FIU-IND & SEBI MoU on Financial Crime: The Financial Intelligence Unit-India(FIU) and Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) signed an MoU to strengthen efforts against money laundering and financial crimes. The agreement aims to enhance intelligence sharing, coordination, and enforcement to combat financial crimes and terrorist financing. It enables the sharing of financial intelligence […]
Subhas Chandra Bose’s Philosophical Foundations
Subhas Chandra Bose’s Philosophical Foundations: The life and ideas of Subhas Chandra Bose are being revisited, highlighting his unique attempt to blend Indian spirituality with Western political thought and his vision for a modern, socialist India.Initially influenced by Vedanta and Shankaracharya’s Doctrine of Maya, viewing the world as an illusion.He adopted a pragmatic stance, stating […]
The River Basin Management Scheme: Strengthening Water Governance
The River Basin Management Scheme: Strengthening Water Governance: The Government of India has approved the continuation of the River Basin Management (RBM) Scheme for the period 2026–27 to 2030–31 with a significantly increased outlay of ₹2,183 crore.The RBM Scheme is a scientific and institutional framework under the Ministry of Jal Shakti designed for the integrated […]
India’s First Water-Neutral Railway Depot
India’s First Water-Neutral Railway Depot: Kankaria Coaching Depot in Ahmedabad has become India’s first ‘water-neutral’ railway depot by recycling wastewater used in coach washing and maintenance.The Kankaria Coaching Depot in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, is the first railway depot in India to achieve water neutrality by treating and reusing wastewater generated during routine railway coach cleaning and […]
The Lebanon Ceasefire Deal
The Lebanon Ceasefire Deal: A U.S.-backed 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon officially went into effect at midnight on April 17, 2026.It is a temporary cessation of hostilities designed as a goodwill gesture to enable direct peace negotiations between Israel and Lebanon. While not a permanent peace treaty, it marks the first time in decades […]
Claude Mythos
Claude Mythos: Anthropic has unveiled a preview of Claude Mythos, its most advanced AI system to date, which is capable of autonomously identifying critical software vulnerabilities.Claude Mythos is a next-generation frontier AI model designed with advanced reasoning, coding, and technical problem-solving capabilities that far exceed previous flagship systems.It is specifically engineered to analyze massive, complex […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 18th April 2026
Today’s Current Affairs: 18th April 2026 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Memristor
Memristor: Researchers from the University of Cambridge have reported a new kind of brain-inspired nanodevice, a hafnium-oxide memristor that could dramatically cut artificial intelligence’s (AI) energy use. Memristor’ is a combination of ‘memory’ and ‘resistor’. It is an electronic component whose resistance depends on the history of current flow, allowing it to “remember” past electrical […]
Potomac River
Potomac River: American Rivers, a United States conservation organisation working to make every river clean and healthy for people and wildlife, has nominated the Potomac, the river that flows through Washington, DC as America’s most endangered river for 2026. It is a river in the east central United States. It rises in North and South […]
Biomass-based Improved Cookstoves (ICS)
Biomass-based Improved Cookstoves (ICS): Recently, amid the LPG supply crisis, the relevance of modern biomass-based Improved Cookstoves (ICS) has come into focus, especially as many rural households shift back to firewood, raising concerns about cleaner cooking alternatives. Improved Cookstoves (ICS) are advanced biomass stoves designed to improve combustion efficiency and reduce emissions compared to traditional […]
