All 10 Science & Technology updates published in June 2026, grouped into 5 subtopics. Each one carries the exam-relevant facts and its GK Bytes; open an update for the complete note with static GK.
Meta announced it will lease an AI-enabled data centre in India with 168 MW capacity from Reliance Industries. The government has announced a 20-year tax exemption for hyperscalers using Indian data centres to serve global clients.
India's aggregate supercomputing capacity reached about 44 petaflops, with IndiaAI targeting beyond 200 petaflops; a shared compute facility with over 45,000 GPUs forms the national AI backbone for startups and researchers.
Indian AI startup Sarvam raised $234 million in its Series B round, pushing its post-money valuation to about $1.5 billion, underscoring India's sovereign-AI push under the IndiaAI Mission.
Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda launched Aarogya Setu 2.0 and linked digital health initiatives at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, upgrading the citizen health platform first launched during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Panacea Biotec, overseen by ICMR, advanced Phase III clinical trials of its indigenous dengue vaccine candidate DengiAll, enrolling over 10,000 volunteers across India.
ICMR's indigenous multi-stage malaria vaccine AdFalciVax - developed at RMRC Bhubaneswar to target Plasmodium falciparum - was licensed to five companies: Indian Immunologicals, TechInvention Lifecare, Panacea Biotec, Biological E and Zydus Lifesciences.
As of June 2026, 12 projects worth around Rs 1.64 lakh crore had been approved under the Semicon India Programme, including one fabrication unit, two compound-semiconductor fabs and nine packaging units.
The government approved an outlay of Rs 1.25 lakh crore for ISM 2.0, a sharp rise from Rs 76,000 crore under ISM 1.0, to deepen India's chip fabrication, design and packaging ecosystem.
As BRICS Chair, India (ISRO and the Department of Space) hosted the BRICS Heads of Space Agencies Meeting in Bengaluru with all 11 BRICS members participating, and India proposed a 'BRICS Space Economy' concept.
The CSIR RISE Conclave (Research, Industry, Start-up and Entrepreneurship) was held at the HAL campus, Bengaluru, covering aerospace technologies, AI ethics, the agri-food nexus and lab-to-market commercialisation.