Modi (India)

UP Police arrested eight temple employees and associates for stealing from donation counters; SIT investigation widens a day after the arrests as Champat Rai and Anil Mishra quit the trust

The 16th NSAs' meeting in Delhi exposes the bloc's fault lines, China draws lessons from the Iran war while Tehran demands a stand on 'state terrorism', ahead of a September Modi summit

Doval and Wang Yi note 'gradual normalisation' and an 'early harvest' sectoral track even as the MEA calls CPEC infrastructure in the China-held Shaksgam Valley 'illegal and invalid'

New Delhi ties restoration to an end of cross-border terror as ministers vow to choke Pakistan's flows; Islamabad calls water security a casus belli

Modi inducts INS Dunagiri, Sanshodhak and Agray as a marker of self-reliant defence, and an answer to PLAN's Indian Ocean push

The ₹99,446-crore PM-VBRY pays first-time formal workers up to ₹15,000 and subsidises employers; a ₹2,400-crore first tranche reaches 15 lakh, but start-ups and micro-firms barely know it exists

First leaders' talks in 16 months order a 'commercially meaningful' deal; USTR Greer flies to Delhi as a July 24 tariff cliff looms and Congress cries appeasement

President's Rule was lifted in February for a BJP chief minister; by June a Kuki-Naga rupture, mass hostage-taking and fresh shootings show the conflict is mutating, not ending

DAC cleared 114 jets in February; a Letter of Request went out in June; but France's refusal to share AESA radar, SPECTRA and MDPU source codes has blocked progress, and Modi raised it directly with Macron in Nice

The MPC voted unanimously to hold on June 5, cut its growth forecast and raised its inflation call, leaving the next move genuinely ambiguous

An ordinance removing withholding and capital-gains taxes on government securities retroactively from April 2025 triggered the biggest monthly FPI bond surge since index inclusion

India's currency has depreciated 10% in twelve months; the central bank is defending with reserves, a swap line and subsidised hedging for inbound deposits

India's instant-payment rail has surpassed Visa in daily volume and is now operational in eight-plus countries, with multilateral cross-border links accelerating in 2026

The first full year on a new 2022-23 base year shows the fastest-growing major economy, even as a rare rise in unemployment and an implausibly low deflator fuel a credibility debate

An ₹18.36-crore freeze on Kerala's ex-CM revives 'weaponised agencies' charges; the Supreme Court's November opinion narrows its own April ruling that had reined in Governors

India imports 60% of its edible oils and depends on Indonesia and Malaysia for 84% of its palm oil supply; a May 2026 Indonesian decree to route all palm oil exports through a single state-owned entity restructures the trade and raises supply risk

4,399 days surpasses Nehru, a record the cabinet calls a democratic milestone and the opposition calls 'dubiously invented'

The Cabinet raised paddy MSP by Rs 72 to Rs 2,441 per quintal for kharif 2026, but SKM launched a protest cycle from May 27 demanding a statutory Swaminathan C2+50% guarantee; the Supreme Court issued notice in April on the legal-guarantee petition

DGFT moved raw, white, and refined sugar to the 'prohibited' category on May 13, 2026, after two consecutive seasons of consumption outpacing production and ethanol diversion cutting net output

The NTA scraps the 2.27-million-candidate medical entrance after a paper leak; a satirical youth movement demanding the education minister's resignation gains 22 million followers in a month

Modi's party ends Mamata's 15-year rule and wins a third Assam term, but Vijay's TVK seizes Tamil Nadu and Congress sweeps Kerala, three of four states change hands

An April tender priced urea at $959 per tonne, roughly twice pre-war levels, after Hormuz closure blocked shipments and China froze exports; a June NFL tender drew bids of $444, a 54% collapse as China re-entered the market

The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill to expand parliament to 850 seats and freeze delimitation on the 2011 census fails the two-thirds bar amid a united opposition and southern revolt

A Rs 62,370 crore contract extended the Tejas Mk1A run; GE signed 80% technology transfer for the F414 in April 2026 but kept FADEC; Tejas Mk2 taxi trials began and first flight is targeted for mid-2026; Tata, L&T and Bharat Forge are shortlisted for AMCA manufacture

DPSUs tripled exports year-on-year; BrahMos led the platform sales; Armenia absorbed Pinaka, Akash-1S and howitzers; US and France anchor the components tier; Rs 50,000 crore target by 2029

A decade after Modi vowed to quarantine Pakistan, Islamabad signs minerals and crypto deals with Trump's circle and an 'all-weather' upgrade with Xi, and India is left protesting from the sidelines

PAR >180 days hit 17.11% by March 2026, portfolio shrank 10% and disbursements fell 21%; Crisil kept a negative outlook even as the worst-case scenario was avoided

PMGKAY's five-year extension locked in free grain for 813.5 million beneficiaries through December 2028; a CBDC food-token pilot launched in Puducherry in February 2026, and a draft NFSA amendment proposes shifting from household to per-person entitlements

Modi addressed the Knesset in February 2026 and signed $8.6B in deals covering Rampage missiles, Air LORA ballistics and SPICE kits; Army MRSAM intercepted a Pakistani Fatah-2 over Sirsa during Operation Sindoor; Adani's Negev LMG line shipped its first batch in April 2026; Iron Dome was not on the table

The 2025-26 rabi season produced a record crop, procurement hit a four-year high, and February 2026 saw wheat exports permitted again for the first time since May 2022 as FCI stocks swelled to three times the buffer norm

The retail digital rupee pilot has grown but remains a rounding error against UPI; the wholesale track is where the RBI sees strategic value

Two decades of stalled talks ended on geopolitics as much as commerce; the text is signed only on paper, with formal signature due by end-2026

JPMorgan and Bloomberg EM phases closed; a third benchmark waits on settlement and tax reforms India is now racing to deliver

The RBI's December 2025 Financial Stability Report marks a clean bill of health, with SBI, ICICI and HDFC posting record profits; stress is now concentrated in microfinance and unsecured MSME lending

31 armed Predators split among all three services, 21 assembled in India; Rajnath Singh and Hegseth signed a decade-long partnership in Kuala Lumpur; COMPACT and TRUST replace iCET as the joint-tech architecture