August 04, 2026
34 articles published on this date
Rooftop Solar Scheme Crosses 50-Lakh Mark: Manufacturing Rules and India's Climate Pledges
The PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana crossed 50 lakh (5 million) rooftop solar household installations, with a cumulative 14.8 GW of rooftop capacity...
NATO's Strategic Transformation and Its Implications for India
NATO's ongoing restructuring, driven by higher defence spending commitments and a growing focus on the Indo-Pacific, was assessed as opening new strategic...
Supreme Court Directs Nationwide SOPs to Curb Digital Arrest Scams
The Supreme Court, hearing a suo motu case on digital arrest scams, issued a set of nationwide directions to the Union government, State governments, the...
Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2026: Passed by Parliament
The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2026 was passed by the Rajya Sabha by voice vote, having already cleared the Lok Sabha on July 31...
ICAR Develops India's First Indigenous Vaccine for African Swine Fever
Scientists at the ICAR-National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (ICAR-NIHSAD), Bhopal, developed India's first indigenous live attenuated vaccine...
Ganges Water Treaty Renewal Talks: India-Bangladesh Transboundary River Sharing
Bangladesh formally requested talks with India to discuss renewal of the Ganges Water Treaty, which is due to expire in December 2026 Bangladesh has set up...
RBI's MPC Cuts Repo Rate to 5.25%, Holds Neutral Stance
The Reserve Bank of India's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) cut the policy repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.25% at its December 2025 bi-monthly review The...
Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2026 Passed by Parliament
The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2026 was passed by the Rajya Sabha, after having been passed by the Lok Sabha on July 31, 2026. The...
India-US Interim Trade Agreement Talks Advance, Some Issues Still Pending
India and the United States continued negotiations toward an interim trade agreement, building on a joint framework statement issued earlier in the year...
NPCIL Crosses 1,000 Billion Units of Nuclear Generation: India's Nuclear Roadmap to 2047
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) crossed a cumulative generation milestone of over 1,000 billion units (BU) of electricity since...
Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026: Easing Rules for Offshore Funds and Manufacturing
The Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 was circulated, proposing to relax conditions under which offshore funds managed from India can claim tax...
Centre's Community Forest Resource Letter Raises Gram Sabha Authority Concerns
A joint letter dated 27 July 2026, issued by the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs and the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, directs...
Chabahar Port: India Continues Stakeholder Engagement After US Sanctions Waiver Lapse
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) informed Parliament that the government remains engaged with all concerned stakeholders regarding the Chabahar Port...
PM Surya Ghar Scheme Crosses 50 Lakh Rooftop Solar Installations
The PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana crossed 50 lakh (5 million) rooftop solar installations, with July 2026 recording the highest-ever monthly addition The...
ICAR-Corteva Licensing Move Signals Next Wave of Gene-Edited Rice in India
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is expected to sign a memorandum of understanding with a US-based agribusiness firm that holds a license...
ICAR Develops India's First Fully Annotated T2T Genome of Pigeonpea Variety 'Asha'
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) developed a fully annotated telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genome assembly of the pigeonpea (arhar/tur)...
Drone Sighting in Kathua and Anti-Terror Search in Poonch: Border Security Framework
A drone crossing from across the border was sighted hovering over forward villages in the Hiranagar sector of Kathua district, prompting security forces to...
Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026: Tax Certainty for Foreign Investment and Manufacturing
The Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 was introduced in the Lok Sabha, proposing amendments to the Income-tax Act, 2025, the Finance Act, 2026...
PM Surya Ghar Crosses 5 Million Rooftop Solar Installations: How the Subsidy Model Scaled
The PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana crossed 5 million (50 lakh) rooftop solar installations nationally The pace of installation rose sharply, from about...
GST Collections Surge in July 2026: Tax Buoyancy and Administrative Reforms
Gross GST revenue for July 2026 rose 15.4% year-on-year to ₹2.11 lakh crore, the fastest pace of growth in 14 months. Net GST revenue (after refunds) rose...
Supreme Court Extends 10 km Mining Buffer Rule to All Wetland Conservation Reserves
The Supreme Court, in the continuing T.N. Godavarman Thirumulpad v. Union of India proceedings, held that the 10 km mining restriction around wetland...
Punjab Police Bust Two ISI-Backed Cross-Border Terror Modules in Amritsar
Amritsar Commissionerate Police busted two separate cross-border terror modules allegedly backed by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and...
India's Distributed Solar Crosses 31.5 GW: Scheme Success Meets Regulatory Friction
India's distributed (decentralized, small-scale) solar capacity reached 31.5 GW in FY26, up 17-fold from 1.8 GW in FY18 Rooftop solar capacity grew from 1.1...
FAO's Peat-Emit Report: Closing the Data Gap in Peatland Emissions
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released the Peat-Emit report, 'Supporting Developing Economies to Estimate and Report Greenhouse Gas Emissions...
Electricity's Slow Entry into India's Road Transport Energy Mix
Electricity's share of India's road transport energy rose 110-fold, from 0.3 petajoules in 2016-17 to about 33 petajoules in 2025-26, but still remains...
Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026: Easing Rules for Offshore Fund Managers in India
The Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on August 4, 2026 The Bill relaxes conditions under Section 9A of the...
Electronics Manufacturing Tax Relief and India's Wider Industrial Policy Toolkit
The government tabled the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 in the Lok Sabha, combining relief for foreign institutional investors with fresh...
How a Tax Bill Becomes Law: Money Bill Procedure and the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026
On Day 12 of Parliament's Monsoon Session, the Finance Minister introduced the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 in the Lok Sabha The Bill...
Supreme Court Judge Strength Raised to 38: Article 124 and the Pendency Problem
Parliament increased the sanctioned strength of Supreme Court judges from 34 to 38 (33 puisne judges plus the Chief Justice of India, up from 33 including...
Transgender Law Amendment Cannot Cancel Vested Rights, Supreme Court Tells Centre
The Supreme Court, hearing petitions on the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026, observed that a prospective amendment cannot...
DGCA to Mandate Carbon Emissions Reporting for International Flights Ahead of CORSIA's 2027 Deadline
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is set to mandate that Indian and foreign carriers operating international flights report data covering a...
FII/FPI Taxation Reform: Capital Gains, Withholding Tax and the Global Race for Fund Capital
The government introduced the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 in the Lok Sabha, proposing sweeping tax relief for foreign institutional and...
Adjournment Motion Seeks Discussion on a New Anti-Defection Law: Tenth Schedule Reform Debate
A notice for an adjournment motion was submitted in the Lok Sabha seeking to suspend Question Hour, Zero Hour, and other listed business for an urgent...
Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026: Tax Incentives for Manufacturing and Foreign Capital
The government introduced the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, proposing amendments to the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, the...