Current Affairs One-liners — 13 April 2026

Mon, 13 Apr 2026

• The India Meteorological Department's first-stage forecast on 13 April 2026 said the June–September 2026 southwest monsoon rainfall is most likely to be below normal, at 92% of the Long Period Average with a model error of ±5%.
• The Government notified the Startup India Fund of Funds 2.0 on 13 April 2026 with a corpus of ₹10,000 crore for commitments to Alternative Investment Funds backing deep tech, early growth-stage and innovative manufacturing startups, with SIDBI as the implementation agency.
• C-DAC Hyderabad and Reliance Foundation launched e-SafeHER on 13 April 2026, a cyber security awareness programme under MeitY's Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA) programme that aims to reach one million women in rural India over three years.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid homage on 13 April 2026 to the martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, where people were killed or wounded on 13 April 1919; the site's memorial is governed by the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Act, 1951.
• All India CPI inflation on base year 2024 was 3.40% (provisional) in March 2026, up from 3.21% in February, with rural inflation at 3.63% and urban at 3.11%, MoSPI said on 13 April 2026.
• The Technology Development Board of DST signed an agreement with Casey Aviation Pvt. Ltd., Gurugram, for its 'Boost Electric Jump Take-Off (BE-JTO)' hybrid propulsion project, sanctioning a conditional grant under the India–UK Collaborative R&D Programme for Industrial Sustainability with UK partner ARC Aerosystems.
• The national-level agricultural fair 'Unnat Krishi Mahotsav' concluded in Raisen, Madhya Pradesh, on 13 April 2026, with Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announcing a task force to implement the 'seed-to-market' roadmap and Nitin Gadkari agreeing in principle to the Raisen Ring Road project.
• The Ministry of Labour and Employment signed MoUs with Porter and Gigin Technologies on 13 April 2026 to expand job matching through the National Career Service portal; Porter targets over 30 lakh logistics and driving opportunities by 2030.
• President Droupadi Murmu addressed the first convocation of AIIMS Rajkot on 13 April 2026, as its inaugural batch of medical students graduated, and urged attention to regional health challenges such as maternal and child health and sickle cell anaemia.
• Union Minister Jitendra Singh reviewed the Anusandhan National Research Foundation on 13 April 2026, where it was informed that ANRF is developing 'SARAL AI' to convert research into simple social media content in 18 Indian languages and has launched 'MAHA' mission-mode programmes.
• Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya felicitated India's para archery contingent on 13 April 2026 after India topped the Bangkok 2026 World Archery Para Series medal table with 13 medals, 7 of them gold.