Topics Highlight for Today’s Current Affairs Quiz – 02/08/2026

02 August Special: Pingali Venkayya Birth Anniversary (Tied into the recent 106th Constitutional Amendment Act / Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam for Women’s Reservation).

Uttar Pradesh Exclusives: Meerut ODOP (Sports Goods / English Willow cricket bats), Bakhira Wildlife Sanctuary (Ramsar site in Sant Kabir Nagar), PM MITRA Mega Textile Park (1,000 acres across Lucknow and Hardoi), Ayodhya (UP’s first designated Solar City), Sonbhadra’s Geography (Only district touching 4 states: MP, CG, JH, BR), and the Lalitpur Bulk Drug Park (UP’s first Pharma Park for APIs).

National & International (UPSC/UPPSC Mixed): ISRO’s Shukrayaan-1 (Venus Orbiter Mission), NATO’s 32nd Member (Sweden abandoning neutrality), RBI’s Digital Rupee (e₹) (CBDC mechanics), Nagoya Protocol (Access and Benefit Sharing under CBD), 104th Amendment Act (Abolition of Anglo-Indian nominations), India’s First Telecom Centre of Excellence (IIT Roorkee’s Saharanpur Campus), Exercise SAMPRITI (India-Bangladesh), National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission (Target 2047), Bateshwar Fair (Agra animal trading festival), Rule of Law Index (published by World Justice Project), I2U2 Grouping (India, Israel, UAE, USA), the Phillips Curve (Inflation vs Unemployment trade-off), and the National Quantum Mission (implemented by DST).