CTET Current Affairs One-liners — Last 3 months
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Fri, 31 Jul 2026
- Indian Railways announced on 31 July 2026 that it had transported a live donor heart by train for the first time in India, aboard the Mumbai Central–Gandhinagar Capital Vande Bharat Express from Surat to Ahmedabad.
- On 31 July 2026 the Assam Cabinet approved the Assam Compressed Biogas (CBG) Policy 2026 and the final notification of two proposed reserve forests in Goalpara district as reserve forests.
- IndiaAI (MeitY) signed an MoU with the Ministry of Ayush on 31 July 2026 to bring anonymised Ayush research datasets and models onto AIKosh, India's sovereign AI repository.
- On 31 July 2026 PM Narendra Modi paid tribute to revolutionary martyr Udham Singh on his Balidan Diwas, sharing a Sanskrit subhashitam on valour.
- On 31 July 2026 the NHRC took suo motu cognizance of a report of five malaria deaths in 13 days in Kanker district, Chhattisgarh, and sought a report from the Chief Secretary within two weeks.
- On 31 July 2026 PM Narendra Modi paid tribute to Hindi-Urdu writer Munshi Premchand on his birth anniversary, recalling Kashi as his birthplace and karmabhoomi.
Thu, 30 Jul 2026
- On 30 July 2026 the Rajya Sabha passed the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026 by voice vote, completing its passage through Parliament after the Lok Sabha.
- On 30 July 2026 the integration of the Maldives Instant Payment System 'Favara' with India's UPI went live, letting people in the Maldives send money in real time to UPI-enabled bank accounts in India.
- On 30 July 2026 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh felicitated nine women officers who completed 'Samudra Pradakshina', the first-ever tri-service all-women circumnavigation on IASV Triveni, a 314-day voyage of about 25,500 nautical miles.
- On 30 July 2026 the Department of Financial Services launched India's first sovereign-backed Protection & Indemnity (P&I) insurance product under the Bharat Maritime Insurance Pool, designed by New India Assurance.
- At the fifth India-Bhutan Development Cooperation Talks in Thimphu (30–31 July 2026), the two sides exchanged a Rs 4,000 crore concessional Line of Credit agreement for energy projects and approved 12 new projects worth Rs 332 crore.
- On 30 July 2026 Union Jal Shakti Minister C. R. Paatil chaired a meeting with Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo Sai and Odisha CM Mohan Charan Majhi to facilitate an amicable settlement of the Mahanadi water dispute.
- On 30 July 2026 the Department of Telecommunications and the Madhya Pradesh government signed an MoU to set up India's first integrated Telecom Manufacturing Zone, a 350-acre cluster in Gwalior, with Rs 493 crore central support for Phase-I.
- On 30 July 2026 'Nipun', the second Diving Support Vessel built by Hindustan Shipyard Limited, was delivered to the Indian Navy at Visakhapatnam with nearly 75% indigenous content.
- A Competere Foundation report released on 30 July 2026 said India rose 25 places, from 82nd to 57th, in its Market Distortions Performance Index for reforms between 2010 and 2023.
- A study by ARIES, USO-PRL and Ahmednagar College, announced on 30 July 2026, found that the Sun's atmosphere rotates faster than its visible surface and that rotation speed increases with height.
- On 30 July 2026 at Glasgow, weightlifter Lovepreet Singh won silver in men's +110 kg with a Commonwealth Games record 176 kg snatch, and Seema Kaliramna won bronze in women's discus with 58.65 m.
- On 30 July 2026 Telangana CM A. Revanth Reddy announced pensions for all thalassemia and sickle cell anaemia patients in the state, with distribution to begin from 15 August 2026.
- On 30 July 2026 Punjab CM Bhagwant Singh Mann announced the expansion of the Mukh Mantri Tirath Yatra Yojana, adding free pilgrimages to Khatu Shyam, Salasar, Vrindavan and Rishikesh from 1 August.
Wed, 29 Jul 2026
- On 29 July 2026 MoSPI said the Consumer Price Index base year has been revised from 2012=100 to 2024=100, with a larger basket of 358 items and price collection from 1,465 rural and 1,395 urban markets.
- A Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences study of pollen in a Deoria Tal sediment core (Garhwal Himalaya) links a weak Indian Summer Monsoon between ~5100 and 4000 years BP to the shrinking of the Harappan Civilisation, DST said on 29 July 2026.
- MNRE informed on 29 July 2026 that its New Solar Power Scheme under PM-JANMAN and DAJGUA provides 100% Central Financial Assistance for off-grid solar electrification of PVTG and tribal households.
- On 29 July 2026 Murali Sreeshankar won the men's long jump silver at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games with 8.09 m, behind Jamaica's Tajay Gayle (8.15 m), repeating his Birmingham 2022 silver.
- On 29 July 2026 Machilipatnam (BY 529), the seventh of eight Mahe-class Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft being built by Cochin Shipyard Limited for the Indian Navy, was launched.
- MNRE informed on 29 July 2026 that 12 transport pilot projects have been awarded under the National Green Hydrogen Mission to deploy 70 hydrogen-powered vehicles and 16 refuelling stations across 21 routes.
- At the NTCA's Global Tiger Day event in New Delhi on 29 July 2026, Union Minister Bhupender Yadav highlighted India's 3,682 tigers and 58 tiger reserves and launched the NTCA eco-tourism webpage.
- On 29 July 2026 the Kerala Cabinet approved a five-point administrative reforms programme, including the SAMPATH registry of government assets and a GIS-based PlanSpace 2.0 project register, CM V.D. Satheesan said.
- On 29 July 2026 the Bihar Cabinet chaired by CM Samrat Choudhary approved selection guidelines to fill 22,891 anganwadi worker and helper posts and cleared the Bihar Sports Policy 2026.
- On 29 July 2026 Dilip Mahadu Gavit won the men's 100m T47 gold at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in a Games record 10.71 s, becoming the first Indian male para-athlete to win a CWG gold, as Mohammed Basil took silver.
- On 29 July 2026 Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia conferred the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Telecom Excellence Awards 2025 on Amantya Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and Finaara.