Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa won Norway Chess 2026, becoming the first Indian ever to claim the super-elite title, after a final-round win over Germany's Vincent Keymer in Oslo.
Long jumper Shaili Singh won gold with a 6.24m effort and the Indian women's 4x100m relay team also struck gold (equalling the meet record) at the New Taipei City Athletics Open 2026.
India ended the Ulaanbaatar Open Senior Ranking Series wrestling tournament with 17 medals and a top-three finish, with Deepak, Sagar Jaglan and Dinesh winning men's freestyle golds on the final day.
Indian International Master Savitha Shri Baskar won the 2026 Women's Asian Individual Chess Championship in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, finishing on 7.5/9 and qualifying for the 2027 FIDE Women's World Cup.
ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 mission received the 2026 Goddard Astronautics Award, the highest astronautics honour of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, for its historic lunar south-pole landing.
The IndiaAI Mission has deployed more than 38,000 high-end GPUs in its common compute facility, with plans to add tens of thousands more, as India builds out sovereign AI infrastructure.
ISRO successfully conducted a sea-level hot test of its CE20 cryogenic engine at 22-tonne thrust, a step up from the earlier 19-tonne level, enhancing the payload capacity of the LVM3 launch vehicle.
At its June 2026 review, the RBI's MPC unanimously kept the repo rate unchanged at 5.25% with a neutral stance, and unveiled steps to attract foreign inflows to support the rupee.
India recorded a current account surplus of $7.1 billion in the January-March quarter of FY26, driven by strong services exports and remittances, though it was lower than the year-ago surplus.
The State Bank of India handed a dividend cheque of Rs 8,813 crore to the government for FY26, after reporting a 6% rise in Q4 net profit to Rs 19,684 crore.
The RBI ruled that banks' swap deals for foreign-currency funds will not count towards their overnight foreign-currency market position limit, easing a constraint to encourage foreign-currency inflows.
Central government employee unions are pushing for a higher fitment factor under the 8th Pay Commission, with the debate centred on 3.833 versus 4 and its impact on basic pay, pensions and allowances.
Kumar Shanker assumed charge as Managing Director of Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL), the Delhi-NCR city-gas distributor, succeeding Kamal Kishore Chatiwal.
The central government re-appointed Swaminathan Janakiraman as Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India for a further two years with effect from June 26, 2026.
Plans are under way to reintroduce the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard into Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior region, drawing on Rajasthan's conservation-breeding programme, in the bird's historical habitat.
The Environment Ministry and the National Biodiversity Authority launched VCS-I-ABS, described as the world's first dedicated voluntary certification scheme to incentivise Access and Benefit Sharing compliance under the Biological Diversity Act.
On World Environment Day, India presented its Carbon Credit Trading Scheme and renewable-energy standards at the WTO Trade and Environment Week 2026 in Geneva, highlighting climate targets met ahead of schedule.
