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At the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, India finished fourth with a total of 39 medals: 13 gold, 17 silver, 9 bronze. Boxing topped the medal tally with 7 golds (won by Preeti Pawar, Jaismine Lamboria, Sakshi Chaudhary, Priya Ghanghas, Arundhati Choudhary, Sachin Siwach, Ankush Panghal) and 3 silvers. Judo delivered its best-ever performance with 4 medals, including historic first golds by Asmita Dey (women's 48kg) and Harsh Singh (men's 60kg). Athletics secured 10 medals (5 silver, 5 bronze). Cash awards: ₹30 lakh for gold, ₹20 lakh for silver, ₹10 lakh for bronze.
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Anahat Singh became the first Indian to win the women's singles title at the World Junior Squash Championships 2026 in Canada; India's men's junior team (Aryaveer Dewan, Yusha Nafees, Gurveer Singh) won bronze.
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President Droupadi Murmu will present Handloom Awards 2025 on National Handloom Day, August 7, 2026, including Sant Kabir Handloom Awards (3 recipients) and National Handloom Awards (19 recipients).
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PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana crossed 50 lakh rooftop solar installations, adding 1 lakh beneficiary households every six days; total outlay ₹75,021 crore; over 19 lakh households reporting zero electricity bills; ₹28,000 crore subsidy released via DBT.
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Under SVAMITVA Scheme, drone survey completed in 3.30 lakh villages and 3.24 crore property cards prepared as of August 2026.
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Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) now covers crop losses due to wild animals as an add-on cover at state government's cost.
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National Mission on Edible Oils-Oilseeds (NMEO-OS) approved on 3 October 2024, aiming to increase oilseed production to 69.7 million tonnes by 2030-31.
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One Nation, One Fertilizer under Pradhanmantri Bhartiya Janurvarak Pariyojana (PMBJP) implemented from 24 August 2022, mandating all subsidized fertilizers under 'BHARAT' brand.
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Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) 5.0 launched in May 2026, envisaging additional credit of ₹2.55 lakh crore for MSMEs.
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India's first Telecom Manufacturing Zone (TMZ) in Gwalior attracted cumulative investment commitments of ₹5,500 crore and is expected to create over 18,000 jobs.
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Bharat Taxi, India's first cooperative-led ride-hailing platform, launched by Sahakar Taxi Cooperative Limited.
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Government approved 20 industrial nodes under National Industrial Corridor Development Programme (NICDP) with sanctioned funds of ₹16,172.95 crore.
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In the 15th round of commercial coal mine auctions on 3-4 August 2026, six blocks with total geological reserves of 1,503.93 million tonnes and cumulative peak rated capacity of 11.62 million tonnes per annum were auctioned; CG Syn-Gas and Chemicals Limited secured the Tara (Revised) block with the highest final revenue-sharing offer of 37.5%.
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ICAR-NIHSAD developed India's first indigenous live attenuated African Swine Fever (ASF) vaccine (MA-104 Cell Line-Based), dedicated by Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
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ICAR developed India's first fully annotated telomere-to-telomere reference genome of pigeonpea variety 'Asha', deposited in NCBI on 20 April 2026.
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Glaw Lake in Arunachal Pradesh designated as India's 101st Ramsar Site, first in the state, located within Kamlang Tiger Reserve.
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On International Clouded Leopard Day (4 August 2026), India released Clouded Leopard Conservation Action Plan identifying 14 priority conservation landscapes in Northeast India.
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India is hosting the 13th BRICS Education Ministers' Meeting in Bhubaneswar from 5-7 August 2026 under the theme 'Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability'.
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Supreme Court directed RBI to prepare a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for dealing with mule accounts and bank accounts linked to cyber fraud.
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Unified Payments Interface (UPI) recorded 23.66 billion transactions in July 2026.
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Parliament passed the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2026: mandatory approval of District Magistrate for registration reported after one year but within two years, and judicial magistrate order for those reported after two years.
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National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6) national and state fact sheets were released on 29 May 2026.
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Eminent educationist, philanthropist and former Bihar Governor D. Y. Patil passed away on 4 August 2026.
