Current affairs July 27 – August 2, 2026 for CUET

Ahead of International Tiger Day on 29 July, the government set out where India stands. Project Tiger now runs 58 tiger reserves across 18 tiger-range States, covering about 84,500 square kilometres, about 2.56% of India's area. The All India Tiger Estimation of 2022 counted 3,682 tigers.

The day goes back to the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit of November 2010, where 13 tiger-range countries adopted the Tx2 goal of doubling wild tigers by 2022. The International Big Cat Alliance, approved by the Union Cabinet on 12 March 2024, covers seven big cats: tiger, lion, leopard, snow leopard, cheetah, jaguar and puma. It is now a coalition of 95 range and partner countries.

NISAR — the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar — completed a year on orbit in July 2026. It was launched by GSLV-F16 on 30 July 2025.

It carries radar in two bands, L and S, which is what lets one satellite serve both ends of the job: the longer wavelength reads ecosystems, the cryosphere and the solid earth, while the shorter yields forest biomass, soil moisture, crops, ocean surface wind, mangrove cover and surface deformation.

On 31 July 2026 the Cabinet approved continuing PM-KISAN from 2026-27 to 2030-31, with a total outlay of ₹3.15 lakh crore.

The scheme itself dates from February 2019 and has not changed shape: ₹6,000 a year to an eligible landholding farmer family, in three equal instalments, paid by direct benefit transfer. Twenty-three instalments had been paid by the time the continuation was approved, totalling more than ₹4.47 lakh crore; the twenty-third reached 9.49 crore farmers with ₹18,984 crore. Women farmers have received more than ₹1.06 lakh crore, and roughly one beneficiary in four is a woman.

On 31 July 2026 the Cabinet approved the Pradhan Mantri Surya Sarovar Yojana for floating solar photovoltaic projects with energy storage, with an outlay of ₹5,070 crore. It aims at 5,000 MW of floating solar on reservoirs and inland water bodies, with storage of at least two hours (10,000 MWh), and gives ₹1 crore per MW after commissioning. The National Institute of Solar Energy puts India's floating solar potential at about 102 GWp. It is run by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.

On 31 July 2026 the Cabinet approved an expanded Khelo India Scheme together with enhanced Assistance to National Sports Federations, with a combined outlay of ₹36,441 crore for 2026-27 to 2030-31, nearly eight times the previous Khelo India scheme. It is aligned with the Khelo Bharat Niti 2025 and the National Education Policy 2020, and looks towards the 2030 Commonwealth Games. It is run by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.

On 31 July 2026 the Union Cabinet approved 'Samudra Manthan', the National Offshore Exploration Scheme — a Central Sector Scheme of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas with ₹84,084 crore to 2030-31. It follows the Prime Minister's call, in his Independence Day speech of 2025, for a modern-day Samudra Manthan.

The scheme funds offshore seismic surveys, deepwater and ultra-deepwater exploratory drilling, shared offshore production infrastructure and an Oil and Gas Manufacturing and Services Zone. It is expected to add over 600 million tonnes of oil equivalent to India's reserves.