Topics Highlight for Today’s Current Affairs Quiz – 12/08/2026

12 August Special: World Elephant Day (Project Elephant launch in 1992), International Youth Day (Swami Vivekananda Yuva Sashaktikaran Yojana for free tablets/smartphones), and Vikram Sarabhai’s Birth Anniversary (Establishment of TERLS in Kerala).

Uttar Pradesh Exclusives: Mathura-Vrindavan’s Net Zero Carbon Emission target by 2041, Kushinagar ODOP (Banana Fibre Products), Rampur ODOP (Patchwork & Zari-Zardozi), UP’s First Perfume Park (Kannauj), BC Sakhi Yojana (Doorstep banking by women), Maha Yogi Guru Gorakhnath AYUSH University (Gorakhpur), and the Shivalik Elephant Reserve (UP’s first ER in Saharanpur-Bijnor).

National & International (UPSC/UPPSC Mixed): Article 110 (Lok Sabha Speaker certifying a Money Bill), the Crowding Out Effect (Macroeconomic impact of high Govt borrowing), MIKE Programme (CITES-mandated elephant monitoring), Exercise Zayed Talwar (India-UAE), the August Declaration of 1917 (Responsible govt), Chabahar Port (Iran), Sendai Framework (Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030), Pluripotent Stem Cells (Biotechnology), IRENA Headquarters (Abu Dhabi, UAE), the Ring of Fire (Pacific Ocean), and CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) (Geneva).(Vienna), and India’s Agni-V ICBM.