PIB Current Affairs 1 August 2026

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CBN Dismantles Inter-State Counterfeit Drug Network in Bihar Under Operation Vajra

•Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN), Madhya Pradesh Unit, dismantled an inter-state counterfeit-drug and spurious-medicine network in Gaya and Masaurhi (Patna), Bihar, under 'Operation Vajra', following the mastermind's arrest on 22 July 2026.
•The operation seized 8 illegal godowns and dismantled an illicit manufacturing unit, recovering 21,373 unauthorised Buprenorphine ampoules along with Tramadol tablets, Codeine syrup, and lakhs of counterfeit non-NDPS medicine units.
•CBN's Madhya Pradesh Unit has booked 90 cases and arrested 121 suspects in the current calendar year, including 3 illicit lab busts.

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PM Inaugurates Swami Vivekananda Cultural Youth Centre at Mysuru's Ramakrishna Ashrama

•PM Modi inaugurated the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Youth Centre (Viveka Smaraka) at Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama, Mysuru, Karnataka, on 1 August 2026, marking the Ashrama's completion of 100 years.
•The centre honours the historic support that Chamarajendra Wadiyar X, the then Maharaja of Mysuru, gave to a young, then-unknown Swami Vivekananda around 1893, before his celebrated address at Chicago's World's Parliament of Religions.
•The PM linked the centre's youth mission to India's education expansion (650+ new universities, ~1,40,000 MBBS seats added in 12 years) and cited Kannada litterateur Kuvempu's historic ties to the Ashrama.

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Navy's Fifth and Final Diving Support Craft, DSC A24, Launched at Titagarh

•DSC A24 (Yard 329), the fifth and final ship of the Diving Support Craft (DSC) project, was launched at Titagarh, Kolkata, on 1 August 2026, completing a 5-ship order the Navy placed with Titagarh Rail Systems Limited (TRSL) in February 2021.
•The catamaran-hulled vessel, displacing 300-400 tonnes and built to Indian Register of Shipping naval rules, augments the Navy's diving support, underwater inspection, salvage and coastal deployment capability.
•About 70% of main and auxiliary equipment is indigenously sourced, making the DSC project a flagship Aatmanirbhar Bharat / Make in India defence-shipbuilding example.

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CCI Marks 56th Foundation Day: Rs 41,530 Crore Paid to Farmers, New Cotton Mission Unveiled

•CCI, the nodal MSP-procurement PSU for cotton, celebrated its 56th Foundation Day at Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, with Union Textiles Minister Giriraj Singh.
•In Cotton Season 2025-26, CCI procured over 522 lakh quintals of kapas from about 24 lakh farmer transactions, transferring ₹41,530 crore directly to farmers' Aadhaar-linked accounts.
•Kapas MSP was raised by about 7% for 2026-27; the newly approved Cotton Productivity Mission - Kapas Kanti (₹5,659.22 crore, 2026-27 to 2030-31) targets 498 lakh bales of output and cotton self-sufficiency.

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Centre Approves Rs 2,117.85 Crore Advance SDRF Release to 6 Flood-hit States

•Union Home Minister Amit Shah approved an advance release of ₹2,117.85 crore from the Central share of the SDRF to flood-affected States during the 2026 southwest monsoon.
•State-wise: Arunachal Pradesh ₹44.55 crore, Assam ₹379.35 crore, Gujarat ₹500 crore, Maharashtra ₹500 crore (all first instalment); Himachal Pradesh ₹193.95 crore and Odisha ₹500 crore (second instalment).
•Inter-Ministerial Central Teams (IMCTs) have been deployed to Arunachal Pradesh and Assam (twice) to assess flood damage; an IMCT for Nagaland is being constituted on the State's request.

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NHAI Rolls Out Barrier-Free MLFF Tolling at Third Plaza on Delhi-Jaipur Highway

•NHAI rolled out the Multi-Lane Free Flow (MLFF) barrier-less tolling system at Shahjahanpur Toll Plaza on the Delhi-Jaipur section of NH-48, making the entire Manesar-Jaipur stretch toll-barrier-free.
•MLFF integrates Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) with FASTag-based Electronic Toll Collection — a distinct technology from the separate GNSS/satellite-based distance tolling NHAI is piloting elsewhere.
•Shahjahanpur is the third plaza on this corridor (after Daulatpura and Manoharpura) to go barrier-free; users with insufficient FASTag balance get a 72-hour E-Notice window before double charges apply.

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Ajit Doval Receives Lokmanya Tilak National Award 2026 in Pune

•Union Home Minister Amit Shah presented the Lokmanya Tilak National Award 2026 to National Security Advisor Ajit Doval in Pune on 1 August 2026, marking the 106th death anniversary of Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
•Doval is India's longest-serving NSA, in office since 2014, and is credited as the founding architect of the Multi Agency Centre (MAC), India's counter-terrorism intelligence-sharing hub.
•The award, instituted in 1983 by the Tilak Smarak Mandir Trust, is conferred annually on 1 August; past recipients include PM Narendra Modi, Pranab Mukherjee, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Sudha Murty.

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DRI Seizes Gold, Narcotics and Red Sanders in Pan-India Ops, 20 Arrested

•The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) conducted a week of pan-India operations, seizing foreign-origin gold, narcotics, red sanders, wildlife products and e-cigarettes, and arresting 20 persons including 5 foreign nationals.
•Key seizures: ~9.5 kg gold (₹14 crore) across multiple ports/borders, 142 red sanders logs (4.8 MT) near Chennai, 2.7 kg heroin from Myanmar-origin trafficking in Manipur, and 9,230 prohibited e-cigarettes at Nhava Sheva Port.
•A 14-tonne consignment of CITES-listed, endangered Guggul resin was intercepted after being falsely declared as Somalia-origin to bypass the ban on Pakistan-origin imports.

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PM Inaugurates Rs 17,900 Crore AP Package: Airport, Semiconductor Plant, Coastal Corridor

•PM Modi laid the foundation stone, inaugurated and dedicated to the nation projects worth over ₹17,900 crore in Bhogapuram, Vizianagaram district, Andhra Pradesh, on 1 August 2026, spanning aviation, semiconductors, ports and energy.
•The new Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport was inaugurated, named after the tribal freedom fighter who led the 1922-24 Rampa Rebellion in the same region; a semiconductor plant's foundation was laid in Visakhapatnam.
•The projects extend the Coastal Economic Corridor vision — modernising Visakhapatnam-to-Krishnapatnam ports and building new ports at Mulapeta and Ramayapatnam — alongside railway works worth roughly ₹1 lakh crore in the region.

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12th National Handloom Day to Be Held on 7 August 2026, President as Chief Guest

•The Ministry of Textiles will observe the 12th National Handloom Day on 7 August 2026 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre, New Delhi, with President Droupadi Murmu as chief guest.
•22 awards for 2025 — 3 Sant Kabir Handloom Awards and 19 National Handloom Awards — will be conferred, alongside four commemorative postage stamps.
•National Handloom Day, observed since 2015, marks the anniversary of the Swadeshi Movement launched on 7 August 1905.

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Centre Releases Rs 1.09 Lakh Crore Advance Tax Devolution: Full State-wise Breakup

•The Union Government released an advance instalment of tax devolution worth ₹1,09,019 crore to States on 1 August 2026, in addition to the normal monthly devolution due on 10 August 2026.
•Uttar Pradesh received the largest share (₹19,208 crore), followed by Bihar (₹10,845 crore) and Madhya Pradesh (₹8,010 crore).
•The devolution follows the 16th Finance Commission's recommendation of a 41% vertical share of the divisible pool of central taxes to States for 2026-31.

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India, Rwanda Hold First Joint Trade Committee, Flag Critical Minerals Cooperation

•India and Rwanda held the first-ever session of their Joint Trade Committee (JTC) in New Delhi on 30-31 July 2026, establishing a permanent, structured mechanism to review bilateral trade and investment.
•Priority sectors identified include critical minerals (tin, tungsten, tantalum), pharmaceuticals and healthcare, digital technologies, agro-processing and renewable energy.
•India is Rwanda's second-largest foreign investor (2025) and its largest source of pharmaceutical imports (~24.5%); the Second JTC Session will be held in Rwanda after one year.

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Three Top Defence Appointments: New Deputy Naval Chief, CGDA and Deputy Air Chief

•Three senior officers took charge in India's defence establishment on 1 August 2026: Vice Admiral AN Pramod as Deputy Chief of Naval Staff, Smt Alka Nangia Arora as Controller General of Defence Accounts, and Air Marshal Tejpal Singh as Deputy Chief of the Air Staff.
•Vice Admiral Pramod succeeds Vice Admiral Tarun Sobti and Air Marshal Singh succeeds Air Marshal Awadhesh Kumar Bharti — both predecessors superannuated on 31 July 2026 after 38-39 years of service.
•Smt Arora, a 1991-batch IDAS officer, becomes CGDA — the civilian head of the Defence Accounts Department and Principal Accounting Officer for the Ministry of Defence.

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Tejaswin Shankar, Yamini Maurya, Neeraj Chopra Add Four CWG 2026 Medals for India

•PM Modi congratulated four Indian athletes for medals won on 1 August 2026 at the Commonwealth Games 2026 in Glasgow: Tejaswin Shankar (decathlon bronze), Yamini Maurya (judo 57 kg silver), Neeraj Chopra (javelin silver) and Yash Vir Singh (javelin bronze).
•India's javelin event produced a silver-bronze sweep, with Neeraj Chopra continuing his run of major-event medals — Commonwealth gold (2018), Olympic gold (2021) and Olympic silver (2024).
•India closed the Glasgow Games with its best-ever campaign: 39 medals overall (13 gold, 17 silver, 9 bronze), finishing 4th, led by a record seven boxing golds.

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India Declared Free of LWE-Affected Districts as Naxal Violence Falls to Record Low

•India became effectively free of Left Wing Extremism-affected districts on 31 March 2026 — a target set on 24 August 2024 and achieved on schedule, per a PIB Backgrounder released 1 August 2026.
•LWE-affected districts fell from 126 in 2014 to zero in 2026; the 'most-affected' category fell from 35 districts to zero over the same period.
•Naxal-related violent incidents fell from 870 (2014) to 33 (as on 29 July 2026); fatalities fell from 310 to 11 over the same period.

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PM-VBRY Completes One Year: Rs 99,446 Crore Scheme Adds 72 Lakh Formal Jobs

•PM-VBRY completed one year of implementation on 1 August 2026, with over 72 lakh first-time employees added to the formal workforce against a two-year target of 3.5 crore jobs.
•The EPFO-administered scheme runs from 1 August 2025 to 31 July 2027 with a total outlay of ₹99,446 crore, incentivising both first-time employees (Part A) and employers (Part B).
•Nearly 30% of beneficiaries are women, and over 15 lakh workers have already received employment-linked incentive payments.

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PIB Current Affairs — 1 August 2026

CBN Dismantles Inter-State Counterfeit Drug Network in Bihar Under Operation Vajra

PM Inaugurates Swami Vivekananda Cultural Youth Centre at Mysuru's Ramakrishna Ashrama

Navy's Fifth and Final Diving Support Craft, DSC A24, Launched at Titagarh

CCI Marks 56th Foundation Day: Rs 41,530 Crore Paid to Farmers, New Cotton Mission Unveiled

Centre Approves Rs 2,117.85 Crore Advance SDRF Release to 6 Flood-hit States

NHAI Rolls Out Barrier-Free MLFF Tolling at Third Plaza on Delhi-Jaipur Highway

Ajit Doval Receives Lokmanya Tilak National Award 2026 in Pune

DRI Seizes Gold, Narcotics and Red Sanders in Pan-India Ops, 20 Arrested

PM Inaugurates Rs 17,900 Crore AP Package: Airport, Semiconductor Plant, Coastal Corridor

12th National Handloom Day to Be Held on 7 August 2026, President as Chief Guest

Centre Releases Rs 1.09 Lakh Crore Advance Tax Devolution: Full State-wise Breakup

India, Rwanda Hold First Joint Trade Committee, Flag Critical Minerals Cooperation

Three Top Defence Appointments: New Deputy Naval Chief, CGDA and Deputy Air Chief

Tejaswin Shankar, Yamini Maurya, Neeraj Chopra Add Four CWG 2026 Medals for India

India Declared Free of LWE-Affected Districts as Naxal Violence Falls to Record Low

PM-VBRY Completes One Year: Rs 99,446 Crore Scheme Adds 72 Lakh Formal Jobs