Stats in Brief

India's Longest Theatrical Films 🇮🇳🎬 1) LOC: Kargil (2003) – 4 Hours 15 Minutes 2) Mera Naam Joker (1970) – 4 Hours 8 Minutes 3) Sangam (1964) – 3 Hours 58 Minutes 4) Dhurandhar: The Revenge (2026) – 3 Hours 49 Minutes 5) Lagaan (2001) – 3 Hours 44 Minutes

Real Summer to Arrive from Monday Across India ☀️ Nearly 95% of India will witness clear skies and intense heat on April 13, with temperatures in central and peninsular regions expected to reach 40–42°C, IMD said.

🇮🇳 India's patent filings hit record 1,43,729 in FY26 (up 30.2% from 1,10,375 in FY25), with 69.4% domestic (99,721), led by Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra. India is now the 6th largest patent filer globally — Piyush Goyal.

India's electronics industry pitches capturing 30-35% global mobile production in 5 years, $110-130B output, $55-70B exports via MeitY's proposed PLI 2.0 scheme (2026-2031).

Indian‑born cheetah KGP‑2 (25 months old) gives birth to 4 cubs in the wild at Kuno National Park, boosting total population to 57.

BREAKING: Govt hikes export duty on fuels; petrol remains duty-free. • Diesel: ₹21.5 → ₹55.5 per litre • ATF: ₹29.5 → ₹42 per litre • Petrol: No export duty (Finance Ministry)

🇮🇳 India’s Emerging Real Estate Hotspots (TOI) 1. Indore 2. Nagpur 3. Surat 4. Kochi 5. Bhubaneswar

India evacuates 8.4 lakh nationals from Gulf amid West Asia conflict.

Interesting Guinness World Records held by Indians 1.Vispy Kharadi: Bent 24 iron bars with his head 2.Vikas Swami: Lifted 80+ kg in a handstand 3.Smita Srivastava: Longest hair record 4.Kalpana Balan: 38 teeth 5.Arnav Daga: Built city landmarks with 143,000 cards in 41 days

Indians and Iranians on X today 🇮🇳🇮🇷

Countries that can hit any point on Earth with missiles (2026) 🇺🇸 United States 🇷🇺 Russia 🇨🇳 China 🇬🇧 United Kingdom 🇫🇷 France

Menaka Guruswamy has made history as India's first openly LGBTQ+ Member of Parliament after taking oath in the Rajya Sabha as a Trinamool Congress nominee from West Bengal.

Amul becomes first Indian FMCG to hit ₹1 trillion turnover in FY26.

🚨 ISRO Insider Praveen Maurya Exposes Spy Network, Hypersonic Missile Leak & Internal Betrayal. Full Story beatsinbrief.com/2026/04/06/isr…

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has launched an AI and computational thinking curriculum for Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Classes 3 to 8. This introduces India’s first structured AI education in schools from 2026–27.

LG Electronics India sells over 1 million ACs in Q1 2026, fastest summer start ever.

🇮🇳 Indian govt supports 12 organisations to build sovereign AI models 1 Sarvam AI 2 Soket AI 3 Gnani AI 4 Gan AI 5 Avatar AI 6 IIT Bombay Consortium (BharatGen) 7 GenLoop 8 Zentieq 9 Intellihealth 10 Shodh AI 11 Fractal Analytics Ltd. 12 Tech Mahindra Maker’s Lab

🚨 Naxal presence in India 2013 vs March 2026 (Courtesy: NDTV)

🇮🇳 Top AI Startups Driving India’s Self-Reliance 1) BharatGen 2) Sarvam AI 3) Genloop 4) Wadhwani AI 5) Vahan AI (Financial Express)

🚨 At least 8 Indian vessels have crossed the Strait of Hormuz since since the West Asia conflict began. This places India among the countries with the highest number of ships still transiting the critical oil‑shipping corridor despite the blockade.

“No one can dispute that multiple global shocks have recently tested our resilience and that India has come through them solidly.” — S. Jaishankar