Everything that mattered in June 2026 — in one place

Which Article empowers Parliament to adjudicate inter-state river water disputes and can bar Supreme Court jurisdiction?

What is the ancient name of the Tungabhadra river?

Who chairs the High-Level Committee on Demographic Change constituted to study illegal immigration?

The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019 exempts specified religious minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who entered India before which date?

Which Article of the Constitution prohibits trafficking in human beings and forced labour?

As per the Palermo Protocol (2000), what are the three essential elements of trafficking?

Which 2017 Supreme Court case established the Right to Privacy as a fundamental right under Article 21?

What GST rate did the Supreme Court uphold on organised online gaming bets?

How much foodgrain per month is a Priority Household (PHH) entitled to under the NFSA, 2013?

What does ONORC enable for PDS beneficiaries?

In which case did the SC declare safe, motorable roads a constitutional obligation of the state, using Article 142?

National Highways form only 2% of India's road network but account for what share of road fatalities?

In which 2022 case did the Supreme Court place Section 124A (sedition) in complete abeyance?

Which section of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023 replaced sedition, shifting focus to threats against the State's sovereignty, unity and integrity?

What dual standard did the SC codify in Chief Election Commissioner v. M.R. Vijayabhaskar (2021) on bench remarks?

Which commission's recommendations (1964-66) formed the basis of the Three-Language Formula (1968)?

Which two states adopted UCC legislation before Assam's 2026 Bill?

What minimum marriage age does the Assam UCC Bill, 2026 set for men and women respectively?

What share of their ₹2.82 lakh crore 15th Finance Commission (2020-26) allocation did Rural Local Bodies receive?

What term describes mainstream media's shift to clickbait and sensationalism to compete with social media?

Where did India rank in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index (Reporters Without Borders)?

Which section of the IT Act, 2000 empowers the Central Government to block public access to online information?

Which Supreme Court case upheld the validity of Section 69A of the IT Act, 2000?

Under Ayushman Bharat-PMJAY, how much free health insurance cover is provided per family per year?

Which constitutional article mandates a Delimitation Act after each census for Lok Sabha constituencies?

Which constitutional amendment moved education from the State List to the Concurrent List?

Which Article lets the President legislate when Parliament is not in session, and when does such an Ordinance lapse if not approved?

Which SC case established the absolute supremacy of the Committee of Creditors' 'commercial wisdom' under the IBC?

Which Act legally mandates 33% reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies?

Which state/UT had the highest prison occupancy rate per the Prison Statistics India 2024 report?

What vacancy rate in sanctioned medical staff was found to contribute to disease spread and rising suicides in Indian prisons?

Which committee recommended establishing a dedicated Indian Prisons and Correctional Service?

Which river does the Mekedatu project aim to dam, and near which district?

How much hydropower does the Mekedatu project aim to generate?

In which year did Operation Bluestar take place at the Golden Temple complex?

Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth is the first officer from which arm to become Army Chief in nearly three decades?

Which two Army Commands did Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth command before becoming Army Chief?

Admiral Krishna Swaminathan is the ___ Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy.

How many elements make up the rare earth elements group, as defined by IUPAC?

What share of global rare earth processing/refining does China control?

At which summit was the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) announced?

By what percentage is IMEC estimated to cut transportation time?

The Global Alliance for Human Rights (GHRA) builds toward which 2028 milestone?

In which year did India ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)?

What share of world population, GDP and global trade does the QUAD represent?

In which year was QUAD formally proposed by Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, and in which year was it revived after going dormant?

Where is the New Development Bank headquartered?

How many people were forcibly displaced worldwide by end-2025, per the UNHCR Global Trends Report?

Which stateless population remained the world's largest, at 41% of the global total?

Under which US law provision did the USTR investigate India before proposing the 12.5% tariff?

How many consecutive NPT Review Conferences have now failed to adopt a final consensus document?

Into how many modern Labour Codes did India consolidate 29 archaic Central Labour Laws?

In which year did the Antarctic Treaty enter into force, and what does it freeze?

Which Act gave the Antarctic Treaty domestic legal force in India, extending Indian court jurisdiction to Antarctica?

What is the name of the 14-point US-Iran peace agreement mediated by Pakistan?

What negotiation window does the Islamabad MoU set for finalising nuclear, security and sanctions issues?

Which 1816 treaty set the Kali (Mahakali) River as Nepal's western boundary, leaving its source ambiguous?

What strategic corridor does Nepal shield, linking mainland India to the Northeast?

Which two companies provide cloud/AI services to Israel's government under Project Nimbus?

Uzbekistan became the New Development Bank's 10th member and the first from which region?

Where is the New Development Bank (NDB) headquartered?

Who proposed the idea that led to the founding of IORA, during his 1995 visit to India?

In which year was IORA formally established?

Per the World Bank's FY26 classification, what GNI per capita range defines 'upper-middle income'?

By when is India's GNI per capita projected to cross the ~$4,500 upper-middle-income threshold?

To what level was the overall equity investment limit for individual PROIs raised under the 2026 G-Sec reforms?

What does FAR stand for in the context of foreign investment in G-Secs?

Which committee's recommendations led to the enactment of the IBC, 2016?

By how much has Bank Gross NPA (GNPA) fallen from FY18 to FY26?

Under which Act's provision are Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs) registered with the RBI?

What is the minimum Net Owned Fund (NOF) required for ARCs under RBI's 2025 Directions?

Under which framework was the Logistics Port Performance Index (LPPI) built?

Which port handles ~98% of India's ship-recycling volume?

How does India's Visa Openness Index score (38.14) compare to the global average?

What is significant about ILO Convention No. 193?

Under India's Code on Social Security, 2020, what share of annual turnover must aggregators contribute to a gig-worker social security fund?

How many states exceeded the 15th Finance Commission's 3%-of-GSDP fiscal deficit benchmark in FY 2024-25, per the CAG report?

Which two PSUs jointly formed BCGCL, the company behind India's first commercial-scale coal-to-ammonium nitrate project?

What is the target value of India's domestic semiconductor value chain by 2035, per NITI Aayog's roadmap?

What self-sufficiency target does the roadmap set for 2035?

What is 'memflation'?

How many states make up the 'Ashtalakshmi' North-Eastern Region grouping?

What grade did the IMF give India's national accounts statistics in late 2025, triggering the database overhaul?

To which year was India's GDP base year reset in the 2026 statistical overhaul?

Which RBI body found a high correlation between farm loan waivers and state election cycles?

What share of India's workforce is employed in the informal sector, making it hard to track statistically?

What was RBI's record surplus transfer to the Union Government for FY26?

Which committee's framework governs RBI's surplus transfers since 2019?

The Industrial Relations Code 2020 raised the government-permission threshold for closure/lay-off/retrenchment from 100 workers to how many?

Which state's 2023 Act is cited as a model gig-worker welfare law, with a welfare board and cess on platform transactions?

What LTCG tax rate on FPIs' G-Sec interest income was retroactively waived from 1 April 2026?

To what level did the IMF cut its 2026 global growth projection, per RBI's Annual Report 2025-26?

India has been the world's largest remittance recipient since which year?

Which country overtook the UAE as India's top remittance source?

Where was Asia's first Export Processing Zone (EPZ) established, in 1965?

Which committee proposed renaming SEZs as '3Es' (Employment and Economic Enclave)?

CBAM is part of which EU package targeting a 55%+ cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030?

From when did CBAM's definitive, enforceable phase begin?

What share of India's annual rainfall does the Southwest Monsoon supply, which El Niño can suppress?

What is agriculture and allied activities' approximate share of India's Gross Value Added (GVA)?

What share of India's operational landholdings are small and marginal?

What was India's provisional Real GDP growth rate for FY 2025-26?

To which base year was GDP's base year updated in the February 2026 revised series?

Hutti Gold Mines Limited, the sole PSU producing gold via continuous underground mining, is located in which district?

Which radar detects incoming ballistic missile threats from distances exceeding 1,500 km in India's BMD system?

What missile-range class did India's Phase-II BMD testing (AD-1, AD-2 interceptors) achieve capability against?

What does the ADITI sub-scheme under iDEX provide, and up to how much?

What was India's estimated nuclear warhead count per the SIPRI Yearbook 2026?

What was India's rank among global military spenders in 2025?

On which aircraft is India's Netra AEW&C system mounted?

What does the acronym VAVI, a priority zone for counter-drone defence, stand for?

Which body was established under the IT Act, 2000 to protect India's Critical National Infrastructure?

What future threat is described by the phrase 'Harvest Now, Decrypt Later'?

In what year was India's nuclear doctrine, resting on No First Use (NFU), adopted?

Who chairs the Political Council, the only body that can authorise nuclear weapon use in India?

What does RELOS stand for, operationalised with Russia in January 2026?

With how many countries does India currently have Logistics Support Agreements (LSAs)?

India ranks 3rd globally in trained seafarers, after which two countries?

The Bundibyugo virus causes which disease, declared a PHEIC by WHO?

What animal is considered the most likely natural reservoir of the Ebola virus?

Which UN peacekeeping mission was Major Abhilasha Barak serving with when she won the UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award?

Which shipyard built INS Dunagiri, INS Sanshodhak and INS Agray?

What is Project Kusha's other name, and what type of system is it?

What is the S-400 Triumf's official designation in Indian service?

How many S-400 squadrons did India sign for in its 2018 deal, and when is the fifth expected?

What is the new border-guarding approach called that shifts from force-centric to territorial security?

Under the SOFIA 2026 report, what share of global aquatic animal production came from aquaculture in 2024?

Which international protocol governs Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS), in force since 2014?

Which case affirmed domestic companies' obligations under fair and equitable benefit sharing in India?

Which two conventions does the Global Chemicals Monitoring Programme (GCMP) support evaluation of?

In which city was the Minamata Convention on Mercury adopted, in 2013?

Methane is roughly how many times more powerful than CO2 in warming effect, though shorter-lived?

What is the alternate/original name of India's 100th Ramsar site, Jai Prakash Narayan Bird Sanctuary?

In which district and state is this oxbow lake located?

Under which Act is approval required before handling Schedule-I species like coral colonies and giant clams?

By March 2026, what share of India's installed electricity capacity was non-fossil fuel-based, crossing its 2030 target early?

Under which Act was the Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS) notified?

What is the ethanol content range in E85 fuel?

Which committee first suggested strong protection for the Western Ghats in 2011, later revised by another committee in 2013?

Which SC case mandated statutory protection of all wetlands mapped in the National Wetland Atlas?

What weight do food and beverages carry in India's Consumer Price Index (CPI), making it sensitive to climate shocks?

By how much could climate change reduce India's GDP by 2050, per World Bank estimates?

What process converts biomass into biochar, syngas and bio-oil, in an oxygen-depleted environment?

By how much did coral cover off Kenya's coast recover within a year despite severe 2024 bleaching, per the Mombasa study?

What causes coral bleaching at the biological level?

What is the 2026 theme for World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought?

What share of Earth's land surface do rangelands cover?

At UNCCD COP14 (2019, New Delhi), India committed to restore how many hectares of degraded land by 2030?

El Niño is the warm phase of which climate oscillation?

Which country hosted the global World Environment Day 2026 celebrations?

What was the theme of World Environment Day 2026?

Which 2025 SC judgment established the 'No District Survey Report, No Sand-Mining' rule?

Which endangered species in the Chambal river is threatened by illegal sand mining?

How many Indian cities featured in the world's top 50 most heat-vulnerable cities, per the Oxford University study?

What share of the world's earthquakes occur along the Pacific Ring of Fire?

What is a seismic 'doublet'?

What blend range can a Flex-Fuel Vehicle (FFV) run on?

What percentage of India's crude oil is imported, a dependency FFVs aim to cut?

What is the capacity of the world's largest single-location BESS, commissioned by Adani Green Energy at Khavda, Gujarat?

Under the Green Hydrogen Certification Scheme, hydrogen must keep GHG emissions at or below what level to be classified 'green'?

What is the National Green Hydrogen Mission's target production capacity by 2030?

How does synthetic biology differ from genome editing?

Which enzyme do IMI-resistant mustard hybrids alter to resist imidazolinone herbicides?

What biosafety level classification does the Nipah virus require for lab testing?

Nipah virus mortality fell from 91% in 2018 to around what level by 2023-25, with monoclonal antibodies and Remdesivir?

What bacterium causes shigellosis, first isolated by Kiyoshi Shiga in 1897?

In cement-making, at approximately what temperature does the limestone-clay-iron mixture partly melt to form clinker?

What was MAVEN's primary scientific objective at Mars?

Which Chandrayaan-2 payload provided radar evidence of possible subsurface lunar ice?

In which crater was the strongest indication of subsurface ice found?

What algorithm could a powerful quantum computer use to break current public-key encryption?

By when is India's Critical Information Infrastructure expected to achieve full PQC adoption?

Which institution is the nodal body for the Mega Science Vision-2035 Report on Climate Research?

What is the outlay of the National Quantum Mission (2023)?

What is India's bioeconomy valuation as of June 2026?

Where did India rank in the Global Innovation Index in 2025, up from 81st in 2015?

What is Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP)?

At which point is SOLAR-1 positioned for continuous solar observation?

What does GRAPES-3, located in Ooty, detect?

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form symbiotic associations with roots of what share of land plants?

What phenomenon can cause a dengue vaccine to make later infections more severe rather than protecting against them?

Which astronaut is the first ESA astronaut assigned to an Artemis mission, as Artemis III's pilot?