04 August 2026 Current Affairs & PDF

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• India has reached a major milestone in financial inclusion, achieving 99.92% physical banking coverage across its inhabited villages. According to Ministry of Finance data presented in the Lok Sabha by Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary, 6,00,868 out of 6,01,328 inhabited villages now have a touchpoint—a bank branch, Business Correspondent (BC), or India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) center—within a 5 km radius.
• The 2026 Candere Hurun India Women Leaders List honors 117 exceptional women across 12 sectors, led by BIBA founder Meena Bindra (Rank 1) and featuring 24-year-old Paralympic champion Avani Lekhara (Rank 6) as the youngest in the top 10. Evaluated on enterprise valuation, social impact, and digital influence, the rankings spotlight diverse trailblazers—including Lupin’s Tushara Shankar, Mrs. Bectors’ Rajni Bector, ReNew’s Vaishali Nigam Sinha, Apollo Hospitals’ Suneeta & Preetha Reddy, Sudha Murty, Ananya Birla, Faye D’Souza, and Square Yards’ Kanika Gupta Shori—primarily operating out of Mumbai and New Delhi.
• On August 3, 2026, Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav announced that Glaw Lake in Arunachal Pradesh has been designated as India’s 101^st Ramsar Site. This marks the first-ever Ramsar wetland recognition for Arunachal Pradesh.
• The National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO), under the Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, launched a dynamic, real-time portal and mobile application notto.mohfw.gov.in aimed at standardizing organ donation and transplantation across India. The platform replaces decentralized hospital-level records with a unified national framework to bring transparency, efficiency, and equity to organ allocation.
• President Droupadi Murmu met with the nine-member, all-women tri-service crew of the Indian Army Sailing Vessel (IASV) Triveni at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The interaction marked national recognition for the crew following their successful completion of the historic global sailing expedition, “Samudra Pradakshina”
• Former Chief Justice Manmohan Singh Liberhan, who headed the judicial commission investigating the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition, passed away at the age of 87 in Chandigarh
• The Pacific island nation formerly known as Nauru has officially adopted its traditional indigenous name, changing its formal title to the Republic of Naoero.The decision, announced by President David Adeang, aims to reclaim the nation’s native language, heritage, and cultural identity from colonial-era alterations.
• Uganda’s military unveiled a statue of Lieutenant Colonel Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu—the older brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—outside the old terminal building at Entebbe Airport.
• The Government of India has proposed reforms under the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill to relax the “safe harbour” tax conditions for Eligible Investment Funds (EIFs) operating from or managed within India. The proposals focus on amending Section 9A of the Income-tax Act, 1961, to incentivize global fund managers to relocate to India without subjecting offshore funds to domestic business connection tax liabilities.
• India’s manufacturing growth moderated to a near five-year low in July 2026, driven primarily by softer domestic demand and challenging market conditions. However, the sector remains in expansion territory above the neutral 50.0 threshold for the 57^th consecutive month.
• DeepSeek-V4-Flash is an efficiency-optimized, Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model developed by DeepSeek as part of the DeepSeek-V4 model family. It is engineered for high-throughput, low-latency, and cost-effective execution across large-scale text, coding, and agentic workflows.
• Jammu & Kashmir seam-bowling all-rounder Auqib Nabi has earned his maiden call-up to the Indian team, replacing Jasprit Bumrah in the Test squad for the upcoming two-match Test series against Sri Lanka.

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