The week's defining image was a single Kolkata jetty where three indigenous warships, INS Dunagiri, INS Sanshodhak and INS Agray, were commissioned together with over 75 percent local content and more than 200 MSMEs in the supply chain, the same week defence production was confirmed at a record Rs 1.78 lakh crore. Diplomacy ran just as hot. India locked in the 15 July entry-into-force of its trade pact with the United Kingdom, took the FATF Vice-Presidency for the first time, elevated ties with Slovakia to a Comprehensive Partnership, and used the G7 Outreach at Evian to push a Global South connectivity and skills agenda. At home, cooperative federalism delivered a rare win as six states agreed an MoU on the long-stuck Kishau dam, and the first digital Census 2027 marched through its houselisting phase. Welfare and wellness met on 21 June, when the 12th International Day of Yoga, themed Yoga for Healthy Ageing, drew 6 lakh registered organisations even as the PM disbursed Rs 2,400 crore in formal-jobs incentives under PM-VBRY. Aditya Tiwari Sir's tip: link the FATF Vice-Presidency to the new Masters in Financial and Economic Crimes cadre and the economic-security newsletter, and you have a ready GS2-GS3 bridge between global standard-setting and domestic institution-building.
Under Amit Shah's chairmanship, six Yamuna-basin states agreed an MoU on the long-pending Kishau Multipurpose Project, with the Centre to fund 90 percent of the water component.
Houselisting field operations and a digital self-enumeration portal advanced across India, with 23 States and UTs having completed Phase-I of the first fully digital Census.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet named a new Chairperson and three Members of the National Statistical Commission, the apex body steering India's official statistics.
Within a single week, UP, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra onboarded their household Family IDs onto DigiLocker, turning a state identifier into instant verified digital access.
Invoking Section 26A of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, the Health Ministry prohibited the manufacture, sale and distribution of 16 fixed-dose combinations in the public interest.
The CCPA fined Storia Foods and Mrs. Bectors one lakh rupees each, ruling that 100 percent is an absolute claim that cannot be used as a loose marketing slogan.
The rights panel took suo motu cognisance of a 16-year-old held at Kasna jail as an adult inmate for over two months before being moved to a juvenile home.
The Commerce Ministry rebased the Wholesale Price Index to 2022-23 and rolled out India's first Producer Price Indices, a long-awaited methodological upgrade.
The PM laid the foundation for a 25,016-crore coal gasification project at Lakhanpur, India's first commercial-scale coal-to-ammonium-nitrate facility under a BHEL-CIL joint venture.
NHAI launched Multi-Lane Free Flow tolling at Daulatpura on the Delhi-Jaipur stretch, combining number-plate recognition with FASTag for zero-wait, barrier-less travel.
The state miner accelerated digitalisation and sustainable practices at its Donimalai complex in Karnataka to support a 100-million-tonne-per-annum output ambition.
The Economic Advisory Council to the PM launched a quarterly Economic Security newsletter while hosting the founding batch of the Masters in Financial and Economic Crimes programme.
APEDA facilitated the maiden export of fresh Dehradun litchi to Italy, opening the EU market for a Himalayan fruit and lifting farmer realisations.
CSIR transferred seven technologies to industry, released ten Bharatiya Nirdeshak Dravyas reference standards, and delivered quantum-sensing vapour cells to DRDO.
Using Himalayan and global telescopes, IIA-led astronomers found radio and optical counterparts of a Fast X-ray Transient, pointing to a gamma-ray-burst origin.
At Vadodara, the Department of Atomic Energy inaugurated a deuterated compounds production plant and commissioned a prototype sodium cell for the fast-breeder programme.
India's internet exchange body launched four new platforms on its foundation day, reporting world-leading IPv6 adoption and over 39 lakh .IN domains.
The DAE chief reviewed the ten-year life extension of Tarapur units 1 and 2, the world's oldest operating commercial reactors, and opened a coolant-pump test facility.
The Renewable Energy Ministry rolled out a Green Hydrogen Certification Portal to bring transparency and verifiable standards to the nascent green hydrogen sector.
The two countries adopted the Rule of Implementation for their Joint Crediting Mechanism under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement, building governance for carbon-credit transfers.
The Access and Benefit Sharing framework under the Biological Diversity Act disbursed Rs 145 crore to over 10,500 Biodiversity Management Committees across the country.
The President toured Kuno National Park, reviewing Project Cheetah three years after the world's first inter-continental big-cat translocation, now into its Botswana batch.
Ashok Leyland and Switch Mobility became the first manufacturers to offer discounts under the MoRTH scheme to replace old commercial vehicles in Delhi-NCR with cleaner ones.
India confirmed that the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement and the Double Contribution Convention with the UK will enter into force on 15 July 2026.
Vivek Aggarwal was elected Vice-President of the Financial Action Task Force for 2026-27, the first time India holds the post in the global anti-money-laundering watchdog.
On the first Indian PM visit to Slovakia since 1993, the two sides issued a Joint Statement upgrading relations to a Comprehensive Partnership with eleven MoUs.
Addressing the G7 Outreach in Evian, the PM proposed connectivity and skills partnerships and reaffirmed India's humanity-first record in disaster response and climate coalitions.
Under its 2026 BRICS Chairship, India will host the energy ministers in Gurugram on 25-26 June with an Energy for All theme spanning an eleven-member grouping.
At the 10th Defence Dialogue in Bangkok, India and Thailand agreed to widen cooperation in defence manufacturing, research, innovation and capability development.
The PM released about Rs 2,400 crore in employment incentives under PM-VBRY, the formal-jobs scheme that has already brought 70 lakh first-timers into social security.
A high-level review of the TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan reported sharp falls in incidence and mortality and a 28-crore screening reach in its intensified second phase.
On International Sickle Cell Day the President marked the National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission reaching its screening target ahead of schedule.
The Panchayati Raj Ministry rolled out Nirbhay Chetna under the Nirbhaya Fund to train male elected representatives on women's safety and gender equality at the grassroots.
The PM led the 12th International Day of Yoga at Kolkata's Red Road as 6 lakh organisations and 210-plus missions abroad joined a worldwide observance themed on healthy ageing.
An amendment to the Drugs Rules removed cough syrups from the Schedule K exemption, ending unlicensed sale in villages under 1,000 people to tighten regulatory control.
A 30-member contingent left for the Global Skills Challenge 2026 in Australia, a full-scale rehearsal for the 48th WorldSkills Competition in Shanghai.
The PM commissioned INS Dunagiri, INS Sanshodhak and INS Agray in a single ceremony at Kolkata, all designed in-house and built by GRSE with over 75 percent indigenous content.
India's annual defence production touched a record Rs 1.78 lakh crore in FY 2025-26, with the private sector contributing an all-time-high share alongside record exports.
DRDO successfully flight-tested the Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile off the Odisha coast, with all mission objectives met.
The Home Minister reviewed the National Cyber Crime Helpline 1930 and directed measures to make the citizen-facing fraud-reporting line more effective.
The Defence Ministry contracted Bharat Forge for 12 sets of 1.25 MW marine gas turbine generators for the Navy under the Buy Indian category.