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India secured fourth position at the Commonwealth Games 2026 in Glasgow, winning 39 medals (13 gold, 17 silver, 9 bronze).
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Indian para-athletes achieved their best-ever performance at the Commonwealth Para Games 2026 in Glasgow, winning 7 medals (3 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze).
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Ahmedabad will host the 2030 Commonwealth Games, marking the centenary edition; India becomes the second nation after Australia to host the event twice.
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Mirabai Chanu became the first Indian weightlifter to win three consecutive Commonwealth Games gold medals (women's 49kg).
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Indian boxers won a record seven gold medals at the 2026 Commonwealth Games, the most by any nation in boxing at a single edition.
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Asmita Dey won India's first-ever Commonwealth Games gold medal in judo.
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Gulveer Singh became the first Indian track and field athlete to win two individual medals at a single Commonwealth Games (silver in 10,000m and bronze in 5,000m).
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At the 22nd Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships in Delhi, India won all gold medals except men's doubles; Ankur Bhattacharjee and Yashaswini Ghorpade won the men's and women's singles titles respectively.
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Harshita Jakhar became the first Indian woman cyclist to participate in the Tour de France Femmes.
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The Union Cabinet approved the 'Samudra Manthan' – National Offshore Exploration Scheme with a Phase-I outlay of ₹84,084 crore up to FY 2030-31.
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The Union Cabinet approved the revamped Khelo India Scheme with an outlay of ₹36,441 crore for the period 2026-27 to 2030-31.
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India's first Telecom Manufacturing Zone was launched in Gwalior, with expected investments to cross ₹10,000 crore.
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The Cabinet approved the Pradhan Mantri Surya Sarovar Yojana (PM-SSY) with an outlay of ₹5,070 crore to develop 5,000 MW floating solar capacity with Energy Storage Systems during 2026-27 to 2030-31.
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The Gyan Bharatam Mission, an initiative for manuscript digitization, has been sanctioned Rs. 491.66 crore for 2025-2031; over 4.40 lakh digitized manuscripts are available on its portal.
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On the 16th Indian Organ Donation Day (3 August 2026), Union Minister launched the 'Jug Jug Jiyo Abhiyaan', e-प्रत्यारोपण platform, and NOTTO Mobile App; India performed a record 20,138 organ transplants in 2025 and ranks third globally.
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Glaw Lake in Arunachal Pradesh was designated as India's 101st Ramsar Site, also becoming the state's first Ramsar Site.
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Vice Admiral Manish Chadha, AVSM, VSM, assumed charge as Director General Naval Operations on 3 August 2026.
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The fourth edition of the Tri-Services Future Warfare Course commenced at the Manekshaw Centre, New Delhi on 3 August 2026, with Chief of the Defence Staff General N.S. Raja Subramani delivering the keynote address.
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India will host the second meeting of the BRICS Anti-Corruption Working Group and the second meeting of the BRICS Expert Network on Asset Recovery in Hyderabad on 4-5 August 2026 under India's BRICS Presidency 2026, with the theme 'Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability'.
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Uzbekistan Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov visited India, and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal set a target to double bilateral trade to $3 billion in three years.
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Unified Payments Interface (UPI) recorded its highest-ever monthly transaction volume of 23.66 billion transactions worth ₹29.88 lakh crore in July 2026.
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India's installed solar capacity reached 162.15 GW as of June 30, 2026, up from 3 GW in 2014.
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As on 17 July 2026, India achieved near-universal banking coverage with 99.92% of inhabited villages served by a banking outlet, 58.77 crore Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) accounts opened, and a total balance of ₹3,12,414 crore.
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Smt. Monisha Chakraborty was appointed as Executive Director (ED) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), effective 3 August 2026; she will look after the Foreign Exchange Department and Financial Markets Regulation Department.
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Shri Vishwesh Negi (IFS: 2002) has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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President Droupadi Murmu inaugurated Jagadguru Kripalu University in Cuttack, Odisha.
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President Droupadi Murmu unveiled a statue of freedom fighter and social reformer Utkalmani Pandit Gopabandhu Das in New Delhi.
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The Department of Posts released a commemorative postage stamp on the centenary of artist Satish Gujral on 3 August 2026.
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The Lok Sabha passed the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Bill, 2026, to increase the number of Supreme Court judges from 33 to 37 (excluding the Chief Justice of India).
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The Rajya Sabha passed the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (Amendment) Bill, 2026, mandating central public sector enterprises to settle MSME invoices on TReDS and providing that if a dispute case is pending for more than six months, at least 50% of the awarded amount must be paid.
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Prashant Kishor won the Bankipur Assembly bypoll in Bihar by 19,324 votes, his first electoral victory as founder of Jan Suraaj Party.
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The two-day meeting of Heads of National Statistical Offices (NSO) of BRICS member countries began in Lucknow under India's chairship with the theme 'Quality Statistics as Driver of Change'; the draft BRICS Joint Statistical Publication (JSP) 2026 and Snapshot BRICS JSP 2026 were released.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the 'Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat Sankalp Abhiyan', a 100-week nationwide campaign against drug abuse.
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India's coal production from captive and commercial mines grew by 9.61% year-on-year to 14.78 million tonnes in July 2026.
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Indian Railways recorded a 9% year-on-year growth in freight loading in July 2026, loading 141.3 million tonnes; freight revenue grew by over ₹1,100 crore (8%).
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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) launched the revamped version of the TRAI MyCall mobile application to enable consumers to assess and report voice-calling experience.
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The National Stock Exchange (NSE) implemented the Closing Auction Session (CAS) for determining closing prices of stocks with derivative contracts from 3 August 2026.
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India's HSBC Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) stood at 53.5 in July 2026, indicating expansion.
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The pendency of disciplinary cases in the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) dropped from over 4,000 to about 700 over the past 3-4 years.
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The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) removed mandatory physical reporting for candidates opting for seat upgrade in NEET-UG 2026 counselling.
