Topics Highlight for Today’s Current Affairs Quiz – 04/08/2026

04 August Special: Commemorating August 4, 1956, when ‘Apsara’, India and Asia’s first nuclear research reactor, attained criticality.

Uttar Pradesh Exclusives: Nand Baba Milk Mission (Budget of Rs 1000 cr to boost dairy co-operatives), Mainpuri ODOP / GI Tag (Tarkashi wood inlay craft), Parvati Arga Bird Sanctuary (Ramsar site in Gonda), BrahMos Manufacturing Centre (UPDIC node in Lucknow), Gorakhpur Link Expressway (Linking to Purvanchal Exp), Kalinjar Fort (Banda / Death of Sher Shah Suri), and Bareilly ODOP (Zari-Zardozi, Surma, Bans-Bareilly).

National & International (UPSC/UPPSC Mixed): Bab-el-Mandeb Strait (Connecting Red Sea and Gulf of Aden), Windfall Tax (Levy on sudden corporate profits), 9th Schedule (First Constitutional Amendment Act, 1951), Miyawaki Method (Urban miniature forests), PM-JANMAN Scheme (Exclusive targeted development for PVTGs), MILAN 2024 Naval Exercise (Visakhapatnam), African Union (Joining the G20 permanently), Article 355 (Union’s duty to protect States), ESA’s LISA Mission (Space-based gravitational wave detection), Corruption Perceptions Index (Transparency International), Namdapha National Park (Arunachal Pradesh / Flying Squirrel), and SCNT Technology (Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer for reproductive cloning).