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The External Affairs Ministry answered four questions in Parliament on 30 and 31 July 2026. Operation Amistad sent relief and an Army field hospital to Venezuela after two earthquakes in June. The Tehran embassy helped 2,557 Indians leave Iran by land. India has met its USD 120 million Chabahar commitment, but the US sanctions waiver ended in April.
31 Jul 2026
India's social protection systems now cover about 101 crore people, or over 68 per cent of the population, Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on 31 July 2026. He spoke at the 4th Global Industrial Relations Summit in New Delhi. The ILO had highlighted the figure at the BRICS Labour Ministers' Meeting in Hyderabad the week before.
31 Jul 2026
Atal Bhujal Yojana, a community-led groundwater management scheme, ran as a pilot in 8,203 water-stressed gram panchayats of seven States from 1 April 2020 to 15 October 2025, the Jal Shakti Ministry told Lok Sabha on 30 July 2026. Assessments from 2023 to 2025 found groundwater levels improved in 180 of the 229 blocks covered.
30 Jul 2026
The Department of Financial Services launched India's first sovereign-backed Protection and Indemnity (P&I) insurance product under the Bharat Maritime Insurance Pool on 30 July 2026. Designed by New India Assurance, it covers third-party liabilities up to USD 1.5 billion. Since May, BMIP has issued 1608 war risk policies and cut premiums by about 35 to 40 per cent.
30 Jul 2026
India rose 25 places, from 82nd to 57th, in global rankings of structural and pro-competitive reforms between 2010 and 2023, says a Competere Foundation report released on 30 July 2026. It uses a Market Distortions Performance Index. The report credits reforms such as GST, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code and modern trade facilitation.
30 Jul 2026
A study led by scientists from ARIES, an institute under the Department of Science and Technology, found that the Sun's atmosphere spins faster than its visible surface, the Science Ministry said on 30 July 2026. The speed rises with height above the surface and dips slightly when sunspots increase. The findings should improve space weather models.
30 Jul 2026
Cases registered under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 for crimes against Scheduled Castes rose from 45,995 in 2020 to a five-year high of 53,372 in 2023, the Social Justice Ministry told Rajya Sabha on 30 July 2026. Cases eased to 48,669 in 2024. Convictions rose to 5,192 in 2024, but trials pending kept rising.
30 Jul 2026
The Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2026 gives the National Song, Vande Mataram, the same legal protection as the National Anthem, a PIB backgrounder said on 30 July 2026. It amends Section 3 of the 1971 Act. Intentionally stopping the song, or disturbing people singing it, could bring up to three years in jail.
30 Jul 2026
A pollen study by the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences links the shrinking of the Harappan Civilization to a weak Indian Summer Monsoon between about 5100 and 4000 years before present, the Science Ministry said on 29 July 2026. Sediments from Deoria Tal in the Garhwal Himalaya show an abrupt dry spell, the "4.2 ka event".
29 Jul 2026
Under the National Green Hydrogen Mission, 12 pilot projects have been awarded to run 70 hydrogen-powered vehicles, 27 buses and 43 trucks, on 21 routes, with 16 hydrogen refuelling stations, the MNRE told Lok Sabha on 29 July 2026. About ₹410.77 crore is allocated, of which ₹41.582 crore has been released.
29 Jul 2026