PIB Current Affairs 7 August 2026

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•The Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change attended Haryana's 77th Van Mahotsav at Manesar, where district-level Van Mahotsav programmes were held simultaneously across all districts of the state.
•Haryana has set a target of 1.4 crore trees for the year under the 'Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam' campaign, and the state is working on the Centre's recommendations to protect the Aravallis and curb air pollution.
•Those recommendations include solid waste management rules for housing societies, Online Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems and Air Pollution Control Devices for industries, smart traffic management and greening activities.

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•The Prime Minister will inaugurate Param Pragya, an AI-powered high-performance supercomputing facility established at the Sonipat campus of IIT Delhi, on 8 August 2026.
•The facility is expected to strengthen the institute's work in artificial intelligence, data science, advanced computing and interdisciplinary research.
•The inauguration takes place at IIT Delhi's 57th Convocation, where over 3,000 graduating students, including 587 PhD scholars, will receive their degrees.

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•The Chairman of the Rajya Sabha made a formal reference in the House to the 84th anniversary of the Quit India Movement, which falls on 9 August 2026.
•The movement was launched under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi on 9 August 1942, and the call of 'Do or Die' drew millions into the freedom struggle.
•The Chairman noted that despite severe repression and imprisonment, the participants' sacrifices strengthened the national movement and paved the way for independence in 1947.

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•The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that school students of Kakraua village hop across check dam pillars to cross the Betwa River in Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha district.
•The children take the route because it cuts the journey from 13 km by road to just 1.5 km; nine students, including five girls, reportedly cross this way every day.
•The Commission held that the absence of a safe mode of transport to reach school amounts to a negation of the fundamental right to education with dignity.

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•The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) under the Ministry of Home Affairs has warned of a campaign that takes over WhatsApp accounts of finance professionals using malicious files disguised as account statements and regulator communications.
•Victims receive a .zip file named like 'Statement of Account.zip', 'RBI.zip' or 'MCA.zip' containing a Windows executable and a DLL file; opening it installs a Trojan that hijacks the active WhatsApp Web session.
•Compromised accounts of senior executives are then used to instruct finance staff to transfer funds to mule accounts — the reason it is called a 'Boss Scam'.

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•A PIB Backgrounder reviews the e-Courts Mission Mode Project, launched in 2007 to move India's paper-based judiciary to a digital, trackable system; it is now in Phase III (2023-2027) with an outlay of Rs 7,210 crore.
•Over 753 crore pages of court records have been digitised, and courts have conducted more than 4.18 crore remote hearings through video conferencing.
•Video conferencing now covers 7,553 establishments including courts, jails and hospitals; e-filing is available in 4,519 courts and NSTEP in 6,895 courts.

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