August 04, 2026
34 articles published on this date
Rooftop solar scheme crosses 50-lakh household mark
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 commiss...
NATO enters a new strategic era of transformation
NATO's ongoing restructuring, driven by higher defence spending commitments and a growing focus on the Indo-Pacific, was assessed as opening new strategic an...
Supree Court mandates SOPs, mechanisms to curb ‘digital arrests’, facilitate time-bound refunds
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 Res...
Parliament clears Bill for stronger birth, death registration rules
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, 20...
ICAR develops 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 ...
Dhaka requests talks, Delhi bides time as Ganges Water Treaty emerges as latest irritant in ties
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 a...
RBI MPC Meeting Highlights: RBI cuts repo rate by 25 bps to 5.25%, maintains 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 S...
Rajya Sabha passes Registration of Births and Deaths Amendment Bill 2026
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 B...
India, US working towards interim trade agreement: MEA
India and the United States continued negotiations toward an interim trade agreement, building on a joint framework statement issued earlier in the year Subs...
Big clean energy milestone: NPCIL cumulatively generates over 1,000 bn units of N-power, avoids 860 million tons of CO2 emissions
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) crossed a cumulative generation milestone of over 1,000 billion units (BU) of electricity since operat...
Govt unveils tax overhaul to woo global investors, boost 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 forest rights letter could weaken Gram Sabha authority, experts warn
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 s...
India is in touch with all stakeholders regarding Chabahar port operations: MEA
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) informed Parliament that the government remains engaged with all concerned stakeholders regarding the Chabahar Port pr...
PM Surya Ghar achieves 5 million 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 ...
Indian farmers may grow world’s first gene edited rice variety this winter
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 f...
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) variet...
Security on high alert in Jammu & Kashmir: Pakistani drone sighted in Kathua, anti-terror search intensifies in Poonch
A drone crossing from across the border was sighted hovering over forward villages in the Hiranagar sector of Kathua district, prompting security forces to l...
Taxation laws (Amendment) Bill to attract more foreign capital, provide policy certainty introduced in LS
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 achieves 5 million rooftop solar installations
The PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana crossed 5 million (50 lakh) rooftop solar installations nationally The pace of installation rose sharply, from about 5,0...
Mint Explainer | What is fuelling the surge in GST collections?
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 15...
Supreme Court says 10 km radius buffer for mining extends to all wetland 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 conse...
Two ISI-backed cross border terror modules busted, 4 minors among 9 held: Punjab Police
Amritsar Commissionerate Police busted two separate cross-border terror modules allegedly backed by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and arrested...
India’s distributed solar capacity jumps to 31.5 GW, but regulatory hurdles slow wider clean energy push
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 ...
Strengthening peatland emissions monitoring: New FAO report updates factors, points out data gaps
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released the Peat-Emit report, "Supporting Developing Economies to Estimate and Report Greenhouse Gas Emissions f...
India on e-wheels: How electricity began to enter country’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 under...
Taxation laws amendment bill tabled in Lok Sabha: What the new tax bill changes for foreign investors
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 Inco...
Govt tables tax amendment Bill with FII relief, electronics manufacturing push
The government tabled the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 in the Lok Sabha, combining relief for foreign institutional investors with fresh ta...
Parliament Monsoon Session Day 12 LIVE: FM Sitharaman to introduce Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill
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 propo...
Why has Parliament increased the number of Supreme Court judges? | Explained
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 th...
Change in transgender law cannot take away rights already given, 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 retr...
DGCA likely to mandate carbon emissions reporting for international flights
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is set to mandate that Indian and foreign carriers operating international flights report data covering a mi...
Modi seeks sweeping tax cuts for global funds
The government introduced the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 in the Lok Sabha, proposing sweeping tax relief for foreign institutional and po...
Manish Tewari submits adjournment notice in Lok Sabha seeking discussion on new anti-defection law to curb opportunistic mass defections
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 discus...
Reconfigured tax laws to help activate investments, boost manufacturing & foreign capital
The government introduced the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, proposing amendments to the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, the Incom...