MPPSC Current Affairs One-liners — Last 6 months

Thu, 13 Aug 2026

• The Ministry of Heavy Industries said on 13 August 2026 it received 20 bids under the Scheme to Promote Manufacturing of Sintered Rare Earth Permanent Magnets (REPM), which aims to build 6,000 MTPA of integrated magnet capacity in India.
• NITI Aayog released a report titled 'Key Sectors to Position India as a Global Manufacturing Hub' on 13 August 2026, analysing four sectors: chemicals, telecom and networking equipment, textiles, and solar photovoltaic manufacturing.
• India's total exports of goods and services were estimated at $80.14 billion in July 2026, up 13.31% year-on-year, with merchandise exports at $44.24 billion, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said on 13 August 2026.
• The Ministry of Jal Shakti said on 13 August 2026 that Sujal Gaon IDs have been issued to 12.68 lakh of India's 16.96 lakh rural habitations (75%) under Jal Jeevan Mission.
• The National Biodiversity Authority released ₹15.52 crore in Access and Benefit Sharing proceeds from Pioneer Overseas Corporation's mustard hybrids on 13 August 2026, to be shared among 26 State Biodiversity Boards and 3 UT Biodiversity Councils by mustard cultivation area.
• Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal launched the revamped India Code Portal, with AI-assisted, semantic and speech search and multilingual access, at Kartavya Bhavan 2, New Delhi, on 13 August 2026.

Wed, 12 Aug 2026

• Security agencies detained 253 people across 14 states on 12 August 2026 in a coordinated operation against the Pakistan-based, ISI-backed Shahzad Bhatti Network, leading to over 80 FIRs and more than 200 arrests, the Home Ministry said.
• India and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) signed the Terms of Reference for negotiations towards a Preferential Trade Agreement at Vanijya Bhawan, New Delhi, on 12 August 2026, India's first such ToR with the African region.
• The Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine & Homoeopathy (Ministry of Ayush) and the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (Health Ministry) renewed their MoU on 12 August 2026 to implement the 'One Herb, One Standard' initiative for medicinal plants.
• Three Indian Sanchar Mitras were selected as International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Generation Connect Youth Envoys for 2026–2030, the Department of Telecommunications said on International Youth Day, 12 August 2026.
• The National Commission for Scheduled Castes, led by Chairman Kishor Makwana, submitted its Annual Report for 2024–25 to President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 12 August 2026, under Article 338 of the Constitution.
• All-India CPI inflation on the new base year 2024 was 4.45% in July 2026, up from 4.38% in June, with food inflation at 5.52%, MoSPI said on 12 August 2026.
• Indian Railways' RailOne app, launched on 1 July 2025, has reached 4.76 crore downloads and about 10 lakh average daily ticket bookings, the Railways Ministry said on 12 August 2026.

Tue, 11 Aug 2026

• Green hydrogen production capacity of 30 kilo tonnes per annum has been awarded for four public sector refineries under SIGHT Mode-2B of the National Green Hydrogen Mission, the government told the Rajya Sabha on 11 August 2026.
• The fourth session of the India–Namibia Joint Trade Committee was held in New Delhi on 10–11 August 2026, with bilateral merchandise trade reported at USD 592.94 million in 2025-26 and new working groups agreed on services and health.
• The second edition of ICMR-SHINE (Science and Health Innovation for NextGen Explorers) began on 11 August 2026, opening 83 ICMR locations to about 30,000 school students over two days.
• India's milk production reached 247.87 million tonnes in 2024–25 and Kisan Credit Card coverage for animal husbandry farmers rose to 50.42 lakh in FY 2025–26, Union Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh said on 11 August 2026.
• Women and Child Development Minister Annpurna Devi met a Liberian parliamentary delegation, including the Women's Legislative Caucus of Liberia, on 11 August 2026 during its IBSA Fund-supported South-South peer learning visit to India.
• The Centre disbursed ₹19,216.46 crore under scholarship schemes for Scheduled Caste students over the last three financial years, including ₹17,224.63 crore under the Post Matric Scholarship, Social Justice Minister Virendra Kumar told the Lok Sabha on 11 August 2026.

Mon, 10 Aug 2026

• NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Ashok Kumar Lahiri launched 'India's Services Sector: Insights on Regulatory Regime in Professional Services', the third report of NITI's Services Thematic Series, on 10 August 2026.
• The Periodic Labour Force Survey bulletin for April–June 2026, released on 10 August 2026, put the urban unemployment rate at 6.7% and the overall labour force participation rate at 54.6%.
• The Home Ministry notified 11 more international ports, 9 land ports and 2 airports, for entry of e-Visa holders on 10 August 2026, taking the total to 88.
• TRAI on 10 August 2026 directed phase-wise use of the 1601 number series for service and transactional calls by entities outside banking and government, starting with utilities, courier and logistics firms.
• Oceanographer Dr Srinivasa Kumar Tummala, former Director of INCOIS, Hyderabad, assumed charge as Secretary of the Ministry of Earth Sciences on 10 August 2026.
• The National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories, a constituent board of the Quality Council of India, launched India's first accreditation scheme for mobile food testing laboratories in New Delhi on 10 August 2026.
• Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched the National Scholarship Portal for agriculture students on 10 August 2026, with over 6,000 students receiving ₹21.35 crore through NSP-DBT.

Sun, 09 Aug 2026

• India's non-fossil fuel installed power capacity crossed 300 GW (300.50 GW) as on 31 July 2026, over 60% of the 500 GW target for 2030, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy said on 9 August 2026.
• The National Biodiversity Authority disbursed about ₹3.79 crore in Access and Benefit Sharing funds to 33 State Biodiversity Boards and UT Biodiversity Councils and national institutes, the Environment Ministry said on 9 August 2026.
• Over 1.25 crore houses have been sanctioned under PMAY-Urban and PMAY-U 2.0, with more than 1 crore completed and delivered, the Housing Ministry said on 9 August 2026.
• India's Ashmita Chaliha won her maiden BWF World Tour title at the Korea Masters Super 300 on 9 August 2026, beating fourth seed Han Qian Xi of China 14-21, 21-14, 21-14 in the women's singles final.