Current Affairs One-liners — 12 August 2026

Wed, 12 Aug 2026

• Security agencies detained 253 people across 14 states on 12 August 2026 in a coordinated operation against the Pakistan-based, ISI-backed Shahzad Bhatti Network, leading to over 80 FIRs and more than 200 arrests, the Home Ministry said.
• India and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) signed the Terms of Reference for negotiations towards a Preferential Trade Agreement at Vanijya Bhawan, New Delhi, on 12 August 2026, India's first such ToR with the African region.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi released former President Ram Nath Kovind's autobiography, 'Triumph of the Indian Republic: My Life, My Struggles', at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi, on 12 August 2026.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched the 'Gramin Gyan Setu' app on 12 August 2026, National Library Day, to interconnect village libraries in Gujarat's Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency.
• The Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine & Homoeopathy (Ministry of Ayush) and the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (Health Ministry) renewed their MoU on 12 August 2026 to implement the 'One Herb, One Standard' initiative for medicinal plants.
• Three Indian Sanchar Mitras were selected as International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Generation Connect Youth Envoys for 2026–2030, the Department of Telecommunications said on International Youth Day, 12 August 2026.
• The National Commission for Scheduled Castes, led by Chairman Kishor Makwana, submitted its Annual Report for 2024–25 to President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 12 August 2026, under Article 338 of the Constitution.
• All-India CPI inflation on the new base year 2024 was 4.45% in July 2026, up from 4.38% in June, with food inflation at 5.52%, MoSPI said on 12 August 2026.
• Indian Railways approved Kavach Version 4.0 on 660 route km of the Izzatnagar Division of North Eastern Railway at an estimated ₹295 crore, the Railways Ministry said on 12 August 2026.
• Indian Railways' RailOne app, launched on 1 July 2025, has reached 4.76 crore downloads and about 10 lakh average daily ticket bookings, the Railways Ministry said on 12 August 2026.
• Researchers at the S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, with Ashoka University, developed an AI framework that identifies three developmental states of cancer stem-like cells from tumour gene-expression data, the Science Ministry said on 12 August 2026.