Legal Current Affairs for 13 February 2026

Contribution: Nearly 7% to GDP and generating around $265 billion in annual revenue.
To align with the vision of Viksit Bharat@2047, the sector needs to aim to achieve $750–850 billion in annual revenue by 2035 to sustain a 7–8% share of GDP and expanding its global market share from present 20% to beyond 25%.
Challenges: Post-pandemic headwinds — including macroeconomic uncertainty, AI-led automation, and intensifying competition—have slowed annual growth to 4–5%.
Current trajectories indicate a $250–300 billion shortfall.
Roadmap identifies five priority growth levers:
Agentic AI: Leverage AI to build hybrid ‘human + agent’ service models.
Software & Products: Strengthen India’s position as global SaaS capital.
Digital Infrastructure: Establish India as world’s data services and AI infrastructure hub.
Innovation-led Engineering: Harness R&D spend pools with India-based innovation centers, Center of Excellences and frontier technology partnerships.
India-for-India solutions: Leverage India’s rapidly growing domestic demand with customized AI and multilingual platforms.

Operate: At extreme altitudes for prolonged periods.
Functions as a persistent surveillance and communication platform.
Station-Keeping Capability
Can remain positioned over a specific geographic area for weeks or even months.
Ensures continuous and real-time coverage, unlike conventional aerial systems.
Airship-Based Design Advantages
Provides enhanced endurance and payload capacity.
Allows integration of multiple sensors for intelligence collection, border monitoring, and communications relay functions.

LSDs are a group of inherited metabolic diseases arising due to defects in genes encoding lysosomal proteins.
LSDs cause a buildup of toxic materials in the body’s cells.
Treatment options are limited and extremely costly, with many LSDs having no cure yet.
Note: Lysosomes are membrane-bound organelles, also called the “suicidal bags” of the cell, contain digestive enzymes to break down waste and recycle cellular components.

Geological structures that release a mixture of mud, water and gases (mainly methane) due to subsurface pressure, without magma involvement.
Genesis: Associated with tectonic activity, sediment compaction and hydrocarbon-rich regions.
Characteristics: mud is cold or perhaps only slightly warmer than the ground temperature.
Significance: Indicators of underground gas reserves and active geological processes.

Multinational maritime partnership (coalition of the willing) upholding the International Rules-Based Order (IRBO).
Membership: 47 nations, including India; voluntary and flexible contributions.
Mandate: Counter illicit non-state actors; ensure maritime security, stability and free flow of global commerce.
Five Combined Task Forces (CTFs)
CTF-150: Maritime security operations outside Arabian Gulf
CTF-151: Counter-piracy
CTF-152: Maritime security inside Arabian Gulf
CTF-153: Red Sea maritime security
CTF-154: Maritime security training

It is a type of probiotic or “good” bacteria found widely in the environment and naturally in the gut of humans as well as in fermented foods.
Industrially, it is valuable for producing enzymes (e.g., amylases, proteases), antibiotics (e.g., bacitracin), and as a probiotic in agriculture and livestock feed.
Its GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) status makes it suitable for food and pharmaceutical applications.