Current affairs relevant to GS3.
On 4 July 2026 the Prime Minister inaugurated the CG Semi Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) facility at Sanand, Gujarat. It is the third major facility in India to start commercial chip packaging. It can deliver 20 crore units a year now, with a target of 500 crore, and is a joint effort with Japanese and Thai partners.
4 Jul 2026
On 4 July 2026 the Prime Minister launched the next phase of UDAN, Viksit UDAN, at Jodhpur and opened the city's new ₹480 crore airport terminal. The Modified UDAN Scheme, approved by the Cabinet on 25 March 2026, carries about ₹29,000 crore over ten years for 100 new aerodromes, 200 helipads and continued viability gap funding.
4 Jul 2026
A PIB backgrounder of 3 July 2026 says India is nearing completion of its first bullet train corridor, Mumbai-Ahmedabad (about 508 km, 12 stations), built with Japanese Shinkansen technology. The first section, Surat to Vapi, is expected to open in August 2027. Seven more corridors of nearly 4,000 km will follow one standard design template.
3 Jul 2026
On 3 July 2026 the Defence Acquisition Council, chaired by the Raksha Mantri, accorded Acceptance of Necessity for proposals worth about ₹52,000 crore. The Army gets the Akash Tarang anti-drone electronic warfare system, MPATGM, MRSAM, V-SHORADS, tank protection and jet kamikaze drones; the Navy and Air Force get mines, shipborne drones and high-altitude pseudo satellites.
3 Jul 2026
On 3 July 2026 the Ports Minister unveiled India's first export-import shipping container made in India for A.P. Moller-Maersk, at the Maersk-CONCOR depot in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh. Maersk ordered 1,000 more from DCM Shriram Group. The ₹10,000 crore Container Manufacturing Promotion Scheme from Budget 2026 aims to raise annual capacity about tenfold.
3 Jul 2026
India's coal imports fell to 21.13 million tonnes in April 2026 from 24.27 MT in April 2025, a drop of about 12.95%. Power plant imports fell 24.89% and imported-coal-based plants cut theirs by 27.45%. Imports as a share of coal consumption fell from 21.69% to 19.68%, while coking coal imports rose slightly.
2 Jul 2026
On 1 July 2026 the stealth frigate INS Trikand, on mission deployment in the Gulf of Aden, responded to an attempted pirate attack on MV Golden Arsenal about 300 nautical miles east-northeast of Djibouti. The 21 crew, including one Indian, were safe in the citadel. A boarding team secured the ship the next morning.
2 Jul 2026
A team led by ARIES, an autonomous institute of DST, used machine learning (U-Net) to read hand-drawn sun charts from the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory. It traced bright magnetic patches called plages from 1916 to 2007, across nine solar cycles. The results match Kodaikanal's Ca II K images and can fill gaps in long-term solar data.
1 Jul 2026
GAGAN (GPS Aided GEO Augmented Navigation) is India's Satellite-Based Augmentation System, built by ISRO and the Airports Authority of India and fully operational since 2015. It corrects GPS errors and sends integrity alerts to pilots. In June 2026 DGCA ran India's first satellite-based landing approach on a commercial jet using GAGAN.
1 Jul 2026
India's first private Point-in-Space (PinS) instrument approach procedure for helicopters was approved for Undavalli Heliport in Andhra Pradesh, the Civil Aviation Ministry said on 1 July 2026. Designed by the Airports Authority of India and approved by DGCA under ICAO standards, it uses satellite navigation to let helicopters land safely in poor weather.
1 Jul 2026