Daily and monthly current affairs mapped to syllabus topics and related PYQs.
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
Tap water now reaches about 15.89 crore of India's 19.36 crore rural households, or 82.09 per cent, up from 16.71 per cent when the Jal Jeevan Mission began in August 2019, the Jal Shakti Ministry told Rajya Sabha on 27 July 2026. In March 2026 the Cabinet extended JJM to December 2028, raising its outlay to ₹8.69 lakh crore.
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
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
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
INS Sudarshini, the Indian Navy's sail training ship, left Boston, USA on 25 July 2026 after representing India at SAIL 250 and the International Naval Review 250. The visit was part of her Lokayan 26 transoceanic expedition. She joined SAIL 250 events at Norfolk, Baltimore, New York and Boston, then headed for Ponta Delgada in the Azores (Portugal).
26 Jul 2026
On 25 July 2026 the Petroleum Minister marked the start of drilling of appraisal well MN-DWN18-1-HD in the Mahanadi Offshore Basin. It is the first of four planned deepwater wells. The event sits within HELP, OALP and other exploration reforms that have awarded most active acreage after 2014.
25 Jul 2026
The Law Ministry told Lok Sabha on 25 July 2026 that the Constitution was amended eight times in the last twelve years. The list runs from the 99th Amendment Act, 2014 (NJAC) to the 106th Amendment Act, 2023 (women's reservation in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies).
25 Jul 2026