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👆🏻👆🏻we predicted this topic/tech. on 4th May itself
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Drone swarm (AI-enabled warfare systems like India’s CHANAKYA and China’s “Atlas” swarm) is in news globally, making it highly probable for Prelims 2026.

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CHANAKYA Drone Swarm
Core Idea:
• Indigenous AI-driven swarm autonomy framework (L&T)
• Not a drone —> acts as “digital brain” for UAV swarm
• Shift: Remote-controlled UAVs —> Autonomous systems

Working Mechanism
• Decentralised architecture (no central command node)
• Local data processing —> less dependence on satellite links
• Drones share data & self-organise in real-time

Key Functional Features:
• Autonomous brain: minimal human input
• Role assignment: scout / jammer / decoy / striker
• Real-time adaptability

Operational Strengths
• Compressed kill-chain —> faster “sensor-to-shooter” loop
• Resilience: works even if drones are destroyed/jammed
• Self-reconfiguration of swarm instantly

Strategic Utility:
• Border dominance (LoC & LAC)
• Persistent surveillance in difficult terrain
• Reduces risk to soldiers

Strategic Shift:
• Change in India’s military DNA
• Reduces dependence on foreign tech
• Enhances private sector role in defence

ALSO ASKED IN 71st BPSC MAINS 2026

Don’t forget to relate the concept with our previous post—> https://t.me/civils_web/13345

Link/relate with this post as well—> Bhargavastra to counter swarm drone system= https://t.me/civils_web/7449

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National Manuscripts Survey under the Gyan Bharatam Mission: Bihar ranked 1st in India by completing about 1,000 manuscript surveys out of 5,500 conducted nationwide (2026).

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• Gramin Swachhata Survekshan 2025 ranked Bihar as the best-performing state in Eastern India in rural sanitation.

• Bhagalpur (Bihar) was declared the best district of the Eastern Zone in rural cleanliness rankings.

• Survey indicators included ODF sustainability, solid & liquid waste management (SLWM), community participation, and sanitation behaviour change.

• Bihar outperformed Odisha, Jharkhand, and West Bengal in the Eastern regional sanitation rankings.

• Rural sanitation programmes in Bihar focused on waste segregation, plastic waste management, compost generation, and Panchayat-level cleanliness committees.

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Jamui–Jhajha–Chakai forest belt has been declared Bihar’s first natural elephant corridor, spread over about 46 km length and 50 m width, connecting forest patches for safe elephant movement.

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• “Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit” is Norway’s highest honour conferred on foreign Heads of Government; PM Narendra Modi became the recipient in May 2026.

• The award was conferred by King Harald V of Norway during PM Modi’s Norway visit - the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Norway in 43 years.

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