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🔆 ONE-LINERS | 19-09-2026 🔆 POLITY & GOVERNANCE 📍 Passport Rules for Children Below 15 Years 🟢 Under the Passports (Amendment) Rules, 2026, passports issued to children below 15 years will be valid for 5 years or until they turn 18, whichever is earlier. 🟢 Applies to ordinary passports with 36 pages. 🟢 Children below 15 must leave the “Validity Required” section blank. 🟢 Children below 8 years are eligible for a 10% discount on fresh passport application fees. 🟢 The rules also revise fees for fresh and reissued passports. 📍 Tulu: Karnataka’s Additional Administrative Language 🟢 Karnataka announced Tulu as the state’s second additional administrative language in Udupi and Dakshina Kannada districts. 🟢 Language family: Dravidian; spoken mainly in coastal Karnataka and Kasaragod, Kerala. The region is known as Tulu Nadu. 🟢 Tulu has a history spanning over 2,000 years and is distinct from Kannada and Malayalam. 🟢 Script: Tulu had its own script, used in works from the 15th–18th centuries; contemporary literature is largely written in Kannada script. 🟢 Tulu is a non-scheduled language and is not included in the Constitution’s Eighth Schedule. 🔆 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 📍 Oman’s Sohar Port 🟢 SOHAR Port & Freezone is a major deep-sea port and industrial hub on Oman’s northern coast, outside the Strait of Hormuz, between Dubai and Muscat. 🟢 Operational since 2004, it covers 21 million sq. m and includes logistics, petrochemicals, metals and food clusters. 🟢 Its food cluster includes Oman’s first dedicated agricultural-products terminal. 🟢 A proposed green corridor with UAE’s Jebel Ali Port aims to facilitate faster customs clearance for Indian goods. 🟢 Other major Omani ports: Salalah and Duqm. 🟢 GCC members: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. 📍 India–Japan: 75 Years of Diplomatic Relations 🟢 2027 marks 75 years of India–Japan diplomatic relations, established in 1952. 🟢 Designated as the “India–Japan Year of Shared Horizons.” 🟢 The week of 28 April 2027 will be observed as India–Japan Week. 🟢 Partnership milestones: Global Partnership (2000) → Strategic and Global Partnership (2006) → Special Strategic and Global Partnership (2014). 🟢 IMAGE-75: Manga, anime and gaming cooperation. 🟢 SPORT-75 & Cricket Kizuna-75: Sports exchanges and cricket coaching initiatives. 🟢 RASA-75: Arts, music and cultural exchanges. 🟢 Business Connect-75: Links Indian industrial clusters with Japanese banks and enterprises. 🟢 MIRAI-VIGYAN-75: Science, technology, academic and space cooperation, including the LUPEX lunar mission. 🟢 A Buddhist pilgrimage initiative will promote spiritual tourism between the two countries. 📍 US Major Drug Transit List — FY2027 🟢 The US identified 23 countries, including India, China and Pakistan, as major drug transit or illicit drug-producing countries. 🟢 Afghanistan, Bolivia, Burma and Colombia were separately identified as having “failed demonstrably” to meet international counternarcotics obligations. 🟢 India, China and Pakistan were not placed in this category. 🟢 The US acknowledged India’s efforts against illicit opium cultivation and to strengthen supply-chain integrity. 🟢 China: Identified as a major producer of precursor chemicals used in illicit synthetic drugs, including fentanyl and methamphetamine. 🟢 Pakistan: Identified as a major drug transit or illicit drug-producing country. 🔆 ENVIRONMENT 📍 First Soil Carbon Credit Payments to Farmers 🟢 Farmers in Punjab and Haryana received India’s first soil-carbon-credit payments through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT). 🟢 Linked to the Aadi farmer carbon programme, launched by Grow Indigo in 2019 with technical guidance from ICAR. 🟢 Covers over 2 million acres and 1 lakh farmers across 7 states. 🟢 More than 2,500 farmers received over ₹2.9 crore; individual payments ranged from ₹3,000 to ₹15,000. 🟢 1 carbon credit = 1 metric tonne of CO₂ equivalent removed or reduced. 🟢 Credits issued under Verra VM0042 methodology. 🟢 Practices include no-till farming, cover cropping, direct-seeded rice, crop-residue management and water conservation. 📍 Sal Trees & Sal Borer Outbreak 🟢 Permission was granted to cut over 1.56 lakh sal trees affected by sal borer in Madhya Pradesh. 🟢 Sal:Shorea robusta, also known as Sakhua or Saal; a major native tree of tropical moist and dry deciduous forests. 🟢 Sal borer:Hoplocerambyx spinicornis, a longhorn beetle whose larvae hollow out tree trunks. 🟢 Affected areas include Dindori and Anuppur (Amarkantak) districts. 🟢 An infestation is classified as an epidemic when affected trees exceed 1% of the total forest stand. 📍 World Bamboo Day 2026 🟢 Observed globally on 18 September to promote bamboo’s sustainable, economic and ecological value. 🟢 Theme: “Bamboo Beyond Borders.” 🟢 Promoted by the World Bamboo Organisation (WBO); formally declared at the 8th World Bamboo Congress in Bangkok in 2009. 🟢 Nagaland: Introduced “The Green Gold Barn,” blending traditional bamboo use with modern innovation. 🟢 Maharashtra: Bamboo Research and Training Centre, Chichpalli, hosted World Bamboo Week 2026 with competitions and technology showcases. 🔆 TECHNOLOGY 📍 ‘OneTag’ FASTag Portability 🟢 OneTag is a new NETC FASTag portability facility allowing users to change their issuer bank while retaining the same physical tag. 🟢 Developed jointly by IHMCL and NPCI. 🟢 Available through the Rajmarg Yatra app. 🟢 Works like mobile number portability: users retain the same FASTag ID and vehicle registration. 🟢 A fresh KYC is required when switching banks. 🟢 FASTag has over 98% penetration and around 13 crore users. 🔆 SPECIES 📍 Ariosoma cmfriense: New Conger Eel Species 🟢 A new conger eel species was described from the Arabian Sea, named after the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) on its 80th anniversary. 🟢 Found at around 300 m depth off Kollam, Kerala. 🟢 Identified using morphological characteristics and molecular evidence. 🟢 Distinguished from 12 recognised Ariosoma species reported from Indian and neighbouring waters. 🟢 Key features: 135 total vertebrae, 127–130 lateral-line pores, two supraorbital pores and a dorsal fin origin just ahead of the pectoral-fin base. 🟢 Also features a plain pectoral fin, a dark opercular patch and fine black speckling below the lateral line. 🔆 MISCELLANEOUS 📍 International Equal Pay Day 2026 🟢 Observed on 18 September, coordinated by the UN, ILO and UN Women. 🟢 Theme: “Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value — For Everyone, Everywhere.” 🟢 Focuses on eliminating gender-based wage discrimination and ensuring equal remuneration for work of equal value. 🟢 The principle is enshrined in ILO Equal Remuneration Convention No. 100. 🟢 According to figures cited by UN Women, women globally earn roughly 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. #CurrentAffairs

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