PIB Current Affairs 2 August 2026

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Fourth Tri-Services Future Warfare Course Begins at Manekshaw Centre Under HQ IDS

•The fourth edition of the Tri-Services Future Warfare Course begins at the Manekshaw Centre, New Delhi on 3 August 2026 and runs for four weeks.
•It is conducted under the aegis of Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff (HQ IDS) and coordinated by the Centre for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS).
•Participants are drawn from the three Services along with government organisations, academia, industry and strategic think-tanks, and the syllabus covers artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, cyber and cognitive warfare, autonomous systems, grey-zone operations and multi-domain operations.

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Pingali Venkayya, Designer of the Swaraj Flag, Remembered on His 150th Birth Anniversary

•The Prime Minister paid tributes to freedom fighter Pingali Venkayya on his 150th birth anniversary, remembering his role in giving the nation the Tricolour.
•Venkayya was born on 2 August 1876 at Bhatlapenumarru near Machilipatnam in present-day Andhra Pradesh and died on 4 July 1963; his flag work earned him the name 'Jhanda Venkayya'.
•The Swaraj flag he designed at Gandhi's request in 1921 is the direct ancestor of the national flag the Constituent Assembly adopted on 22 July 1947.

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Boxing Sweep, Gulveer's Double and a First Para Gold Close India's Glasgow Campaign

•The Prime Minister issued congratulatory messages on sixteen medals won by Indian athletes on the closing weekend of the Commonwealth Games 2026 at Glasgow.
•Gulveer Singh took bronze in the men's 5000m and became the first Indian athlete to win two athletics medals at a single Commonwealth Games, and the first Indian to win a CWG medal in the men's 5000m.
•Soman Rana won gold in the men's shot put F57 — India's first-ever Commonwealth Games gold in the event — with Shubham Juyal taking silver in the same event.

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Ujh Multipurpose Project Revived to Harness India's Ravi Waters in Kathua

•Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr Jitendra Singh, reviewed the status and phased implementation roadmap of the Ujh Multipurpose Project in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir.
•The project is being implemented by WAPCOS Limited, a Government of India undertaking under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, and will begin in phases while acquisition of the remaining land proceeds simultaneously.
•Located on the Ujh, a main tributary of the Ravi, the project is designed to generate about 186 MW to 212 MW of electricity.

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India Chairs BRICS Heads of Statistical Offices Meeting at Lucknow

•The meeting of Heads of National Statistical Offices of BRICS countries was scheduled for 3-4 August 2026 at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, under India's Chairship.
•India's BRICS Chairship in 2026 carries the overarching theme 'Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability (BRICS)'; within the statistics track India adopted the theme 'Quality Statistics as Driver of Change'.
•BRICS members have published a Joint Statistical Publication since 2010, with a Snapshot BRICS JSP added in 2020; the statistics track holds a Technical Meeting of NSOs and a Meeting of Heads of NSOs every year, the 2026 Technical Meeting having been held on 16-17 April 2026.

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Commercial and Captive Blocks Reach 20.2% Share as July Coal Output Rises 7.51%

•India's coal production in July 2026 reached 69.75 MT provisional, a 7.51 per cent rise over the 64.88 MT of July 2025, while dispatch grew 17.34 per cent to 86.33 MT.
•The share of captive and commercial blocks in national coal production has risen from 10.9 per cent in FY 2021-22 to 20.2 per cent in FY 2025-26, and these blocks crossed 200 MT for the first time at about 210.46 MT.
•Since commercial coal mining was launched on 18 June 2020, 141 coal mines have been auctioned across 14 rounds with a combined peak rated capacity of 366.35 MT a year; 123 went to private players and 44 successful bidders had never mined coal before.

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NBA Releases Rs 8.22 Crore Rice Benefit-Sharing to Institutions and States

•The National Biodiversity Authority released Rs 8.22 crore to three research institutions and 33 State Biodiversity Boards and Union Territory Biodiversity Councils - one of the largest single access and benefit-sharing disbursements for rice.
•The money came from M/s Pioneer Overseas Corporation, an international seed company, for using Indian rice (Oryza sativa) varieties to develop and commercialise hybrids.
•Rs 2.47 crore went to research institutions that conserved and shared the varieties, of which ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research, Hyderabad received Rs 2.43 crore and Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Uttarakhand received Rs 3.26 lakh.

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PM Launches 100-Week Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat Sankalp Abhiyan

•The Prime Minister launched the 'Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat Sankalp Abhiyan' on 2 August 2026 by video conference, with more than one crore young people joining from over 28,000 locations.
•The campaign runs on a 100-Week Action Plan: every Sunday for 100 weeks carries activities around art, culture, sports, meditation, spirituality and service, taking the de-addiction message to new participants.
•It began as a pilot in Kashi (Varanasi) in 2025 and became a national project through the Kashi Declaration, drawn up with more than 125 spiritual organisations along with social organisations and NGOs.

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PM Surya Sarovar Yojana Approved for 5,000 MW Floating Solar with Storage

•The Government approved the Pradhan Mantri Surya Sarovar Yojana (PM-SSY) on 31 July 2026 to develop 5,000 MW of Floating Solar Photovoltaic capacity with co-located energy storage, at an outlay of Rs 5,070 crore.
•Each project must carry storage of at least two hours, adding up to 10,000 MWh, so that solar output can be shifted to peak demand hours; the scheme runs from FY 2026-27 to FY 2030-31.
•The scheme rests on a National Institute of Solar Energy assessment putting India's floating solar potential at about 102.18 GWp across reservoirs and inland water bodies, against a current floating solar base of only about 700 MW.

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PIB Current Affairs — 2 August 2026

Fourth Tri-Services Future Warfare Course Begins at Manekshaw Centre Under HQ IDS

Pingali Venkayya, Designer of the Swaraj Flag, Remembered on His 150th Birth Anniversary

Boxing Sweep, Gulveer's Double and a First Para Gold Close India's Glasgow Campaign

Ujh Multipurpose Project Revived to Harness India's Ravi Waters in Kathua

India Chairs BRICS Heads of Statistical Offices Meeting at Lucknow

Commercial and Captive Blocks Reach 20.2% Share as July Coal Output Rises 7.51%

NBA Releases Rs 8.22 Crore Rice Benefit-Sharing to Institutions and States

PM Launches 100-Week Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat Sankalp Abhiyan

PM Surya Sarovar Yojana Approved for 5,000 MW Floating Solar with Storage