PM to Inaugurate Grand International Exposition of Sacred Piprahwa Relics related to Bhagwan Buddha on 3rd January

• Piprahwa Relics = sacred Buddhist relics (gem relics, bone fragments, reliquaries) discovered in 1898 at the Piprahwa stupa, Siddharthnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, widely identified with ancient Kapilavastu.
• PM Modi to inaugurate "The Light and the Lotus: Relics of the Awakened One" on 3 Jan 2026 at Rai Pithora Cultural Complex, New Delhi.
• Significant for UPSC: tests Ancient History (Buddhism), Art & Culture (stupa archaeology), antiquities repatriation policy, and soft-power diplomacy.