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- Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin unveiled Tamil Nadu’s first statue of German philosopher and communist leader Karl Marx at the Egmore Museum complex in Chennai.
- V.O. Chidambaranar (VOC) Port Authority has become the first port in India to deploy an Anti-Drone System.
- DRDO successfully test-fired the nuclear-capable Agni-3 ballistic missile (surface-to-surface missile) off the Odisha coast.
- India’s foreign exchange reserves reached an all-time high of $723.8 billion as of January 30, 2026.
- India won the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2026, defeating England in the final at Harare, Zimbabwe.
- Samrat Rana and Suruchi Singh won a silver medal in the 10m air pistol mixed team event at the Asian Shooting Championship 2026 held in New Delhi.
- Alwar district (Rajasthan) became the first district in India to achieve 100% insurance coverage under the “Insurance for All by 2047” roadmap.
- Indian Railways has launched India’s first LNG-Diesel dual-fuel DEMU (Diesel Electric Multiple Unit) train at Sabarmati in Ahmedabad.
- A two-year-old, Jude Owens from Manchester (UK), set two Guinness World Records by becoming the youngest player to make a bank shot in pool and a double-pot shot in snooker.
- The Vande Mataram Coastal Cyclothon-2026, organised by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), entered Andhra Pradesh to mark 150 years of the national song “Vande Mataram.”
- The book Red Lines Redrawn: Operation Sindoor and India’s New Normal, authored by Major General Bipin Bakshi (Retd), Air Marshal Rajesh Kumar (Retd), Ambassador Anil Trigunayat, and Brigadier Akhelesh Bhargava (Retd), details India’s Operation Sindoor.
- An explosion in an illegal rat-hole coal mine killed 18 miners in East Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya.
- Rat-hole mining is a coal-extraction method using narrow tunnels (about 4–5 feet deep), and it was banned by the NGT (National Green Tribunal) in 2014 due to safety and environmental risks.
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