A data-and-defence week. The anchor number is 7.7% — India's provisional real GDP growth for FY 2025-26, the highest among the G20 large economies. Build that anchor first; everything else hangs on it. The defence story is the President conferring 51 gallantry awards at Investiture Ceremony 2026: 7 Kirti Chakras, 15 Vir Chakras (12 for acts of 7 May 2025, the Operation Sindoor air-operation day), 29 Shaurya Chakras — the largest single tranche tied to a named operation in recent memory. The week's running arc is West Asia supply-chain resilience: back-to-back inter-ministerial briefings (4 June and 8 June) showed India tracking crude, fertiliser, LPG and PNG stocks in real time — a daily-only reader sees two unrelated press notes; this digest merges them into one coherent picture. The standout quiet story is West Bengal joining PM-JAY. WB was the last major holdout; the MoU announcement on 7 June (signed the next day) completes national coverage of the world's largest publicly funded health-insurance scheme. The OOPE data tells the real story: out-of-pocket expenditure as a share of health spending fell from 64.6% to 43.4% in states where PM-JAY is active — a number worth a paragraph in any GS2 answer on health finance. Aditya Tiwari Sir's tip: link the Flex-fuel/E85 arc (4–5 June) to India's E20 milestone hit in 2025 and the West Asia crude shock — the government is trying to reduce import dependence through domestic ethanol in real time. And don't skip the Ramsar 100: India crossing the 100-wetland threshold is a landmark for biodiversity questions.
For 2026 Civil Services & Forest Service Prelims, UPSC verified candidates by smartphone at the gate — no third-party vendor.
PhysicsWallah and McAfee India are fined for interface tricks that undermined informed consumer consent.
The Ministry invites applications for two Members of the National Sports Tribunal, a statutory body under the new sports governance law.
On 8 June the Panchayati Raj Ministry releases a committee report mapping the datasets SFCs need but can't find.
The Consumer Affairs Department prescribes standard pack sizes and mandates net-weight labelling for edible oils.
The Consumer Affairs Department's AI-enabled consumer-justice platform takes a Silver at the National e-Governance Awards 2025.
MoSPI's provisional estimates put real GDP growth at 7.7% for the full year and 7.8% in the fourth quarter — the fastest among the G20 large economies.
Individual overseas investors can now buy listed Indian shares like NRIs, and FPI limits on G-Secs are eased — reforms announced 5 June, backgrounder 6 June.
India's first flex-fuel passenger vehicle was flagged off on 4 June; E85 (80–85% ethanol) went on retail sale at 48 stations on 5 June — two steps of one ethanol-independence arc.
The BHAVYA scheme's digital portal went live, inviting state governments to compete for 100 plug-and-play industrial parks with startup zones and shared testing labs.
About 728 km of new and upgraded highways in Odisha, Bihar, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh, on HAM and BOT-Toll models.
A one-time interest-free advance to OMCs shields Indian airlines from jet-fuel price spikes during the West Asia crisis.
NPCI International and ACLEDA Bank link UPI to Cambodia's national QR code, letting Indian travellers pay at 4.5 million merchants.
A national workshop in Visakhapatnam mapped the route to higher seafood exports: traceability, processing and Geographical Indications.
APEDA flagged off 1.5 tonnes of Amrapali mangoes from an all-women Farmer Producer Company in Jharkhand — the state's debut in mango exports.
A CSIR-CRRI + SPA framework for paving and greening Haryana's urban roads targets the PM10/PM2.5 contribution of unsealed surfaces in NCR cities.
Marking 12 years of NDA government, Science & Technology Minister Jitendra Singh outlined a private-sector-led space revolution.
At a review of India's scientific departments, Dr Jitendra Singh announced that the Anusandhan National Research Foundation will train researchers in IP creation and academic writing.
Using 100+ years of records from the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, Indian astrophysicists map the dynamics of the Sun's supergranulation network.
The new IMD hub will give district-level forecasts and stronger flash-flood and mountain-weather alerts for J&K and Ladakh.
Amit Shah chairs a Yamuna review with Delhi, Haryana and UP: 97% of silt removed, a dairy-to-biogas MoU signed, and continuous BOD/COD monitoring mandated.
The designation of Surha Tal in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh pushes India past the 100-site milestone — more Ramsar sites than any Asian country.
India's human-rights body urged treating rising heat-wave deaths as a failure of mitigation and called for mandatory cooling centres, labour protections and a national heat-action law.
CAQM's Enforcement Task Force reviewed three weeks of action across the NCR — road dust, C&D waste and illegal gensets top the hit list.
At WTO Trade and Environment Week, India showcased the CCTS as a market-based instrument aligned with global trade norms — not a trade barrier.
The EU amended its authorised-country regulation from September 2026, and India made the cut — preserving a ~USD 1.59 bn annual fisheries market.
A 4 June briefing showed fuel and LPG stocks adequate; an 8 June follow-up confirmed kharif fertiliser 51%+ stocked and LPG demand being met — two updates of one running story.
India-US Bilateral Trade Agreement negotiations accelerated this week — Section 301 framework talks opened the arc; a USTR delegation arrived by June 4 to advance the BTA.
A joint India–UK platform — built by TEXMiN, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad and Cambridge — will track global critical-mineral supply chains to strengthen both countries' mining strategies.
The CEPA, signed in December 2025, takes effect from 1 June 2026 — India's second trade deal with a Gulf state, after the UAE CEPA of May 2022.
Major Abhilasha Barak, India's first woman combat aviator, was named UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year 2025.
Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan completes 10 years of assured, specialist-led antenatal check-ups for pregnant women, on the 9th of every month.
WB was the last major state outside PM-JAY; its entry completes national coverage of the world's largest publicly funded health-assurance scheme and unlocks OOPE data that is striking.
Two years in, India's rooftop-solar free-power scheme has reached 40 lakh beneficiaries; a new aggregation model aims to serve smaller households faster.
A PIB backgrounder totals India's health transformation — Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY, HWCs, ABDM and National Health Mission together.
Indian U-18 men beat Japan 4–1 in the Kakamigahara final; women's team takes bronze beating Korea 3–0.
The Defence Investiture Ceremony 2026 (Phase-I) saw 7 Kirti Chakras, 15 Vir Chakras and 29 Shaurya Chakras conferred — the largest gallantry tranche tied to Operation Sindoor.
Revised Delegation of Financial Powers for Defence Services raises sanctioning ceilings up to 100% and creates a new 'Lead Service' procurement channel.
Reviewing border security in Tripura, the Home Minister called for a foolproof BSF-Army-citizen grid and total surveillance at the Bangladesh border.