Markets · Equities : A Seventh Fall, and a Narrowing One
Wednesday closed with the Sensex at 76,909.68, down 325.78 points or 0.42 per cent, and the Nifty at 24,078.30, down 76.60 or 0.32 per cent — a seventh straight losing session. The detail worth holding: the streak is lengthening while the daily loss shrinks. Tuesday’s fall was 493 points.
Trade · Commerce Ministry : Record July Exports, Wider July Deficit
Merchandise exports hit $44.24 billion in July, an all-time monthly high, beating the previous record of $38.34 billion set in July 2022. Overall exports including services reached $80.14 billion. Imports grew faster, at 15.82 per cent against 13.32, which is the whole of the reason the overall deficit widened to $15.03 billion.
Science · Space : ISRO Returns to the Pad in September
GISAT-1A, also designated EOS-05, is set to fly on the GSLV in the first week of September, ending a launch pause of nearly seven months since the PSLV-C62/EOS-N1 failure of 12 January. From geostationary orbit the satellite images the same ground repeatedly through the day, which is what disaster monitoring needs.
Agriculture · Research : Makhana Yield Rises 15 Per Cent a Hectare
National makhana productivity moved from 2.03 tonnes a hectare in 2024-25 to 2.34 in 2025-26, a gain of just over 15 per cent, on varieties including Swarna Vaidehi and Sabour Makhana-1. The National Research Centre for Makhana has distributed 15,824.1 kg of high-yielding seed and trained more than 3,000 farmers since 2012.
Automobiles · SIAM : Best July on Record, Across Every Segment
Passenger vehicle dispatches rose 34.34 per cent to 4,57,810 units in July, two-wheelers 22.58 per cent to 19,23,483 and three-wheelers 33.37 per cent to 92,560. Mopeds grew fastest of all at 48.6 per cent — the segment that tracks small-town and rural buying most closely.
Prices · MoSPI : Retail Inflation at a 19-Month High
CPI inflation was 4.45 per cent in July, up from 4.38 in June and the highest reading in 19 months. Food inflation ran ahead of the headline at 5.52 per cent. Telangana topped the state table at 6.32 per cent, followed by Andhra Pradesh at 5.7 and Tamil Nadu at 5.4.
Weather · Monsoon : Very Heavy Rain Warning for the Hills and East UP
The India Meteorological Department expects isolated very heavy rainfall over East Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and the Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh belt on 20 and 21 August, with scattered rain over Jharkhand and Odisha. The band sits over districts still completing kharif transplanting.
Sport · Cricket : India Lead in Sri Lanka, Colombo Next
India won the first Test at Galle by 165 runs, making 462 and 193 against Sri Lanka’s 284 and 206 — an aggregate of 655 to 490. The second and final Test starts at the Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo, on 23 August. Jasprit Bumrah is out of the series with a left knee injury.
Energy · Renewables
288.58 Gigawatts, and the Road to 500
India’s installed renewable capacity stood at 288.58 GW in June 2026 — solar 162.15, wind 57.44, hydro 57.24 and bio-power 11.75 — third-largest in the world. Reaching the 2030 target of 500 GW of non-fossil capacity means adding about 47 GW a year for four and a half years.
Cinema · Box Office : August Already Past Every August Since 2017
India’s domestic box office has crossed $925 million in August, ahead of the full-month gross of every August from 2017 to 2025. The share split is the story: Hindi films 40.4 per cent and Tamil films 40.2 — the two language markets are now, for this month, the same size.
Finance · GIFT City : Assets at the IFSC Cross $111 Billion
Assets at GIFT International Financial Services Centre have passed $111 billion across international banking, capital markets and asset management. IFSCA, the single regulator for banking, capital markets, insurance and funds at the centre, continues to add intermediaries under its 2025 Capital Market Intermediaries Regulations.
