Saturday, 18 July 2026

Mammootty won Best Actor at the 72nd National Film Awards for Bramayugam, his fourth Best Actor National Award, equalling Amitabh Bachchan's record.

India's first privately developed orbital rocket, Skyroot's Vikram-1, successfully placed technology payloads into low Earth orbit in Mission Aagaman from Sriharikota.

Nelson Mandela International Day, marked globally on July 18, calls on people to devote 67 minutes to service, honouring Mandela's 67 years of public life.

India will host the 2026 BWF World Championships from August 17-23 at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, its return to India after 17 years.

The IOA named Olympic medallists Mirabai Chanu and Lovlina Borgohain as India's flagbearers for the Commonwealth Games 2026 opening ceremony in Glasgow on July 23.

Britain's Josh Kerr ran 3:42.66 to break Hicham El Guerrouj's 26-year-old men's mile record at the London Diamond League.

V S Rathanvel crossed the 2500 Elo mark at the Guwahati Smart City International Open to become India's 99th Grandmaster, one short of the 100-GM milestone.

Rudolph 'Rudy' Marcus, the Caltech chemist who won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theory of electron transfer reactions, has died at 102.