🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 30 JANUARY 2026

🔆 ECONOMY & SURVEY

📍 Economic Survey 2025–26
✅ GDP growth (FY26): 7.4% | GVA: 7.3%
✅ Potential growth: ~7% | FY27 outlook: 6.8–7.2%
✅ Avg inflation (Apr–Dec 2025): 1.7%
✅ Gross NPAs: 2.2% (Sept 2025 – multi-decadal low)

📍 Financial Inclusion
✅ PMJDY accounts: 55.02 crore (36.63 crore rural/semi-urban)
✅ Investors: 12 crore+ (25% women)

📍 External Sector
✅ Services exports: $387.6 bn (FY25, +13.6%)
✅ Remittances: $135.4 bn (world’s highest)
✅ Forex reserves: $701.4 bn (11 months import cover)

📍 Power Gap Index (New)
✅ From Asia Power Index
✅ India: strong resources, influence below potential

🔆 AGRICULTURE & RURAL

📍 Foodgrain Output
✅ 3577.3 LMT (AY 2024–25) | +254.3 LMT

📍 PM-KISAN
✅ ₹4.09 lakh crore+ transferred since launch

📍 MGNREGS Reform
✅ Viksit Bharat–GramG aligned with Viksit Bharat 2047

🔆 INDUSTRY & INFRASTRUCTURE

📍 Manufacturing
✅ GVA growth: Q1 7.72% | Q2 9.13%

📍 PLI Scheme
✅ 14 sectors | Investment ₹2 lakh cr+
✅ Output ₹18.7 lakh cr+ | Jobs 12.6 lakh+

📍 Semiconductors
✅ 10 projects | Investment ₹1.60 lakh cr

📍 Infrastructure Push
✅ High-speed corridors: 550 km (2014) → 5,364 km (2026)
✅ Airports: 74 → 164 | Rail lines added (FY26): 3,500 km
✅ India: 3rd largest domestic aviation market

🔆 BANKING & FINANCE

📍 Insurance Innovation
✅ Digit Insurance pays parametric crop claims
📍 Location: Tonk, Rajasthan | ~500 farmers
✅ Based on Water Balance Index (no field survey)

🔆 INTERNATIONAL

📍 Health & Environment
✅ Lancet: Health impact of plastics may double by 2040

📍 Gold Market
✅ Global demand 2025: 5,002 tonnes (record high)

🔆 NATIONAL

📍 Culture & Heritage
✅ Living Root Bridges (Meghalaya) submitted to UNESCO
📍 Evaluation cycle: 2026–27

📍 Maritime Manufacturing
✅ NSHIP-TN mega shipbuilding cluster
📍 Location: Thoothukudi, TN | Outlay: ₹19,989 cr

📍 AI Ecosystem
✅ India ranks 8th globally in AI investment intensity (WEF)

📍 Agriculture Governance
✅ High-level committee to strengthen FPOs in Tamil Nadu

🔆 DEFENCE

📍 Aviation Manufacturing
✅ HAL + Russia (UAC) to produce SJ-100 aircraft in India

📍 Drones
✅ Indian Army selects V-BAT autonomous VTOL drones
📍 Indian manufacturing: JSW Defence (Hyderabad)

🔆 ENVIRONMENT & LIVELIHOODS

📍 Namami Gange
✅ 25 JALAJ livelihood centres inaugurated
✅ Focus: women-led, community river economy

🔆 STATES

📍 Tamil Nadu
✅ Knowledge City Project foundation laid

📍 Assam
✅ Eti Koli Duti Paat Scheme
✅ ₹5,000 to tea workers | ₹15,000 to pregnant workers

📍 Meghalaya
✅ First State-led Spice Festival (Mumbai)

📍 Karnataka
✅ Gig Workers Welfare Development Board notified

🔆 AWARDS & OBITUARY

📍 Republic Day Parade 2026
✅ Best Service Contingent: Indian Navy
✅ Best State Tableau: Maharashtra

📍 Aviation
✅ Delhi IGI Airport — Best Airport (Wings India 2026)

📍 Literature
✅ Arundhati Roy — Mathrubhumi Book of the Year

📍 Obituary
✅ Former India hockey coach Michael Nobbs passes away

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🔆 Supercapacitors

📍 What’s the News?
✅ Indian researchers have developed a high-voltage supercapacitor using a dual-functional porous graphene carbon nanocomposite (PGCN) electrode.
✅ The innovation can significantly boost electric vehicle (EV) performance and renewable energy storage.

📍 Why is it Important?
✅ Faster acceleration and extended driving range for EVs
✅ Improved solar and grid-scale energy storage efficiency
✅ Supports clean energy transition

📍 About Supercapacitors
✅ Electrochemical devices that store charge via electrostatic action (not chemical reactions like batteries)
✅ Key components: Anode, Cathode, Electrolyte, Separator
✅ Use high specific surface area electrodes and thin dielectrics → very high capacitance

📍 Key Advantages
✅ Long cycle life (millions of charge–discharge cycles)
✅ High power density (rapid charging & discharging)
✅ Environment-friendly and durable

📍 UPSC Relevance
✅ GS3 – Science & Technology | Energy Storage | EVs | Climate Tech

📌 Prelims Pointer:
➡️ Supercapacitors ≠ Batteries → High power delivery but lower energy density than batteries.

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🔆 PAHAL Scheme

📍 Basics
✅ PAHAL (DBT for LPG) launched in 2013
✅ Ministry: Petroleum & Natural Gas
📍 Objectives
✅ Make LPG distribution efficient, transparent & inclusive
✅ Prevent diversion of subsidised LPG for commercial use
✅ Ensure subsidy goes directly to genuine consumers
📍 How It Works
✅ All LPG cylinders sold at uniform RSP
✅ Subsidy is transferred directly to the consumer’s bank account

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🔆 PAIMANA Portal Launched

📍 What’s the News?
✅ A new web-based portal PAIMANA has been operationalised by the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI).

📍 About PAIMANA
✅ Full Form: Project Assessment, Infrastructure Monitoring & Analytics for Nation-building
✅ Nature: Web-based project monitoring & analytics portal

📍 Key Purpose
✅ Monitoring Central Sector Infrastructure Projects
✅ Covers projects worth ₹150 crore and above

📍 What Does it Replace?
✅ Replaces OCMS-2006 (Online Computerised Monitoring System)

📍 Core Principle
✅ “One data, one entry” → avoids duplication & improves data consistency

📍 Integration & Data Flow
✅ Integrated with Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade’s
Integrated Project Monitoring Portal (IPMP / IIG–PMG)
✅ API-based automatic data flow

📍 Key Features
✅ Centralised national repository of infrastructure projects
✅ Advanced analytics & dashboards
✅ Role-based access control
✅ Reporting & query modules
✅ Data gap identification for better decision-making

📍 Why it Matters?
✅ Improves project monitoring efficiency
✅ Enhances transparency & accountability
✅ Supports evidence-based policymaking

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🔆 Archaeological Developments – Indus Valley Civilisation

📍 Key Chronology

✅ 1826 – Harappa first visited by Charles Mason

✅ 1875 – Alexander Cunningham reports on Harappan seals
▪ First Surveyor of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) (1861)

✅ 1921 – M.S. Vats begins excavations at Harappa

✅ 1925 – Excavations begin at Mohenjodaro

✅ 1946 – R.E.M. Wheeler excavates at Harappa

✅ 1955 – S.R. Rao begins excavations at Lothal

✅ 1960 – B.B. Lal and B.K. Thapar begin excavations at Kalibangan

✅ 1990 – R.S. Bisht begins excavations at Dholavira

📍 Additional Facts

✅ Alexander Cunningham visited Harappa in 1853, 1856, and 1875
✅ Sir John Marshall, as Director General of ASI, initiated systematic research at Harappa
✅ Played a pivotal role in the development of archaeology in India

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🔆 Bacterial Diseases – Quick Revision Table

📍 Tuberculosis
✅ Agent: Mycobacterium tuberculosis
✅ Transmission: Air-borne
✅ Prevention: BCG vaccine

📍 Diphtheria (UPSC 2014)
✅ Agent: Corynebacterium diphtheriae
✅ Transmission: Person-to-person (respiratory droplets)
✅ Prevention: DTaP/DTP vaccine

📍 Cholera
✅ Agent: Vibrio cholerae
✅ Transmission: Contaminated water/food
✅ Prevention: Dukoral vaccine, sanitation

📍 Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease)
✅ Agent: Mycobacterium leprae
✅ Transmission: Droplets (nose & mouth)
✅ Treatment: Multidrug Therapy (MDT)

📍 Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
✅ Agent: Bordetella pertussis
✅ Transmission: Air-borne
✅ Prevention: DTaP/DTP vaccine

📍 Tetanus
✅ Agent: Clostridium tetani
✅ Transmission: Spores in environment (wounds)
✅ Prevention: DTaP/DTP vaccine

📍 Plague
✅ Agent: Yersinia pestis
✅ Transmission: Flea bites, direct contact, droplets
✅ Prevention: Sanitation, rodent control

📍 Gonorrhea
✅ Agent: Neisseria gonorrhoeae
✅ Transmission: STD
✅ Treatment: Intramuscular ceftriaxone

📍 Syphilis
✅ Agent: Treponema pallidum
✅ Transmission: STD
✅ Treatment: Benzathine penicillin G

📍 Typhoid (Enteric Fever)
✅ Agent: Salmonella typhi
✅ Transmission: Contaminated food/water
✅ Prevention: Oral & injectable vaccines

📍 Pneumococcal Disease (UPSC 2020)
✅ Agent: Streptococcus pneumoniae
✅ Transmission: Respiratory secretions
✅ Prevention: PCV13, PCV15, PCV20

📍 Streptococcal Pharyngitis
✅ Agent: Streptococcus pyogenes
✅ Transmission: Respiratory droplets
✅ Treatment: Penicillin, Amoxicillin

📍 Bacterial Meningitis
✅ Agents: Neisseria meningitidis, S. pneumoniae
✅ Transmission: Droplets, direct contact
✅ Treatment: Antibiotics (e.g., ceftriaxone)

📍 Leptospirosis
✅ Agent: Leptospira spp.
✅ Transmission: Contaminated water
✅ Treatment: Doxycycline

📍 Anthrax
✅ Agent: Bacillus anthracis
✅ Transmission: Inhalation, ingestion, skin contact
✅ Treatment: Ciprofloxacin

📍 Brucellosis
✅ Agent: Brucella spp.
✅ Transmission: Unpasteurised dairy, infected animals
✅ Treatment: Doxycycline + Rifampin

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‘Education to Employment and Enterprise’ Standing Committee to recommend measures that focus on the Services Sector as a core driver of Viksit Bharat. This will make us a global leader in services, with a 10% global share by 2047. The Committee will prioritise areas to optimise the potential for growth, employment and exports. They will also assess the impact of emerging technologies, including AI, on jobs and skill requirements and propose measures thereof.

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