Daily Current Affairs 13 August 2026

Welcome to the Ujiyari Daily Current Affairs edition for Thursday, August 13, 2026, International Left-Handers Day and World Organ Donation Day. President Droupadi Murmu gave assent to the Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Act, 2026, extending statutory protection to Vande Mataram, while India’s retail inflation climbed to a 19-month high of 4.45% in July on rising food prices. Tamil Nadu’s new TVK government held its maiden Vetri Investors’ Conclave in Chennai, signing Rs 67,452 crore in MoUs, and Himachal Pradesh notified a 60-paise “Widow and Orphan Cess” on fuel amid opposition criticism. On the infrastructure and governance front, Indian Railways cleared a Rs 295-crore Kavach 4.0 rollout across the Izzatnagar Division and Karnataka launched Tathyakosh, an open-data portal aggregating 1.5 million datasets. The roundup also covers India’s diversification of urea imports to Egypt, Algeria, Nigeria and Georgia amid West Asia supply disruptions, NIA raids in Tamil Nadu’s Andaman Sea methamphetamine case, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards for 2024-2025, and a shadow-fleet tanker’s oil spill reaching Oman’s coast. The full roundup, eight deep-dive articles, and a practice quiz follow.