Monday, 22 June 2026

The Archaeological Survey of India has formally handed over human skeletal remains from the Harappan site of Rakhigarhi to the Anthropological Survey of India for advanced DNA and facial-reconstruction studies.

Indian Railways has approved deploying the indigenous Kavach automatic train protection system on 631 route km of the East Coast Railway in Odisha at a cost of Rs 270 crore.

Alan Greenspan, who chaired the US Federal Reserve for nearly two decades under four presidents, died on June 22, 2026, aged 100.

The Ministry of Mines auctioned 10 critical and strategic mineral blocks under the seventh tranche, taking the total successfully auctioned to 56, with exploration-licence blocks rising to 11.

India's eight core industries grew just 0.5% year-on-year in May 2026 — a seven-month low — dragged down by contractions in coal and petroleum products.

Insurance regulator IRDAI has released draft rules proposing to tag every policy to the person who sold it and to raise the maximum penalty tenfold to Rs 10 crore, to curb mis-selling.

Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah launched NAFED's own e-auction portal NAFEX.in in New Delhi, along with three other initiatives, to make agri-commodity trade more transparent.

Olympic javelin champion Neeraj Chopra and steeplechaser Parul Chaudhary were named Best Male and Best Female Athletes of the Year 2025 at the first-ever Indian Athletics Awards.

Scientists have described a new deep-sea catshark species, Apristurus drona, found in the Arabian Sea off the Kollam coast of Kerala.