UPSC Current Affairs — 07 Aug 2026 Daily Briefing

Friday, 7 August 2026

GS-1POST-UPRISING POLITICAL FRAGMENTATION (BANGLADESH)

The Uprising Is Over - So Now the Allies Are Fighting Each Other

On the second anniversary of the uprising, clashes between former coalition partners - BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami's student wing and the National Citizen Party - spread across Bangladeshi campuses, even disrupting an official state anniversary event where the Acting President said he felt "ashamed and pained."

Sub TopicREVOLUTIONARY COALITIONS AND THE RECURRING PATTERN OF…SourceTHE HINDU

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GS-1ARCHAEOLOGY & ANCIENT DNA STUDIES

A 1,000-Year-Old Skeleton in a Box and What It Means to Finally Open It

BHU's Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, with CDFD Hyderabad, has begun ancient DNA (aDNA) and stable isotope testing on a roughly 1,000-year-old skeleton recovered from Rajghat in 1957, in a rare instance of a decades-old Indian find being subjected to modern genetic science.

Sub TopicBIO-ARCHAEOLOGY, THE RAJGHAT SKELETON AND GANGA VALLEY…SourceTHE INDIAN EXPRESS

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The Uprising Is Over - So Now the Allies Are Fighting Each Other

A 1,000-Year-Old Skeleton in a Box and What It Means to Finally Open It