On 6 June 2026, the Department of Consumer Affairs ordered that edible oils in India be sold only in fixed standard pack sizes, with a three-month compliance window, so shoppers can compare prices across brands more easily.
Read full article →A Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council member said on 8 June 2026 that India can grow above 8% despite West Asia tensions and costly crude, because refining gains and strong domestic demand cushion oil shocks.
Read full article →In its June 2026 meeting, the RBI's Monetary Policy Committee kept the policy rate and stance unchanged even as wholesale inflation hit a 42-month high of 8.3 per cent, sparking debate over whether the central bank should have raised rates …
Read full article →The domestic LPG cylinder price has been raised by Rs 29, the second hike in three months, taking the three-month total to Rs 89. The government links the rise to higher global energy costs, a 46 per cent jump in …
Read full article →India's milk production is expected to rise about 6% to roughly 263 million tonnes in FY27, even amid fears of a weak monsoon, helped by a bigger livestock population, better breeding, and nearly 75,000 new dairy cooperatives.
Read full article →Provisional estimates released on 6 June 2026 put India's GDP growth at 7.7% for 2025-26, slightly above the forecast, with strong manufacturing and consumption but a worrying slowdown in agriculture and a projected dip to 6.6% in 2026-27.
Read full article →Central banks now hold more gold than US Treasury bonds for the first time in recent memory. This explainer breaks down why nations are stockpiling gold, how it echoes the 1971 collapse of the gold standard, and what it means …
Read full article →On 7 June 2026, the OPEC+ group of oil-producing nations agreed to raise its July crude output target by 1,88,000 barrels a day, the fourth monthly rise in a row. Experts called it more a policy signal than a real …
Read full article →In June 2026 official descriptions framed northeastern States like Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh as mineral frontiers, signalling a shift from a border-and-security view of the region to one centred on critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt and rare earths.
Read full article →The southwest monsoon reached Kerala on 4 June 2026, late by IMD's own forecast, as the agency warns of a likely deficient season with El Nino almost certain, raising risks for rain-fed farming and the wider economy.
Read full article →A moderate 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck near Punakha in Bhutan on the night of 7 June 2026, shaking North Bengal, Sikkim, Assam and Kolkata. With no casualties reported, the event is a useful entry point to understand India's seismic zones, …
Read full article →On 7 June 2026, Taiwan's coast guard reported a tense standoff with Chinese vessels south-east of the island after Beijing objected to Japan-Philippines sea boundary talks, deepening Indo-Pacific maritime tensions of strategic concern to India.
Read full article →On 7 June 2026, the US said it would not release Iran's frozen assets or lift sanctions until a final peace deal is reached, keeping relief as a bargaining tool amid a fragile West Asia ceasefire.
Read full article →On 7 June 2026 Armenia voted in a parliamentary election watched closely by both Russia and the West, as the small Caucasus nation tries to balance ties with Moscow and Europe. Its growing role as a buyer of Indian weapons …
Read full article →On 7 June 2026 China's President Xi Jinping visited North Korea to meet Kim Jong-Un, his first trip to Pyongyang in seven years. Here is why the two countries stay close, what strains the bond, and why it matters for …
Read full article →The 57th Director General-level border coordination talks between India's BSF and Bangladesh's BGB began in New Delhi on 8 June 2026, with push-ins and border deaths on the agenda.
Read full article →On 7 June 2026, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister called the country's nuclear-weapons status a 'line of no retreat', just before a visit by the Chinese President. The statement underlines Pyongyang's defiance of UN sanctions and its rejection …
Read full article →On 7 June 2026 Iran fired missiles at Israel for the first time since the April ceasefire, after Israeli strikes on Beirut. With the war at its 100th day and the Strait of Hormuz disrupted, the crisis directly affects India's …
Read full article →Sewage seeping into drinking water taps in Delhi and other cities in June 2026 has exposed how India's intermittent water supply, missing pipe maps, weak sewage networks and overlapping agencies make contamination a governance problem, not just an engineering one.
Read full article →In June 1947 the last British Viceroy advanced India's freedom to 15 August 1947, almost a year ahead of the original June 1948 deadline, a haste that brought independence sooner but worsened the violence and confusion of Partition.
Read full article →On 27 May 2026, the Supreme Court upheld a 28% GST on real-money online gaming and confirmed that States can ban such platforms, settling key questions on Union-State law-making powers and the skill-versus-chance debate.
Read full article →The Chief Justice of India highlighted the push to build a distinctly Indian 'Swadeshi jurisprudence' and an indigenous AI system for courts, while warning that AI can support but never replace human judgment in delivering justice.
Read full article →Pyroprocessing uses intense heat to transform solids, powering cement kilns, metal extraction and nuclear fuel recycling. Here is how it works and why its reprocessing role matters for India's thorium-focused three-stage nuclear programme.
Read full article →India's top biomedical research body, ICMR, is redesigning its institutes, funding, and use of technology to build a health system that predicts disease, reaches every region, and turns research into real benefits, aligned with the Viksit Bharat 2047 vision.
Read full article →AI is sold as a shortcut to growth and national power, but its hidden costs fall on low-paid data workers and on water and electricity used by data centres. Here is what the AI boom means for India, in simple …
Read full article →Kerala has reported 85 confirmed shigellosis cases as of June 7, 2026, across districts including Wayanad and Kozhikode. Two children have died. Health authorities have issued hygiene advisories and directed food safety inspections statewide.
Read full article →Student suicides in India reached a record 14,488 in 2024 as per NCRB data, prompting Supreme Court intervention and renewed focus on education and mental-health policy.
Read full article →The 2023-24 round of the National Family Health Survey shows India moving from problems of undernutrition and exclusion toward a rising burden of obesity, diabetes and other lifestyle diseases, even as health insurance and women's financial inclusion expand sharply.
Read full article →Cash grants, IVF support and family housing schemes are being used worldwide to raise birth rates, with Andhra Pradesh joining in May 2026. India's fertility fell below the 2.1 replacement rate around 2020, but experts say money alone cannot reverse …
Read full article →The Centre has cut subsidised LPG refills under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana from nine to four a year, alongside a Rs 29 price hike, citing tight global gas supplies. Beneficiaries get a Rs 300 per cylinder subsidy.
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