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Daily Current Affairs: 26 & 27 July 2026

Current affairs of 26 & 27 July 2026: NATO Ankara Summit 2026: Dates, Venue, Key Terms; Henley Passport Index 2026: India Slips to 81st Rank; Securities Markets Code Bill: Standing Committee Report, and 20 more topics. Key facts for every exam, with a quiz.

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In this issue: 23 topics

National Affairs

  1. Sarnath Added to UNESCO World Heritage List as India’s 45th Site
  2. Public Examinations Amendment Bill 2026: Tougher Penalties, Fast Courts
  3. Fast-Track Courts: Paper-Leak Cases and Legal Framework
  4. U Mumba TT Defend UTT Season 7 Crown with 8-5 Win
  5. Ballari-Guntakal 3rd and 4th Lines: CCEA Approval
  6. International Day for Judicial Well-being: 25 July Observance
  7. Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games: Dates, Hosts and Facts

Government Schemes

  1. BHAVYA-Rasayan Scheme: Cabinet Nod for Three Chemical Parks
  2. Bihar to Get NSTI-W Campus at Bihta and SIIC in Patna

Banking & Finance

  1. Securities Markets Code Bill: Standing Committee Report
  2. NABARD Study: Under 2% of Rural Households Borrow From Fintechs
  3. CKYC 2.0 Rollout in August 2026 for Banks and Insurers

International Affairs

  1. NATO Ankara Summit 2026: Dates, Venue, Key Terms
  2. International Day of Women and Girls of African Descent 2026

Agriculture & Rural

  1. Paddy Methane in India: Nature Food Study on Rice Emissions
  2. India’s First Drone Tea Leaf Transport in Idukki, Kerala

Science & Technology

  1. World IVF Day on 25 July: Louise Brown and ART Awareness

Environment & Ecology

  1. Green Firecrackers: CPCB Tells Supreme Court No Consensus
  2. Two New Spider Species Found by ZSI in India

Reports & Indexes

  1. Henley Passport Index 2026: India Slips to 81st Rank

Awards & Persons

  1. Mirabai Chanu Gold at Commonwealth Games 2026 Glasgow
  2. Viswanathan Anand Takes Over as Interim FIDE President
  3. Nicolás Otamendi Retires After 17-Year Argentina Career

National Affairs

History, Art & Culture

1. Sarnath Added to UNESCO World Heritage List as India’s 45th Site

  • The Ancient Buddhist Site, Sarnath was inscribed on 25 July 2026 at the 48th World Heritage Committee session in Busan.
  • The listing lifts India to 45 World Heritage Sites, sixth in the world and second in Asia-Pacific.
  • Uttar Pradesh now has four such sites; the other three, Taj Mahal, Agra Fort and Fatehpur Sikri, are in the Agra region.
  • Kushinagar is the only one of the four principal Buddhist pilgrimage sites not yet inscribed.
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Polity & Governance

3. Fast-Track Courts: Paper-Leak Cases and Legal Framework

  • The PM announced fast-track courts for exam paper-leak offences; the 2026 Public Examinations amendment Bill gives them statutory backing.
  • FTCs are usually temporary benches giving daily hearings and strict timelines, but mostly designated existing courts.
  • Hussainara Khatoon (1979) read the right to speedy trial into Article 21.
  • FTSCs began in October 2019 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme for rape and POCSO cases.
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Government Schemes

Banking & Finance

Polity & Governance

10. Securities Markets Code Bill: Standing Committee Report

  • The SMC Bill, brought to Lok Sabha on 18 December 2025, merges the SEBI Act 1992, SCRA 1956 and Depositories Act 1996.
  • Finance Standing Committee (chair Bhartruhari Mahtab) tabled its report; the Bill has 157 clauses.
  • The panel wants Clause 93(g) deleted and criminal market-abuse offences written into the Code.
  • SEBI's surplus still goes to the Consolidated Fund of India, with 25% in a reserve fund.
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International Affairs

Agriculture & Rural

Agriculture & Rural Development

15. Paddy Methane in India: Nature Food Study on Rice Emissions

  • Per a Nature Food study, worldwide emissions from rice paddies have doubled since the 1960s to 1.1 billion tonnes CO₂e yearly (2011-2020).
  • India's irrigated paddy emits about 3.9 million tonnes of methane annually; eastern India is a hotspot.
  • Alternate wetting and drying can cut methane 30-70% and save 15-30% irrigation water.
  • India is outside the Global Methane Pledge, saying small-farmer livelihoods are at stake.
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Science & Technology

Environment & Ecology

Reports & Indexes

Awards & Persons

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