Current affairs relevant to GS3.
India's Index of Industrial Production (IIP) grew 7.3 per cent in June 2026 over June 2025, MoSPI said on 28 July 2026. Manufacturing rose 7.8 per cent and electricity and gas supply 10.6 per cent, while mining grew just 1.0 per cent. Growth was 5.1 per cent in May. Capital goods led use-based groups, up 14.2 per cent.
28 Jul 2026
India has become the world's second-largest supplier of seafarers, with 311,936 professionals or 12.16 per cent of the global workforce, the Shipping Ministry said on 28 July 2026, citing the BIMCO-ICS Seafarer Workforce Report 2026. Only the Philippines supplies more. In 2015 India was fifth, with 5.2 per cent. The next goal is Mission 20%.
28 Jul 2026
Gross non-performing assets of public sector banks fell to a historic low of 1.9 per cent on 31 March 2026, from 7.3 per cent in 2022, the Finance Ministry told Rajya Sabha on 28 July 2026. PSBs earned their highest-ever net profit, ₹1.98 lakh crore. Total business crossed ₹283 lakh crore. MSME loans grew 19.6 per cent.
28 Jul 2026
The Centre imposed stock holding limits on sugar dealers across India from 1 August 2026 to 30 November 2026, the Food Ministry said on 28 July. It said the recent rise in ex-mill sugar prices is not backed by demand and supply. Hoarding and paper trade created a false sense of scarcity. Dealers must declare stocks weekly on a portal.
28 Jul 2026
Thermal power plants imported 45.4 million tonnes of coal in FY 2025-26, down about 27.4 per cent from 62.5 MT in FY 2024-25, the Coal Ministry told Rajya Sabha on 27 July 2026. Plants designed for imported coal also cut imports, to 2.88 MT in April 2026 from 3.97 MT. More domestic supply under new linkage rules drove the fall.
27 Jul 2026
Astronomers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and collaborators have caught a Blue Straggler Star in the act of forming, the Science Ministry said on 27 July 2026. In the binary system TIC 327546480, in the old open cluster Collinder 261 about 9500 light-years away, the star is pulling mass from its companion. It supports the mass-transfer theory.
27 Jul 2026
The Kosi-Mechi Intra-State Link Project in Bihar has been included under PMKSY-AIBP for balance works of ₹6,143.22 crore, with central assistance of ₹3,652.56 crore, the Jal Shakti Ministry told Rajya Sabha on 27 July 2026. It is due by March 2029. Remodelling of the Eastern Kosi Main Canal has reached 8.5 per cent physical progress.
27 Jul 2026
India has cut the emissions intensity of its GDP by 37.38 per cent from 2005 to 2022, against a goal of 45 per cent by 2030, the Environment Ministry told Lok Sabha on 27 July 2026. Non-fossil sources reached 54.18 per cent of installed power capacity by 30 June 2026. New 2035 targets raise the bar further.
27 Jul 2026
At a 27th Kargil Vijay Diwas event in New Delhi on 26 July 2026, Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh paid tribute to the soldiers of the 1999 Kargil conflict. Recalling the unanimous Parliamentary Resolution of 1994, he said retrieval of Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) is the only pending issue between India and Pakistan.
26 Jul 2026
On 26 July 2026 the Prime Minister spoke to youth who had stayed a week in border villages of Himachal, Uttarakhand and Ladakh under the Viksit Vibrant Village Programme 2026. Nearly 300,000 youth took part in the selection contest and more than 400 were chosen. The visits link MY Bharat volunteers with the Vibrant Villages Programme.
26 Jul 2026