Bhawaiya folk music
- The Vice President released a book titled “Samskriti Ratna Bhandar: Bhawaiyar Itibritto” (Bhawaiya: A Cultural Treasure and Its Historical Journey).
- The book has been authored by Lok Sabha Member Dr. Jayanta Kumar Roy and Sangeeta Roy.
- Bhawaiya is a traditional folk music genre originating from North Bengal, Assam, and surrounding regions.
Air Force Chief releases astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla’s memoir
- Air Force Chief Amar Preet Singh released the memoir of Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, titled ‘Second Orbit: One Man’s Hope… Dreams of 1.4 Billion Hearts’.
- The book chronicles Group Captain Shukla’s journey from fighter pilot to astronaut and his historic mission to the International Space Station as part of the Axiom-4 mission.
Current Facts
- Kamarajar Port, commissioned 25 years ago, now stands as one of the major ports in the country and has a cargo handling capacity of 58.44 million tonnes with nine operational berths. In 2024-25, the port registered its highest cargo handling volume of 48.41 million metric tonnes (MMT).
- The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in Scotland has unveiled a statue honouring Sushruta, the ancient Indian physician believed to have lived around 2,600 years ago and widely associated with the early development of plastic surgery.
- The Ministry of Civil Aviation and Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) today launched AIR SUVIDHA 2.0, an upgraded contactless Passenger Health Self-Declaration Portal, to strengthen public health surveillance at Points of Entry in response to the ongoing Ebola disease outbreak.
- The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has announced the ‘Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Rules, 2026’, which significantly overhaul the 2011 rules by introducing stringent regulatory compliance requirements for Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and associations in India that receive foreign funding.
Thirukkural
Wisdom restrains, nor suffers mind to wander where it would;
From every evil calls it back, and guides in way of good
Explanation
- Not to permit the mind to go where it lists, to keep it from evil, and to employ it in good, this is wisdom.
