Daily Current Affairs and GK | 25, 26 and 27 January 2026

Topic: International News

1. Gulfood hosts India as its partner country for the first time.

• Gulfood is the world’s largest annual food and beverage trade event. It will run from January 26 to January 30, 2026.
• Dubai is making global exhibition history as Gulfood becomes the first exhibition to operate simultaneously across two mega venues.
• One venue is the Dubai World Trade Centre. The second venue is the Dubai Exhibition Centre at Expo City Dubai.
• India’s participation is a milestone as a total of 161 exhibitors will showcase India’s agri-food ecosystem.
• The Indian pavilion has doubled in size from last year. This reflects expanding footprint of Indian agri-food exports.
• This also reflects rising global demand for Indian products.
• Bharati Pavilion is a key highlight of India’s participation.
• It is APEDA’s flagship initiative to promote export-ready agri-food and agri-tech startups.
• It is located at Startup Zone at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
• The pavilion features eight high-potential Indian startups. The startups were selected through a national-level process from more than 100 applicants.
• India will have a presence at both venues. The Dubai World Trade Centre hosts the Beverage Hall and the Startup Hall, including the Bharati Pavilion.
• Dubai Exhibition Centre hosts the World Food Hall, Pulses, Grains and Cereals Hall and Gulfood Green.
• The event brings together over 8,500 exhibitors showcasing 1.5 million products from 195 countries.
• Twenty-five states will participate. These states include Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, and West Bengal.

Topic: Important Days

2. National Voters’ Day 2026: 25 January

• National Voters’ Day is celebrated to create electoral awareness amongst citizens and encourage them to take part in the electoral process.
• It is celebrated every year on 25th January to mark the foundation day of the Election Commission of India.
• This year, the 16th National Voters’ Day (NVD-2026) is being observed.
• The theme of the 2026 National Voters’ Day is “My India, My Vote” with the tagline, “Citizen at the Heart of Indian Democracy”.
• National Voters’ Day is being celebrated on January 25 every year since 2011.
• 25th January 1950 is the foundation day of the Election Commission of India.
• This year, the Honorable President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu, presided over the event as the chief guest in New Delhi.
• Two publications were also launched at NVD-2026 – 2025: A Year of Initiatives and Innovations and ‘Chunav Ka Parv, Bihar Ka Garv’, a publication on the successful conduct of General Elections in Bihar.