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President Droupadi Murmu will present 3 Sant Kabir Handloom Awards and 19 National Handloom Awards 2025 at the 12th National Handloom Day celebration on August 7, 2026, in New Delhi.
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Union Minister Nitin Gadkari conferred the Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak on 12 rat miners for their role in the Silkyara Tunnel rescue operation.
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Deepavali was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December 2025, becoming the 16th element from India.
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The Department of Financial Services (Insurance Division) secured the 3rd rank in the Grievance Redressal Assessment & Index (GRAI) for June 2026.
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The Union Cabinet approved GOBARdhan (National Circular Bioenergy Scheme) with an outlay of ₹23,731 crore for implementation from FY 2026-27 to FY 2035-36, aiming to increase Compressed Biogas production nearly ten-fold; administered by Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
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The Union Cabinet approved Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0 on March 10, 2026, with a total outlay of ₹8.69 lakh crore (Central assistance ₹3.59 lakh crore) for implementation until December 2028; as on July 18, 2026, 15.89 crore (82.09%) rural households have been provided tap water connection.
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A Viability Gap Funding scheme for 13.8 GWh of Battery Energy Storage Systems with budgetary support of ₹3,760 crore has been approved.
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A VGF scheme with financial support of ₹5,400 crore under Power System Development Fund has been approved for development of 30 GWh BESS capacity for 15 States and NTPC Limited.
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The PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana crossed 50 lakh beneficiary households, with 19 lakh receiving zero electricity bills and 12 lakh households earning ₹421 crore from selling surplus electricity.
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The Har Ghar Tiranga 2026 campaign will be observed from 9-17 August 2026, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of 'Vande Mataram'; the SURYAPATH TIRANGA initiative was launched to connect Indian Missions globally.
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The MY Bharat digital platform has registered over 2.46 crore youth, with an AI-enabled CV Builder launched; as of 16 July 2026, 98,632 youth were redirected to the PM Internship Scheme.
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The Medium Range Ballistic Missile 'Agni-4' was successfully test-fired from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur in Odisha on August 06, 2026, under the Strategic Forces Command.
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The first uncrewed Gaganyaan mission carrying the Vyommitra half-humanoid is targeted for the fourth quarter of 2026; the Bharatiya Antriksh Station (BAS-01) is on track for 2035.
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The LVM3-M6 mission successfully placed the 6,100-kg BlueBird Block-2 communication satellite into Low Earth Orbit, the heaviest payload ever launched by LVM3 from Indian soil.
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A second spaceport is being developed at Kulasekarapattinam, Tamil Nadu; IN-SPACe established a ₹1,000 crore Venture Capital Fund and a ₹500 crore Technology Adoption Fund to support space start-ups.
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The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet extended the tenures of Cabinet Secretary T.V. Somanathan and Home Secretary Govind Mohan by one year beyond 30 August 2026.
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Shri Anand Prakash was appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the Kingdom of Eswatini in August 2026.
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The 10th BRICS Industry Ministers' Meeting was held in Jaipur, Rajasthan, on August 6, 2026, under India's BRICS Chairship 2026; India proposed the BRICS Incubator Network and BRICS Startup Innovation Fund.
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The 19th round of India-Singapore Foreign Office Consultations was held on 06 August 2026 in New Delhi.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a telephone call from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; they reviewed the India-Israel Special Strategic Partnership and exchanged views on West Asia.
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India has signed a framework MoU on Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) with 24 countries as of August 2026; DPI-based projects are being implemented in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Kenya, and Guyana.
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The Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce, headed by Dola Sen, presented its 200th Report on 'Evaluation of India – US Trade Relations' to Parliament on August 6, 2026.
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Scientists at the Bose Institute, Kolkata, have developed a new protocol called General Concurrence Percolation (GCP) for efficient quantum networks, published in the journal Physical Review A.
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India received USD 381.8 billion in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) during April 2021 to December 2025.
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National Stock Exchange (NSE) was the world's largest derivatives exchange by trading volume in 2025 (as per FIA) and ranked third in equity segment by number of trades (as per WFE).
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The Lok Sabha passed the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, exempting foreign institutional investors and the Bank for International Settlements from income tax on interest on government securities from 1 April 2026.
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Parliament passed the Appropriation (No-3) Bill, 2026, authorising excess expenditure of over ₹54,000 crore for FY 2022-23, including ₹196 crore for Railways and ₹53,871 crore for debt repayment.
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National Handloom Day is observed on 7 August to commemorate the Swadeshi Movement launched on 7 August 1905.
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Partition Horrors Remembrance Day will be observed nationwide on 14 August 2026.
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The Union Ayush Minister launched CCRAS-PARAMPARA for systematic documentation of India's Local Health Traditions and the CCRAS National Research Recognitions portal (PRAKASA, NAVONMESA, PRABODH 3MT) at the 27th Governing Body Meeting of CCRAS in New Delhi on August 6, 2026.
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The MAHA Water program was launched on June 1, 2026, by ANRF and the Ministry of Jal Shakti, focusing on water resource management and drinking water quality.
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Over 1.73 crore e-Passports have been issued in India and abroad since the launch in May 2025; the total estimated cost of the e-Passport project is Rs. 268.7 crore.
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RBI released the Upper Layer NBFC list for 2026-27 on August 6, 2026, comprising 17 entities including REC Limited, Power Finance Corporation, IRFC, Bajaj Finance, Shriram Finance, and Tata Sons (pending deregistration).
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The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved a 4-lane, 135.87 km long Guwahati-Tezpur Corridor on NH-15 in Assam at a cost of ₹8,970.20 crore on BOT Toll mode, including an Emergency Landing Facility at Tezpur.
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The 16th BRICS Trade Ministers' Meeting will be held in Jaipur on August 7, 2026, under India's Chairship; at a preceding discussion, India and South Africa discussed expanding cooperation in critical minerals and progress on the India-SACU Preferential Trade Agreement.
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The BRICS WAVES Bazaar, a premier international marketplace for the creative economy, commenced in Mumbai on August 6, 2026, with over 500 delegates from BRICS member and partner countries.
