UPSC Current Affairs 03 August 2026 — PIB

• Glaw Lake becomes Arunachal Pradesh’s First Ramsar Site; India’s Ramsar Sites tally reaches 101
• India achieves near-universal banking coverage, with 99.92% of inhabited villages now served by a banking outlet
• Samudra Manthan – National Offshore Exploration Scheme
• The Making of a Sporting Nation
• Gyan Bharatam Mission and Preservation of Manuscript Heritage
• Measures to Expand Access to Education
• Establishment of Foreign Universities Campuses in India
• Every ₹1 invested under Kisan Credit Card– Modified Interest Subvention Scheme (KCC-MISS) contributes ₹2.30 to net value addition in the agriculture & allied sector, Third-party Assessment says
• WATER MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION
• IMPLEMENTATION OF E-SHRAM PORTAL
• Indian Railways Records 9% Growth in Freight Loading in July 2026 Compared to July 2025; Loads Over 141 Million Tonnes in July This Year
• Skill Development and Expanding Workforce
• 47,328 Villages Selected Under PM-AJAY Adarsh Gram Component Across the Country; 435 Villages in Telangana
• Modernization of National Sample Surveys through adoption of digital platforms such as Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) integrated with e- sigma platform incorporating in-built validation checks, AI-enabled ch...