🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 12 JANUARY 2026
🔆 REGULATORY / SEBI
📍
Ease of Doing Business Reforms
✅ SEBI proposes compliance rationalisation for exchanges
📍 Objectives:
✅ Reduce daily compliance burden
✅ Increase autonomy & competition
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Key Relief Measures
✅ Bulk & block deal disclosure shifted:
➡ From UCC-level → PAN-level
✅ Exchanges to directly disseminate data
➡ Reduces manual broker
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Liquidity Enhancement Scheme (LES)
✅ Market-making shifted to principle-based LES
✅ Exchanges get discretion to design incentives
⚠️ Risk: “War for liquidity” in niche products
🔆 BANKING & FINANCE
📍
Virtual Digital Assets (VDA) Regulation
✅ FIU-IND issues new guidelines for VDA service providers
📍 Coverage:
✅ AML / CFT / CPF framework
✅ Under PMLA, 2002 (since 2023)
📍
What is VDA?
✅ Defined under Income-tax Act, 1961
✅ Includes:
➡ Cryptocurrencies
➡ NFTs
📍 Tax:
✅ 30% on transfer (plus surcharge & cess)
🔆 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
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Diplomacy
✅ India participates in
Weimar Triangle for first time
📍 Members:
➡ France
➡ Germany
➡ Poland
📍 Origin:
✅ 1991 (Germany)
📍 Aim:
✅ European integration & security dialogue
📍
Digital Governance
✅ Indonesia becomes
first country to block Grok AI chatbot
📍 Reason:
✅ Risks of explicit & non-consensual deepfakes
📍
India–Sri Lanka
✅ First India-funded
Bailey Bridge opened for traffic
📍 Length: 100 ft
📍 Built by: Indian Army
📍 Part of
Operation Sagar Bandhu (Cyclone Ditwah relief)
🔆 NATIONAL AFFAIRS
📍
Civil Aviation
✅
Akasa Air becomes India’s 5th airline to join
IATA
📍 Requirement:
✅ IOSA safety audit clearance
📍
Internal Security
✅ Amit Shah inaugurates
National IED Data Management System (NIDMS)
📍 Managed by:
✅ NSG, Manesar
📍 Covers:
➡ All bomb/IED incidents since 1999
📍 Objective:
✅ Faster investigation & prevention
📍
Wildlife Conservation
✅
MSTrIPES app to be used for tiger census
📍 Location:
➡ Anamalai Tiger Reserve (Tamil Nadu)
📍 Purpose:
✅ GPS-based real-time wildlife monitoring
📍
Energy
✅ PIB approves
Kamala Hydroelectric Project, Arunachal Pradesh
📍 Capacity:
✅ 6,870 MU annually
📍 Cost:
✅ ₹26,070 crore
📍 Implementing agency:
✅ NHPC
📍 Model:
✅ BOOT
📍
Languages & Culture
✅ VP C.P. Radhakrishnan inaugurates
International Conference on Indian Languages
📍 Focus:
✅ Protection & global promotion of Indian languages
📍 Context:
✅ Constitution recently released in
Santhali
📍
AI Governance
✅ IndiaAI & MeitY to host
Regional AI Impact Conference
📍 Venue:
➡ Lucknow
📍 Dates:
➡ 12–13 Jan 2026
📍
Transport Safety
✅ Govt announces nationwide rollout of
Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) technology by end-2026
📍 Purpose:
✅ Reduce road accidents via real-time alerts
🔆 ENVIRONMENT / BIODIVERSITY
📍
Species at Risk
✅
Kashmir Markhor facing local extinction
📍 Population:
➡ ~200–300
📍 Habitat:
➡ Kazinag National Park (J&K)
📍
Archaeology
✅ 2,000-year-old
Zehanpora Buddhist complex excavated
📍 Period:
➡ Kushan era
📍 Location:
➡ Baramulla, J&K
📍 On ancient Silk Route
🔆 DEFENCE / POLICE
📍
Policing Reforms
✅ Uttarakhand Police ranks
1st in ICJS 2.0
📍 Score:
➡ 93.46
📍 Platform:
➡ NCRB CCTNS/ICJS Dashboard
📍 ICJS integrates:
➡ Police, courts, prisons, forensics
🔆 STATES
📍
Gujarat
✅ Launch of
‘Asha Van’ mobile cancer screening unit
📍 Objective:
✅ Early detection in rural & tribal areas
🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS
📍
National Youth Day
✅
12 January
📍 Birth anniversary of
Swami Vivekananda
🔆 APPOINTMENTS
📍
Judiciary
✅ Justice Mahesh Sonak → Chief Justice, Jharkhand HC
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