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General Dhiraj Seth assumed charge as the 31st Chief of the Army Staff on 30 June 2026, succeeding General Upendra Dwivedi, who retired after more than four decades of service.
Kotak Mahindra Bank signed a deal to acquire Deutsche Bank's retail, private banking and wealth-management business in India for about Rs 282 crore, marking Deutsche Bank's exit from India retail.
The Finance Ministry's Expenditure Finance Committee approved a Rs 1.25 lakh crore outlay for India Semiconductor Mission 2.0; the proposal now goes to the Union Cabinet.
The RBI's June 2026 Financial Stability Report said banks' gross NPA ratio fell to a multi-decadal low of 1.8% and the financial system remains resilient, while flagging AI-driven and external risks.
The Delhi Cabinet approved two heritage-conservation schemes allowing organisations and citizens to 'adopt' 75 state-protected monuments as 'Monument Mitras' under a public-private partnership model.
Indian space startup Agnikul Cosmos signed an MoU with Finland's ICEYE to build, launch and operate Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) earth-observation satellites from India.
Senior IPS officer Mahesh Dixit assumed charge as the new Director of the Intelligence Bureau, succeeding Tapan Kumar Deka, for a two-year tenure.
India's UPI went live in Greece through an NPCI International (NIPL)–Eurobank partnership, enabling cross-border digital payments and remittances.
Indian Army rowers Havildar Lakshay and Havildar Ujjwal Kumar Singh won India's first-ever World Rowing Cup gold, topping the Lightweight Men's Double Sculls at World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne, Switzerland.
India marked the 20th National Statistics Day on June 29, honouring statistician P.C. Mahalanobis, with the 2026 theme 'Unlocking the Potential of Administrative Data'.
The Union Cabinet approved an additional Rs 30,000 crore for the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund, doubling the Centre's total commitment to Rs 60,000 crore.
HDFC Bank's board approved appointing former Chief Election Commissioner and ex-Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar as its part-time chairman for three years, subject to RBI approval.
India and Saudi Arabia signed a Memorandum of Understanding to boost cooperation on water-resource management, formalised at the inaugural Saudi Water Week in Jeddah.
President Droupadi Murmu conferred 105 Distinguished Service Decorations on personnel of the Armed Forces and the Indian Coast Guard at the Defence Investiture Ceremony 2026 (Phase-II) at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
India's Index of Industrial Production rose 5.1% year-on-year in May 2026, a five-month high, led by electricity and manufacturing, MoSPI data showed.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh released DFP-2026, a reform granting DRDO greater financial autonomy to speed up strategic defence R&D projects.
RBI data showed India's external debt rose to $762.8 billion at end-March 2026, up $26.3 billion year-on-year, with the external debt-to-GDP ratio rising to 20.8%.
India's humanitarian relief under Operation Amistad reached quake-hit Venezuela, with two IAF C-17 aircraft carrying a field hospital, BHISHM cubes and relief supplies.
India rose to 94th of 167 countries in the 2026 UN SDG Index with a score of 68.3, its best-ever rank, though hunger and health remain weak areas.
The boards of PFC and REC approved merging REC into PFC at an 88:100 share-swap ratio, creating India's largest power-sector financier with a loan book over Rs 11 lakh crore.
Seychelles conferred its highest honour, 'Guardian of the Blue Horizon', on PM Narendra Modi for his leadership on environmental conservation and climate action.
India and Seychelles announced 19 outcomes during PM Modi's State Visit, spanning defence, UPI digital payments, an extradition treaty, space cooperation and an Rs 1,250 crore line of credit.
India's CERT-In warned that a large-scale malware campaign is targeting WhatsApp Web and Desktop users via malicious VBScript attachments, urging caution with unexpected files.
Union Minister Amit Shah launched 'Bharat Taxi', a driver-owned cooperative ride-hailing platform, across 14 Gujarat cities.
ISRO successfully hot-tested its semi-cryogenic engine power head at 175-tonne thrust, a step toward a 200-tonne engine for the LVM3.
Kotak Mahindra Bank said its MD & CEO Ashok Vaswani will not seek reappointment after his term ends on December 31, 2026.
On World MSME Day 2026, Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan launched PMEGP 2.0 and several digital portals to strengthen India's MSME ecosystem.
PM Modi is on a June 27-29 State Visit to Seychelles as Guest of Honour at the Golden Jubilee of its National Day, marking 50 years of India-Seychelles ties.
K. Bhagyaraj, the veteran Tamil filmmaker, actor and screenwriter known as the 'Screenplay King', died in Chennai at 73.
Seven endangered golden langurs rescued from traffickers were released back into the wild at Assam's Sikhna Jwhwlao National Park.
The World Bank approved $1.1 billion for Bangladesh to safeguard food security amid global fertiliser and fuel price volatility.
The Indian Coast Guard commissioned ICGS Akshay, the fourth Adamya-class fast patrol vessel built by Goa Shipyard, on June 27.
India's DGTR has initiated an anti-dumping investigation into hot-rolled flat steel imports from China, Japan and Russia.
Persistent Systems announced a voluntary public takeover of German digital-engineering firm Nagarro for about €1.1 billion.
The Department of Atomic Energy inaugurated the world's first hydrogen plant using the Copper-Chlorine thermochemical cycle powered by nuclear heat from the Fast Breeder Test Reactor at IGCAR, Kalpakkam.
India's first hydrogen-powered train completed its final 120 kmph speed trial on June 26 on the Jind-Sonipat section in Haryana.
In its first official disclosure, the government named six armed-forces personnel killed during Operation Sindoor and inscribed them at the National War Memorial.
Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi will make her first official India visit from July 1-3 for the 16th India-Japan Annual Summit with PM Modi.
The India-UK free trade pact (CETA) and the Double Contribution Convention will take effect on July 15, 2026, with Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal reviewing rollout preparations in the UK.
Goldman Sachs upgraded India's CY2026 GDP growth forecast to 6.8% and cut its inflation projection after the US-Iran peace deal lowered oil prices.
India's foreign exchange reserves climbed to $672.587 billion in the week ended June 19, led by a jump in gold reserves.
The RBI has notified rules giving victims of small-value digital banking fraud compensation of up to Rs 25,000.
The Telangana government appointed senior IAS officer Sanjay Jaju as the state's new Chief Secretary, effective June 30, succeeding K. Ramakrishna Rao.
ISRO appointed senior scientist Dr. U.P. Rajeev as the new Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, effective July 1.
The National Biodiversity Authority released a Standard Operating Procedure for the notification of threatened species under the Biological Diversity Act.
Eli Lilly has launched Tanstrive (selpercatinib), India's first RET-targeted therapy for solid tumours, priced at Rs 2.15 lakh per box.
Four unique traditional crops of Madhya Pradesh have been awarded Geographical Indication (GI) tags.
The 5th Royal Ranthambore International Tiger Week 2026 began at Ranthambore on June 26 with a focus on ecosystem-based conservation and human-wildlife coexistence.
Around 40 IAF Su-30MKI fighters have been integrated with the air-launched BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, BrahMos Aerospace confirmed.
India hosted the 11th BRICS Energy Ministers' Meeting on June 25-26 in Gurugram, focusing on energy security, access and innovation.
IRDAI is advancing a major reform push, including a new paper on insurance distribution, a Public Insurance Registry and the phased rollout of the Bima Sugam digital marketplace.
The RBI issued draft directions to broaden participation in the term money market and to simplify retail access to government securities.
China's LineShine supercomputer in Shenzhen topped the June 2026 TOP500 list at 2.198 exaflops, displacing the US system El Capitan to become the world's fastest.
Under its BRICS Chairship 2026, India hosted the 11th BRICS Energy Ministers' Meeting in Gurugram on June 25, 2026, adopting a Joint Communique and launching the BRICS Digital Centre of Excellence for Smart Grids and Energy Storage.
On June 25, 2026, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy met PM Modi in New Delhi and announced an additional $13 billion for AI and cloud infrastructure, taking Amazon's total planned India investment to a record $48 billion between 2026 and 2030.
On June 25, 2026, the RBI notified the final Credit Derivatives Directions, 2026, letting resident non-retail users freely use Credit Default Swaps and the newly introduced Total Return Swaps, while non-residents may use them only for hedging.
Chief of the Air Staff ACM Amar Preet Singh released 'The Second Orbit', the memoir of astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian to visit the ISS.
India's indigenous Netra Airborne Early Warning and Control system received Final Operational Clearance at a June 25 ceremony in Bengaluru.
India will restart accepting tourist visa applications from Bangladeshi citizens on June 28, 2026, ending a nearly two-year suspension.
The Day of the Seafarer, a UN observance led by the International Maritime Organization, is marked every June 25; the 2026 campaign theme is 'Carrying world trade. Carrying the risks', spotlighting seafarers who keep global trade moving through conflict-hit waters.
On June 25, 2026, the Asian Development Bank approved a $42.2 million Small Expenditure Financing Facility to build an integrated bamboo economy across six northeastern states, aligned with the National Bamboo Mission.
On June 24, 2026, the RBI released a draft 'Guidance on Regulatory Principles for Model Risk Management, 2026', proposing board-approved governance, human oversight and safeguards for models — including AI and machine-learning systems — used by banks, NBFCs and other regulated entities.
In its latest Asia-Pacific outlook, S&P Global Ratings projected India's real GDP growth will slow to 6.6% in FY27 from 7.7% in FY26, and consumer inflation will rise to 5.1%, citing energy stress, a sub-par monsoon and slowing global growth.
Effective June 24, 2026, the RBI simplified NBFC-Upper Layer identification: any non-banking financial company with assets of Rs 1 lakh crore or more is now automatically classified in the Upper Layer, replacing the earlier parametric scoring model.
MoSPI announced on June 24, 2026 that India will release its first-ever monthly Index of Services Production (ISP) — a services-sector counterpart to the IIP — with base year 2024-25, beginning with trial data on July 14.
On June 24, 2026, the RBI finalised a revised customer-compensation framework for digital-payment fraud — capping relief at Rs 25,000, introducing a 'shadow reversal' provisional credit, and deferring the start to January 1, 2027.
Scientists have discovered a new genus and species of tiger moth, Antaram idukki, in Kerala's Idukki district, highlighting the Western Ghats' hidden biodiversity.
A study published June 24, 2026 in Science Advances confirmed NASA's Perseverance rover detected macromolecular (complex organic) carbon in mudstones of the Bright Angel formation in Jezero Crater — the most extensive organic detection on Mars yet, a potential but unconfirmed sign of past life.
C-DOT, the telecom R&D arm of the Department of Telecommunications, signed an MoU with IIT Hyderabad to set up a Centre of Excellence for next-generation communications spanning 5G-Advanced/6G, AI-enabled networks and quantum communications.
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India and the Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) of Israel signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen cooperation in public-sector auditing, with the CAG announcing the pact on June 23, 2026.
With the monsoon deficit at around 43%, Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the Centre has prepared contingency plans for 315 vulnerable districts (111 high-priority) across 12 states, urging a shift to less water-intensive crops.
India and the US concluded a two-day ministerial round on their proposed Bilateral Trade Agreement in New Delhi on June 24, 2026, reporting 'substantial progress' but no breakthrough ahead of a July US tariff deadline.
The BRICS Heads of Space Agencies (HOSA) Meeting 2026, hosted by ISRO in Bengaluru under India's BRICS Chairship, concluded on June 24, 2026 with Union Minister Jitendra Singh pitching a 'BRICS Space Economy'.
The Supreme Court of India and the Supreme Court of Russia signed an MoU on judicial cooperation in Moscow on June 23, 2026, signed by CJI Surya Kant and Russian SC Chairman Igor Krasnov, covering AI and technology in the judiciary.
NITI Aayog's 8th Trade Watch Quarterly, released on June 23, 2026, shows India's trade grew 5.4% in Q4FY26 on strong services exports and flags heavy dependence on China for pharmaceutical ingredients.
President Droupadi Murmu presented 65 Padma Awards at the second Civil Investiture Ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan on June 23, 2026, honouring figures including Mammootty, Alka Yagnik, R Madhavan and Rohit Sharma.
The WTO's Dispute Settlement Body agreed on June 23, 2026 to establish a panel in a case filed by China against India over tariffs, local-content and incentive measures on solar cells, modules and IT goods.
India hosted the 16th BRICS National Security Advisers' Meeting in New Delhi on June 22, 2026; on the sidelines, NSA Ajit Doval and Chinese FM Wang Yi reviewed ties and noted progress toward 'gradual normalisation'.
The National Medical Commission has decided to phase out postgraduate diploma medical courses, with 2026-27 the last admission year and seats converting to MD/MS degrees from 2027-28.
International Olympic Day, observed every year on June 23, commemorates the founding of the International Olympic Committee in 1894 and promotes participation in sport.
UIDAI has waived the Rs 75 fee for updating the email address linked to Aadhaar via the Aadhaar mobile app, making it free from July 1 to December 31, 2026.
The World Economic Forum, with Frontiers, released its Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2026 report at the Summer Davos meeting in Dalian on June 23, 2026.
Adani-managed Mundra Airport in Gujarat's Kutch region began scheduled commercial flight operations on June 23, 2026, with Star Air connecting it to cities including Mumbai and Goa.
Several Madhya Pradesh agricultural products, including the Indori Malwi potato, Ratlam's Garadu and Sailana Balam Kakdi, and Seoni's jumbo custard apple, were granted Geographical Indication (GI) tags, announced around June 22-23, 2026.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Indigenously built warships INS Udaygiri (stealth frigate) and INS Kavaratti (anti-submarine warfare corvette) of the Indian Navy's Eastern Fleet made a port call at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, arriving June 22 and departing June 24, 2026.
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.
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.
India beat hosts New Zealand 2-0 in the final to win the FIH Women's Nations Cup and earn promotion to the FIH Pro League.
PM Modi commissioned three GRSE-built indigenous naval vessels at Kolkata, calling India a maker, not just a buyer, of weapons.
PM Modi led the 12th International Day of Yoga from Kolkata's Red Road; the 2026 theme is 'Yoga for Healthy Ageing'.
Indian Railways has sharply raised fines for ticketless travel, men in ladies' coaches, and smoking/hawking under the Jan Vishwas Act, 2026.
Khurasani Imli, the fruit of Mandu's iconic baobab tree in Madhya Pradesh, has received a Geographical Indication tag.
India's women's 4x100m relay team won gold with a season-best 43.85s at the Asian Relays Championships 2026 in China.
