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Highlights of Current Affairs 13 August 2026
- The government extended PM E-DRIVE incentives for electric two-wheelers until 31 March 2028, offering ₹2,500/kWh up to ₹5,000 per vehicle, alongside a ₹2,000 crore grant to deploy about 72,300 fast chargers.
- The Union Health Ministry’s knowledge paper on AI in MedTech highlighted India as Asia’s 4th-largest MedTech market, projected to reach $50 billion by 2030, while flagging challenges like data bias and fragmented health records.
- Assam’s recurring floods stem from both natural factors (a 580,000 sq km transboundary basin funnelling into a narrow valley, heavy sediment aggradation) and human factors (295 of 423 embankments past their design life, wetland encroachment).
- Government e-Marketplace (GeM) completed 10 years, becoming the world’s third-largest public procurement platform with over ₹20 lakh crore in cumulative GMV and 45.6% of GMV from MSMEs.
- The Union Government proposed the Container Manufacturing Assistance Scheme (CMAS), a ₹10,000 crore outlay to raise India’s container manufacturing capacity tenfold to 7.5 lakh TEUs and cut import dependence.
- NASA invited ISRO to join its Moon Base programme near the lunar South Pole under the Artemis Accords, which India signed in 2023, aiming to establish humanity’s first permanent lunar outpost.
- India observed the 119th martyrdom anniversary of Khudiram Bose, executed at age 18 on 11 August 1908 for his role in the Muzaffarpur Conspiracy targeting Douglas Kingsford.
- Lebanon abolished the death penalty, becoming the first Arab country to replace capital punishment with life imprisonment involving aggravated hard labour.
- The Centre notified appointments of 30 judges to the High Courts of Madras, Calcutta, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, following the collegium-based recommendation process under Article 217.
- A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia, a country situated in the Pacific Ring of Fire with coastlines on both the Pacific and Caribbean, while the Lok Sabha also passed a bill to rename Kerala as “Keralam” in the Constitution.
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