Daily Current Affairs 5 August 2026

Welcome to the Ujiyari Daily Current Affairs edition for August 5, 2026. The Monetary Policy Committee held the repo rate at 5.25 per cent for a fourth consecutive review, trimmed its inflation forecast and raised its growth forecast, a combination worth reading carefully. On the same morning the Services PMI came in at a 53-month low, which sits in genuine tension with that growth upgrade. Professor Annapurni Subramaniam of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics became the first Indian woman and the fourth Indian to receive the COSPAR Vikram Sarabhai Medal. The day also marked seven years since the constitutional decision of August 5, 2019 on Jammu and Kashmir, with the statehood question unresolved. In Parliament, the Lok Sabha replaced the Bankers’ Books Evidence Act of 1891 with a statute that recognises cloud-hosted records, and the Rajya Sabha completed the rise in Supreme Court strength to 38 judges. TRAI opened consultation on quality of service for 5G network slicing, and the Centre deployed an outbreak response team to Gujarat and Rajasthan over Chandipura virus. The full roundup, eight deep-dive articles, and a practice quiz follow.