Daily Current Affairs and GK | 7 February 2026

Topic: Awards and Prizes

1. Indian teacher Rouble Nagi won the Global Teacher Prize 2026 at the World Government Summit.

• She won one-million-dollar award presented by GEMS Education in its tenth edition.
• Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, presented her the award.
• Nagi has been recognized for transforming neglected walls into educational murals.
• They teach reading, writing, and arithmetic and cover public health and environmental awareness as well.
• She has helped more than one million children access formal education over the past 20 years. She uses art as a tool for learning.
• Nagi was selected from over 5,000 nominations that came from 139 countries.
• Through the Rouble Nagi Art Foundation, she has established more than 800 educational centres, operating across India.
• Out-of-school children can begin structured learning at these centres and gradually return to formal schools.
• Her “living walls of learning” initiative converts abandoned walls into open-air classrooms.
• She plans to use the prize money to open a vocational institute to provide free training in professional skills and digital literacy.
• The prize is organised by the Varkey Foundation in collaboration with UNESCO. It is presented by GEMS Education during the World Government Summit.
• The Global Teacher Prize honours exceptional educators and recognises outstanding contributions to teaching.

Topic: International Appointments

2. The International Olympic Committee elected Soraya Aghaei as its first female member from Iran.

• She also became the youngest current IOC member at age 30.
• Aghaei is the 107th member of the IOC and only the third Iranian representative in IOC history.
• She is the first Iranian IOC member since 2004. She has been elected for an eight-year term.
• Aghaei joins the IOC under the first female president in its 132-year history, Kirsty Coventry. Women now make up 45% of the IOC membership.
• Samira Asghari of Afghanistan was reelected for a second term.
• Aghaei competed in badminton at the Tokyo 2021 Summer Olympics and became Iran’s first female badminton Olympian.
• The IOC is an exclusive body, including former athletes, sports leaders, royalty, politicians, and diplomats, industrialists and Oscar-winning actress.