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CDS / OTA Monthly Current Affairs — August 2026 (PDF)

Free CDS / OTA monthly current affairs PDF for 1 August 2026 to 31 August 2026, covering 93 exam-focused topics. Revision cards written by Cavalier faculty for the CDS / OTA GK paper.

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What this monthly covers

Each card in the PDF condenses one of these daily explainers into revision points. Read the full article for the MCQs and the exam-pattern note.

• 1 August 2026
  • Swami Vivekananda & India's Spiritual Renaissance History
  • PM-VBRY & Formal Job Creation Economy
  • National Handloom Day & India's Handloom Heritage Economy & Culture
• 2 August 2026
  • Ujh Multipurpose Project & the Indus Waters Treaty Geography & IR
  • PM-AJAY & the Adarsh Gram Component Welfare & Governance
  • Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat Sankalp Abhiyan Society & Health
• 3 August 2026
  • Near-Universal Banking Coverage & Financial Inclusion Economy
  • Indian Organ Donation Day & the THOTA Framework Health
  • Gyan Bharatam Mission & India's Manuscript Heritage Art & Culture
• 4 August 2026
  • SVAMITVA & Rural Property Rights Governance
  • Shipbuilding Finance & the Maritime Development Fund Economy & Infrastructure
  • Extradition, INTERPOL Notices & BHARATPOL Polity & IR
• 5 August 2026
  • The Forest Rights Act & Community Forest Rights Governance
  • Chandipura Virus & India's Outbreak Response Machinery Health
  • Seven Years Since the Abrogation of Article 370 Polity
• 6 August 2026
  • Namo Bharat RRTS & Regional Rapid Transit Infrastructure
  • India's Intangible Cultural Heritage & the UNESCO 2003 Convention Art & Culture
  • GOBARdhan & India's Compressed Biogas Push Economy & Energy
• 7 August 2026
  • USBRL & the Chenab Bridge: All-Weather Rail to Kashmir Infrastructure
  • Quit India at 84: The 1942 Movement and the Road to Freedom History
  • GeM at Ten: Public Procurement, Transparency and ₹20 Lakh Crore Economy & Governance
• 8 August 2026
  • Urban Cooperative Banks & the NUCFDC Umbrella Economy
  • UPI, MDR and Who Pays for Digital Payments Economy
  • E-Samudra & Seafarer Welfare: Digitising Maritime Governance Infrastructure & Governance
• 9 August 2026
  • India Crosses 300 GW Non-Fossil Power Capacity Environment & Energy
  • Commonwealth Games 2026 & India's Sporting Ecosystem Culture & Sport
  • Aviation Safety: How India Investigates an Air Incident Governance & Sci-Tech
• 10 August 2026
  • Interlinking of Rivers — Where the 30 Links Actually Stand Geography & Governance
  • PLFS Quarterly Bulletin, April–June 2026: Reading India's Labour Data Economy
  • 891 Asiatic Lions: World Lion Day, Project Lion and the Gir Story Environment
• 11 August 2026
  • India Tops Global Ship Recycling: Alang, the Hong Kong Convention and the Circular Economy Economy & Environment
  • The MSMED (Amendment) Bill, 2026: Delayed Payments, TReDS and Faster Dispute Resolution Economy
  • e-FIR and Zero FIR under Section 173 BNSS Polity & Governance
• 12 August 2026
  • The Tribunals Reforms Bill, 2026 and the National Tribunals Commission Polity & Governance
  • India–SACU Preferential Trade Agreement: Terms of Reference Signed Economy & International Relations
  • CPI July 2026 on the New 2024=100 Base: Reading India's Inflation Numbers Economy
• 13 August 2026
  • ₹15.52 Crore for Mustard Genes: How Access and Benefit Sharing Works Environment
  • Monsoon Session 2026 Adjourns Sine Die — 12 Bills, 19 Sittings Polity & Governance
  • The MMDR Amendment Bill, 2026: Who May Tax a Mine Economy & Governance
• 14 August 2026
  • WPI at 9.78% and India's Shift to a Producer Price Index Economy
  • Partition Horrors Remembrance Day: The History Behind 14 August History
  • Programmable Money for Ration: CBDC-Based DBT under PMGKAY Economy & Governance
• 15 August 2026
  • Sri Aurobindo at 154: Revolutionary, Editor, Philosopher History
  • Strengthening ITDAs and ITDPs: Fixing the Last Mile of Tribal Development Governance
  • Sapt Dhara and Viksit Bharat 2047: The 80th Independence Day Address Governance & Economy
• 16 August 2026
  • A ₹2,500 Crore Origin Fraud: How the SAFTA Areca Nut Racket Worked Economy & Trade
  • India Hosts the BRICS Environment Ministers' Meeting: Four Priorities Under the 2026 Chairship IR & Environment
  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Punya Tithi: Pokhran, Coalition Dharma and the Reforms That Outlived Him History & Polity
• 17 August 2026
  • The SEED Scheme and India's De-notified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Communities Welfare
  • PosTransfer Powered by UPI: The Qatar–India Remittance Corridor Goes Live Economy
  • India's First Guide to Grasslands: Ending the 'Wasteland' Label at UNCCD COP17 Environment
• 18 August 2026
  • Two Crore Biometric Updates: UIDAI Takes Aadhaar Enrolment Into the Schools Governance
  • EU CBAM: What a Carbon Border Tax Means for Indian Exporters Economy
  • Digital Bharat Nidhi and BharatNet: ₹3,942 Crore for Rural Chhattisgarh Infrastructure
• 19 August 2026
  • The MMDR Amendment Act, 2026: Who May Tax a Mine Economy
  • Makhana: How a Kosi Pond Crop Became a ₹1,250-a-Kilo Export Economy
  • 1.2% of the Fleet, 3.3% of the Particulates: CAQM Moves on Light Goods Vehicles Environment
• 20 August 2026
  • Core Sector Grows 5.4% in July: Reading the Eight Industries Behind the Number Economy
  • A High Court Bench for Ladakh: Article 214 and the Distance to Justice Polity
  • Mapping the Twilight Zone: India's First National Report on Deep-Sea Fishery Resources Environment
• 21 August 2026
  • PM-AASHA: The Four Instruments Behind India's Price Floor Economy
  • The ₹62,500 Crore Bet on Making Phones, Not Assembling Them Economy
  • Direct Benefit Transfer Rewires the SC and OBC Scholarship Pipeline Polity
• 22 August 2026
  • Mission Zero: The Sewer Deaths a 2013 Ban Did Not Stop Society
  • India Restricts Chlorpheniramine-Phenylephrine Cold Combinations for Children Under Four Science & Technology
  • The Chennai Declaration: What BRICS Agreed on Science, and What It Binds International Relations
• 23 August 2026
  • Tribal Languages at Mysuru: The Eighth Schedule Gap and the Transmission Problem Society
  • Regenerative Agriculture and the Long Repair of India's Soils Environment
  • India's Largest Business Delegation to Japan and the Trade Gap It Went to Close International Relations
• 24 August 2026
  • How the RBI's Dollar-Rupee Swap Window Pulled In $73 Billion Economy
  • India's First High-Expansion Popcorn Maize Hybrid — and What 'Non-GMO' Really Signals Economy
  • Who Pays to Restore Land — India's 21.76 Million Hectares at UNCCD COP17 Environment
• 25 August 2026
  • UPI at Ten: From 1.78 Crore Transactions to Half the World's Real-Time Payments Economy
  • Regional Rural Banks Post a Record ₹10,176 Crore — and Cross ₹13.5 Lakh Crore in Business Economy
  • e-Shram at Five: Counting 31.89 Crore Workers Who Were Never on a Register Economy
• 26 August 2026
  • Sugar at ₹55.70 a Kilo: Reading a 15.6% Monthly Jump Against a 3% Trend Economy
  • Kanda Express Leaves Nashik: How a Buffer Stock Actually Reaches a Kitchen Economy
  • India and Seychelles Talk Tuna: A Small Island State and a 19.7 Million Tonne Fishery International Relations
• 27 August 2026
  • Counting Ghosts: The Science India Took to the Moscow Snow Leopard Roundtable Environment
  • 59.09 Crore Accounts, 32.92 Crore of Them Women's: Jan Dhan at Twelve Economy
  • 40.58 Crore Land Parcels Have a Number: Bhu-Aadhaar and the Dead Capital Problem Polity
• 28 August 2026
  • Nilekani's Task Force Asks the Candidates: Public Exam Reform Opens for Suggestions Polity
  • 24 Reactors, 8.78 GW, and a Target of 100: India's Nuclear Programme After the SHANTI Act Economy
  • Industrial Output Up 6.7%, and Mining Down: Reading the New IIP Series Economy
• 29 August 2026
  • Tashkent to Bishkek: India at the SCO's Twenty-Fifth Year International Relations
  • ₹2.06 Lakh Crore in Claims: A Decade of Fasal Bima, and What Actually Changed Economy
  • ₹1,478 to ₹2,110 per MMBtu: How a Gas Pool Absorbs a 43% Price Rise Economy
• 30 August 2026
  • ₹5.68 Crore for Okra, Cucumber and Watermelon: How Benefit-Sharing Actually Pays Environment
  • One Nation, One Time: India Makes IST Legally Binding Polity
  • GER at 30%, and Women Ahead for a Seventh Year: Higher Education's Decade Economy
• 31 August 2026
  • A 25-Year Dispute Settled in a Room: Bihar, Jharkhand and the Sone Polity
  • Six Pillars, Ten Categories: What Semicon 2.0 Actually Funds Economy
  • 7.8% in Q1: Reading a Growth Number Properly Economy

How to use it

Read the PDF once end to end, then use the bold figures and names as a self-test: cover the card, recall the number, check. Come back to the monthly the week before the paper — it is written as a revision sheet, not a news bulletin.