Current Affairs One-liners — 20 May 2026

Wed, 20 May 2026

• 20 May 2026 ko Food and Agriculture Organization ne food security, sustainable agriculture aur rural development mein leadership ke liye PM Narendra Modi ko Rome headquarters mein Agricola Medal 2026 diya.
• PM Narendra Modi ki 19–20 May 2026 ki Italy official visit ke dauran India aur Italy ne rishton ko Special Strategic Partnership tak badhaya aur 2029 tak €20 billion bilateral trade ka target rakha.
• 20 May 2026 ko 12 friendly nations ki armies ke saath multilateral military exercise PRAGATI 2026 Umroi Military Station, Meghalaya mein shuru hua, jiska focus semi-mountainous aur jungle terrain mein counter-terrorism hai.
• 20 May 2026 ko pehli ICMR Annual Clinical Trial Meet mein ICMR ne ICMR-CCRAS anaemia trial present kiya, First-in-Human Phase 1 trials par report launch ki aur multicentre research ki single ethics review ke guidelines jari kiye.
• 20 May 2026 ko PFRDA ke APY Annual Felicitation Programme mein officials ne bataya ki FY 2025-26 mein Atal Pension Yojana mein record 1.35 crore naye subscribers jude, gross enrolments 9 crore paar hue aur AUM ₹54,000 crore se zyada hai.
• Index of Eight Core Industries April 2026 mein April 2025 ke mukable 1.7% (provisional) badha; sirf cement, steel aur electricity mein positive growth rahi.
• 20 May 2026 ko NITI Aayog ke Atal Innovation Mission ne Frontier Region Program ke tahat Jammu and Kashmir mein 500 nayi Atal Tinkering Labs ke liye applications kholi.
• 20 May 2026 ko World Metrology Day par Department of Consumer Affairs ne theme 'Metrology: Building Trust in Policy Making', 40 GATC certificates aur naye e-Maap legal metrology portal ko highlight kiya.
• Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) ne 20 May 2026 ko social sciences aur humanities ko science-technology se jodne wale Convergence Research Centres of Excellence ke liye 10 institutions ke selection ka announcement kiya.
• 20 May 2026 ko DoNER Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia ne lagbhag ₹167 crore outlay wala cluster-based kiwi cultivation aur value chain mission 'Arunachal Kiwi: The USP of Arunachal Pradesh' launch kiya.
• 20 May 2026 ko INS Sunayna Kochi lauta, jisse 16 partner nations ke 38 personnel wala multinational Indian Ocean mission IOS SAGAR poora hua.
• 20 May 2026 ko Defence Minister Rajnath Singh ne Seoul mein South Korea ke Minister of National Defence Ahn Gyu-back se baat ki, jisme defence cyber, defence college training aur UN peacekeeping par agreements exchange hue.
• 20 May 2026 ko Navy ka Next Generation Offshore Patrol Vessel Sanghmitra (Yard 3039) Vice Chief of Naval Staff VAdm Sanjay Vatsayan ki maujoodgi mein GRSE, Kolkata mein launch hua.
• 20 May 2026 ko Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu ne Birsa Munda Airport, Ranchi par Bhagwan Birsa Munda statue, feature wall aur nayi passenger facilities ka udghatan kiya.
• 20 May 2026 ko report hui ARIES Nainital aur IIT Delhi ki study ne 3D simulations se dikhaya ki Sun ke corona mein transverse waves coronal spectral lines mein asymmetry paida kar sakti hain, jisse hidden turbulence detect karne ka naya tareeka milta hai.