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📰 Daily Current Affairs – 4 July 2026
📅 Saturday, 4 July 2026
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🇮🇳 India – National Current Affairs
🚧 CCEA approves ₹14,114 Cr highway projects (Delhi & UP)
Delhi Six-Lane Tunnel (₹6,969.67 Cr): NH-148AE connecting Dwarka Expressway with Nelson Mandela Marg, Vasant Kunj. UP Greenfield Corridor (₹7,145.14 Cr): under PMGS-NMP. Expected to reduce travel time, ease congestion, improve air quality. NHAI HQ: New Delhi; India’s NH network >1.46 lakh km.
📌 Exam importance: NHAI Act, 1988; HAM (40% govt. + 60% private); PM GatiShakti National Master Plan.
📊 India ranks 94th in UN SDG Index 2026 – highest-ever
Score improved to 67.4 (from 64.1 in 2024). Significant progress in SDG 7, 8, 9, 13. Challenges remain in SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), SDG 3 (child wasting), SDG 16. Finland (1st, 86.8), Sweden (2nd, 86.6), Denmark (3rd, 85.1).
📌 Exam importance: SDSN founded 2012 under Ban Ki-moon; India’s highest rank so far.
🐾 India adds 709 new faunal species in 2025
391 new to science + 318 new country records. Total documented fauna >1,06,467. Insects (338), marine invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians. Maharashtra (74) tops, followed by Arunachal (67) & Kerala (64).
📌 Exam importance: ZSI established 1916, HQ Kolkata; Biological Diversity Act 2002; National Biodiversity Authority.
💊 Drugs Rules 1945 amended: OTC availability expanded
Over-the-Counter (OTC) access for antifungal creams, ORS, low-dose analgesics. Aims to improve access in rural/semi-urban areas. Drugs Controller General of India: Rajeev Raghuvanshi.
📌 Exam importance: Drugs & Cosmetics Act, 1940; CDSCO is national regulatory authority.
🧬 'One Health' national conference begins in Chennai
Two-day table-top simulation bringing human, animal, environmental health stakeholders. India’s National One Health Mission (2022) under ICMR. ICMR DG: Dr. Rajiv Bahl.
📌 Exam importance: One Health endorsed by WHO, FAO, UNEP, WOAH; International Health Regulations (IHR).
💡 Delhi launches 'Delhi Next – Code, Create and Change' civic-tech programme
Invites startups, developers to co-create solutions for traffic, waste, health data, water, grievance redressal. Delhi CM: Atishi Marlena; LG: Vinai Kumar Saxena.
📌 Exam importance: Aligned with Digital India & DARPG e-Governance framework.
🌾 Wild rice (Oryza rufipogon) conservation in Assam
In-situ conservation project since 2022. Wild ancestor of domesticated rice; critical for genetic diversity & climate-resilient breeding. Assam part of Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot.
📌 Exam importance: NRAA under Ministry of Agriculture; ICAR-NBPGR HQ New Delhi.
🍁 India Super Visa processing time cut to 50 days (Canada)
Super Visa allows up to 5 years per visit, 10-year validity. India is Canada’s largest immigrant source (~1.8 million Indian-Canadians). Canada PM: Mark Carney (Liberal).
📌 Exam importance: Follows India-Canada diplomatic normalization post-2025.
💰 Economy & Banking
🛢️ BPCL acquires stake in Brazil deepwater block BM-SEAL-11
Expected to add ~1 MTOE annual equity oil. BPCL is Maharatna PSU, established 1952, HQ Mumbai; CMD: G. Krishnakumar. India is world’s 3rd largest crude importer.
📌 Exam importance: Deepwater pre-salt fields; operated by Petrobras; diversification of equity oil.
📱 Razorpay & NBBL launch 'Banking Connect' mobile-first NetBanking
Unified internet banking across multiple accounts on a single mobile interface. Razorpay founded 2014 (Harshil Mathur & Shashank Kumar), Bengaluru.
📌 Exam importance: NBBL manages Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS); targets ~500 million smartphone users.
🟢 ACME Group signs green hydrogen PSA with Mitsubishi Gas Chemical (Japan)
Long-term supply of green hydrogen-derived products. Aligns with India’s National Green Hydrogen Mission (5 MMT by 2030). Follows 16th India-Japan Annual Summit (2 July 2026).
📌 Exam importance: Green ammonia for IMO 2050 decarbonisation; India-Japan clean energy cooperation.
🏫 ADB approves USD 210 million loan for Karnataka school education
Karnataka School Education Improvement Programme; aligned with NEP 2020. ADB President: Masato Kanda; HQ Manila; India is ADB’s largest borrower.
📌 Exam importance: IFFEd (International Finance Facility for Education) mobilises private capital for education.
🌐 Appointments & International Affairs
👤 Lokhande Prashant Sitaram – Addl Secretary, Dept of Home (MHA)
AGMUT cadre (Arunachal, Goa, Mizoram & UTs). Department of Home oversees internal security, UTs, border management.
🌱 Global Biofuels Alliance inducts 15 'Biofuel Champion Fellows'
First cohort; early-career researchers mentored by IITs/CSIR. GBA launched at G20 New Delhi (Sept 2023); co-chaired by India, USA, Brazil. Secretariat: New Delhi.
🚄 Japan reaffirms Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train by 2027
508 km corridor, Shinkansen E5 technology, 12 stations, design speed 350 km/h. JICA provides 81% funding (~₹1.10 lakh cr). NHSRCL CEO: Satish Agnihotri.
✈️ Indian Navy deploys P-8I to RIMPAC 2026 in Hawaii
P-8I Poseidon (Boeing 737-800 derivative) for ASW, ISR. India operates 12 P-8Is at INS Rajali, Arakkonam. RIMPAC is world’s largest maritime exercise hosted by US Pacific Fleet.
🔬 Science & Technology
🌕 Strawberry Moon 2026 – June full moon
Traditional Native American name for June full moon. Other full moon names: Wolf, Snow, Worm, Pink, Flower, Buck, Sturgeon, Harvest, Hunter’s, Beaver, Cold. Chandrayaan-3 landed on lunar south pole (23 Aug 2023).
📌 Important Days
🇺🇸 4 July – US Independence Day (250th Anniversary)
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, adopted by Second Continental Congress. US President: Donald J. Trump (47th). US capital: Washington D.C. Largest Indian diaspora outside Gulf (~4.5 million).
♻️ 3 July – International Plastic Bag Free Day
Single-use plastics (below 75 microns) banned in India since 1 July 2022 under Plastic Waste Management Rules. MoEFCC nodal ministry; India generates ~34 lakh tonnes plastic waste/year.
Compiled: 4 July 2026 · Source: Daily Current Affairs
