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Highlights of Current Affairs 11 August 2026
- Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan signed the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, a trilateral mutual-security pact treating an attack on one member as an attack on all three, building on the 2025 Saudi-Pakistan Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement.
- India renewed diplomatic efforts at the BRICS Culture Ministers’ Meeting to repatriate the 11th-century Vagdevi idol (identified by the British Museum as Ambika) from London, linked to the disputed Bhojshala complex in Dhar, MP.
- The Supreme Court released a new framework, “Judgments and Gender: Sensitivity and Compassion in Writing Judgments,” replacing its 2023 handbook, promoting trauma-informed, survivor-centric adjudication and introducing the SOGIESC framework for LGBTQIA+ dignity.
- The Home Minister paid tribute to Rabindranath Tagore on his death anniversary; Tagore won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Gitanjali and authored the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh.
- Tamil Nadu’s Legislative Assembly unanimously urged fairer tax devolution from the Union, highlighting fiscal federalism concerns like vertical fiscal imbalance, cesses/surcharges outside the divisible pool, and GST-related revenue constraints.
- A Parliamentary Standing Committee’s 166th Report flagged severe vacancies, rising pendency, and infrastructure/cybersecurity gaps across India’s tribunals, including ITAT, NGT, NCLT and RCT.
- The Union Government opposed extending creamy-layer exclusion to SC/ST reservations, arguing caste-based disadvantage isn’t equivalent to OBC backwardness, citing Indra Sawhney, Nagaraj, Jarnail Singh and Davinder Singh judgments.
- Bengaluru-based Astrobase unveiled EVEREST, India’s first privately developed 800 kN Full-Flow Staged Combustion LOX-Methane rocket engine, joining Russia, the US and China in FFSC technology.
- India supplied the first of three beam catchers for the Super-FRS at FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) in Darmstadt, Germany, designed by CSIR-CMERI under Bose Institute, Kolkata’s supervision.
- Five captive-bred slender-billed vultures were released into the wild in Assam by BNHS — the world’s first such release of this species, alongside standardisation of 27 place names in Arunachal Pradesh on Survey of India maps.
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