Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday set up a high-powered task force led by Infosys co-founder and Aadhaar architect Nandan Nilekani to overhaul India's examination system and the National Testing Agency after repeated paper-leak scandals. Members include former ISRO chief S. Somanath, ex-IB director Tapan Deka, IIT Madras director V. Kamakoti and former Education Secretary Anita Karwal, with a focus on technology.
India's Central Board of Direct Taxes has released a guidance note directing crypto-asset service providers on reporting duties under the Income-tax Act 2025. It implements the OECD's G20-endorsed Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework for automatic cross-border tax-information sharing. Providers must flag users who are tax residents abroad and report crypto retail payments for goods or services above $50,000, while central-bank digital currencies are exempt.
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was due to fly home Sunday, eight months after US President Donald Trump pardoned him mid-way through a 45-year American prison term for drug and arms trafficking. Hernandez, who governed from 2014 to 2022, will land at Palmerola airport near Tegucigalpa and must appear in court on August 3 on fraud and money-laundering charges.
Teen opener Vaibhav Sooryavanshi struck a measured 81 off 48 balls to power India to 192 for five in the third and final T20I against Zimbabwe at Harare on Sunday. On a slightly tacky pitch, the 15-year-old began cautiously, reaching his second T20I half-century in 31 balls before accelerating. India chose to bat first in the series-closing fixture.
New British Prime Minister Andy Burnham's Cabinet reshuffle has elevated several Indian-origin Labour MPs. Bihar-born Kanishka Narayan becomes Minister for Artificial Intelligence, while Satvir Kaur takes an equalities and Home Office role and Harpreet Uppal is named Assistant Whip. Uma Kumaran joins the Foreign Office as a junior minister. Starmer allies Seema Malhotra and Preet Kaur Gill were moved to the backbenches.
Pralhad Joshi formally assumed charge of India's Education Ministry at Kartavya Bhavan in New Delhi on Sunday, a day after Dharmendra Pradhan resigned amid nationwide student protests over the NEET paper leak. Joshi, who retains his existing Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, and New and Renewable Energy portfolios, was handed the education brief following the Cockroach Janata Party-led agitation.
Formula 1 will return to Malaysia's Sepang circuit for the first time in nine years after the Bahrain Grand Prix was moved there for October 4, F1 and the FIA said on Sunday. The race slots between the Azerbaijan and Singapore rounds, pending approval by the FIA's World Motor Sport Council. Sepang last hosted a Grand Prix in 2017.
Apple has released the second public beta of macOS 27, codenamed Golden Gate, letting testers in India try the operating system before its stable launch in September. The update centres on bug fixes and a dedicated Siri app with ongoing conversations and personal-context search, plus a refined Liquid Glass interface. It runs only on Apple-silicon Macs, excluding all Intel models.
Britain's new Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he would put his country's interests first with US President Donald Trump and would not shy from voicing a different view when needed. In BBC interview excerpts released Sunday, Burnham, who replaced Keir Starmer in Downing Street on Monday, described his first phone call with Trump, made hours after taking office, as warm.
India's foreign ministry on Sunday branded as misleading a viral social media post that falsely quoted spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal as saying intelligence found no foreign funding behind recent CJP protests. The MEA Fact Check unit said Jaiswal had actually told Friday's briefing he had no information to share on such allegations. The weeks-long protest ended Saturday after Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned.
A Soyuz capsule carrying NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev landed safely on the Kazakh steppe on Sunday, ending an eight-month mission on the International Space Station. Their Soyuz MS-28 descended by parachute and touched down in a designated landing zone on the steppe southeast of Dzhezkazgan, completing the international trio's return from orbit.
Indian weightlifter Rishikanta Singh claimed silver in the men's 60kg category at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Sunday. The Manipuri lifter totalled 264kg, opening with a 121kg snatch that equalled the Games record before two failed clean and jerk attempts left him at 143kg in that discipline. The strong start could not overcome the costly errors that followed.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Washington on Monday to meet US President Donald Trump, who announced the visit at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. The talks come as American forces keep striking Iranian positions after a US-Iran ceasefire collapsed. Israel had opposed that deal. Separately, US-brokered Israel-Lebanon negotiations have stalled since March, while Israel's Gaza campaign continues.
NASA has awarded phase-one funding under its Innovative Advanced Concepts programme to PRAXIS, short for Planetary Rings Autonomous Exploration with In-situ Sampling. The concept envisions a bio-inspired robotic explorer, guided by an artificial-intelligence model, that would fly through and directly collect particles from a planet's ring system, something no mission has tried. It targets questions raised by NASA's Planetary Science Decadal Survey.
Veteran Congress leader Siddaramaiah, recently replaced as Karnataka chief minister by DK Shivakumar, said on Sunday he will not contest the 2028 Assembly elections or any future polls. The 79-year-old cited failing health, his age and what he called thoroughly corrupted politics that now demands paying voters. After nearly 50 years in politics, he vowed to remain a people's voice.
Para powerlifter Jhandu Kumar won India's first medal at the 2026 Commonwealth Games, taking bronze in the men's 72kg category with 130.9 points. The 28-year-old from Bihar, born Avinash Kumar, lifted 181kg and 190kg but missed 196kg on his final attempt. A polio survivor mentored by Paralympian Rajinder Singh Rahelu, he set a 206kg national record last year.
US President Donald Trump has paused plans for a major new offensive against Iran, partly over dwindling stockpiles of Patriot interceptors, The New York Times reported. As the conflict nears its fifth month, CNN and Axios said Trump declined a 14th straight night of strikes, favouring talks. Vice-President JD Vance and General Dan Caine had warned Friday against further escalation.
More than a dozen Indian companies are lining up initial public offerings expected to raise over ₹25,000 crore, buoyed by improving market sentiment. Quick-commerce firm Zepto leads with a fresh issue of up to ₹8,010 crore, followed by Truhome Finance at ₹3,000 crore, Elevate Campuses at ₹2,550 crore and Shiprocket at ₹2,342 crore. India has seen 36 IPOs in 2026 so far.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, addressing a Kargil Vijay Diwas gathering in Dras, warned that any Pakistani misadventure would draw a response beyond imagination. He ruled out talks with Islamabad except over Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, calling it illegally seized Indian territory. Citing Operation Sindoor, Singh said it had shown the fate awaiting those who back terrorism, as India marked its 1999 war victory.
Marvel Studios used its San Diego Comic-Con panel on Saturday to confirm Black Panther 3, casting British actor David Jonsson as Prince T'Challa, son of the late Chadwick Boseman's hero. Director Ryan Coogler and studio head Kevin Feige set a December 15, 2028 release, with Letitia Wright and Winston Duke returning. Boseman, the original Black Panther, died of colon cancer in 2020.