Study Guide · Chapter 4
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- Gujarat's Pithora painting (Rathwa tribal community, Chhota Udepur) received a GI tag.
- The Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026 got Presidential assent — up to 10 years' jail and ₹50 lakh fine for paper leaks.
- VOC Port, Thoothukudi became India's first major port authority certified Scope-2 emission-free.
- The government scrapped the old 12-minutes-per-hour TV ad cap (in place since 2006).
- The Union Cabinet approved a Ladakh Bench of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court.
- India unveiled its first Guide to Grasslands and Other Open Natural Ecosystems at UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
- The PM announced AI skilling for 1 crore youth within a year, during his Independence Day address.
- India Post completed its first-ever drone delivery of the Tiranga, in Himachal Pradesh.
- Glaw Lake, Arunachal Pradesh became India's 101st Ramsar site — the state's first.
- Assam recorded the world's first-ever release of captive-bred slender-billed vultures, in Kaziranga.
- India is home to 13,703 recorded Lepidoptera species — about 8.25% of the world's known butterflies and moths.
- Nagaland signed its first private-sector solar deal — a 20 MW plant at Tizit, Mon district.
- APEDA sent the first-ever sea-route export shipment of GI-tagged Mithila Makhana from Bihar to Australia.
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