Daily Current Affairs 8 August 2026

Welcome to the Ujiyari Daily Current Affairs edition for August 8, 2026. Eighty-four years ago on this date, the All India Congress Committee adopted the Quit India resolution at Gowalia Tank Maidan, launching the last mass movement of the freedom struggle. Abroad, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement at Al-Safa Palace, a mutual-defence pact with direct implications for India’s regional calculus. In Bhopal, the 11th BRICS Culture Ministers’ Meeting adopted the Bhopal Declaration, addressing creator rights against unauthorised AI use and the restitution of cultural property. The Ministry of Home Affairs issued security guidelines barring new renewable energy projects within a kilometre of India’s international borders, and the government formally named 27 places, passes and features in Arunachal Pradesh on Survey of India maps, a direct response to China’s repeated renaming exercises. Prime Minister Modi inaugurated the “Param Pragya” AI supercomputing facility at IIT Delhi, and IIT Guwahati researchers unveiled a low-cost water-toxicant sensor. The full roundup, nine deep-dive articles, and a practice quiz follow.