18 July 2026 Current Affairs & PDF

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Highlights of 18 July 2026 Current Affairs

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off India’s first hydrogen‑powered train from Jind and Sonipat in Haryana, along with development projects worth ₹14,700 crore in Jind.
• An IIT Bombay team has discovered a faster, cheaper, and more sustainable method to develop drugs by transforming abundantly available straight‑chain carbon compounds into complex ring‑shaped molecules, which can serve as building blocks for medicines and other valuable chemicals.
• HCLTech announced the acquisition of Guardian India’s operations in a deal worth about ₹101 crore. Guardian India, an American‑based company, employs around 2,000 people.
• India has achieved another milestone by covering 100 crore citizens under social protection coverage, which has increased from 25 crore in 2015 to 100 crore in 2026.
• Japan’s Parliament has revised the 19^th‑century Imperial House Law, insisting that only men from the paternal lineage can become Emperor.
• Anurag Kumar has become the new Chief of Delhi Police, replacing Satish Golcha.
• The Indian Air Force will participate in the upcoming exercise titled Pitch Black 2026 in Australia, which is a biennial multinational air combat exercise.
• Indian President Droupadi Murmu will undertake a week‑long visit to three countries—Moldova, Romania, and North Macedonia.
• Indian space‑tech startup Skyroot Aerospace has launched the indigenously developed rocket Vikram‑1 under the mission Aagaman, which literally means “Arrival,” from the space centre in Sriharikota.
• Dr. Srinivasa Kumar Tummala has been appointed as the Secretary of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) by the Government of India.
• The Indian Navy will organize Operation Southern Readiness 26‑2, a joint naval exercise, from 20 July to 23 July 2026 in Kochi, together with the Combined Maritime Forces.
• The Uttar Pradesh Government has launched the Kaushal Setu and Kaushal Sarathi portals to improve the operations of the Uttar Pradesh Skill Development Mission.
• Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet, Beta Pictoris d, orbiting the young star Beta Pictoris about 63 light‑years away. It is estimated to be around 2–4 times the mass of Jupiter and was detected using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and confirmed with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO).
• The Government of India has introduced a bill to make insults to Vande Mataram punishable in the same manner as insults to the national anthem and other national symbols, under the provisions of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act.
• According to the S&P Global report of April 2026, which compiled the world’s top 10 largest banks, 7 out of 10 are from China, with the top position held by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC).

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