🔆 ONE-LINERS | 01 OCTOBER 2026
📚 UPSC Current Affairs | AnmolVachan1

🔆 POLITY & GOVERNANCE
📍 Five Digital Identity Initiatives – UIDAI
🟢 Face Authentication for ePDS – Consent-based, contactless face authentication; developed by UIDAI + DFPD + NIC.
🟢 SWIK Portal 2.0 – Simplifies Aadhaar authentication approvals and enables eligible non-government entities to submit proposals online.
🟢 Sub-AUA/Sub-KUA (LITE) – Simplified onboarding for low-volume Aadhaar authentication users through existing AUA/KUA infrastructure.
🟢 New Token Management System – Digital queue and appointment system for UIDAI offices to reduce waiting time and improve grievance handling.
🟢 Revamped UIDAI Website & Career Portal – Improved interface, accessibility, screen-reader support and keyboard navigation.

🔆 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & ISSUES
📍 15th UN Congress on Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice
🟢 Held in Abu Dhabi, UAE; organised by UNODC and known as the UN Crime Congress.
🟢 Theme: “Accelerating crime prevention, criminal justice and the rule of law: protecting people and planet and achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the digital age.”
🟢 Abu Dhabi Declaration – Five-year roadmap for modernising justice systems and strengthening global legal cooperation.
🟢 Four pillars: Prevention & Resilience | Justice & Rule of Law | Evolving & Converging Criminal Threats | Innovation & Cooperation.

📍 India’s Justice-Sector Reforms
🟢 New criminal laws: BNS, BNSS and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA).
🟢 Digital crime-fighting: I4C and National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal.
🟢 India reiterated zero tolerance towards terrorism and stressed international cooperation against organised and environmental crimes.
🟢 India–UAE legal cooperation includes IIAC–DIAC collaboration on arbitration, training, research and digital dispute resolution.

🔆 ECONOMY
📍 India’s First Blue Bond
🟢 SEBI recognises blue bonds as sustainable finance instruments.
🟢 Blue Bond – Bond whose proceeds are earmarked for identified water- and ocean-related projects.
🟢 Issuers need frameworks for fund utilisation, impact measurement and periodic reporting to prevent bluewashing.
🟢 India’s maiden blue bond is planned under Sagarmala to raise ₹1,000 crore for maritime-sector projects.
🟢 Issuance planned through Sagarmala Finance Corporation Ltd. (SMFCL).
🟢 Sagarmala Programme – Launched in 2015 for port-led development and reduction of logistics costs.

🔆 INFRASTRUCTURE
📍 1st Steel Bridge for Bullet Train
🟢 Maharashtra launched a 100-metre steel bridge over NH-3 for the Mumbai–Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail project.
🟢 Location: Dive-Anjur, Bhiwandi, Thane.
🟢 Specifications: 1,405 metric tonnes and 14 metres high.
🟢 Fabricated in Trichy, transported around 1,300 km and assembled on site.
🟢 16 of 28 planned steel bridges along the corridor have been completed.

🔆 SECURITY
📍 India’s Kaveri Engine
🟢 Kaveri Derivative Engine (KDE) – Dry turbofan developed by DRDO’s GTRE, Bengaluru.
🟢 Project began in the late 1980s to power LCA Tejas.
🟢 Tested at CIAM and Gromov Flight Research Institute, Russia.
🟢 Peak dry thrust: 48.5 kN, exceeding the 46 kN benchmark.

📍 Ghatak UCAV
🟢 Stealth tailless flying-wing UCAV with curved air intakes and shaped exhausts.
🟢 Uses 80–90% carbon-fibre prepreg composites.
🟢 Designed for internal carriage of missiles, bombs and precision-guided munitions.

📍 ASEAN–India Maritime Exercise (AIME-2026)
🟢 Began at Subic Bay, Philippines, co-hosted by the Indian Navy and Philippine Navy.
🟢 Theme: “Anchored in Trust, United at Sea.”
🟢 Indian participants: INS Sahyadri and INS Kulish.
🟢 Phases: Harbour Phase + Sea Phase.
🟢 Drills: boarding operations, medical evacuation and helicopter cross-deck landings.
🟢 Supports India’s MAHASAGAR vision and Act East Policy.

🔆 AWARDS
📍 Skytrax World Airline Awards 2026
🟢 Based on the world’s largest annual airline passenger satisfaction survey.
🟢 2026 survey: 24.8 million eligible responses, covering 300+ airlines and 100+ nationalities.
🟢 Categories: Cabin service | Ground & airport experience | Onboard product.
🟢 Singapore Airlines – World’s Best Airline; sixth overall win.
🟢 Qatar Airways – 2nd; Cathay Pacific Airways – 3rd globally.
🟢 Air India – Best Airline in India; 57th globally, up from 82nd.
🟢 Air India – 2nd Most Improved Airline globally.
🟢 IndiGo – 61st overall and received regional awards in low-cost service, staff and cleanliness.

🔆 SPORTS
📍 Neeru Dhanda – Asian Games 2026
🟢 Won India’s first individual women’s gold in an Asian Games shotgun event in women’s trap.
🟢 Scored 28/30, setting a new Asian record.
🟢 Also won silver in women’s trap team and gold in trap mixed team with Kynan Chenai.
🟢 20th Asian Games – Aichi-Nagoya, Japan; 19 September–4 October 2026.
🟢 Over 10,000 athletes from 46 nations competing across 43 sports and 469 medal events.

🔆 MISCELLANEOUS
📍 WorldSkills Shanghai 2026
🟢 Six-day competition with 1,400+ competitors from around 70 countries/regions.
🟢 India’s largest-ever contingent: 70 competitors across 63 skills.
🟢 Debuted in 11 new/emerging skill categories, including dental prosthetics, digital interactive media design, intelligent security technology and unmanned aerial systems.
🟢 Participation coordinated by NSDC under MSDE.
🟢 Team India won 6 silver medals and 20 Medals for Excellence.
🟢 WorldSkills – Global vocational and technical skills competition held every two years.

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