5 August 2026 — Current Affairs Quiz

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The Ancient Buddhist Site of Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List on 25 July 2026 at the 48th session of the World Heritage Committee in Busan, South Korea. It is India's 45th World Heritage property and UP's fourth. The serial property has two parts - Chaukhandi Stupa and the Archaeological Remains of Sarnath, on the Tentative List since 1998. Exam angle: Buddha gave his first sermon here, and the Lion Capital of its Ashokan Pillar is India's National Emblem.

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Asmita Dey became the first Indian judoka to win a Commonwealth Games gold, beating Canada's Heidi Quach by yuko in Golden Score in the women's 48kg final at the SEC, Glasgow, on 31 July 2026. Minutes later Harsh Singh added a second judo gold in the men's 60kg, beating Australia's Joshua Katz by waza-ari, while Yamini Mourya took silver in the women's 57kg. Exam angle: before Glasgow, Indian judokas had won only five silver and six bronze medals at the CWG.

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Tanvi Sharma, 17, of Punjab won the women's singles title at the Taipei Open Super 300 on 2 August 2026, beating Vietnam's sixth seed Nguyen Thuy Linh 21-16, 21-16 in 36 minutes for her maiden BWF World Tour title. At 17 years and 222 days she became the youngest champion in Taipei Open history, surpassing Tai Tzu-ying, and the second Indian woman to win it after Saina Nehwal in 2008. Exam angle: she is the fourth Indian woman to win a BWF Super 300 or higher title.

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International Clouded Leopard Day falls on 4 August each year and has been observed since 2018. On that day in 2026 the Environment Ministry announced India's Clouded Leopard Conservation Action Plan, prepared under a Government of India-GEF-UNDP initiative and released at the 91st Standing Committee meeting of the National Board for Wild Life in Coimbatore in July 2026. It names 14 priority landscapes in the Northeast. Exam angle: the species is in Schedule I of the Wild Life Act, 1972.

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Justice Prathiba M. Singh of the Delhi High Court became the first Indian judge inducted into the International IP Hall of Fame, honoured at IPBC Global 2026 in San Diego, USA, on 16 June 2026. The Hall of Fame was set up in 2006 by the magazine Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) and marked its 20th anniversary in 2026. She was inducted alongside Italy's Roberto Dini and the late William Cornish. Exam angle: she chairs the WIPO Advisory Board of Judges.

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Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav announced on 3 August 2026 that Glaw Lake in Arunachal Pradesh had been designated India's 101st Ramsar Site, and the state's first. This pristine freshwater lake of the Eastern Himalayas lies within the Kamlang Tiger Reserve and Wildlife Sanctuary and is fed by perennial mountain streams. Over 150 tree species and 49 orchid species are recorded in the site and its catchment. Exam angle: India had 26 Ramsar Sites in 2014.

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Glaw Lake lies inside the Kamlang Tiger Reserve and Wildlife Sanctuary in the Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh. Kamlang is India's 50th tiger reserve, spanning about 783 sq km, and shares its southern boundary with Namdapha Tiger Reserve. It is named after the Kamlang river, a tributary of the Lohit. The state forest department places the lake at about 1168 m elevation across 82 hectares. Exam angle: Kamlang forms part of the Eastern Himalayan biodiversity hotspot.

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Minister of State for Electronics and IT Jitin Prasada told the Lok Sabha that 2.21 lakh Gram Panchayats had been made service-ready under BharatNet by June 2026, and 24,784 mobile towers commissioned under the Digital Bharat Nidhi scheme. Internet subscribers rose from 25.15 crore in 2014 to 109.27 crore by March 2026, and telephone connections from 93.3 crore to over 133 crore. Exam angle: BharatNet began in 2011 as the National Optical Fibre Network.