India granted market authorisation to QDENGA (TAK-003) on 20 July 2026 through the Drug Controller General of India. QDENGA became India’s first approved dengue vaccine and is approved...
Debadatta Priyadarshi of Bhubaneswar, Odisha, won a gold medal at the 58th International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) 2026. The competition was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from 10 July to...
The Omicron RF.5 sub-variant of SARS-CoV-2 was detected in Andhra Pradesh in mid-July 2026. Genome sequencing at the National Institute of Virology, Pune, confirmed the RF.5 sub-lineage in...
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research is working on genome-editing of about 40 crop varieties across 34 research institutes in India. The initiative covers field crops and horticultural...
OpenAI appointed Indian-origin technology executive Uday Ruddaraju as Chief Technology Officer, Compute, on 19 July 2026. He joined OpenAI in July 2025 as Head of Compute and Infrastructure...
Vikram-1 is India’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket. The rocket lifted off on 18 July 2026 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, at 12:05...
India commissioned its first and deepest geothermal wells in the Puga Valley of Ladakh on 17 July 2026. Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh V.K. Saxena inaugurated two wells drilled...
India’s first indigenous hydrogen-powered passenger train completed over 900 km of operations on the Jind-Sonipat route in Haryana on 23 July 2026. The train runs on the 89-km...
India’s drug regulator, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), approved Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy (semaglutide injection 2.4 mg) on 17 July 2026 for the treatment of metabolic dysfunction-associated...
Scientists announced the discovery of Beta Pictoris d, a new exoplanet in the Beta Pictoris star system, on 15 July 2026. The planet was identified through observations made...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Lipfendra, also called enlicitide, on 16 July 2026 for lowering low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in adults. It is the first FDA-approved oral...
NITI Aayog released a roadmap on 16 July 2026 titled Roadmap for Building India as a Leading BioEconomy Powerhouse by 2035. The roadmap proposes a ₹50,000 crore BioEconomy...
