Current Affairs One-liners — 04 August 2026

Tue, 04 Aug 2026

• The Ministry of Coal auctioned six coal blocks in Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh in forward auctions held on 3–4 August 2026 under the 15th round and second attempt of the 13th round.
• The Ministry of Home Affairs said on 4 August 2026 that 274 fugitive criminals were brought back to India from 36 countries between 2019 and 2026.
• India's first Telecom Manufacturing Zone at Gwalior reached cumulative investment commitments of ₹5,500 crore after a second investors' meet in Mumbai on 4 August 2026.
• PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana crossed 50 lakh rooftop solar households, with July 2026 recording its highest-ever monthly installations, the MNRE said on 4 August 2026.
• ICAR's complete telomere-to-telomere genome of pigeonpea variety 'Asha', India's first fully annotated T2T reference genome, has been approved as the global reference genome of the crop.
• On International Clouded Leopard Day, 4 August 2026, the Environment Ministry highlighted India's new Clouded Leopard Conservation Action Plan, which identifies 14 priority landscapes across Northeast India.
• Educationist and former Governor of Tripura, Bihar and West Bengal D.Y. Patil died in Kolhapur on 4 August 2026, aged 90.
• Air India flight AI2379 from Phuket to Delhi suffered a sudden altitude loss of about 300 feet during cruise on 4 August 2026, injuring passengers and crew; AAIB is investigating it as a serious incident.
• The Ministry of Education opened online registrations for Yuva Sangam Phase VII under Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat on 4 August 2026, with 20 higher education institutions as nodal hosts.
• C-DAC and the Geological Survey of India signed an umbrella MoU on 4 August 2026 to apply AI and high-performance computing to geoscience, mineral exploration and disaster management.
• The Commission for Air Quality Management amended its Statutory Direction No. 86 on 3 August 2026 to let more NCR urban local bodies prosecute gross dust-control violators at construction sites under 500 sq m.
• The two-day meeting of Heads of National Statistical Offices of BRICS countries concluded in Lucknow on 4 August 2026 under the theme 'Quality Statistics as a Driver of Change'.
• The BRICS Technical and Vocational Education and Training Cooperation Alliance (BRICS-TCA) held its research symposium and Joint Management Committee meeting in New Delhi on 3–4 August 2026.