On 13 July 2026 the Ladakh administration decided to constitute Autonomous Hill Development Councils (AHDCs) for all seven districts — Leh, Kargil, Nubra, Changthang, Sham, Zanskar and Drass...
Unjha Cumin (Jeera) and Unjha Fennel (Variyali) from North Gujarat were granted Geographical Indication (GI) certificates on 28 March 2026; registration is in the name of the Unjha...
The Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) has moved from concept to founding phase after a multilateral declaration at the NATO summit in Ankara and the finalisation of...
The United Nations released the Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI recently. The 40‑member panel — co‑chaired by Yoshua Bengio and Maria Ressa —...
The Supreme Court constituted four special division benches under Chief Justice Surya Kant on 13 July 2026 to fast-track about 800 of its oldest civil and criminal matters...
India won five gold medals at the 56th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) held in Bucaramanga, Colombia from 5–12 July 2026, finishing joint first with China, Kazakhstan, Russia, South...
Soumya Swaminathan was formally inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society on 10 July 2026, after being elected in May 2026. Royal Society Fellowship Established: Founded 1660;...
On 13 July 2026 Spain’s Submer Group announced a USD 2 billion (≈₹19,000 crore) investment in Madhya Pradesh to set up a semiconductor facility and a 1‑gigawatt (GW)...
ONGC completed drilling its second geothermal well, Puga-OEC-GT#03, in Puga Valley, Ladakh in July 2026 to a depth of 1,000 metres at an altitude above 14,000 feet. Puga...
The Bureau of Indian Standards published a draft Indian Standard titled "Restoration of Mangrove Ecosystem — Guidelines" in March 2026; the EED 06: WG 02 committee (formed 2023)...
