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India's Directorate General of Maritime Administration (DGMA) issued an advisory (Circular No. 36 of 2026) around 17 July 2026, directing ship owners, ship managers and RPSL companies to avoid deploying Indian seafarers on vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz until further orders.
The Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN) announced on 20 July 2026 that it thwarted the diversion of an export consignment of 12 crore (120 million) high-strength Tramadol Hydrochloride tablets, weighing about 30 metric tonnes, under 'Operation Vajra'.
NHAI launched Digital Local Pass and MargMitra Help Centre on the RajmargYatra app on 20 July 2026
The Udmaroo Bridge over the Shayok River was inaugurated in Nubra district, Ladakh, on 21 July 2026 by Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned amid nationwide student protests over the NEET-UG examination row.
Union Minister of State Ravneet Singh Bittu resigned from the Council of Ministers, accepted by President Droupadi Murmu on the PM's advice.
The Government of India constituted a high-powered task force to reform the National Testing Agency (NTA) and the public examination system.
PM Modi's 136th Mann Ki Baat highlighted India's defence milestones — INS Mahendragiri (P-17A), Pinaka LRGR, and the Kusha missile system
The Centre is advancing the Kosi-Mechi river link project in Bihar at a cost of about Rs 6,143 crore.
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has proposed revising the validity of the Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificate.
Top CPI (Maoist) leader Misir Besra, a member of the outfit's Politburo, was arrested in Jharkhand in a major security operation.
President Droupadi Murmu, who completed four years in office on 25 July 2026, inaugurated new initiatives at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 28 July 2026.
No district in India is currently categorised as LWE-affected; the count fell from 126 districts to 90 (April 2018), 70 (July 2021), 38 (April 2024), 8 (December 2025) and to zero (March/April 2026).
A total of 4,626 kg of Amphetamine Type Stimulants (ATS) and 2,652 kg of Heroin were seized in India's North-East between 2021 and 2025, as reported by Drug Law Enforcement Agencies to the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).
FSSAI suspended the nutraceutical licence of Dior Pharmaceuticals on 30 July 2026 over serious Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) violations at its Punjab plant.
Indian Railways rolled out online personal luggage booking for passengers with reserved tickets, effective 31 July 2026, per a Railway Board order dated 20 July 2026.
Terrorists fired on non-local workers at a brick kiln in Kelam village of Kulgam district, Jammu and Kashmir, on 31 July 2026.
Indian Railways transported India's first live donor heart by train, carried aboard Train No. 20901 Mumbai Central-Gandhinagar Capital Vande Bharat Express from Surat to Ahmedabad for transplantation at the U.N. Mehta Institute of Cardiology & Research Centre.
On 2 July 2026 the Ministry of External Affairs announced that India and Japan will celebrate 2027 as the 'India-Japan Year of Shared Horizons', marking 75 years of diplomatic relations.
China inaugurated the Plateau Drone R&D Application Centre at Xizang (Tibet) University on 3 July 2026, near Mount Everest.
The third India-Australia Annual Summit was held at Melbourne on 9 July 2026, hosted by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar launched SHANTI (Securing Holistic Advancement through Norms, Trust and Integrity), India's campaign for a non-permanent UN Security Council seat for 2028-2029, at UN Headquarters in New York.
NSE Indices Limited launched the Nifty500 Ahimsa Index on 10 July 2026, in partnership with the Ahimsa Foundation.
ICI grew 5% YoY in June 2026, up from 3.2% in May 2026
US President Donald Trump announced on 21 July 2026 a phased tariff plan on imported generic medicines, rising from 0% (from 1 August 2026, for two years) to 100% and eventually 200% by August 2029, using Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, 1962.
PIB published a feature, 'White Gold: India's Cotton Story — From Seed to Shirt', highlighting India's cotton sector and recent government initiatives to boost productivity, quality and global competitiveness.
The RBI's concessional forex swap facility, operational since 8 June 2026, had attracted over $20.7 billion (about Rs 2 lakh crore) in inflows by 17 July 2026.
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is developing an offline UPI tap-to-pay feature using Near-Field Communication (NFC) for merchant point-of-sale terminals, reported around 21 July 2026.
EnKash launched India's first UPI-enabled meal card on 22 July 2026, letting employees pay from their meal balance by scanning UPI QR codes.
RBI's currency-printing subsidiary, Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited (BRBNMPL), floated a global Expression of Interest on 17 July 2026 for opacified polymer substrate sheets.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) announced a digital aviation incident reporting platform, integrated with the eGCA portal, for electronic submission and faster processing of mandatory occurrence reports.
Recurring defections among legislators from parties including Shiv Sena (UBT) and Trinamool Congress have revived debate on the effectiveness of India's anti-defection law.
On 20 July 2026, Delhi Police used batons and tear gas to disperse a march by the youth-led 'Cockroach Janta Party' as thousands attempted to march toward Parliament demanding the education minister's resignation.
Madhya Pradesh's Cabinet, chaired by CM Mohan Yadav, unanimously approved the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill, 2026, and tabled it in the State Assembly's Monsoon Session.
Paninian India Pvt Ltd unveiled the Yantur 4.5 kN turbofan engine programme in New Delhi, 20 July 2026
Indian Navy hosted the four-day Operation Southern Readiness 26-2 at Southern Naval Command, Kochi
The Union government announced 50% reservation for Ex-Agniveers in Constable (GD) posts of the CAPFs and Rifleman posts in the Assam Rifles.
The Indian defence start-up D-Propulse successfully demonstrated an air-breathing Rotating Detonation Engine in ground tests at a DRDO facility in Hyderabad on 21-22 July 2026.
Union Minister Pralhad Joshi commissioned the White Rabbit Technology-based Indian Standard Time (IST) Dissemination Demonstration Network at the Regional Reference Standard Laboratory (RRSL), Bengaluru, on 16 July 2026.
India's first digital soil texture map was released on 16 July 2026 at the 98th Foundation Day of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off India's first hydrogen fuel-cell passenger train from Jind, Haryana, on 17 July 2026; it entered revenue service on 19 July 2026.
Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1, India's first privately developed orbital-class rocket, completed a successful maiden flight on 18 July 2026.
A study published in the journal Science on 16 July 2026 found that the drying Aral Sea released about 204 (±53) teragrams of carbon from exposed lakebed sediments between 1960 and 2022.
Ammannia telanganensis, a freshwater flowering plant new to science, has been described from Telangana and named after the state.
Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) scientists documented two new spider species — Simonia lawbah and Hamataliwa papikonda — from Meghalaya and Andhra Pradesh respectively.
India's first two deep geothermal wells, each 1,000 metres deep, were commissioned at Puga Valley in Ladakh at an altitude of over 14,000 feet.
Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary inaugurated the 68.80 km Belwa-Minapur Link Channel (Belwadhar) in Sheohar on 19 July 2026, built at a cost of about Rs 130.88 crore.
Union Minister of Culture and Tourism Gajendra Singh Shekhawat told the Lok Sabha on 20 July 2026 that the Kala Sanskriti Vikas Yojana (KSVY) extended Rs 75.43 crore in financial assistance to 9,660 artists and cultural organisations in Odisha over the past five years.
Delhi Cabinet, led by CM Rekha Gupta, approved rollout of the Centre's Parivartan scheme
The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas is preparing a policy to introduce ethanol as a mainstream cooking fuel via dispensing kiosks ('Ethanol ATMs') at fuel retail outlets, targeted for around September 2026.
PMs of India and New Zealand met in Auckland on 11 July 2026 and announced the India-New Zealand Strategic Partnership.
India notified the Protocol amending the India-Sri Lanka DTAA on 16 July 2026
The Andhra Pradesh Economic Development Board signed an MoU with the UAE Food Cluster in Amaravati on 21 July 2026 to set up a food processing cluster in the state.
IIT Tirupati's Yerpedu campus hosted the 5th BRICS Working Group Meeting on Geospatial Technologies and its Applications from 20 to 22 July 2026.
India will host the International Type 1 Diabetes Summit 2026 in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, from 30 July to 1 August 2026.
India hosted the 3rd BRICS Ministerial Meeting on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in New Delhi on 24 July 2026.
The 16th BRICS Health Ministers' Meeting was held in Chandigarh from 22 to 24 July 2026 under India's BRICS Chairship.
The Ministry of Education released the UDISE+ 2025-26 report on school education, compiled by the Department of School Education and Literacy.
NITI Aayog released India's first-ever Investment Friendliness Index (IFI) 2026 on 17 July 2026, prepared by Crisil under its Research Scheme.
Per the BIMCO-ICS Seafarer Workforce Report 2026, India has become the world's second-largest supplier of seafarers with 311,936 professionals — 12.16% of the global seafaring workforce — up from fifth place and 5.2% in 2015, behind only the Philippines.
India has become the world's second-largest supplier of seafarers, according to the BIMCO-ICS Seafarer Workforce Report 2026.
'Angen' (Invisible), a 12-minute-10-second Santhali short film, became the first Santhali-language film to win a National Film Award, at the 72nd National Film Awards.
DBS was named 'World's Best Corporate Bank' at Global Finance's 2026 awards, announced on 22 July 2026.
The Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports opened online nominations for the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award (TNNAA) 2025 from 21 July to 20 August 2026, via the National Awards Portal.
National Security Adviser Ajit Doval has been selected for the Lokmanya Tilak National Award 2026.
Major Navya Shekhawat of the Army Service Corps has become the first woman officer of the Indian Army to be appointed Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to the President of India, serving President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Kanishka Narayan appointed UK's first Minister for Artificial Intelligence on 20 July 2026
Rahul Himalian has been given additional charge as Chairman and Managing Director of IRCTC with effect from 20 July 2026.
Senior IAS officer Anurag Jain has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of NITI Aayog.
Organisers unveiled the medals for the 20th Asian Games, Aichi-Nagoya 2026, in Nagoya on 12 July 2026.
India named a 120-member contingent for the 23rd Commonwealth Games, Glasgow, 23 July–2 August 2026
GM S. Rohith Krishna (Tamil Nadu) won gold; GM Raja Rithvik (Telangana) won silver at the Menuires Chess Open, France
Animesh Kujur holds India's 200m national record (20.32s) and won 2025 Asian Championships bronze
World Brain Day 2026 is observed on July 22 with the theme 'Brain Health: Access for All'.
National Flag Day is observed on 22 July to mark the Constituent Assembly's formal adoption of the Tiranga on 22 July 1947.
National Broadcasting Day is observed on 23 July, marking India's first official radio broadcast in 1927.
Income Tax Day is observed on 24 July, marking the day income tax was first introduced in India in 1860.
The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) observed its 88th Raising Day on 27 July 2026.
Dr. Gunther von Hagens, German anatomist and inventor of plastination, died on 24 July 2026 at age 81 in Heidelberg, Germany, following a cerebral haemorrhage on 23 July.
Brigadier Basant Kumar Ponwar (Retd), a 1971 war veteran and pioneer of India's modern jungle-warfare training, died on 29 July 2026 at the age of 77.
Former Indian Army Chief General Vishwa Nath Sharma passed away in New Delhi on 31 July 2026, having served as the 14th Chief of the Army Staff from 1 May 1988 to 30 June 1990.
Franco Baresi, former AC Milan captain and Italy international, died on 31 July 2026 at age 66, having played his entire senior career (1977-1997) for AC Milan across 719 appearances.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah laid the foundation stone for the Amul Bengal Dairy project — featuring the world's largest curd manufacturing unit — at Biswa Bangla Convention Centre, New Town, Kolkata, on 20 July 2026.
Paras Semiconductors, a subsidiary of Paras Defence and Space Technologies Ltd, signed an MoU with the Madhya Pradesh government on 22 July 2026 to build a semiconductor OSAT facility.
Raghu Vamsi Aerospace Group announced a Rs 600-crore integrated superalloy manufacturing facility in Telangana on 22 July 2026, at the Farnborough International Airshow.
Major Indian industrial groups — Adani Enterprises, Reliance Industries, Vedanta Aluminium, Hindalco Industries, Powercem and state-run Coal India — are competing for the greenfield Karlapat-Pollingpadar bauxite block in Odisha's Kalahandi district.
Mukhyamantri Swasth Bastar Abhiyan, launched by CM Vishnu Deo Sai on 14 April 2026 in Sukma, is showing results
Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang presented a Rs 19,215 crore state budget for 2026-27 in the Legislative Assembly on 20 July 2026.
The Heneghan Peng Architects Consortium, designers of the Grand Egyptian Museum, was selected on 21 July 2026 to design Bengaluru's Museum of Innovation, Startup & Technology (MIST).
Kerala unveiled the Kerala GCC Outlook 2026 roadmap, targeting 150 Global Capability Centres (GCCs) by 2031, up from 45 today.
On the night of 15-16 July 2026, an armed gang of 25-30 men stole a 16th-century, ~3,500 kg Scindia-era cannon from Narwar Fort in Shivpuri district, Madhya Pradesh.
Shabdalok (Museum of Word), India's first immersive language museum, was inaugurated on 19 July 2026 at Belvedere House inside the National Library campus in Kolkata by Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh paid tribute to revolutionary freedom fighter Batukeshwar Dutt on his 61st death anniversary, 20 July 2026.
Four trekkers from Mumbai were seriously injured on 19 July 2026 when a landslide struck near the Adwa Kada cliff on Harishchandragad Fort in Maharashtra's Ahilyanagar (Ahmednagar) district amid heavy monsoon rain.
Current Affairs July 2026 — the complete month's important news for UPSC, SSC, Banking, Railway and Defence exams, organised by category. Revise every significant development of July 2026 in one place: government schemes, economy, polity, international relations, science, environment, awards and appointments.
This compilation gathers all the exam-relevant current affairs published during July 2026 — schemes and policies, economic and banking developments, court judgments, international summits, science and environment news, reports and indices, appointments and awards — each linked to its full article with key facts and practice questions.
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All important national and international current affairs from July 2026 relevant to UPSC, SSC, Banking, Railway and Defence exams, organised by category.
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The Rome Declaration for an Unarmed and Disarming Peace was signed at the Senatorial Palace on Rome's Capitoline Hill during the Global Nobel Laureates Assembly 2026.
The Office of the Economic Adviser (OEA), DPIIT, released the revised Index of Core Industries (ICI) with 2022-23 as the new base year (replacing 2011-12), adding iron ore as the ninth core industry.
The Delhi High Court ordered the winding up of Paytm Payments Bank Ltd (PPBL) under the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 read with the Companies Act, 2013.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh flagged-in 'Samudra Pradakshina', the first-ever Tri-Service all-women circumnavigation sailing expedition.
A cross-sectional study published online in JAMA Pediatrics on 20 July 2026 found antimicrobial resistance rising in children worldwide, eroding the antibiotics used for sepsis and pneumonia.
Scientists described a new species of porcelain crab, Pachycheles ravichandrani, from the shallow coral reefs of Agatti Island in India's Lakshadweep archipelago, with the finding reported around 20 July 2026.
The International Type 1 Diabetes Summit 2026 is scheduled in Jodhpur from July 30 to August 1, 2026.
India has risen 25 places, from 82nd to 57th, in a global ranking of pro-competitive reforms.
The 2026 Fields Medals were announced at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Philadelphia.
Naresh Pal Gangwar has been appointed Secretary of the Department of Higher Education in the Ministry of Education.
The Commonwealth Games 2026 opened on 23 July 2026 with a ceremony at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland.
Gujarat approved Rs 14.90 crore to set up 15-bed de-addiction centres in all 34 district hospitals for FY 2026-27.
Lokmanya Tilak Jayanti is observed on 23 July, marking 170 years since Bal Gangadhar Tilak's birth in 1856.
July 2026 current affairs is useful for UPSC, SSC, Banking, Railway and Defence aspirants.