Legal Current Affairs for 06 January 2026

Draft National Deep Tech Startup Policy (NDTSP),2023:To address the challenges confronting deep tech startups through definitive policy interventions to create a conducive ecosystem.
NECTAR: Autonomous society under DST aims to harness and leverage niche frontier technologies.
Research Development and Innovation (RDI) Scheme: It enables acquisition of strategically important technologies, and promotes the creation of a Deep-Tech Fund of Funds.
Indo-Israel Deep Tech & Life Sciences Mission: This mission was launched in 2021 to promote collaboration between India and Israel in deep tech and life sciences.

Launched in: 2021 by MeitY under the Semicon India Programme.
Nodal Agency for implementation: C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing).
Objective: To catalyze a strong, self-reliant chip design ecosystem by providing financial incentives and access to advanced design infrastructure for domestic startups and MSMEs.
Benefits of the scheme:
Provides financial incentives in 2 categories: Product Design Linked Incentive and Deployment Linked Incentive.
Provides Design Infrastructure Support: through the ChipIN Centre to approved companies.
This includes remote access to a National EDA Tool Grid, a repository of IP Cores, and fiscal support for prototyping (MPW) and post-silicon validation.
Eligibility under the DLI Scheme:
Start-ups and MSMEs are eligible for financial incentives and design infrastructure support for semiconductor product design & deployment.
And other domestic companies are eligible for financial incentives for deploying semiconductor designs.

Discovery: Unearthed in 1898 by British Civil Engineer William Claxton Peppé.
Location: An ancient Buddhist stupa at Piprahwa (Uttar Pradesh), near the India-Nepal border.
Significance: Archaeological evidence associates the Piprahwa site with ancient Kapilavastu, widely identified as the place where Bhagwan Buddha spent his early life prior to renunciation.
The relics are believed to be associated with the mortal remains of Gautama Buddha.

Location: Along the coastline in Prabhas Patan, Veraval, Saurashtra region of Gujarat.
Religious significance: One of the 12 holy Jyotirlings of Lord Shiva is here in Somnath.
History: It was reconstructed several times in the past after repeated destruction starting with an attack by Mahmud Ghazni in the 11th century (also recorded by Al Biruni).
Reconstruction: The then Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel ordered the reconstruction of the Somnath temple on November 12, 1947.
On May 11, 1951, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the President of India performed the installation ceremony for the temple.

It is India’s first Made in India universal multi-calibre rocket launcher,
Capable of executing precision surface-to-surface strikes at ranges extending up to 300 km.
Capabilities
Can engage multiple targets simultaneously at varying ranges.
Can integrate multiple rocket types.
Accuracy of less than 5 meters.
Can fire loitering munitions up to 100 km.

OPEC is a permanent intergovernmental organization of 12 oil-exporting developing nations.
India is not a member.
Genesis: Baghdad Conference in 1960, by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
Objective: To co-ordinate and unify petroleum policies among Member Countries, in order to secure fair and stable prices for petroleum producers.
HQ: Vienna (Austria)
OPEC+: In response to falling oil prices driven by significant increase in the US shale oil output, OPEC signed an agreement with 10 other oil-producing countries in 2016 to create OPEC+.

Genesis: Established in 1945 through the UN Charter as one of the 6 principal organs of the UN.
Purpose: Maintaining international peace and security.
Members: 5 permanent members (P5) and 10 non-permanent members.
P5 includes China, France, Russia, USA and UK.