Current Affairs One-liners — May 2026
Roz ki news — apne exam, rajya aur topic ke hisaab se. Har news me short summary, key facts aur MCQs.
Sat, 09 May 2026
- 9 May 2026 ko Indian Coast Guard ne ICGS Achal ko commission kiya, jo Goa Shipyard Limited dwara 50% se zyada indigenous components ke saath bana latest Adamya-class Fast Patrol Vessel hai.
- 9 May 2026 ko Ministry of Panchayati Raj ne 17 States/UTs ki 42 panchayats ke liye National Panchayat Awards 2025 announce kiye; Tripura ka Sepahijala Best District Panchayat raha aur ceremony 3 June 2026 ko hogi.
- 9 May 2026 ko Rwanda ki High Commissioner Jacqueline Mukangira ne Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh ko 18 se 21 May 2026 tak Kigali mein hone wale Nuclear Energy Innovation Summit for Africa (NEISA 2026) ka invitation diya.
- 9 May 2026 ko PM Narendra Modi ne Pochishe Boishakh par Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore ko shraddhanjali di, jo Bengali calendar ke hisaab se Tagore ki jayanti hai.
- 9 May 2026 ko National Commission for Minorities ne Mumbai mein 'Parsis in Modern India: Navigating Cultural and Socio-Economic Pathways' par national seminar kiya, jismein Union Minister Kiren Rijiju ne Parsi heritage aur Avestan language revival par baat ki.
- 9 May 2026 ko 19th Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) ke liye delegate registrations shuru hue; documentary, short fiction aur animation films ka South Asia ka sabse purana festival 15 se 21 June 2026 tak Mumbai mein NFDC premises mein hoga.
- 9 May 2026 ko Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh ne 'Swachh Sagar, Surakshit Sagar' 2026 — 12 se 19 September tak International Coastal Cleanup Day par khatam hone wala week-long coastal cleanup — aur December mein Pune mein hone wale India International Science Festival ki taiyariyon ka review kiya.
Fri, 08 May 2026
- 8 May 2026 ko India ne Odisha ke Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island se Multiple Independently Targeted Re-Entry Vehicle (MIRV) system wali Advanced Agni missile ka successful flight-test kiya, jisne Indian Ocean Region mein faile kai targets hit kiye.
- 8 May 2026 ko Indian Navy ke paanch Fleet Support Ships mein se paanchve aur aakhri ship ki steel cutting Hindustan Shipyard Limited, Visakhapatnam mein hui; 40,000 tonnes se zyada displacement wale yeh ships samundar mein fleet ships ko supply denge.
- 8 May 2026 ko Civil Aviation Ministry, IFSCA aur FICCI ne GIFT City, Gandhinagar mein 2nd India Aircraft Leasing and Financing Summit (IALFS 2.0) kiya, jismein Minister Ram Mohan Naidu ne agle dashak mein USD 50 billion ke leasing opportunity ki baat ki.
- 8 May 2026 ko DST ne bataya ki ARIES, Nainital ke scientists ne Cepheus OB2 complex ke Bright Rimmed Cloud 44 mein ek massive star ke UV radiation se naye stars bante paaye aur 22 naye young stellar objects khoje.
- 8 May 2026 ko Election Commission of India ne 2026 Assembly elections aur bye-elections mein vote hue sabhi 830 ACs ke Index Cards aur 14 Statistical Reports publish kiye; pehli baar reports results ke 72 ghante ke andar aayi.
- 8 May 2026 ko India aur Canada ne Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) negotiations ka doosra round poora kiya, jo 4 se 8 May tak Vanijya Bhawan, New Delhi mein hua; agla round July 2026 mein Ottawa mein hoga.
- 8 May 2026 ko New Delhi mein 10th India–Australia Defence Policy Talks hui, jiske co-chairs Joint Secretary Amitabh Prasad aur Australia ke First Assistant Secretary Bernard Philip the; dono sides ne is saal baad mein pehli India–Australia Joint Staff Talks ki ummeed jatayi.
- Consumer Affairs Ministry ne 8 May 2026 ko bataya ki Bureau of Indian Standards ne New Delhi mein ISO TC 20/SC 14 'Space Systems and Operations' subcommittee ki 35th Plenary aur Working Group meetings host ki — India mein pehli baar — jismein 13 deshon ke 131 delegates aaye.
- 8 May 2026 ko Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan ne Department of Land Resources ka review kiya, jismein ULPIN, Aadhaar seeding aur Land Stack software wala DILRMP 3.0 shaamil tha, aur PMKSY 3.0 ke watershed component ke liye GIS-based monitoring propose ki.
- 8 May 2026 ko Ministry of Cooperation ne Aizawl mein cooperative reforms par doosra Regional Conference kiya, jo Mizoram mein aisa pehla conference tha aur jismein sabhi aath North-Eastern states aaye; pehla conference Jaipur mein hua tha.
- 8 May 2026 ko Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia aur Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis ne Department of Posts ki Jan Sewa Connect pahal ke tahat Mumbai ke renovated Andheri Railway Station Post Office ka udghatan kiya; yeh is pahal mein Maharashtra ka pehla aur India ka doosra post office hai.
- 8 May 2026 ko MSME Ministry ne bataya ki 2026 mein BRICS Chair ke roop mein India BRICS Partnership on the New Industrial Revolution (PartNIR) ke tahat teen SME Working Group meetings aur pehla BRICS MSME Forum karega; pehli meeting access to finance par thi.
Thu, 07 May 2026
- 7 May 2026 ko DRDO aur Indian Air Force ne Odisha coast ke paas Tactical Advanced Range Augmentation (TARA) weapon ka pehla flight-trial kiya; yeh unguided warheads ko precision-guided weapons mein badalne wala India ka pehla indigenous glide weapon system hai.
- 7 May 2026 ko La Biennale di Venezia ki 61st International Art Exhibition mein Dr Amin Jaffer ki curate ki hui 'Geographies of Distance: remembering home' ke saath India Pavilion khula; yeh 2019 ke baad Biennale Arte mein India ki wapsi hai.
- 7 May 2026 ko PM Narendra Modi ne Operation Sindoor ke ek saal poore hone par armed forces ko salute kiya; Pahalgam terror attack ke baad 7 May 2025 ko Pakistan aur PoJK mein nau terrorist sites par strikes hui thi.
- 7 May 2026 ko MeitY ke IndiaAI ne ICMR ke saath MoU kiya, jiske tahat ICMR apne MIDAS framework ke datasets aur models AIKosh platform par share karegi aur use subsidised GPU compute milega.
- 7 May 2026 ko Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya ne Delhi ke Basaidarapur ke ESIC Medical College & Hospital se Labour Codes ke tahat 40+ workers ke liye nationwide Annual Health Check-Up Initiative shuru ki.
- 7 May 2026 ko MoSPI ne States aur UTs ke liye naye base year 2022-23 ke saath Gross State Value Added (GSVA) estimates compile karne ki uniform guideline jaari ki, jo Prof. Ravindra H. Dholakia ki adhyakshata wali regional accounts sub-committee ne banayi.
- 7 May 2026 ko Ministry of Mines ne bataya ki 2015 mein auction regime shuru hone ke baad se 101 auctioned mineral blocks chalu ho chuke hain, Odisha 34 ke saath sabse aage; FY 2025–26 mein record 212 blocks auction hue.
- 6–7 May 2026 ko Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agarwal ne India–EFTA TEPA — EFTA economies ke saath India ka pehla trade agreement — ke implementation ka review karne ke liye Switzerland visit kiya; FY 2025–26 mein Switzerland ko India ka export USD 1.2 billion se zyada raha.
- 7 May 2026 ko India ki 2026 BRICS Chairship ke tahat doosri BRICS Employment Working Group meeting Thiruvananthapuram mein khatam hui, jismein social security, women workforce participation, skills aur digital technologies par charcha hui.
- 7 May 2026 ko Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan ke nirdesh par ICAR ke National Research Centre on Litchi, Muzaffarpur ne Bihar mein litchi stink bug se fasal nuksaan ki study ke liye expert task force banayi, jo ek hafte mein report degi.
- 7 May 2026 ko Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh ne France ke Higher Education, Research aur Space Minister Philippe Baptiste ke saath video meeting ki, jinhone human spaceflight mein closer cooperation ka prastav rakha; dono sides ne kaha ki 2026 Indo-French Year of Innovation hai.