Daily Current Affairs — 26 February 2026
4 articles • UPSC Prelims & Mains
Explorations of Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) technologies for india
In News Recently, it has been observed that Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) technologies are essential for achieving Indias net-zero emissions targets, particularly for hard-to-abate sectors like cement. Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) It refers to a set of technologies that capture carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources or directly from the air and convert them into useful products. It removes carbon from the atmosphere and puts it into the economy as inputs for fuels, chemi
Blockchain Based Digital Governance
Context The Blockchain India Challenge, launched by the Ministry of Electronics Information Technology (MeitY) is a national initiative aimed at encouraging visionary Indian startups to pitch pilot cutting-edge Blockchain-based digital governance solutions. What is Blockchain? Blockchain is a distributed, transparent, secure, and immutable database that functions like a ledger of records or transactions, resistant to tampering and accessible across a network of computers.
Training of Large Language Models (LLMs) by Indian Firms
Context Bengaluru-based startup Sarvam AI unveiled two indigenous Large Language Models (LLMs), underscoring India’s push for sovereign, multilingual, and compute-efficient AI amid global competition. Large Language Models (LLMs) A large language model (LLM) is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that uses deep learning techniques and massively large data sets to understand, summarize, generate and predict new content. Deep learning involves the probabilistic analysis of unstructure
Energy Imbalance and the Changing Dynamics of El Niño
Context A recent study highlights that the 2022 increase in Earths energy imbalance was largely driven by a shift from a triple-dip La Niña to a warm El Niño, combined with long-term climate change. Earths Energy Imbalance Study Earth’s Energy Imbalance (EEI) refers to the difference between incoming solar radiation and outgoing heat energy. When more heat is trapped than emitted, global temperatures rise.