prelims Takeaways

✅ Visible/UV → Hubble
✅ Gamma rays → Compton Observatory
✅ X-rays → Chandra
✅ Infrared → Spitzer

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🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 29 JANUARY 2026

🔆 BANKING & FINANCE

📍 Insurance Sector
✅ Boards of Axis Max Life Insurance & Max Financial Services approve in-principle amalgamation
📍 Structure:
➡ MFSL (holding company) to merge into AMLI
➡ MFSL shareholders to receive AMLI shares
➡ Share ratio to be finalised

📍 Legal Basis
✅ Enabled by Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment) of Insurance Laws Act, 2025
📍 Regulatory approval pending from IRDAI

📍 Industrial Growth
✅ IIP growth (Dec 2025): 7.8%
📍 25-month high – MoSPI

📍 Sector-wise:
✅ Manufacturing: 8.1%
✅ Mining: 6.8%
✅ Electricity: 6.3%

📍 Upcoming Data Revisions:
✅ GDP base year → 2022–23 (27 Feb 2026)
✅ CPI base year → 2024 (12 Feb 2026)
✅ IIP base year → 2022–23 (28 May 2026)

🔆 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

📍 Climate Change
✅ USA exits Paris Climate Agreement for the second time

📍 Paris Agreement
✅ Adopted: COP-21, 2015 (Paris)
✅ In force since: 2016
✅ Parties: 195 (194 countries + EU)
✅ Objective:
➡ Keep temperature rise well below 2°C
➡ Pursue efforts to limit to 1.5°C

📍 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
✅ First Council of National Coordinators (CNC) meeting for 2026 held in Beijing
📍 Chairmanship: Kyrgyz Republic

📍 About CNC
✅ Core coordination & management body of SCO
✅ Prepares groundwork for:
➡ Council of Heads of State (CHS)
➡ Council of Heads of Government (CHG)

📍 SCO Basics
✅ Established: 2001 | HQ: Beijing
✅ Official languages: Chinese & Russian
✅ Members: 10 countries
➡ India (2017), Pakistan (2017), Iran (2023), Belarus (2024)

🔆 NATIONAL AFFAIRS

📍 Film & Culture
✅ 12th Smile International Film Festival for Children & Youth (SIFFCY) begins
📍 Venue: New Delhi | Duration: 7 days

📍 Organisers:
✅ Smile Foundation
✅ Dept. of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities

📍 Theme:
✅ Diversity
✅ Equity
✅ Inclusion

📍 Prison Reforms
✅ 9th National Conference of Correctional Administrators held in Visakhapatnam
📍 Organised by:
➡ BPRD
➡ Andhra Pradesh Prisons Dept.

📍 Financial Support:
✅ ₹160 crore for prisoner safety & welfare
✅ ₹20 crore/year for Support to Poor Prisoners Scheme

📍 Environment Governance
✅ GoI amends Uniform Consent Guidelines under:
➡ Air Act, 1981
➡ Water Act, 1974

📍 Key Changes:
✅ One-time Consent to Operate (CTO) fee
✅ Validity: 5–25 years
✅ Reduced procedural delays
✅ Strengthened SPCB & PCC functioning

🔆 CULTURE & HERITAGE

📍 Film Festival
✅ 11th Ajanta–Ellora International Film Festival held in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (MH)

📍 Highlights:
✅ Padmapani Award conferred on Ilaiyaraaja
✅ Opening film: Siret (Spain)

📍 Buddhist Heritage
✅ Odisha’s Buddhist Diamond Triangle added to UNESCO Tentative List

📍 Sites:
➡ Lalitgiri
➡ Udayagiri
➡ Ratnagiri

📍 Significance:
✅ 1,500 years of Buddhist history
✅ Covers Hinayana, Mahayana & Vajrayana phases

🔆 AGRICULTURE & FISHERIES

📍 Fishing Infrastructure
✅ GoI approves ₹200 crore Smart Fishing Harbour at Mayabunder (A&N Islands)
📍 Scheme: PM Matsya Sampada Yojana

📍 Capacity:
✅ 430 vessels
✅ 10,000 tonnes fish/year

📍 Goal:
✅ Sustainable fishing
✅ ₹1 lakh crore seafood export target by 2030–31

🔆 PANCHAYATI RAJ / GOVERNANCE

📍 MoPR Initiatives
✅ Felicitation of 240 Panchayat representatives (Republic Day invitees)

📍 Key Launches:
✅ PANCHAM Chatbot (with UNICEF)
✅ PESA State Rankings 2024–25
➡ Maharashtra – 1st
➡ Madhya Pradesh – 2nd
➡ Himachal Pradesh – 3rd

🔆 ENERGY

📍 India Energy Week 2026
✅ OPEC projects India as largest driver of global oil demand growth till 2050

📍 Key Projections:
✅ Additional demand: +8.2 mbpd by 2050
✅ Main drivers:
➡ Transport
➡ Petrochemicals
➡ Industry

🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

📍 Digital Identity
✅ New Aadhaar App dedicated to the nation

📍 Key Features:
✅ Selective data sharing
✅ QR-based verification
✅ Face authentication
✅ Biometric lock/unlock
✅ “One Family – One App” concept

📍 Education & AI
✅ CCSU Meerut becomes India’s first AI-enabled State University (pilot)
📍 Partners:
➡ MSDE
➡ Google Cloud
➡ CCSU

🔆 ENVIRONMENT

📍 Waste Management
✅ New Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026 notified
📍 Effective from: 1 April 2026

📍 Key Changes:
✅ Four-stream waste segregation:
➡ Wet
➡ Dry
➡ Sanitary
➡ Special Care waste

✅ Bulk Waste Generators defined (≥100 kg/day or ≥20,000 sq m)

🔆 STATES

📍 Jammu & Kashmir
✅ Tawi Boating Festival begins in Jammu
📍 Artificial lake created on River Tawi

📍 Maharashtra
✅ Launch of India’s first menopause clinics in public hospitals

📍 Kerala
✅ Declares Bacillus subtilis as State Microbe
📍 First Indian state to do so

📍 Uttarakhand
✅ New mushroom species Hemileccinum indicum discovered in oak forests

📍 Gujarat
✅ Namo Laxmi Scheme – ₹1,250 crore for girls’ education (Classes 9–12)

📍 Rajasthan
✅ Launch of RAJ-UNNATI digital governance platform
📍 Inspired by PRAGATI model

🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS

📍 28 January
✅ Birth Anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai (Punjab Kesari)

🔆 APPOINTMENTS

📍 Sports Administration
✅ Randhir Singh steps down as President of Olympic Council of Asia (OCA)
📍 New President: Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani

🔆 AWARDS

📍 National Model Youth Gram Sabha Awards
✅ Conferred by MoPR at Bharat Mandapam
📍 Objective:
✅ Promote civic engagement & grassroots democracy

🔆 SCIENCE & TECH (CLIMATE)

📍 Glacier Hazards
✅ IIT Guwahati identifies 492 potential glacial lake sites in Eastern Himalayas
📍 Risk:
✅ Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs)

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