Daily Current Affairs
January 9, 2026 — Daily Current Affairs
9 January 2026
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HPCL commissioned the world’s first LC-Max Residue Upgradation Facility at Visakhapatnam (₹31,407 crore; 93% residue conversion), while the 18th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention concluded in Bhubaneswar. Critically Endangered White-bellied Heron faced renewed threat from the proposed Kalai-II hydropower dam on the Lohit River, and an H5N1 avian influenza outbreak in Kuttanad, Kerala triggered culling of ~55,000 ducks. Census 2027 was confirmed as India’s first fully digital census, and India was invited as the first non-EU partner to the Weimar Triangle summit.