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Daily Current Affairs: 9 July 2026

Current affairs of 9 July 2026: Prambanan Temple Restoration: India-Indonesia Project; UDISE+ 2025-26: School Education Data Highlights; PM-SETU Scheme: Nationwide Rollout Across 200 ITI Clusters, and 12 more topics. Key facts for every exam, with a quiz.

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In this issue: 15 topics

National Affairs

Former Afghan Pacer Shapoor Zadran Dies at 38

Government Schemes

PM-SETU Scheme: Nationwide Rollout Across 200 ITI Clusters

Banking & Finance

SEBI Moves FPI Registration Fee From Dollars to Rupees
RBI Approves Mahesh Pai as South Indian Bank MD & CEO
GIFT City Signs MoU with Da Nang International Financial Center

Economy

Adani’s Kutch Copper Gets LME Certification for Cathodes

International Affairs

Prambanan Temple Restoration: India-Indonesia Project

Agriculture & Rural

PRAGATI Initiative: 20,000 Agri Entrepreneurs Plan Launched
EAC-PM Chief Mahendra Dev: Non-Farm Jobs to Fix Agriculture

Environment & Ecology

Mizoram Natural History Museum Notified as 21st Designated Repository

Reports & Indexes

UDISE+ 2025-26: School Education Data Highlights
AISHE 2023-24: Female GER 31.2 and GPI at 1.08
IGU World LNG Report 2026: India 4th in Regasification

Awards & Persons

Sirsa Kinnow Gets GI Tag, Haryana’s First Fruit GI
Bukhman International Booker Prize: Prize Doubled to GBP 100,000

National Affairs

Awards & Persons

1. Former Afghan Pacer Shapoor Zadran Dies at 38

Shapoor Zadran died on 7 July 2026 in New Delhi at the age of 38.
He played 44 ODIs and 36 T20Is for Afghanistan between 2009 and 2020.
He took 80 international wickets.
He took 10 wickets at the 2015 World Cup and hit the winning runs in Afghanistan's first World Cup win.

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Government Schemes

2. PM-SETU Scheme: Nationwide Rollout Across 200 ITI Clusters

MSDE approved nationwide rollout of the ₹60,000-crore PM-SETU scheme across 200 ITI clusters on 7 July 2026.
Strategic Investment Plans worth ₹1,237.58 crore were cleared for 5 clusters in Odisha, Gujarat and Telangana.
PM-SETU is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme co-financed by the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.
The scheme aims to upgrade 1,000 government ITIs and narrow the skills-jobs mismatch.

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Banking & Finance

3. SEBI Moves FPI Registration Fee From Dollars to Rupees

SEBI replaced the dollar FPI registration fee with a rupee fee of Rs 2.3 lakh.
The earlier fee for Category-I FPIs and FVCIs was USD 2,500.
Applicants must give date of birth or incorporation date for PAN allotment.

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Banking & Finance

4. RBI Approves Mahesh Pai as South Indian Bank MD & CEO

RBI approved Mahesh Muralidhar Pai as MD & CEO of South Indian Bank on 8 July 2026.
The three-year term begins on 1 October 2026.
He succeeds P.R. Seshadri, who serves until 30 September 2026.
Pai is currently Chief General Manager at Canara Bank, with nearly three decades of banking experience.

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Banking & Finance

5. GIFT City Signs MoU with Da Nang International Financial Center

GIFT City signed an MoU with the Vietnam International Financial Center in Da Nang (VIFC-DN) on 7 July 2026.
The agreement was signed in New Delhi.
It covers financial services, fintech, digital innovation, capacity building and financial sector development.
Joint research, professional exchanges, conferences and seminars are planned.

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Economy

6. Adani’s Kutch Copper Gets LME Certification for Cathodes

Kutch Copper Limited, a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises, secured LME certification.
The certification covers its Adani Copper Grade A cathodes.
Warrants against LME copper futures can be issued from 10 July 2026.
The LME is the world's largest exchange for industrial metals.

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International Affairs

International Relations

7. Prambanan Temple Restoration: India-Indonesia Project

Modi and Prabowo Subianto jointly started a restoration project at Prambanan Temple, Yogyakarta, on 8 July 2026; ASI leads for India.
Prambanan was built in the 9th-10th century by the Sanjaya dynasty and is mainly a Shiva shrine.
UNESCO inscribed it in 1991; its tallest temple measures 47 metres.

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Agriculture & Rural

Government Schemes

8. PRAGATI Initiative: 20,000 Agri Entrepreneurs Plan Launched

PRAGATI, launched in July 2026 by Shivraj Singh Chouhan, aims to build an ecosystem of 20,000 agri entrepreneurs.
It is a privately led, multi-stakeholder initiative promoting regenerative and climate-resilient farming.
Eight States are covered, including Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Assam and Maharashtra.
Village-level kiosks offer advisory, soil health, mechanisation, credit, market and livelihood services.

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9. EAC-PM Chief Mahendra Dev: Non-Farm Jobs to Fix Agriculture

EAC-PM Chairman S. Mahendra Dev said on 8 July 2026 that rural non-farm jobs can fix agriculture's problems.
Agriculture gives about 17% of GDP and 43% of jobs; 86% of farmers are small or marginal.
EAC-PM is an advisory body, neither constitutional nor statutory, and its advice does not bind the PM.

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Environment & Ecology

Environment & Ecology

10. Mizoram Natural History Museum Notified as 21st Designated Repository

Natural History Museum of Mizoram University, Aizawl, was notified as India's 21st Designated Repository.
The designation is under Section 39 of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002.
The museum holds over 500 specimens, including herbarium sheets and wet collections.
It supports ex situ conservation in the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot.

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Reports & Indexes

Health & Social Issues

11. UDISE+ 2025-26: School Education Data Highlights

UDISE+ 2025-26, out on 7 July 2026, records 14.67 lakh schools, 1.03 crore teachers and 24.72 crore students.
Students per teacher: foundational 10, preparatory 12, middle 17, secondary 21 - all better than the NEP 2020 benchmark of 30.
Dropout rates fell to 1.8% (preparatory) and 7.0% (secondary); women make up 54.9% of teachers.
UDISE+ began in 2018-19 as the successor to UDISE.

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Health & Social Issues

12. AISHE 2023-24: Female GER 31.2 and GPI at 1.08

The Ministry of Education published AISHE 2022-23 and 2023-24 on 8 July 2026.
In 2023-24 female GER was 31.2 and the Gender Parity Index 1.08.
The overall GER crossed 30 for the first time; GPI exceeded 1.0 for a seventh straight year.

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13. IGU World LNG Report 2026: India 4th in Regasification

IGU's World LNG Report 2026, released 8 July 2026, ranks India 4th globally in regasification, ahead of Spain.
India held 52.5 mtpa capacity across 8 terminals in 2025.
India added 7.1 mtpa in 2025, 11.3% of worldwide new capacity.
LNG is natural gas chilled to -162°C.

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Awards & Persons

Agriculture & Rural Development

14. Sirsa Kinnow Gets GI Tag, Haryana’s First Fruit GI

Sirsa Kinnow was granted a GI tag in July 2026.
It is Haryana's first fruit to receive GI recognition.
The tag went to Kharisureran Farmer Producer Company Limited, Sirsa.
The GI Registry functions under DPIIT, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

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History, Art & Culture

15. Bukhman International Booker Prize: Prize Doubled to GBP 100,000

The International Booker Prize is to be renamed the Bukhman International Booker Prize after Bukhman Philanthropies.
The main prize doubles from GBP 50,000 to GBP 100,000, split equally between author and translator.
One report says the new name applies from the 2027 edition; another says immediately.
Bukhman Philanthropies reportedly committed GBP 1.4 million a year in a decade-long partnership.

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